Plottwist- the guy who emailed you saying he had the remote was the same guy who donated the robot to you, and he just said that so he could get it out of his house! :-P

I love that there was just someone in the area who had experience fixing these obscure toys. The world is an interesting place.

The guy with the remote was probably just the first guy trying to get you to accept the donation because the curse of the hearoid has been living on in his family for generations

"Hey, do you want this robot with no remote?" "Not without the remote. Thank you anyway." Two. Weeks. Later. "Hey, do you want this remote with no robot?" 👀

That molding was seriously impressive.

I'm amazed how many retro tech nerds just happen to live in the Fort Worth area.

You should try a headlight lens restoration kit for polishing plastic. They are cheap and work very well.

Shoutout to 8bit guy for making his intro exactly long enough that pressing L one time when the video starts skips the intro and starts exactly where the video begins, every time

Man, the Jawas did a number on this poor droid.

Haha, did the previous owner forget it in the desert on Tatooine...? Dang, that’s a lot of dirt! 😂

Wouldn't surprise me if that second dude that claimed to have a remote control but then disappeared was really the first guy tricking you into accepting the robot, to be honest.

I find it amazing that they care so much to repair these things. -Taking them apart. -Cleaning each piece in a special solution+UV light -Molding new pieces to replace lost/damaged ones. -Printing new decals -etc. Like if this were me, I wouldn't care about this toy from the past. It would just be a novelty item that takes up space and knowing that would give me no drive to fix it up. I would just sell it or donate it. It fascinates me to see the amount of dedication this guy has in these odd things that really have no use today.

The mold part is truly impressive !

A whole lot of insects and spiders are now homeless. Seriously- impressive. The amount of work on this was incredible... obviously a labour of Robot love.

There's just something endearing about giving the hearoid to her at the end.

As a 50+ year old guy I can't beleive I get excited about the title music. wow!!!

Ask Technmoan about using Brasso for plastic polishing.

12:26 Slightly different coloured parts on your robots is practically a sci-fi tradition.

“It’s slow as molasses” The molasses flood:Y’wanna rethink that bud?

Randi really knows her stuff, love this colab. Well done both of you.

The _Hearoid Robot_ looks like R2-D2 if Star Wars was made into a "space show" with TV quality instead of a theatrical budget.

Some month ago: - Can you repair that robot? - Sure - Can you also record it on camera? - Only if you'll do a voiceover

I gotta say, even though Robots like these are relics of the 1980's and only really make sense in the context of their time, as a kid growing up in the 2000s I probably would have loved something just like this.

#25 on Trending? More of my favorites getting on trending lately. Save all humans.

Love seeing some classic plastic moulding, rather than the 3D printing everyone else is doing these days. I wonder if the resulting parts are stronger too?

Disassembly and cleaning of that depth is a real labor of love

Now that you've done the Hearoid, try a Hemorrhoid. Like this project there are some special preparations that help things along.

"No disassemble Johnny 5" or something

The hearoid without his little visor: “Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, trash it, change it, mail, upgrade it...”

That's really cool, kinda like a remote control Big Trak.

"The Heroid knows where it isn't, so it knows where it is at all times."

5:07 This part reminds me of what Beavis and Butthead said: "If I could move my hands that fast, I'd never leave the house".

Watching how those molds were made for replacement tie-rods was really fascinating!

That silicone looked like the Klingon blood from Star Trek VI.

For polishing the dome, maybe there's this option: In the aerospace industry there they use a mixture that is made from two pastes that are applied to surfaces such as the canopy of an airplane with cotton, to remove scratches. I don't know what this stuff is called, but a friend of mine who worked in the Israeli Aerospace Industry once gave me some of it and I was able to completely renew the face of a scratched watch I had. The results were amazing. As I was told, It works on various materials, including plastic and glass. This mixture has some tiny, sandy particles in it that scrubs the surface ever-so-slightly, removing just microns of the scratched surface and polishes it out. looks absolutely new when done, you can't tell it went though any kind of treatment at all. maybe worth a research.

Wow. Randy did a fantastic job!

When I was little the Tomy Robot was the peak of my electronical desires, sadly never got one. Great to see your video about these things! Regards from Germany!

Techmoan recently polished a screen using Brasso just fine. That should probably work for your robot visor (you could try on the cracked one).

I have to say, I LOVE this whole style of video, you narrating while someone else restored and just videod it. This is one of the more enjoyable, top 10 video in my opinion. Great editing :D

This was truly amazing. So much dedication to the repair. Definitely subscribed to Randi.

Clicked IMMEDIATELY love me some robots

Fantastic job, David and Randi! I'm glad to see that restorations can go on, even in these pandemic times. I remember as a child how "kids robots" were all the rage in the mid-80's, and always wanted one for myself. But the closest I got to one was my friend's Teddy Ruxpin and Grubby dolls. Those things were "Uncanny Valley" incarnate. Like evil, take-home versions of the Chuck-E-Cheez animatronic musicians (themselves creepy and weird.) Far more awesome were the actual robot-looking toys like Hearoid and the Nintendo R.O.B. So many TV shows and movies from the 80's ("Rocky IV", "Wall Street", "Runaway") envisioned a time when we'd all have our own personal R2D2 helping us around the house. But the closest we've gotten so far is....Google Assistant? Siri? Alexa? Now if only we could restore a whole army of these 80's Christmas-catalog robots, install some wicked A.I. and let them loose on the public. A platoon of awesome 80's toy robots, bent on World Domination. Wait.. wait... That would just give us our own breed of home-made Daleks. Tiny, adorable, angry Daleks.

