Robosapien launches cottage industries

From Manila Bulletin Online:

"Tokyo’s skyline has been regularly menaced by the skyscraper-munching Godzilla, but now it has another foe — Robosapien, one of the hottest toys in the run-up to Christmas.

A homemade movie casting the robot in the role usually reserved for a man in a rubber monster suit is one of thousands of Internet videos, pictures and hacking guides that have sprung up around the toy.

As Robosapien’s maker, Hong Kong-based toy company WowWee, prepares to roll the millionth unit off the production line at its Chinese factory, inventor Mark Tilden says he is astounded at the geek cottage industry that has sprung up around the robot."