Tripod Cyclops Robot - Retro Sci-Fi Robot Figurine

A one-eyed walking machine on three spindly legs, straight out of a 1950s pulp science-fiction cover. 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 round ball body with a single large porthole eye under a curved brow, a flat cap on top and two ball-tipped antennas. Two ribbed spring arms reach forward with…

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