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CHIEF SMOKY - YOSHIYA 1963"Chief Smoky" wording on chest. Advanced Robotman skirted.
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CHILD GUIDANCE ROBOT - TOMY - JAPANPlastic windup stepover robot. Transparent body with visible gear motor. Yellow head and legs, red arms. The nose is a bolt. Educational. The plastic ratchet spanner acts as a key. First sighted in the Sears Christmas Book 1969.
This is one of seven toys in the take-apart range.
Instruction leaflet: http://danefield.com/alpha/forums/topic/11721-robot-no-8260-by-child-guidance-1969/
A version was sold in Spain as the Robot Mecanico by Lemssa.
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CHIME TROOPER - AOSHINASC tin skirt windup astronaut. Advances as he plays a musical sound. The "tune" is similar to the first few notes of the "Twilight Zone" theme, but the last note destroys the illusion - it's just a coincidence. Skirt.
During operation the astronaut moves forward while emitting a the music box "melody" - it's certainly not a chime, just descending notes. A descending pin makes it turns abruptly and it continues on, arms swinging.
The body pressing is the same as the one used for Tremendous Mike. It is probable that this robot makes use of the Tremendous Mike pressing. The soud box takes advantage of the spark window. There are no known variations of this robot. There is as yet no firm date for the Chime Trooper.
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CLAW DING-A-LINGGreen plastic robot with yellow feet and head. Has long red arms with spring gripping 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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COBOT COCA COLA ROBOT- KOREAPlastic battery op Circa 1979. Coca-Cola R2D2 style radio control robot.
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COLONEL HAP HAZARD - MARX 1968Tin and vinyl battery op. Advances with walking motion and moving arms as his lighted blade spins. The date of manufacture, 1968, is marked on the back. Made in Japan for the US Marx company.
A prototype of the astronaut is known which carries a date 42-11-7. This is the Japanese emperor's date and means 7th November 1967 (1925 + 42). This is the same date as the silver Thunder Robot sample.
Given the date. Hap Hazard must have been created from the molds for the earlier grey/silver version Hi Bounce Moon Scout, dated to 1967. It is a considerably simpler toy with no remote control and no opening chest door. Judging by the number in circulation, proved very successful. Like the Hi-Bouncer this robot has a rotating antenna with working lights and the separate boots.
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COMIC ROBOT - ALPS 1970Small plastic wind up robot. Pedestal
Name on box: Comic Robot
Name on toy: none
Nickname:
Manufacturer: Alps, Japan
Height: 6.25" (to top of spring antenna)
Timeline date: 1970 (1970 Alps Catalog)
Power source: wind up
Actions: Robot moves in random fashion with swinging arms and shaking body.
Additional info.: The eyes are lenticular and change color as the robot shakes back and forth. The chest plate is lithographed tin and says MADE IN JAPAN at the bottom. MADE IN JAPAN is also embossed on the bottom of the base plate feet.
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COMPUROBOT III - TOMYCR 300 Compurobot 3. Plastic battery op robot. Contains and early 4 bit processor. Self-applied decals. 1980s
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COMPUTER ROBOT - BANDAI - JAPANPlastic transparent battery op robot. 24cm FT#31 Robot moves with swinging arms and flashing light in the domed head. The movement is controled by inserting one of three supplied cams into the dome; these enable the robot to move in a programmed pattern. The distinctive dome shape was probably influenced by the robot from Lost in Space.
Japanese and English box versions. No 4473
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COMPUTER ROBOT - BLUE BOXPlastic battery op robot. Three hinged guns in the chest. Rotates. The hands differ from each other. White and yellow versions known. Hong Kong. Patent dates this to 1979.
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CONSTRUCTO DING-A-LINGYellow plastic robot with red feet and head, and yellow constuction helmet. Holds a green drill that can be moved using the button on the helmet.
