Chunky Wind Up Robot with Key - Retro Tin Toy Robot Figurine

A chunky, friendly robot modelled on the classic clockwork wind-up toy, complete with its winding key. 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 box head with two round eyes in a visor panel, a small tooth grille, side ear pods and two ball-tipped antennas. The box body carries a raised gear emblem on t…

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