Amsface

I gather that the Animatronic Sir Alan Sugar was on TV recently, but somehow I’d failed to hear about it until now. Please, anyone who is thinking of buying this: just give the £39 to Great Ormond Street Hospital direct, lest Amstrad follow through on their threat:

We are considering developing a range of animatronic talking heads with an an array of famous people - which repeats a selection of their famous catchphrases at the touch of a button and contains at least 20 stock phrases of the character as well as the facial expressions.

[…]

The prototype is currently displayed on this site and if the response to it is positive, the product range will be put into production. Amstrad plan to approach other people with famous catchphrases and expressions. Simon Cowell, Gordon Ramsay, Catherine Tate or Matt Lucas are just a few of the potential celebrities we have in mind to approach (although no agreements have yet been made).

I wonder whether this product formed part of the final task in this season’s The Apprentice. Perhaps after next week’s final four go through their interviews and we’re down to the last two we’ll discover which of them had the idea that the road to success was to produce an animatronic Alan Sugar. (Trouble is, the candidate most likely to suck up to Sir Alan in that manner - Syed - was fired last week. Though I suppose he could have had an opportunity to slip the idea in during a brainstorming session if they bring the fired candidates back to assist the two finalists in the final task again this year.)

[Via Schrodinger, posting to uk.media.tv.misc]