DIAMOND SELECT TOYS Lost in Space: Electronic Lights & Sounds B9 Robot Figure, Multi-colored, 10 inches, (AUG142281)

There is a small switch on the bottom of the robot tred section . This switch is really a Demo Mode / Off / Play Switch .In Demo Mode , only the phrase " Danger , Danger , Will Robinson will play .Set the switch to " Play " and all the lights function continually and the voice box will blink in sync to the voice while this mode is activated . One activates the speaking via a square green button on the side of the robots middle section . The Off setting turns the entire unit completely off . No Demo or Play Mode will work . There are good instructions inside the box , under the tread assembly . I suspect people are hearing only the 1 Demo phrase and none of the others as listed on the box because of this "hidden" switch. One does not find out about this switch until it is out of the box and are possibly returning the unit as defective . Some people don't like taking theei collectables out of the original box or opening it .It's just a heads up here about the operation of the unit . The robot is a good item / fun to see and to listen to , but the switch could cause one to think it is not functioning properly until one reads the short instruction sheet enclosed .

The media could not be loaded. Beautiful and perfect, you say several phrases, my 59 year old husband and my 5 year old grandson loved it.

Well, I don't think I could be more impressed with this purchase. This is perhaps the best reproduction of the Lost In Space B9 robot (outside of 1:1 scale fan-made versions) that has been produced to date.If you are a retro scifi or Lost in Space fan (which I'm assuming you are or you wouldn't be on this Amazon page), then you are probably familiar with all of the Lost in Space collectibles that have come out over the years and especially since 1998 in conjunction with the release of the movie remake. Leading the pack in LIS collectibles popularity was a version of the B9 robot very similiar to this one by a toymaker called Trendmasters, who has since gone out of business. In fact. when I first saw this Diamond Select version I thought it was simply a reissue of the old Trendmasters version. I couldn't have been more wrong. Whereas the old Trendmaster version had a few micro bulbs to light the bubble and chest plate which were hardly visible unless you dimmed the lights in the room, the Diamond Select uses LEDs to light the torso panel, chest plate and the bubble to create a dramatically vivid and bright animated sequence of flashing lights very similiar to the original robot on the show. The lights are so bright that they stand out in a brightly lit room. This is all that any diehard LIS robot fan has ever wanted over the years and not one toy manufacturer has been able to deliver, until now.This version is also a little more robust in size than the Trendmasters version and stands just a hair taller. I always felt that the Trendmaster robot looked a little malnourished. The scale is perhaps still not as faithful to the original robot in the show - the legs still look a little long. But Diamond Select even got the orientation of the claws correct this time where the Trendmasters version had the claws in the horizontal position. Little things like this really irritate collectors. Perhaps the best thing about this Diamond Select robot are the phrases. This version is the most articulate with 15 different phrases and the audio fidelity is about the best I've heard of any LIS-produced toy yet.I've included a photo: the new Diamond Select on the left and the old Trendmasters on the right for comparison.

Cool robot. Nice size. Flashing lights. Lots of different recorded phrases. Good sound quality.

When my Diamond Select Toys Lost in Space B-9 Robot replica arrived I was surprised how big it is at 11 inches tall. I think given the detail and light effects it's a good size replica. The toy is made in China. No surprise there. On the left side of the display box is a hole to put your finger inside the box to press a red button to activate the lights and sounds. The robot comes in "TRY" mode which is a switch position located on the bottom of the robot. The red button works fine but it can stick a bit if you press it near the front rather than towards the back end of the button. I think this is just because the quality of the components are not that good. Before I took it out of the box, I pressed the button and nothing happened. The box had its three factory seal stickers on the flap so I figured it was not tampered with. I figured maybe the batteries were dead. I opened the box and took the B-9 replica out of its box. There is a door under the robot secured by a screw that holds three batteries. The box says the robot includes "X 3 Batteries Included 1.5V AA Size". Actually the robot uses 3 AAA batteries. The batteries that came with the robot were dead on arrival. I replaced them with 3 AAA Energizer batteries. There are three switch positions: TRY, OFF, and PLAY. The TRY position plays, "Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!" when you press the button located on the robot's left side (facing the robot). In TRY mode, the robot lights up not flashing, but constant lights while it says the words. The OFF position does not turn off the robot, it just puts the robot in same as PLAY mode. This is probably because the circuitry is not correct. The PLAY mode plays the full list of classic phrases from the original TV series, with blinking lights, and the robot's voice light is synchronized to the words spoken. I think the switch is either not correctly wired or possibly a design flaw in the switch selector. But it's not a big deal since as long as it plays all the phrases and lights up, I don't see it as a problem. Perhaps other buyers of this robot don't have this problem with the "OFF" position. It might just be a production defect, rather than a design defect. When I inspected the robot, I noticed a little bit of the black paint lightly smudged where the robots front lower base / tracks are located and some light streaks of black paint on the robot's left side of its lower base / tracks. I was able to clean the smudge with a jewelers cloth and some light polish. These kinds of imperfections are probably common in many of the units produced and it was not a big deal even if I had left it as it was. But now it looks perfect. Another feature is when the robot is left in its "PLAY" position, it flashes its lights for several minutes and then goes into sleep mode if you don't press its red button to play sounds. That's good because it will save on battery life and you don't really need to mess around with the switch underneath once you put it in PLAY mode. I would have given it five stars had it not come with dead batteries, the OFF switch position doesn't turn the robot really off all the way -- not just sleep mode, and there was a little bit of black paint streak/smudge near the robot's base. Overall, I really like this B-9 toy replica.06-23-15 UPDATE: After my original product review was written, I left the new Energizer batteries in the B-9 Robot. As I noted in my review, the OFF switch setting does not work. Selecting the OFF position puts the robot in the same mode as the PLAY position. As I noted in my original review, after several minutes, the robot's lights will turn off and the robot appears to be in a sleep mode. When I put the robot back in its box and stored away since my last review, I left the 3 AAA new Energizer batteries inside the robot, and left the robot in the OFF position, then several days later I took the robot out of the box and the robot didn't work. It turned out to be batteries drained dead. If you get one of these with the OFF switch defect, you will need to remove the batteries, if you don't, the batteries will be drained very quickly. Another comment about the robot, the circular part below the two antennas is a clear plastic part rather than the silver colored part as in the original B-9. Also, the robot's neck allows the head to be raised and lowered just like the original B-9.

Really enjoy the details. The lights on front chest and overhead are very similar to original tv robot. And gotta love the many familiar phrases spoken. Too bad it’s not a tin robot version with the same features.