Money — it makes the world go round, and it even talks. Or at least, these money boxes do.
Looking to classic sci-fi characters from East and West for inspiration, manufacturer Y.C. Toys Laboratory, sublicensee X Plus Co. Ltd. and sales agency Daiwa Toy have found a fun way to encourage you to save — and will no doubt rake in a few pennies for themselves in the process.
For our Western readers, Robby the Robot needs no introduction (but he's getting one anyway). The iconic robot from 1956 sci-fi masterpiece "Forbidden Planet" was perhaps the very first to portray our hard-wired helpers as having personalities, now a common staple in fiction that touches everything from C3PO and R2D2 in "Star Wars" to Robot B-9 in "Lost In Space" and Marvin the Paranoid Android in "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." So revered is Robby that he has appeared in countless B-movies and even such TV classics as "The Simpsons" and "Mork & Mindy."