Robot: Big Loo Retro Toy Robot

Big Loo Giant Moon Robot
was a toy robot manufactured by Louis Marx and Company in the United States for the December 1963 Christmas holiday season. It retailed for $9.99 however today it's a collector's item commanding as much as $18,000.00. The toy, primarily made of injection molded hi-impact polystyrene parts, stood three-feet tall (37-inches), a foot wide, and nine inches deep.

To operate the arm you hold the ring and bend LOO over, by pulling the ring, his hand opens up and you can pick-up items up to 1 1/4 inch thick. His mid-section has a round hole for squirting water that's loaded into a plastic squeeze bottle about one inch round and 1 1/2 inches long plus a nozzle. A trough on his left base is a rocket launcher that shoots a rocket (rubber tipped and 6 inches long) a great distance. A trough on the right base is for holding four red balls. On the base in the middle is a compass with fine accuracy and there are four plastic wheels in the base outer corners so LOO may move across the floor manually. His head rotates 360 degrees.

He is made of a very brittle plastic and this is one reason he is hard to find. We talked to an engineer that was on this project, and he felt the production was about 5000 total but he was not sure. On a 1-10 scarce scale with 10 being the most rare, LOO is about an ---EIGHT!!! The toy, complete, is very expensive. Replacement parts (SOME) are available BUT LOO is glued together and it takes a class A toy fixer to install them.

Specifications
* Sighting scope with cross hairs
* Two battery operated flashing red eyes with on/off switch
* Power from 2 size D batteries
* Wheeled base
* Compass on base
* Rocket launcher on base
* Base storage compartment for rockets and darts
* Chest has two dart launchers fired from the back
* Two rubber tipped darts
* Hand-cranked mechanical voice box that played ten messages
* Left arm fired four red balls from a spring in the left elbow
* Plastic red balls are 1-3/32" diameter
* Right arm grasping claw to pick up things
* Right arm has a metal ring in the shoulder and will
rotate 360 degrees
* One foot with a spring powered rocket
* Whistle
* Bell
* Morse code clicker with Morse Code chart
* Its navel squirts water
* Bends over at the waist
* Shipping weight 10 lbs.

Descriptions and posting from 2013 at the Big Brain site
https://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-first-humanoido-lab.html
Hear him speak
http://bigloorobot.com/2017/04/04/big-loo-phrases-hear-him-speak/

Spoken Phrases
1) I will stand guard for you
2) Take me for a walk
3) I am your friend
4) Big Loo fights for you
5) I can pick up things
6) I am yours to command
7) Where shall we go
8) My name is Big Loo
9) I will defend you
10) I work for you

Big Loo TV Commercial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhH0MW44d78

BIG LOO GIANT MOON ROBOT
by Humanoido
Big Loo was possibly the most amazing robot toy ever created. It's sheer size was fantastic and the number of functions it had was remarkable. It could roll along on wheels, bend at the torso to pick up things, it had a gripping hand, could shoot missiles, canon balls, had two dart launchers, a navigation compass, alarm whistle, Morse code keyer with Morse code language on the back, lighted eyes, a signaling bell, base storage compartment, a moveable arm that could throw a grenade, a centrally located squirt mechanism to shoot out water, and it could speak many different phrases. Big Loo saw so much action, the winding lever to control the speech wore out. Two slits were made in the performance of head surgery to repair the mechanism with silicone and restore the robot's voice. The voice mechanism used in Big Loo was almost the same as used in Robert the Robot.