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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COSMIC FIGHTER ROBOT - HORIKAWAPlastic battery op robot. Walks, stops, head splits to reveal astronaut inside with gun, gun lights and fires while body spins 3 times, head shuts then actions resume. Height: 11.5" Power source: 2 "D" cell batteries Additional info.: stamped into the tin battery cover: HORIKAWA TOY and MADE IN JAPAN.
Black and grey versions.
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COSMIC TALKING ROBOT - CHINAPlastic battery op robot. Pressing the dome starts the talking action. Dome top. China 1980s
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COSMOS ? ROBOT - JAPANESE BOX - MASUDAYALater plastic battery op robot with doors in chest and shooting guns. Rockets in head. Light blue plastic body. Masudaya logo is the new style name rather than the TM. Decal details. Rotates. 1980s. See also the Masudaya TV Robot. Produced in China for Masudaya (Kamco?) Unsure of the name.
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COSMOS ROBOT - ENGLISH BOX - KAMCO/MASUDAYABlack and yellow plastic battery op robot. Chest opens and guns shoot. Rotates. Large red lighted visor in the head. China. Also produced by Leader.
See the Action Robot Invader.
A blue-grey version was produced in China for Masudaya.
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COWBOY DING-A-LINGYellow plastic robot with blue feet and red arems arms. Wears a cowboy hat and carries a gun.
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 an example was posted on Alphadrome.
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CRAGSTAN ASTRONAUT - BOY FACE - YONEZAWA 1962Tin friction crank action skirted astronaut. Currently dated to 1962, the year before
the silver battery op Cragstan Robot, and sharing the same body. This is a friction inertia crank operated robot. The astronaut advances with shuffling motion as he makes a clicking noise. This toy has a fixed mouth. The blue Space Man variation has a moving mouth.
Two versions of the astronaut are known: the one shown here has the boyish face (as used for the Yonezawa Space Man). The other has an older man's face.
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CRAGSTAN ASTRONAUT - RED - DAIYA 1966Referred to as the Daiya Astronaut, in preference to the other astronauts by Daiya. Tin battery op. Early 1960s. Red version. Advances with walking motion. He stops, raises his gun with lighted end and simulated firing sound and repeats the action. This is a particularly bulky tin toy. It was made in two color versions, red and blue. Besides the base color difference, the blue version has slightly different litho detailing and does not carry the Cragstan logo.
The blue version appeared in Higbee's Toys Catalog for 1966, currently the first sighting.
Versions with vinyl child heads were also released.
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CRAGSTAN ASTRONAUT X-70 - DAIYA 1961Tin battery op. Red version. Advances with walking motion as the antenna spins. He stops and raises his gun with flashing light and firing sound then the action repeats.
This looks to have been the first of this group of astronauts, appearing is in the Sears catalog for 1961, two years earlier than the blue Space Conqueror.
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CRAGSTAN ASTRONAUT- CHILD FACE - DAIYARed and blue version of the Cragstan Astronaut tin battery op. Vinyl child's head under a clear dome. Baby face. Produced later than the adult face versions.
Image courtesy Smith House Auction.
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CRAGSTAN GREAT ASTRONAUT - ALPS 1962Tin battery op 1962. Advances with walking motion, moving arms, and a rotating color wheel as a space scene plays on the chest screen. Removable antenna acts as the on-off switch. TV. Based on the very popular Television Spaceman. The space scene in the chest is the same. The dome is appreciably larger than the Television Spaceman and the battery door has been replaced by a highly litho'd alternative. Only produced in an all-tin version. The first sighting of this robot was in 1962, a year after the Television Spaceman. Oddly the picture is of a Great Astronaut but a Television Spaceman is described.
Image courtesy Smith House Auctions / Robert Lesser collection
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CRAGSTAN GREAT ASTRONAUT - PROTOTYPE - ALPSA 1962 advert showing a prototype Great Astronaut. The color is unique, as is the head detail. The description is of the 1961 Television Spaceman. Catalogs were produced months before the arrival of merchandise and the pictures are often speculative or prototype based.
