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ATTACKING MARTIAN - HORIKAWAThe more common small / ordinary sized head on a 9 inch tin and plastic battery op fly eye robot. Distinctive gold litho on the fromt chest panel. Robot walks forward, stops then fires lit up guns which pop out from chest. Straight legs. Second generation.
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ATTACKING MARTIAN - HORIKAWAThe three color variations: brown, silver and gold. Gold is the least common. Brown is the most common. First generation. Red box with descending Martians.
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ATTACKING MARTIAN - JAPANESE BOX - HORIKAWATin battery op fly eyes robot with guns behind chest doors. Japanese box with unique artwork. First generation. First generation.
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ATTACKING MARTIAN - LIGHTED EYE MEDALLION VERSION - HORIKAWATin battery op with fly eyes and firing guns behind opening chest doors. This version has red fly eyes that light uo. This Attacking Martian has distinctive circular decorations (medallions) on the door instead of the green plastic windows. The box art is a later type depicting a giant robot being attacked by jet planes.
This body top was used as the basis (or vice versa) of the Space Commander Tank Robot.
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ATTACKING MARTIAN - LONG ARM MEDALLION VERSION - HORIKAWATin battery op with fly eyes and firing guns behind opening chest doors. Featuring in the Aldens 1971 catalog where it is called the Mighty Mechanical Walking Robot. The original Attacking Martian has had some changes: long plastic arms and distinctive circular decorations on the door instead of the green plastic windows. The Aldens catalog version shows a robot with the more usual closed tin arms, not the open Busy Cart arms seen here.
This body top was used as the basis (or vice versa?) of the Space Commander Tank Robot.
Are the arms original? Box details?
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ATTACKING MARTIAN - MEDALLION VERSION - HORIKAWATin battery op with fly eyes and firing guns behind opening chest doors. This version featured in the Aldens 1971 catalog where it is called the Mighty Mechanical Walking Robot. The original Attacking Martian has distinctive circular decorations (medallions) on the door instead of the green plastic windows. The box art is the firtst type descending robots on a red background.
This body top was used as the basis (or vice versa) of the Space Commander Tank Robot.
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ATTACKING MARTIAN - silver - HorikawaRobot version of the Horikawa Attacking Martian. First generation. Red box with descending Martians.
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ATTACKING MARTIAN - THREE COLOUR - HORIKAWAThe 3 colour versions of the 1960's 1st type non rotating Attacking Martian - Brown silver gold in order of rarity - gold being the hardest to find - Made in Japan - mostly tin plate metal with green plastic inserts in chest doors. Earliest have white painted metal battery compartment later changed to plastic. Earlier ones also have a translucent green pointed switch. An easy way to spot the difference between early and later is the tapering of the arm/hand on later ones, as can be seen on the gold version -
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ATTACKING MARTIAN WITH LIGHTED EYES - JAPANESE BOX 2 - HORIKAWAJapanese version of the box for the first generation Attacking Martian with lighted eyes. Tin battery op fly eyes robot with guns behind chest doors.
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ATTACKING MARTIAN WITH LIGHTED EYES VERSION - HORIKAWAA standard brown tin Attacking Martian robot with lights added to the head to create a glowing red eye effect. The box artwork is the English wording box which has been altered to illustrate the effect. "With Lighted Eyes" wording has been added to all panels. Battery op with walking action, opening doors and shooting guns in the chest.
It is not clear if the lighted eye was available in theother colors: gold and silver. No firm date though it is a later version than the original Attacking Martian.
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ATTACKING ROBOT - HORIKAWAPlastic battery op robot with smoking guns that move in and out. The first sighting of the Attacking Robot is in the 1984 Horikawa catalog, and in the Alps catalog for the same year. Alps are evidently the importer. The robot is very close in design to the Space Fighter. Photo box marks a change from artwork to the cheaper solution.
