TOSHIBA U.K LTD

I was commissioned to build the “TOSHIBA BLUE PRINT MAN”. “TOSH” which starred in three T.V. commercials.

It never ceases to amaze me how many fascinating coincidences happen in life, the Toshiba robot is such a one, for example this robot was based on the same technology which we developed for the Philip’s android, nothing new there, plus I entered into a contract to take the android on tour round the UK just like the Philip’s android .

But what was particularly unusual was that the TV commercials were already completed using a animated figure but the most amazing thing was the voice they used for the sound track.

To make the connection in my story we need to go back to when I was building R2-D2 in that period we had many all night shifts so we could complete the work in time and in the UK the number one radio station was pirate radio Luxemburg which always seemed to be able forecast with uncanny accuracy the next big hit.

One of the most popular records for my team was “Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick” by Ian Drury and the Block Heads a long time before it was a hit in the UK charts, the strange thing was it became our lucky song, every time we heard it over the next couple of years, you could guarantee we would have a fascinating new project just round the corner and with the Toshiba robot we came full circle because that was the voice of Ian Drury saying, “Hello Tosh got a Toshiba”.