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CRAGSTAN MR FLASH - NGSName on box: Cragstan Mister Flash (on lids and front of box), Cragstan Mr. Flash (on sides of box)
Name on toy: Mr. Flash Cragstan (embossed on battery cover)
Nickname: Mr. Flash
Manufacturer: NGS, British Crown Colony Hong Kong
Importer/Distributer: Cragstan
Height: 8.25"
Box number: 1933-4
Timeline date: 1967
Power source: 2 "AA" (penlite) batteries
Actions: Walks forward with swinging arms and light flashing in head. The box states "whirring sound" which, to me, sounds like the gears meshing inside.
Additional info.: Embossed on the back of the head: "MADE IN HONGKONG". The photo above depicts the window box version of the box. The battery cover is embossed "Mr Flash"
There are also Mr. Flash look-alikes, however these were not Cragstan pieces. They are:
Moon Explorer - Identical colors but lacking the Mr. Flash/Cragstan markings on the battery cover.
Walking Robot - Gray torso and head with red arms and dome.
Super Walking Robot - Black arms and legs.
Both boxes for Walking Robot and Super Walking Robot bear a logo consisting of the letters HK within a five pointed star.
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CRAGSTAN ROBOT - YONEZAWA 1961Silver grey body, tin battery op robot. Advances with mystery bump and go action as the head lights and interior spins. "Revolving Color Dome Lights" Probably the first of this range of Yonezawa skirts; it is ly currentthe version with the earliest confirmed sighting. The Cragstan distributor features prominently on the toy and the box. The lightning strike on the chest plate is the same as that on the Modern Robot. The robot was still available in the Yonezawa catalog for 1963.
Image courtesy Smith House Auctions / Robert Lesser collection
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CRAGSTAN'S MR ROBOT - RED VERSION - YONEZAWATin battery op skirted robot. Bump and go action. Clear dome head with lights.
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CRAGSTAN'S MR ROBOT - WHITE VERSION - YONEZAWATin battery op skirted robot with bump and go action. Clear plastic dome with lights. Also produced in red.
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CYBOT - JAPANPlastic wind up robot with tracks. Blue plastic with chrome trim and antenna. Maker? Shoots missiles from hands.
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CYCLING ROBOT - K LOGO - JAPANTin plastic and vinyl wind up Japanese superhero style character on a tricycle with a bell. A space version of a common Japanese wind up toy. White and yellow plastic tricycle versions shown.
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DALEK - CODEG1960s tin and plastic clockwork Dalek. Tin lithogrpahed skirt with plastic upper body. Mystery action. Available in blue, black and (not confirmed) yellow.
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DALEK - MarxPlastic. Circa 1974. BBC. From the classic British TV series Dr. Who. Yellow plastic version. Battery operated bump and go action with flashing light. Other colors.
Image courtesy Smith House Auctions
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DALEKS - Rollykins and Charbens
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DANCEBOT - BLUE BOXPlastic battery op. Bump and go action. Turning head. Poseable arms.
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DANCING ROBOT - DITTORecent robot talks in oriental language, dances to music and face flashes wildly.
*Altaira
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DECEPTOR ROBOT - MAKER?Blue and orange plastic battery op robot. Head opens to reveal dinosaur monster. Smokes. Decal details. Change robot. A variation of the Star Master robot.
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DEEP-SEA ROBOT - AHIA.N. is something of a mystery company. Their toys were usually imported by AHI Toytime, (Azrak Hamway International) whose logo features prominently on the boxes, and this leads to some confusion. There is probably a connection with Nomura, while Kitahara claims the maker is 'Naito Shoten'. There's no confusing the fact that they created a superb group of early wind-up astronauts. These are the Inter Planet Space Captain, the Interplanetary Explorer, the Deep Sea Robot, the Spaceman, and the Polar Explorer.