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BAM-BO - ESTRELA - BRAZILRound body (Type 1) Karate Robot variation. Brazilian plastic battery op robot. Tumbling acrobat action. See also the Silver Warrior. There are a wide range of versions achieved by the use of different body, leg and arm colors and by the use of decals. Two box versions shown.
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Bandai MissilerThis is the re-issue of the Imai Captain Patrol. This example now resides in the Perry Mohney collection. It is also missing the shoulder covers.
Transparent gear robot, paddle foot.
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BANK DING-A-LINGGreen plastic robot with red feet and blue head. Has a combination safe in his chest.
One of the Topper Ding-A-Ling series that can be motorised with the addition of a battery operated backpack. Sold in boxed clear plastic packaging.
Believed to be prototype only until this example was posted on Alphadrome.
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BATMAN - BANDAITin battery op Batman character robot with vinyl head. Walks, lighting logo in chest.
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BATMAN - BANDAITin and vinyl wind up Batman. Cloth cape.
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BATMAN - LUSIA ARGENTINATin wind up Batman. Felt hood and cape. Lusia made Batman and Superman figures in the late 1960s. There is a lever on the feet that switches from forward to backward movement (ratchets in the feet are allowed to move forward or backward). The wheels in the feet are cast iron. Lusia used a variety of Schuco pressing from the 1930s to the 1960s, though there is no Scuhco equivalent of this figure. 16cm
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BATMAN - NOMURATin and vinyl battery op superhero. Circa 1966. Advances with walking motion and swinging arms as his head lights. Cloth cape. Some boxes sold in UK, carry a Fairylight distributor's sticker.
There are currenty three known variations: the standard blue with a closed mouth, the standard blue with a wide grin and the red body version.
Image courtesy Bat-Blog
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BATMAN - TADALong legged tin wind up Batman robot. Vinyl head. Cloth cape. Made for the Japanese market.
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BATTERY OPERATED ROBOT - ZOOMER - NOMURATin battery op Circa 1956. Advances with walking motion as his eyes light. TN
Not strictly a Zoomer: the box is a one-off promoting this unique color scheme. But in all other respects it's a typical Zoomer. This version also appeared in a "regular" Zoomer box.
Version 4: Blue face and body, red hands and feet Rare box variation depicts this color combination (apart from the ears).
Zoomer Family 20cm FT#28
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BIG LOU - MARXPlastic battery op. Multiple action robot with the following functions - blows whistle, squirts water, eyes light and flash, voice with phrases, fires darts, rings bell, sends Morse code, fires balls, fires rockets and bends. Includes two darts, two rockets, three balls, whistle and the grenade.
Image courtesy Smith House Auctions / Robert Lesser collection
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BIG MACHINE No 24 - YonezawaPlastic friction robot, red body, blue legs. Squat design with head incorporated in body. Horns. Gripping hands. Japanese market release. Date? c1980s
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BILLY BLASTOFF - ELDONJapanese version
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BILLY BLASTOFF'S ROBBIE ROBOT - ELDONPlastic battery op robot. Provides power for vehicles. Rotating oval plastic antenna. Accessories include a TV ray gun and walkie talkie. 1969
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BLACKFIGHTER - SHARPSHOOTER ROBOT - HORIKAWAJapanese box version of the Sharpshooter Robot with the addition of the Blackfighter banner.
Plastic battery op robot. Power source: 2 "C" cell batteries
Actions: Walks forward as chest doors open and lighted guns fire. Doors close and robot continues to walk forward. MADE IN JAPAN is embossed on the plastic battery cover. Robot is all plastic except for the soles of its feet which are tin. SH
The Sharpshooter Robot shares many common body parts with Horikawa's Sky Robot which accounts for the seemingly unnecessary "flip top" head and exposed front wheels.
