( so noticed that the 1950's copywrited robots name got deleted.
As I recall Metropolis had Rossums Universal Robots
so "Rory" )
So it was that Jeff,who had watched all the old 1950s and 1960s era kids shows with Rory the Robot in them,knew
that a standard plot was that the Russians or the Aliens got hold of Rory and made him a destructive mechanical menace
till the kids fix matters and Rory gets back to walking Lizzie the Collie rather then vapourizing the Town.
So as Jeff stood there staring up at awe at the nine foot tall black mechanical Rory,who didn't look like Dean anymore
Jeff wisely decided to get far away before he pushed the ON/OFF lever on the Control Box
into the ON position.
So he was a half mile away from the house before he pushed the lever to On and immediately
he could hear the sounds of his parents house bursting apart as Rory the Robot's systems and vacuum tubes hummed back to life and the robots
GROW circuit kicked in.
Soon the hous was no more and the robot now towered one hundred feet tall,the macimum size its GROW circuit could handle.
The hum from the robots vacuum tubes could be heard for miles away and the robot didn't look too friendly.
Jeff immediately tried to push the lever on the Control Box back to OFF but the robot aimed a magnetic claw in his direction and suddenly the Control Box flew out of Jeff's hands and clung to Rory's metal plates.The car Jeff was in began to roll backwards towards the menacing monster and Jeff leapt out and ran away.