If you want to quibble then the Deep Sea Robot is not a space toy. The box depicts a diver walking around the sea bed with his rifle (the Nomura-style shooter). What a welcome variation.
The Deep Sea Robot is silver in colour with red detailing and a big blue helmet from which a pair of eyes stare out. The oxygen cylinders are not fully formed, as in most astronauts, but are half pressing instead. There's a design on his leg that is similar to a pattern on the older Nomura Radar Robot. The action is simple, he walks forward and his arms swing.
Repros available. Spotting the repro: they're 8 1/2 inches tall - 1/2 inch taller than originals. In addition the repros have pla
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Details ChinaVery small unnamed tin wind up
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Details?Possibly a Tarheel Astroids robot. Tarheel was the original company that preceeded Durham Industries. It is a small 5" wind up and this one was coated with nicotine by SH Mike to look older. :-D
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Details?Small plastic wind up stepover robot.
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Details?Transparent gear
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DETECTO DING-A-LINGNOTE: Unauthenticated and the subject of fake sightings and spoof finds. This remains an unauthenticated robot based on catalog descriptions. The model here is a mock up.
Green alien plastic robot with yellow feet and blue arms. There is a clear plastic dome for a head with a skull like attachment. Carries a ray gun. One of the Topper Ding-A-Ling series that can be motorised with the addition of a battery operated backpack.
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DIAMOND PLANET PROTOTYPE - YONEZAWATest battery op version of the wind up. This is really the one and only prototype of a battery operated Diamond Planet Robot in plain metallic blue color. THe Diamond Planet Robot itself is one of the rarest Robots, this piece beats them all. And... it also got one of the brown tags on the bottom . It reads: "37-11-7" as the manufacturing date, equals to 7 November 1962. (Same day as silver Thunder, just 5 years earlier, what a coincidence). Was this toy invented before the windup version or later? The body shape, head and ears are the same as on the wind up Diamond Planet but the window and battery box make the difference.
It has always been speculated that the shape of the Diamond Planet is designed to accommodate batteries, and this seems to confirm this. (Gernot)
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DIAMOND PLANET ROBOT - BLUE VERSION - YONEZAWA
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DIAMOND PLANET ROBOT - BLUE VERSION - YONEZAWA c1962Blue version. The box shows a silver grey version, but no confirmed example is known.
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DIAMOND PLANET ROBOT - RED VERSION - YONEZAWA 1963Tin wind up. Advances as arms raise and lower, chest meter sweeps back and forth, sparks shoot from behind the red gel near the base and a space sound is emitted. Featured in the 1963 Yonezawa catalog.
There are two color versions of this robot: red with blue arms, and blue with red arms. A prototype all blue version is known. Other colors such as silver have been reported but remain unconfirmed originals. Blue is more common than red.
This is a real eccentric. This is reputedly a designer robot, the work of Tanaka. However it bears a striking resemblance to the Robot Commando, the large American plastic robot. It seems certain that the Diamond Planet is later than Robot Commando and that it is directly influenced by it. Key evidence is the shape of the hands which mimic the cup design of the ball-throwing plastic robot.
Yonezawa have a unique piece here.Despite its size it's clockwork. (Though there is a panel on the back clearly indicating a possible battery placement.) Secondly the shape is utterly unlike anything else: the ears are complex shell-like structures. They are the shoulder sockets of the Yonezawa Moon Robot. the eyeballs shake about in
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DIAMOND PLANET ROBOT - YONEZAWAChest detail
Image courtesy Smith House Auctions / Robert Lesser collection
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DING-BO - ESTRELA - BRAZILBrazilian release of the Tomy Ding Bot.
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DINO ROBOT REPRO - METAL HOUSEJapanese box repro version of the Horikawa original. Reproductions have a number stamped into the plastic of the head shells. Tin and plastic battery op change robot. Dinosaur.
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DOOR ROBOT - BOX VARIATION - ALPS 1958Sonsco distributor's logo version.
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