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BLINK-A-GEAR ROBOT - TAIYO 1969The Blink-A-Gear appears in the 1969 FAO Schwarz Toys Catalog and a Gamble-Aldens Christmas catalog for the same year. Walks with moving gears and flashing lights. Plasic arms, feet and legs. This is a reworking of the 1967 Wheel-A-Gear robot: the rubber pulley has been replaced with meshing plastic gears and the metal antenna has been removed. In addition the relatively complex moving eye feature has been removed, so the eyes are fixed.
There is a similarity between the Taiyo robots and the Yoshiya High Wheels. Though Yoshiya and Taiyo were separate companies they probably shared projects. The Blink-A-Gear appears in an undated Yoshiya catalog. 28cm
A version of the box with the KO logo is known.
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BOXER DING-A-LINGRed plastic robot with blue feet, black arms and red head. Has a decal face of a boxer with a black eye. Decal with BOXER on the chest. The two buttons on his head control his arms to create a boxing action.
One of the Topper Ding-A-Ling series that can be motorised with the addition of a battery operated backpack. Sold in boxed clear plastic packaging.
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BRAIN DING-A-LING - TOPPERGreen plastic robot with red feet and blue head.
One of the Topper Ding-A-Ling series that can be motorised with the addition of a battery operated backpack. Sold in boxed clear plastic packaging. This robot was designed to fit inside the large King Ding obot.
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BUCK ROGERS ROBOT - PROTOTYPEStatic tin robot. Details?
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BUSY CART ROBOT - HORIKAWAInstruction leaflet. SH
Image courtesy Smith House Auctions / Robert Lesser collection
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BUSY CART ROBOT - HORIKAWAMinus wheelbarrow. Showing three leg variations and three hat types.
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BUSY CART ROBOT - HORIKAWA 1972Tin and plastic battery op. Advances with walking motion as he raises, shakes and dumps his cart. SH wheelbarrow. It is stylistically a natural companion to the Fork Lift Robot. The basic frame is that of the large battery op Horikawa robots , though the chest is structurally simpler with major litho detailing.
A prototype appeared in a catalog in 1972. The model that went into production was significantly different. There are a number of variations of this robot:
Three cart versions (a prototype tin one , a production tin one and the plastic one pictured here.) Red hat versions exist, though these may or may not be transplants from the Fork Lift Robot.
Two feet variations: the usual short foot shown here, and a longer foot that probably was designed for the Fork Lift Robot
Three hat versions: 1 a plain hat, narrow brim with black stripes and Japanese writing on it. 2 plain with wider brim 3 (arguably the earliest) a ribbed hat.
Two leg variations: a plain leg and one with considerable litho detail (so-called knees)
There are other minor variations. This can add up to quite a range of versions.
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BUSY CART ROBOT - NO 1 BOX - HORIKAWAJapanese box version.
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BUSY CART ROBOT - PROTOTYPE - HORIKAWAFeatured in the 1972 Horikawa catalog. Does an example exist?
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BUSY CART ROBOT - TIN CART VERSION - HORIKAWAThis version of the Busy Cart has a tin cart. On the basis that tin parts gets replaced with cheaper plastic parts, this would make this one of the first versions. The hat is the ribbed one. The diameter of the cart handle is slightly smaller than that of the plastic cart.
The dating of the Busy Cart remains unclear.
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BUSY CART ROBOT - VARIATIONS - HORIKAWAThree hat types. Two leg types. Two feet types.
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BUZZER ROBOT - YONEZAWASilver tin battery op Circa 1957. Advances with bump n' go action and lighted eyes and dome light. Based on the Directional Robot and carrying the chest plate design of the later Yonezawa skirted robots.
Image courtesy Smith House Auctions
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CAM-IO ROBOTModern transparent plastic battery op robot.
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CANDY CONTAINER ROBOT - JAPANStatic plastic candy boxes. Red and blue versions known.
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CAP'T ASTRO SPACE MAN - PROBABLY BY HIRO FOR MEGOFor MEGO. Tin and plastic wind up astronaut. Captain Astro wording on chest. Stepover. Hong Kong. This robot is very similar to the Apollo 2000-X by Hiro and shares most of its comnponents except for the stepover feet and the litho panel instead of a spark window.
