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Wayne Chamberlain

The Sudbury Star

Brian Namanny grew up playing the legendary tabletop game Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots in his youth, so he knows full well that people of a certain age will have visions of that iconic classic dancing in their brains when Real Steel hits movie screens around the world on Oct. 7.

” I did play with it,” Namanny says with a laugh, during the Fan Expo Canada event in Toronto on the weekend.

However, he says the design of the robots wasn’t exactly inspired by the iconic 1970s game, which saw players pitting a red robot against a blue robot in a boxing ring.

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