Robby the Robot into the Robot Hall of Fame in 2004. In 1971, the original 1956 Robby the Robot was sold to Jim Brucker and put on display at his Movie World/Cars of the Stars Museum, near Disneyland in Buena Park, California, where he was often vandalized by visitors. Robot historian Fred Barton was commissioned to restore Robby to his original 1956 state while the robot was still on display at the museum. Barton used original duplicate replacement parts made for the "Forbidden Planet" suit by MGM's prop department. It was, however, in a desperate condition once again several years later. The museum
Tobor the Great Robot for the classic 1956 film "Forbidden Planet", as well as the B-9 Environmental Control Robot for the mid-1960s hit science fiction television series "Lost In Space". The original Tobor prop and remote control device is still in existence, having been stored away safely in a private collection for more than 50 years. There is an on-line company, Fred Barton Productions, that sells screen-accurate, full-size replicas of Tobor as seen in the film. In a review in "The New York Times" "Tobor the Great" is characterized as "This children's sci-fi adventure (that) chronicles the friendship between an 11-year-old and his