Forbidden Planet the Morbius in the movie, the protectrons being modeled after Robby the Robot, and The Forbidden Dome being based on the movie's title. In the first Mass Effect game while examining the planets in the Gagarin system of the Armstrong Nebula, on the planet's Junthor survey feed about the planet. A reference is made "Monsters from the id." Author George R. R. Martin cites "Forbidden Planet" as his favorite science fiction film and owns a working replica of Robby the Robot made by Fred Barton Productions. New Line Cinema had developed a remake with James Cameron, Nelson Gidding, and Stirling
Robby the Robot original construction. It featured a highly simplified and rather old-fashioned cylindrical "oil can" robot head with stylised 'eyes' (that were illuminated and movable) and a circular 'mouth'; this was enclosed under the distinctively-shaped conical plexiglass dome, but this head's front grille also did not have the blue neon tubes and lacked the rotating external 'ear' pieces seen in "Forbidden Planet". It is not known whether this internal "oil-can'" head was original, but its rather rudimentary design and appearance is clearly not of same exacting MGM standards that are evident in all other "Forbidden Planet" props, and suggests it may have