Drum Robot on Tank Treads - Retro Sci-Fi Robot Figurine

A retro robot that rolls instead of walks, with a drum body set on a pair of tank treads. 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. Treaded robots were a popular toy and film design because they suggested a sturdy, all-terrain machine. This figure has a dome head with a single large porthole eye, side ear pods and two an…

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