Rocket Robot on Fin Legs - Retro Space Age Robot Figurine

A playful mash-up of two space-age icons: a retro rocket ship that is also a robot. 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 is shaped like a classic bullet rocket. The pointed nose cone forms the head, with a ball-tipped antenna on top, two round eyes and a grille mouth. The body has banded joints and two p…

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