Radar Dish Head Robot - Retro Space Age Robot Figurine

A retro robot topped with a radar dish, a nod to the space-race fascination with radar, radio and satellites. 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 tilted dish antenna on a short mast above a box head with two round eyes and a straight mouth. The octagonal body carries a raised panel with a dial gau…

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