"Marvin is the ship's robot on the starship Heart of Gold. He is a fine example of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's 'Genuine People Personalities' technology. He is very, very depressed about this. He has a brain the size of a planet, yet is rarely given the chance to use it. Mostly he finds himself waiting several million years to park cars for an exclusive restaurant, staying on space ships being driven into the hearts of suns so that he can manually work the teleport to save everyone else on board, being dropped several miles on to solid rock, and being left to defend himself against awesome military technology. He finds none of these things enjoyable. Thanks to time travel, he is now a couple of times older than the universe itself, something else he finds depressingly tedious."
 

I've always liked the character of Marvin, from first seeing him in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC miniseries, through the books, and finally into the 2005 movie. He's the brainchild of Douglas Adams, but he's been imagined visually in a number of different ways. The one above is just the latest, which appeared in the recent movie.

The custom itself is about 85% bear. The torso was cut in half and rejoined with part of an ink pen and a spare Stikfas joint (so that the waist can swivel). The upper arms are from the Delta Boy kit, though the lower arms (with the hands) are from the bear. The head (brain the size of a planet and all) is a Mechana shoulder ball with two layers of epoxy to make it even larger. A little cutting, some gluing, a bit more epoxy and finally some paint and Marvin was finished! I'm rather proud of him, although I would have liked to make his head even larger... but it was getting dangerously top-heavy already. Even though he has the usual magnets in the feet, I just didn't want to push the weight factor too much. Browse through the images below to see him in all his (depressed) glory!

"Simpler is better."

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