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Posted Apr 29, 2003 by Wand'rin star
I somehow imagined him more streamlined, but walking with a limp due to the non-working diodes on the left side. 
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Posted Apr 30, 2003 by Smij
That's how he looked in the TV version, but in the illustrated edition released years later he was much more streamlined and lanky.
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Posted Aug 16, 2005 by AgProv
Before the TV adaptation, and that chunky kind of "Robbie the Robot" 1950's look for Marvin, my own suspicion was that Marvin's robotic form would resemble some sort of perfected ideal of the male physique, possibly an android version of Michaelangelo's David.
He'd have the best possible electronics, the best android body conceivable, and in theory he'd have it all going for him.
But (and this is the Sirius Cybernetics Corporatrion we're talking about here)all this physical and electronic perfection would be driven by a maladjusted depressive cyberbrain, making the gap between external substance and internalised cyberchondria("the terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side")all the more incongruous.
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Posted Sep 17, 2005 by carpetcrawler
Disappointed in Marvin's film body, not at all what I had imagined.
I presume ther size of his head is due to his brain being the size of a planet, but he has GPP...surely there should have been a less "Star Wars" look to him!
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Posted Sep 18, 2005 by Smij
More iPod than Star Wars, surely? 
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Posted Sep 18, 2005 by carpetcrawler
Star Wars...iPod; all the same to me...lol
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Posted Jan 12, 2006 by Athena the Wise
Are we talking about the Marvin for the television series or the one for the recent film. I rather liked the one in the film, although I had always pictured him as a combination of the two. Incidentally, Marvin is my favorite charactor.
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Posted Jan 12, 2006 by Athena the Wise
Forgot to mention this:
I have the t.v. series on DVD and on one of the special features Douglas says he never really had so much a picture of Marvin in his mind as he did what he would sound like.
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Posted Nov 15, 2006 by CRich70
The really interesting thing about Marvin in the new movie is that the two actors who bring him to life have been working together on the Harry Potter series of films. Warwick Davis(Professor Flitwick) wore the actual costume and Alan Rickman(Professor Snape) provides Marvin's voice. Mr. Rickman I think had the perfect voice for portrayng Marvin's state of depression.
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Posted Mar 11, 2009 by Moonhogg - Captain Coffee Break. Season's Greetings!
Only just stumbled into this thread, a bit late really, but that's me all over!
I agree wholeheartedly about Alan Rickman - he was perfect. The line where, I believe it was Zaphod, shouted "Freeze!" to which Marvin replied, totally deadpan -
"Freeze? I'm a robot, not a refridgerator!" cracked me up!
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Posted Mar 12, 2009 by Vip
Hmm, interestingly, that line was one that really jarred for me. The rest of the film, however, was marvellous.
I think I'm pretty much alone in thinking that although the costume was okay, Alan Rickman wasn't a good voice of Marvin. Possibly it was the lines that I didn't like though. All in all, Marvin was about the only character that I couldn't believe in. Hey ho.
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