O Frabjuous Day ! Callooh Callay !
 

There is a Kuba Komet on You-Know-Where, item #330058755031...the starting bid is $7500, I think that is just a tad high. But we can poke fun at it for awhile, it would surely poke us if it could...

I hit the girls here in the office & Lauriann for the dough to get this thing, but nobody was willin' to help out a poor ol' fellow American, for some strange reason...Altho Sheila here giggled at it pretty good when I showed her the picture..."Danger, Will Robinson !"

Sheesh, it's only an hour's drive from me. I should go kick the tires, just to be obnoxious.

Steve McVoy at ETF has one of these. Maybe he could opine as to the value.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

They have sold from $6000 to $8000 in the last three years.

what an ugly TV

....I'd still be afeared the gawdam thing might come alive, & murder me in my sleep, or I'd come home loaded one night, get into a fight w/it, slip & get skewered on one of the spines...

what a horrible thing

...I bet these things are common as pig tracks on that alternate reality world in "Superman", what was it called-"Bizarro"...<grin>

id push it out teh window of the office tower, make room for a CT-100

I want one!

Bill R

Shit, I'd about push an R-390A outta the window of an office tower for an operating CT-100...But it would give whoever it hit a helluva headache...

before disintegrating into a bunch of toothpicks

Even if I could afford one
 

I definately would never want one.

I just can't like something that has no logic whatsoever in the overall theme.

I wonder how many people poke their eye on that point.

I guess if you paint it a solid color it would look good in the Jetson's home.

I find it very odd that something so many find to be so special and exclusive would end up loosing it's back. I wonder how someone could move it and not take the back? Maybe a service man got p.o'd and threw it out the window of whatever strange German penthouse it likely came from.

I would like to see the home it goes to considering they would have that much cash to spend on something that goes with nothing else in this country.

Do you suppose the Germans that think that looks so voondeval would think our G2000 looks as bad as we think the Kuba looks?

I imagine it would be neat to see in person but I do believe I'd get tired of it quick the way another member described counting the days til he got rid of his G2000.

Is there any American TV other than the G2000 that is that peculiar?

i would cut that spike off of it first

:scratch2: As weird as it looks, I can see it being a real conversation piece in the right setting. In the same room with a Paramount speaker system and some of those "melted" looking plastic chairs, maybe with one of those hammered-metal sculpture panels on the wall and some blinking light bulbs, you'd think you'd just stepped into the control room of a 1950's sci-fi movie spaceship. A real conversation starter!

Not for my home, though. :no: [Especially not at that price. Maybe at thrift-shop pricing, just for the fun of it, and only for a while.]

It's a creature of its time.

If I had the room -- lotsa room -- and the spare cash, I'd buy one in a microsecond for my wife, who goes insane for Jetson's style stuff and considers my cathedral & tombstone radios, 1940s TVs, etc., a bunch of boring brown rectangles.

Lucky for me, we don't have room for a Komet unless we sacrifice something like her piano or dining room set :-)

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html

I like it. I would have it, but its too large. Big enough so that it could have the house, and I would have to go live in the car.

David

meh

It would look very cool in my living room!

That thing fairly SCREAMS "Gee, Mr Wizard, it's 1960 !" One would expect to see "Route 66" on the TV, "Walk-Don't Run" on the radio or record player, & one of those heroic Virgil Exner Mopar finmobiles in front of the home w/the "butterfly" roof on it..Yes, the Sixties are gonna be great...

Was it a creature of it's time or of the German's time.
 

[QUOTE=Phil Nelson]It's a creature of its time.
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Were they sold in America when new? I suspect they would not have been popular here at all. The styling is way "over the top " and looks like what I would expect from a cold hearted German designer.
Please don't take that the wrong way as I have a little German blood myself!

I have thought that I might like it for a little while if the sound is great but it seems like most people would think I'm some wierdo if I said I like it.

Our American sets were more like real Jetson's style where as this Kuba Komet seems more like something Dr. Evil's mother in-law would have loved.

..Or the Concentration Camp Kommandant who surreptiously decamped to South America, had duelling scars on his cheek, wore a perpetual scowl & shaved head, & a monocle...Think Oscar Beregi or Otto Preminger...<grin>

These sets were sold only in Germany, but there are at least 4 of them in North America. Here is ours:

http://www.earlytelevision.org/kuba.html

There is a link on that page to the Kuba museum in Germany, and to a 1959 brochure with all of Kuba's sets.

Too bad they didn't enter into some sort of deal w/RCA, & had a CTC-7 chassis in there, instead of the B&W set...Now, THAT would have been Too Kewl....

Too kewl
 

for me!

no, it would be very scary

My OL thinks it's way cool, being mostly German herself...

I'd use it to play Otto Klemperer LP's, while on the TV section watching his son get called an idiot by general Burkhalter...

But first I'd push some stuff outta the window, too...

1. Fake Predictas
2. Fake Crosley dashboard radios
3. Fake Corvette Wonderbar radios
(all available on eBay)

I'll gladly catch any R-390's & G-2000's as they fall; now THAT'S gonna bruise!

Bei Mir bist du schon, Kuba Komet!

BTW, I wonder if the seller will offer free removal of the "aroma of Tacoma"?

Oh, y'all know I'd give my right nut for one of these things, but as Richard Pryor would have said, "I'll talk about his ass for 44 years..." It is kinda fun making light of them. I can't imagine there are many of these Wunderkinds left anywhere, either here or in Germany. They were expensive to begin with in an era when Germany was not quite the rich country it is today; They ARE nigh on to 50 years old; and let's face it, they are a bit difficult to love in the same way an Admiral Bakelite 7" or a Sony 5-303 is. They're just too, well, "different"...Nobody would EVER call one of 'em "cute".

On all that...
 

I agree with Sandy.