- Big Loo
Big Loo is a very rare toy
robot that was manufactured byLouis Marx and Company for the holiday season of1963 . It retailed for $9.99. The production was about 5,000 in total. The dimensions of the actual toy were 12 inches wide by 9 inches deep by 37 inches tall.Its key features included a sight scope with sight
cross-hairs , two flashing battery-powered red eyes with on-off switch, a hand crank voice box with ten messages, two rubber tipped darts that were fired from triggers in the back, a left arm that held four red balls that are fired from a spring in the left elbow, and a right arm that had a metal ring in the shoulder and rotated 360 degrees. It could squirt water from its navel and was also equipped with acompass , whistle, bell, aMorse code clicker with chart, and could bend over and pick up objects.Big Loo was featured on the cover of the
Los Lobos albumColossal Head .External links
* [http://www.marxmuseum.com/thebigtoys.html Marx Museum, The Big Toys]
* [http://www.msichicago.org/scrapbook/scrapbook_exhibits/CATW2001/gallery/gallery_04.html Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, Robots and Space Toys Gallery - Big Loo]
* [http://www.toyandtrain.com/museum.htm Toy and Train Museum]
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