Nonsonic
Hi Guys,
Probably a silly question but having some collectible hobbies of my own I thought I should ask if I modify a fairly complete Canadian Omnibot would it ruin something that could have decent collector value?
I've always been interested in building a robot, especially these past couple of years but just have too many projects. I've since decided to sell off and cut down on a lot of my RC car projects and make room for building a robot.
I bought a complete Omnibot ( only missing the charger ) from a guy locally for $100.00 with the remote, tray, manual and even the Canadian Box. It's in great shape only I need to fix/ replace the right upper arm support. On the collectible market some items that are Canadian are rarer due to population etc so if I modify this Omnibot would I be wrecking a good collectible made by Tomy Canada?
I opened it up last night and it's in great shape. I just don't know for sure if it works.
Any thoughts? Or should I say go for it !! and keep those accessories for another bot and sell that lot later which is what I am thinking..
Wayne-
OMG I forgot about Consumers Distributing!! I used to wait for that catalog to come out. Flip right to the toy section. Man i'd sit around and dream of owning some of those toys!
Yep, CD and Sears Christmas Wishbook were always the best
Hi, I'm new here but so what.....I too have an Omnibot in the sales box which is in the shipping box and it has not been opened so therefore I am reluctant to open it and hack it up but as DJ says , when would you like to enjoy it, now or later...I see some of these bots selling for hundreds on E-Bay and some for peanuts, it is all just material junk but man is it hard to open that box!
I just ordered the EZ kit today and I have no lack of other bots to hack apart, there is some neat toys out there that need that extra special transplant of a good controller.
I'm not a total nu-bee at bot building but the old HACK or STACK decision has popped up many a time......Good luck
Hi Guys,
It's been some time, going to finally order the EZ kit and either get this Omnibot going or purchase an Omnibot 2000 also with a Canadian Box
Brett, I didn't get that arm piece for the above robot so i'll send you an email soon if you still have one available
thanks!
Wayne
Hi wayne, I have quite a big collection of tomy robots here in germany and if i might suggest you better have fun with the robot and pimp it! There is rare material from the tomy robot line such as a boxed mr.time, boxed omni jr and all the boxed japanese versions. Heck, an omnibot 2000 in pristine shape in box is worth something. But a regular omnibot is not that rare anyway. I would hack the robot and try and sell the box. Just my opinion, and i have been watching the internatonal ebay market for tomy robots for the last couple of years. Worthy is only whats rare, the common stiff didnt go up in value for the last 10 years i would say. Regards, Mike
Thanks Mike,
I actually found a Omnibot 2000 that is complete with manual and box but the box is not in the best of shape. I actually don't care that it has the box considering what I'm going to use it for but the asking price is $400.00 which seems fine. Appears to be in great shape with some voice problems but all of that will come out.
Think I should go for it, it's the one I wanted to do over the regular Omnibot above. Heck i'll probably have both going. I got 2 Wowwee Robots RoboRaptor ( Large ) and RoboSapien for $10.00 each yesterday so that was an easy buy to mess around with those sometime.
Hi wayne, I would say its an average price for an omnibot 2000 with box. Iam sure you could sell the remote and the box then. Just keep in mind, that the robot body itself is not the pricy part but allthe little gadgets you wanna put in it. Check out jstarnes thread, you will learn that healready spent a little fortune on his robot...So try to save as much as you can on the robot body.
I did that with both the sears wish-book and the Heath-kit Catalog. brings back memories.