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Wow! That takes me back; my father bought us the blue and the brown robots, on the 2nd row, in London in 1970.
You could pose the arms with satisfying clicks. With AA batteries in their legs they buzzed along on rubber caterpillar tracks, lights flashing!
For the record...yes they do make tin robots today. Although they're most likely made in China and considered "adult collectibles not suitable for young children".
In fact, in that first group of tin robot pictures in the bottom left corner is an gray R-1 robot produced about 10 years ago by Rocket USA. They still make versions of it today.
And the one on the middle at the top may very well be the inspirations for the "aliens" from the manga/anime Pani Poni
Hey, this Zerak robot (the blue one) has the same problem as mine; his pants fall down! Compare him to the box art!
Fun post!
The "Space Crawler" is a GI Joe accessory. I had one and it was very cool. It went with a "moon base". I have no idea what happened to it.
I had a little blue plastic robot that with arms that swung around. It came to a spectacular, pyromaniacal end when I grew tired of it.
If you like robots AND DONUTS, check out the art work of Eric Joyner (http://www.ericjoyner.com/) - he paints excellent toy robots being perturbed by donuts, often of giant proportions. Two great tastes that taste great together.
Actually the space crawler is a 1960's Matt Mason toy, from Mattel.
Look it up, I had one as a kid a looooong time ago.
in the picture
"Goodwin Museum Toy Robot Collection:"
You can see the robot Gort ( http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/The-Day-the-Earth-Stood-Still-757302.jpg) from the movie "the day the earth stood still"
Brilliant movie by the way.
The five Dinky toys are of course all from Gerry Anderson series: UFO, Thunderbirds and Joe 90.
I have a CBS Toy Maxx Steele Robot I would like to sell (good working condition). Anyone interested?
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