TELEPHONE ROBOT

Maker: Yonezawa

Structurally this is a Winky robot in bright red paint. The chest has been replaced with a blue plastic dial, and a pair of shoulder brackets hold telephone arms. There are two versions: one with red tin phones, and the other with green plastic ones.

These look to be designed for a younger age range than usual: the dials have childish doggy graphics on them and the play value is based on pretend conversation. The Mechanical Telephone Robot appears in the Yonezawa catalog for 1967, where it is descibed as a new item. They are by any standards rare robots.