Any BSG fans out there? Then you know what “toasters” are.
Huh? This:
These are, in fact, the original Cylons form the original Battlestar Galalctica TV series. What, you didn’t know there was an original series? There was. And I date myself in admitting that I watched it as a kid, back in the day.
Cylons, in the newest series (from 2003) were robotic helpers of the Twelve Colonies. But going against Asimov’s Rules for Robots, these guys decide to try to wipe us humans off the face of the galaxy, and so much carnage ensues.
(Clever students of mine will notice that NXT number 15 is named Cylon to honour that mission.)
The new cyclons are a much nastier breed than those form the 1970:
Much of what you see in the current series is CGI (that is, computer generated), but they do have some life sized mockups for props and such.
And if you’re interested in learning a bit more about the true history of cyclons, you’d do worse than click on that link.
