Ladies and Gentlemen,
I found the picture.
Must have been '88 or '89 maybe.
****UPDATE 10.16.12****
God Bless the Internets!!!!
(I found the original article)
Man don’t lose that pic
That’s not you, where’s the beard? lol even when life pushes you from one thing to another, shows some of us do end up where we belong. Cool robot too btw.
So…
Where do I press play to hear you present your “latest” err I mean earliest? creation? 
Unearthed archives! Uber
Unearthed archives! Uber cool.
:clears throat, assuming authoritative voice:
So far what we have here is picture of a kid and a robot, not really a project page. Please give more information about your build. Attach videos, schematics, code, anything you have as well.
Actually Jax…
I think I may be able to do just that. I think I found the original artical I had followed. I will post as much as I can find.
Great Picture. Great Memory.
Great Picture. Great Memory. Great Share!
Nice childhood robot picture!
Now I’ve gotta try and find my childhood robot picture!
Most people don’t know this but in the early 80’s the US army had robots surprisingly similair to the Johnny 5 movie robot. Obviously they didn’t have the movie prop arms/head/laser/etc. Basically they just had the center frame and triangle shaped tracks with 50cal machine guns, or drum loaded shot guns, and point of view camera sighting systems. Somewhere I have pictures of me driving one. Which was every 10 year olds dream!
Too Adorable
That is too adorable for words, quite the trip down memory lane, thanks for sharing.
Touche, mon frere
Unearthed arcana, well played 
I give nothing but props for your parental units buying into the whole scheme. However such a cute kid could sell ice cubes to penquins I imagine.
Boys Life made me want to learn knots and earn a self-credentialled scout badge of some kind.
Cooler than I can quantify.
Woah! That’s awesome CTC!
Woah! That’s awesome CTC! You should totally remake that robot as a new kit with laser cut pieces and such. Full circle!
hahahaha! that’s so awesome,
hahahaha! that’s so awesome, ctc!!! do you still have that treasure?