One hot Robot: sci-fi film icon Robby enjoying a retro renaissance.
Los Angeles Business Journal › September 04, 2006
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Fred Barton Productions Inc.
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One hot Robot: sci-fi film icon Robby enjoying a retro renaissance.
When MGM spent $125,000 to create Robby the Robot for the 1956 film "Forbidden Planet," it was the most expensive movie prop ever produced.
It was also the keenest thing 4-year-old Fred Barton had ever seen. Robby remains his life passion, and today, Fred Barton Productions Inc. takes in about $1 million a year mostly from the sale of expensive Robby repl...See the full content of this document
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