Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/06/16/watch-komodo-dragons-vs-robo.html
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Oh no… Poor Robot Spy Pig. 
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Can we do the next one with a drone attacking a colony of murder hornets?
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Robot Spy Pig seems to be photographed better than Robot Spy Pig photographs. (if the goal was to see the inside of a Komodo dragon, shouldn’t we have made Robot Spy Pig smell more like …a pig? i dunno, stuff a couple of pork-chops up Robot Spy Pig’s Pork-Chop Containment Unit?)
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100% sure what will visit my dreams tonight. Guaranteed. 
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It gets knocked down and keeps filming. Definitely sounds like a journalist in 2020.
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“Then we sent Intern Ricky to retrieve Spy Pig. Things did not go so well for Intern Ricky.”
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Indonesian Barbecue up next!
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No pork then.
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They do tend to make the spy animals smell like the group they’re infiltrating. Spy pig looks like a loner though, not sure what they made it smell like. I don’t think the goal was to be eaten but rather to have a close up cam backing up Spy Komodo Cam.
But yeah they have great photographers getting great shots of the Spy animals themselves. Only a rare few of the shots the Spy animal takes are really impossible to get otherwise. Kind of a gimmick but a fun one imo.
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These SyFy channel movies are getting lazier and lazier.
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Robot spy pigs?
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Bloody robot voyeurs! I hates them!
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People definitely have intense feelings about them:
This is exactly why non-robot people rarely risk hitchhiking anymore, either. I’m not sure whether Hitchbot was a failure because it didn’t get far or a success because it fell victim to the same horrible behavior a human might in a similarly vulnerable position.
I would definitely be more inclined to pick up a friendly robot than a random person, though.
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RSP zombies and a bank of kimodo dragons.
You make a great point. Some want to excuse violence by saying people are more aggressive toward objects, but that is not true.
Eh, they’ve done worse when it comes to special effects…
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Komodo dragon, probably:
“Who the fuck did put all that stuff in my food? That’s awful. I’m coming for you, asshat of a chef! I promise!”
That’s true. Although I think those movies would have been better if they had dropped the cgi and used practical effects. I want some poor shlub running around in a rubber suit hamming it up.
Fun Fact: Robot Spy Pig was played by Sharknado’s own Ian Ziering in an uncredited cameo.
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