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CAPTAIN PATROL ROBOT - IMAITransparent blue and solid blue plastic plastic robot with visible gears. Kit built.
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CAPTAIN THE ROBOT - MTU KOREATin and plastic wind up. Korean MTU Company. Walks slowly with spark in chest. Copy of earlier Japanese "Robot Captain". Stepover feet.
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CATERPILLAR ROBOT - YONEZAWAPlastic battery op robot on four sets of rubber tracks.
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CHANGE MAN ROBOT - MARUMIYATin/vinyl/plastic. Circa 1960. Advances with walking motion. Dinosaur head opens to reveal a boys head. No box exists other than a plain shipping box with "Change Man" written on the top.
This robot has an unusual history: it appears that it was a planned release that only reached an early stage in the process. Parts were manufactured for up to fifty units but were not assembled. The parts remained at the Metal House factory for many years. In the 1980s a number were made up. Over the years more have appeared using original old parts mixed with new components.
Similarities have been pointed out between this robot and the Daiya Cragstan Astronaut: in particular the legs look to be identical - notice the slight flare where the leg enters the foot.
A red - purple headed prototype of this robot (which is little more than a test run) is known.
The Metal House company still have (at 2012) access to unused components from the original run and are releasing the remaining "sleeper" robots in as yet undetermined numbers.
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CHANGEMAN ROBOT - RED HEAD PROTOTYPE - MARUMIYARed head prototype.
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CHEF DING-A-LING
White plastic robot with blue feet and red CHEF decal on chest.arms. Blue hat. A salt shaker is fitted into one arm and by pressing the hat there is a shaking action.
One of the Topper Ding-A-Ling series that can be motorised with the addition of a battery operated backpack. Sold in boxed clear plastic packaging.
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CHICO ROBOT - MAKER? - BRAZILOdd static plastic robot with bagatelle game in the chest. Details?
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CHIEF ROBOTMAN - YOSHIYA 1962Tin battery op robot. Advances with bump and go mystery action as his head turns, eyes light and antennas spin. KO skirt. This robot appeared in two color versions: grey and light blue. In addition the arms are usually tin, but plastic arm versions exist. The fact that it had a long production run may account for the variations, particularly the introduction of the plastic arms.
This must have proven to be a popular toy and Yoshiya reissued it as the Cragstan Radical Robot and the Mystery Moon Man. The Radical Robot is invariably the light blue version with new and distinct box (but no changes to the robot). The Mystery Moon Man is a white paint version but uses the same box art - with just a change of name.
The metallic blue version of the Chief Robot Man can't automatically be called a Radical Robot, though sellers like the added rarity of the name.
The first sighting of the robot is in Alden's; Lazarus and Newberry’s catalog for 1962. This confirms that it is the first of the Yoshiya family of skirted robots. It has been reproduced. The fins on the bellybutton of an original run from top to bottom. On the repro version they run from side to side.
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CHIEF SMOKY - MR CHIEF - YOSHIYA 1963Tin battery op. Advances with bump and go mystery action as his head lights and his hat smokes. KO skirt
The robot first appears specifically with the Mr Chief nameplate version in the 1963 Simpsons-Sears Christmas catalog. Based on the Chief Robot Man pressing, though the belly button is a lithographed circle instead of a plastic part. The arms are metal.
The name confusion arises because the box calls him Chief Smoky and the art work depicts the robot with that name on his chest plate. The actual robot can have either Chief Smoky or Mr Chief wording. To make things more confusing, the box give him the extra title of Advanced Robotman.
In the 1963 Cragstan catalog a prototype version of the red skirted Yonezawa Astronaut is shown with a smoking mechanism. The smoke emerges from the head and is clearly related to the smoke mechanism in Chief Smoky.
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CHIEF SMOKY - YOSHIYA 1963Box. Advanced Robotman skirted.
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