rich, this one is truly rare, its a japanese version with the jacks we only know from omnibot 2000. its actually supposed to have the sensor which is being offered in another auction. I bought 3 robots from the ancientmariner and from my experience his auctions go way up high, probably b/c he takes good photos and posts worldwide. I would estimate that MKII goes up to 800 US - a nice collector piece with box and paperwork - and way to expensive to take apart! (as are all the japanese versions of the tomy robot line)

I thought it was a rare one when it popped up, already has 4 bids which is rare for ebay this soon after being added. Will be interesting to see how high it does go.

Yeah I wouldn't dream of taking it apart. I wasn't sure I should take my Hearoid apart since it's rare over here but since it was broken I did. (Which leads me on to say the Hearoid has the jacks on the back too).

It's tempting to have a go at this one but I need to save money and stop adding to my family of robots.

Well, if you are willing to spend something around 450 pounds, take a shot, haha! Do you have any other Tomy robots?

BTW: here are some old pictures posted of my room: http://www.theoldrobots.com/Michael.html The robot collection is a big bigger now - a Heroid is also in my collection in Germany.