Green Toy

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"Green Toy", or the "green machine", was one of the operators at the dysfunctional call centre of a firm who employed only robots, a large, green, boxy-looking robot whose only visible action was to lift its arm up and down to no apparent purpose. (TV: Robots Ad [+]Loading...["Robots Ad (TV story)"])

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The assembled Green Toy, not yet installed in his proper place.[1]

This green robot was one of seven original robot designs supplied to the production of the Robots Ad [+]Loading...["Robots Ad (TV story)"] by Studio Kite. The behind-the-scenes featurette posted on Facebook by Canberra Daleks & Robots highlighted it as the biggest prop on-set, a detail which its minor appearance in the finished product does not convey all that clearly; the "green machine", which was brought to the set in several parts and assembled there, was many times taller than a human actor, towering over the partitions of the fake call centre.

The featurette also included a close-up of an in-universe prop which was not visible in the final cut, a whiteboard giving a partial list of the call centre's employees. One of the robots listed thereon was "Green Toy", which appears to be a reference to this robot. The comical "scoreboard" reported that it had received 14 calls, resolving only one and leaving 13 unsolved, also racking up 3 "fatalities" in the process.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 9 March 2005 ANZ Bank Advert. Facebook. Archived from the original on 7 September 2024. Retrieved on 7 September 2024.