Stalk Eyed Robot with Spring Arms - Retro Robot Figurine

A goofy, lovable retro robot with eyes on springs. 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 two round eyeballs on coiled spring stalks rising from a small box head with a grille. The tapered trapezoid body has a round dial gauge on the chest and a row of four dots. Two coiled spring arms stretch straight…

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