Salvage Bots: Custom WWRp Brambles by Cris Rose (Dec 19-release)
Leave it to the uber-talented Cris Rose to make an awesome toy into an even awesomer toy! The figure in question is a ThreeA Toys' WWRp Bramble, and Cris has reconstructed them into SALVAGE BOTS! A total of 6 Brambles have been converted, with 3 featured here! Shown below is the actual Bramble next to Cris' custom (which also features the clear-dome concept or Cris' own Munny Bot-creation).
CLICK THRU to have a closer look at [L-R]: "DRIP", "WASP" and "LEAF". All three articulated Salvage Bots will be made available via Cris' online store on December 19th @ 18:00hrs London Time ~ with each one-of-one custom priced at US$220. The other 3 (currently yet to be revealed) will go up on Monday December 21st at the same time same place!
[6 x images of Salvage Bot WASP / CLICK for full-screen viewing]
SALVAGE-BOT-STORY: The Federation of Robots for Ethics and the Environment (FREE) started off as a couple of guys that found a Bramble in a ditch.
Seriously damaged with it's head blown off, the skirmish that had left it there in that state had long moved to pastures new. It seemed such a shame to leave it there to rust, but there was far too much missing and not enough spare parts to return it to it's former glory. Even the robust A.I. systems were shot.
From that Bramble came the first Salvage bot. Built from 80% of a Bramble (give or take), his body was fully reconfigured and his brains rebuilt from what was at hand. The final touch was a fractal algorithm was applied to his programming to truly randomise his personality, making him unique and as unpredictable as any human!
[4 x images of Salvage Bot DRIP / CLICK for full-screen viewing]
Luckily for FREE, the first Salvage Bot was friendly and helpful. This proved to be somewhat of a default state for an intelligent being, something discovered as more and more parts were retrieved from the battlefields to construct more Salvage bots.
There was the odd one that had an attitude problem tho, one that couldn't bare to be separated from a weapon of some sort - these were named after angry bugs, like WASP and deployed to protect the rest of the crew if need be. Mostly they just fired blanks, but the noise and mad flailing was enough to diffuse most situations... even if that was through laugher.
[8 x images of Salvage Bot LEAF / CLICK for full-screen vewing]
The Salvage Bots, while not smart enough to be set loose and determine their own purpose (FREE's AI routine reconstruction would never match up to Rothchild's original solution), they served for a long time as the backbone of the repair and release program that FREE started all those years ago.
