

It’s obviously a little oversized and impractical in actual use, but as a prop, it’s pretty cool. The company is still manufacturing these devices in China and is planning to ship them out by January 2019. Just look at Darryn’s collection of Batman figurines. HAL 9000 is a fictional artificial intelligence character and the main antagonist in Arthur C. If you throw it a line of dialog, it replies with the voice of Douglas Rain, the actor who dubbed HAL 9000 in the movie. It’s a lot of money, but if you’re a huge sci-fi fan, I can think of worse things to waste your money on. The replica is definitely not perfect, or even practical.
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The device will be available in two models, one with just a standalone Bluetooth speaker and red light for $499.00 (R7500) and another which includes the visual command centre that will complete the look of the Hal-9000 for $999.00 (R15000). Its screen also replicates some of the screen outputs from the film. The company has essentially created a command console that looks like the HAL-9000 – red light included – that essentially acts as both a Bluetooth speaker system and a prop replica with a built-in Alexa system that quotes lines from the movie. Well, this is what one company Master Replicas Group is offering fans as they unveiling their replica of the HAL-9000 to audiences at New York comic-con. The two of your friends that get the reference will love you for it and you will instantly be one notch higher off the bottom of the geek social list. Better yet, imagine owning your very own HAL-9000 and having it in your home. Now imagine getting to really freak people out with a computer that talks exactly like HAL-9000. It’s a computer voice that is as unnerving as it is emotionless and what you would expect a computer to sound like.
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One of the best parts about the movie though was that deadpan voice of HAL-9000 as the AI computer starts to take over the spaceship and kill off its crew. It was also adapted into one of the most boring sci-fi movies ever made (They were both created concurrently but the point stands), but that’s okay, Kervyn loves it and I will be probably be looking for other writing work by the end of this week for hating the movie. Good work, ThinkGeek.2001: Space Odyssey is one of the most iconic and thought-provoking sci-fi novels ever written. T-shirts, posters, stickers, home decor, and more, designed and sold by independent artists around the. It also features voice activation to trigger HAL's speech. High quality Hal 9000-inspired gifts and merchandise. This HAL 9000 replica is based on the blueprints and studio files from the 1968 movie, and includes digital sound that randomly cycles through 15 phrases from the film. We gave it the boring name of HAL 9000 Life-Size Replica, but we can't waste time with that." As we've already mentioned, the place to get this is ThinkGeek (tip via Uncrate). And now, we can have the most movie-accurate HAL 9000 replica ever made. Devoted film fans will spend countless hours and hundreds of dollars (occasionally even thousands) to create flawless replica props for their personal collections.


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No silly stories, no funny antidotes (to infectious anecdotes). I wish I could get my hands on one for a closer look. Here are a few of the photos as posted on ThinkGeek. The only downside - they cost $499.99 each and they're already on back-order. This is a thing of science fiction beauty and I want one on my wall already. Essentially, a 14" by 5" aluminum contraption complete with red LED light and "a very rare and expensive Nikkor fish-eye lens." Sweet. They've manufactured a near perfect, fully detailed life-size HAL 9000 prop replica. The ever trustworthy ThinkGeek has debuted a must-have film collectible from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. "I am completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly." Sci-fi, Stanley Kubrick nerds, get your credit cards at the ready.
