crasis Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 I was browsing Michael Crawford's highly informative toy review site, mwctoys.com, when I stumbled across this guy. Now, I have never cared for (American) football, but there's just something about this robot design that appeals to me. I could almost see him posed with my Revoltech Patlabors. Well, maybe that's a stretch... Forgive me if this has already been discussed, but since I'm not a sports fan, I rarely keep up with such threads. Does anyone have more info on this mascot? Apparently, the character is much hated by football fans... which could possibly explain why it appeals to me so much. Heh. You can buy two versions of the toy, 10" and 3". I almost feel ashamed for liking this, but it may be hard to resist next time I'm in a TRU. Quote
JsARCLIGHT Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Funny but true: I met the guy who designed those figures. Met him at a local gun show of all places... sold him one of my AKMs. Nice guy. Quote
Vermillion21 Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Yeah, I've seen this guy lurk around the lower left hand corner of the TV screen when the football game is about to 'go to' or 'come from' a commercial break. Ok I guess .... Quote
1/1 LowViz Lurker Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 Maybe in the future they will have people in powered armor and the game will be more violent like in that game Speedball? Looks pretty cool. Quote
Valkyrie Hunter D Posted January 23, 2008 Posted January 23, 2008 The figure looks cool, it'd look great with a TF Animated Bulklhead making some blocks for it. Cyberball anyone? Quote
gerwalk25 Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 I had a feeling a company would put out the CG FOX Sports Robot since it looks practically like an action figure. Sweet looking figures BTW. Quote
Excillon Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 his name is cletus, i believe. get it? Cleat-us? ...seriously though, no BS. I'm like 98% sure that's what they named him. Quote
kung flu Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 what is this robot based on? is it a mascot for american football? It actually looks good, even though I haven't a clue about anything to do with American sports. American football always apeared to be like rugby to me, hence it should be called american rugby just like americans call football, soccer Quote
JsARCLIGHT Posted January 24, 2008 Posted January 24, 2008 The robot character appears in the broadcasts of football on the Fox network. It's kind of a Fox thing, it really has nothing to do with the football games Fox shows outside of it being shown in brief "asides" as broadcast "fluff". A while back Fox had a big to do with these CG football robots and had a big animation with them... I think they premiered it during a past super bowl. Fans liked them so they kept the robots around and use them every now and then. The most prominent appearance of this "cleatus" football robot character currently is on a sidebar doing what can only be called "neutral motions" like jogging in place and doing stretches. Suffice it to say this robot is more of a Fox Sports mascot than it is a football mascot. They are very well done spots in the end and they add a lot of "techie flash" to Fox Sports coverage... better than the sleepy downright '80s coverage CBS musters. Quote
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