WowWee Elvis Robot becomes T-800 Elvinator

WowWee makes many fun robots of limited but clever articulation and affordable price. It's a cool company, but ultimately, the novelty of a singing Elvis robot wears out about just as fast as one of those Wal-Mart brand singing mackerels.

To re-inject some fun into a gag gift that had long been played out, Instructables user GWJax took a blowtorch to one side of his Elvis' robot's rubbery mug, fitted it with a glowing red LED eyes, and thus the Elvinator was born.

Eventually, the Elvinator will have his own Skynet-issue "brain board" and a custom jaw piston to allow Austrian body builder style robotic elocution. Awesome.

The Elvinator [Instructables]

[#1 posted by CraziestGadgetsdotcom , June 30, 2008 8:29 AM]

i can't help falling in love with that robot, he's all shook up, won't you love me tender little elvinator, are you lonesome? don't be cruel, let me be your teddy bear- i won't return you to sender, you hound dog you.

[#2 posted by JDspeeder1 , July 1, 2008 2:02 AM]

Correct! We also would have accepted "Jailhouse Bot," "Metalneckin'," and "A Little Less Termination."