I love your channel! It makes me happy when there is a new episode in my queue. You and Randi are so dedicated and skilled. Thanks for your work. I had flashbacks to the Sears Christmas Catalog from the 80's (which is the closest I ever got to something like that robot) 😁

I enjoy David’s videos as his enthusiasm for retro computing really shows in every video. I really like this collaboration. He seemed to find someone as enthusiastic about robots. Thank you Randy and David. I really enjoyed this one.

I just misread the title as “Vintage haemorrhoid robot restoration” 🤔

This gave me a memory I forgot I had from way back in Elementary school when my Computers teacher drove one of these up to the classroom door and started talking as a "prank." I can't believe this video made me remember a decades old memory.

Fantastic restoration from a nostalgic 80's toy. Congratulations! I hope to see more on the next video.

Great video. This was probably one of your most enjoyable restoration stories, in my opinion.

The song during the cleaning montage made me happy.

Wow, David is such a great narrator. I'll love to hear him narrating stuff for more youtubers

Very good video! I was actually missing a lot this kind of video on your channel, in the past 1-2 years.

Great collaboration, the two of you are obviously very skilled and the work was very detailed. Great job!

Oh that's gnarly! Love the vids! Definitely subbing to Randi Rain. Robot vids are right up my alley

I am just happy that the robot were healed and then went to a collector who would love and cherish it...

Another classic electronic toy from the '80s that is *not* rotting in a landfill, thanks to you and Randi. That really looked like a lot of work -- but the result was fantastic! Excellent! I would love to see a future video that delves more in to the technical abilities of this robot.

wow I'm super impressed with the restoration work/technique, awesome job!

Aaaaah yes, my healthy dose of ASMR-Retro-Repair!

I'm pretty sure it's Toe-me, not Tommy. Tomy Toys was huge in the 70s and 80s.

wow, what a cool video! your nes graphics video from years ago brought me to your channel and I have never once regretted subbing!

Impressive restoration work, congratulations to both of you.

In case you haven't found a way to polish the dome yet I remember that Techmoan used Brasso to remove scratches from plastic on Hi-Fi displays and they looked perfect afterwards. Maybe try that?

"Hearoid 2010" when the future was 10 years ago

Your restoring videos are my favorites!!! :)

You two did a great job! I remember those in stores when I was a kid and always wanted one.

The sound is quite charming, gives a real feeling of nostalgia.

Interesting to see a video with you doing the narration but someone else doing the restoration. Great video, thanks to both of you!

Incredible work by both of you.

Wow 8 bit. Not only I discovered you randomly. You're a great reference for a lot of other cool stuff and guys doing even more equal stuff.

13:00 I see what you did there

ah yes, the good ol' hot sauce trick!

This is one of the most wholesome videos I've seen during my quarantine time. Thank you both!

The amount of work you people put into these projects is awe inspiring

A good thing for plastic polishing is polywatch specifically designed to polish plastic watch faces. Or if you need alot of the stuff use t-cut it's made for polishing car paint to a glass finish. But I found it works on plastic amazing (I use this on watch faces as I felt polywatch was rather expensive)

Wow, Randi really has repairing these things down.

Back in the late 90's, my brother and me got into collecting pinball machines and restoring them. Ever since, I get some sort of pleasure watching people restore old electronics like this. Just something about it makes me feel good.

This is about 45200% more effort than you'd expect to be poured into fixing a broken old toy robot. Amazing work, and props to both you and Randi for this! Going to check out her channel next.

There's just SO MUCH dedication on display here, it's almost unreal

Hey David, have you thought of doing a silicone mold of that broken gear for that mechanical arm project? If you made a 3D print of the gear, you could then make a mold of that and fill the mold with a resin. Then you might have a part that's more durable than a 3D print.

Why this channel is sooo relaxing and warm and cosy? :) greetings from Poland :)

There's some dedication to a repair. Great effort both of you.

Why didn't the robot scream when his face got removed like they do at Itchy and Scratchy Land in the Simpsons?

For acrylic plastic I've heard of people using Pledge With Future Shine. I haven't tried it myself, but I've read it works great on Lego canopy piece.

An amazing job of restoration! I can't imagine getting all that back together again, I would have definitely had extra parts left over.

Great to see this robot come to life again. These restoration videos are so entertaining to watch. Thank you 🙏

Oh man, I completely forgot about these guys. My friend had an Omnibot back in the day

A cleaning montage, some Anders tunes and a new 8-bit guy restoration. Life is good!

Going through the troubles and doing EVERYTHING to restore such a complicated antique. Respect.

Fascinating work on the molds!

Seeing the word "Vintage" before the name of a toy I remember having like it was yesterday, just gave me a "crap, I'm getting old" moment.

I love the intense music played over the main disassembly of the Hearoid. It's the same music from the 8 bit guy restoration of the corroded VIC 20. By the way, David whats that music called??

Wow! What a fun project. Collaborative efforts are always fun to watch.

I thoroughly enjoyed this collaboration. Mad skills!

"Happy Birthday, Paulie"

I really like the music in the video it reminds of the songs from the 80's that were made using keyboard synthesizers like the ones hanging on the wall behind you when you do a demonstration.

Gotta say that I'm impressed that people like you and her manage to find time to refurbish old electronics. Much respect for both of your dedication.

This is the coolest! The molding of replacement parts is so skillful!!

Looks like Randi's channel is about to blow up - and quite rightly! Who doesn't love a robot restoration 😁

Finally, a good way to spend my quarantine

That was one heck of a restoration. Amazing work.

Loved seeing that repair process, especially where new parts are manufactured other than with a 3D printer!