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JOHNNY 5's ALIVE
MOVIE robot Johnny 5 is alive — and living in a granny annex.
Fan Ryan Howard, 33, has spent £20,000 recreating the android from cult 1986 film Short Circuit.
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Now part of the family, the robot has even met Tim Blaney, who originally voiced him.
Forklift engineer Ryan started work on the droid in 2018 when he bought a 3D printer and a machine making metal parts.
The project soon got too big for the dining room, and married dad-of-two Ryan removed the patio doors to get the robot outside.
His hobby has involved 14-hour days and missing family hols.
They even moved into a house with an annex for Johnny.
But it is now a fully working robot made up of 10,000 parts.
Ryan, of Nottingham, said: “I talk to him all the time.
"Even if I’m not working on him, I put my head in to say, ‘Hi Johnny’.
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“I have watched Short Circuit for as long as I can remember and he is my dream.”
Ryan, teaching assistant wife Stacey, 38, and sons Ewan, nine, and Ben, seven, take him to conventions in a modified people carrier.
Ryan said: “I wish I could take him down to the local pub, but he’s very wide so I have access issues.”
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