As an aside, one of the things I was excited about as a lad were the stories about the giant, life-size Kong robot that the SPFX guys were building for the movie (reported in Famous Monsters, IIRC). Of course, being 10 and a child of afternoon sci-fi, I always held this deep hope that one of those freak comic book accidents would occur and this giant robot would short circuit and go on a rampage... alas, for youth....
I spent half the movie trying to figure out which scenes were ones with the giant Kongbot, and then, unfortunately, I saw them..... 
Out of curiosity, I googled on this thing and found this interesting article:
