1950s Film Robot with Ball Segment Limbs - Retro Figurine

A retro robot in the spirit of the mechanical men of 1950s science-fiction cinema, with arms and legs built from stacked balls. Retro robots like this grew out of the tin-plate wind-up and battery toy robots made in Japan and elsewhere from the late 1940s through the 1960s, and the robots of 1950s science-fiction films and pulp magazine covers. This figure has a dome head with large ear rings and two ball-tipped antennas over a ribbed collar. The rounded body carries a panel of nine round studs…

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