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I had one back in the day. My younger brother was afraid of it. One day while it was flying he threw a phone book on top of it and smashed it flat. It never worked again after that.

Hey Randi! I’m having issues trying to get the skin back on… do you think you could explain to me a semi easy way to get it back on? Thanks EDIT: I know you need to remove the ears to put the skin on but you know the clip things? Wouldn’t those move when I put the skin on?

Awesome. Video.

thanks for documenting this! so many hours!

I've just landed one of these for a song. Obviously needs work though. Could I be cheeky and ask if you would be willing to share a digital copy of the decals if avaiable? Would be very helpful to me. And yeah I'll be using your vids as guides! Plus many many photos!

Where would I be able to find replacement gears or springs?

I can see this was a pain to restore, but it's satisfying to see it repaired!!!

I'm amazed how many gears are in this marvel! Excellent restoration!!!!

I had this when I was a kid❤

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He looks awesome hanging out with my Omnibots. You did an amazing job on this restoration.

What a clever toy. Thx 😊

I'd be tempted to program a generic state machine for things like this. Then I always did make things to hard on myself.

Thanks!

Hi randy , greetings from Australia, just picked up a Omnibot 2000 for my collection, always wanted one, its missing a remote control, any chance you have one lying around you are willing to part with ? as long as it is reasonably priced. Thanks in advance. ,

Great and scary work. Although one has to marvel at the amazing engineering marvels that are Tomy devices, it's pretty clear why they don't make them like that any more. The results, however impressive the underlying mechanism, look pretty disappointing from a playing standpoint. But great fun to restore I'm sure. Impressive.

Amazing skill level to disassemble, repair, and get working. Would love to know your background. Just wake up one day and decide, this seems like it could be fun? Been repairing and building for 35 years but this is above my comfort level. 🫡

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ohh wow that sucks cutting those original stickers !!

You've been doing this for a while so you probably know better than I do, but why don't you use glossy or semi-gloss paper for your labels? I'm guessing you're using an inkjet printer? BTW, you came up with some VERY CLEVER fixes to those problems. I'm going to store those away in the back of my mind in case I encounter something similar when I'm doing repairs around the house.

Well done on the repair. This one just didn't want to be fixed, but you hung in there and forced it to let you get it working again. In the end, it's a fantastic repair. I never doubted you.

Seeing you cut those decals was painful to watch, but it had to be done.

You TOMY too much

Paraffin will dissolve the glue, and won't dry so fast.

Here's a hint for better replacement labels. I used to do this all the time. Get a transparency and print in reverse on the transparency. Then, take a white piece of paper and glue to to the printed side of the transparency. You get an extremely vibrant print which will never oxidize or smear or smudge doing it this way, though I sometimes would run the transparency several times. The printer does a remarkable job of printing the same image exactly in the same place. The first time I did it, I didn't think it would work and I was just wasting a transparency sheet. But it worked perfectly. For some applications, I would then glue the whole thing to the machine. But different applications needing a thicker label and so I would just glue it to a cereal box (though you still need the white paper backing to see the print) which is just the right thickness. Frankly, they looked way better than the original stickers. I mostly did this to the Coleco Mini Arcade machines. I still have a complete set up of them and 3 have these labels I printed on them. I fixed these things 20 years ago. I keep them on top of my desk and I'm a smoker. You can clean my labels without worrying about messing them up. The worst that can happen is they fall off. You can just glue them right back on. I sold scores of these things and never had a complaint.

Speaking of Pepper's Ghost, there is a new space invaders handheld with a Pepper's Ghost trick in it, just like the original arcade cabinet had. The original arcade cabinet had a Pepper's Ghost trick to make the invaders translucent and appear ghostly against the moon background art. It worked extremely well. Though I haven't seen the mini in person, I'm told it is very well done and makes the whole thing look like an original arcade cabinet.

Excellent find and work, it genuinely is like an old EM arcade machine as many used similar mechanics often to hide mechanical arms and make things seem far bigger than they actually were. PS sent a FB message to the Randi's Robot Refurbish page about that battery door, if not the right one let me know and where to message and I'll sort it.

lighter fluid works very well to remove sticky residue

21:30 I see wires being pinched. 😏

16:23 I laughed too loud 🤣

You did a terrific job as usual ! Very relaxing and exciting to watch.

To remove sticker glue and paper residue, Goo Gone orange oil works great. It lasts about an hour, then disappears when dry. It won't stain paper and printed cardboard when it dries. So it can be used to remove price tags and tapes when buying old games at the thrift stores. Get the name brand though. Dollar Tree has a generic version that has petroleum. That one DOES permanently stain paper and cardboard.

Looks like Atari 2600 Night Driver.

Hey Randi still loving your videso. It was one of the r/c trucks you did not sure which one it was. but i had asked if you would be interested in rebuilding my Nikko Pepsi trans am with modern electronics. you said you were way to busy and you would get back to me. now i have all the extra parts to modernize it. make it the speed demon that it should be. so would you be interested in doing this or should we just blow it off and i find some one else

so if you had made a robot and a animated portrait, will you ever make a mini arcade?

Don't know who's the biggest genious. The inventors of this, or you fixing it. Well done 😀

Hello Randi. Great repair! Glad it didn't become a projectile, LOL. I know WD40 works great on removing some stickers and glues. I had to repair some of my Wowwee robots (cracked gears). I really enjoy seeing how those arcade games work inside. Thanks for sharing.

Ahhh another good background noise video while I work.

I've just bought one of these from eBay. It also says 1999 on the battery cover, but the box and the instructions say 2000. It is also a slightly different colour to yours, silver with red wheel trims and light grey on the hands and face. Mine powers up, eye lights flash, arms move, the wheel underneath turns and rotates and red led comes on, but he doesn't actually move along. Have you any idea what could be wrong please?

@Randi Rain Hello Randi! I need some advice ASAP about an omni junior I purchased from eBay and need your opinion on what the problem is and how I can fix it. The problem he has is when I turn him on, all he does is continuously drive forward and won’t respond to anything at all. He won’t stop driving forward until you turn him off either. I would appreciate a response as soon as possible. Thanks and hopefully hear back from you very soon.

Wow, this was really not an easy one, but awesome that you fixed it. Also I like the LED style of this driving game. Looks like Night Driver. And like the other people already said, it's a wonder, how they did this in the past. I think it also was not cheap to do such a construction with prototypes etc. until it was on the market.

Oh already an older video. But it's a great game. I have the same, but with the name "Terra hit" with Space Invaders theme and objects. But it's the same game / mechanic.

Found it, I don’t how I missed out on this episode.

It never gets less impressive to see the effort those engineers went to in order to create these fully mechanical, complex games that would nowadays probably be just two microchips and a screen. Truly a lost artform.