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SECRET WEAPON SPACE SCOUT - HORIKAWA - JAPANA small (nine inch) brown tinplate battery operated robot with guns behind a small hinged chest plate. This is a thinly altered version of the first Mr Zerox. An astronaut head and a new box are the only changes. Based on the Engine Robot body.
See also Silver Ray Secret Weapon Space Scout. It appears in several 1966 catalogs, including the Frankonia Toy Catalog and the Simpsons-Sears catalog.11/23/10 at 22:03Guest_TIM: HAVE A CATALOG THAT SAY IT IS BY FRANKONIA
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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. 16cm11/19/10 at 04:56Guest_Musttafa: Must be one of the many backyard workshop from Arg...
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SUPER SPACE EXPLORER - SILVER - STAR LOGO HONG KONGTin battery op robot with TV screen in chest. Reissue of the silver Horikawa Space Explorer battery op astronaut with TV screen. Spaghetti antenna. Box art depicts 5 children looking at robot.11/06/10 at 00:12Guest_Carl: Looking for the Black color version, had as a kid....
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ROBOT ST1 - STRENCOReproduced in 2005 by Volker Strauss, here are a number of trial color variations. Germany11/02/10 at 11:59Guest_Brian333: Mine has a V2 rocket in the box, along with a simi...
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ZOGG ROBOT - IDEAL 1972Zogg Plastic battery op droid/Zeroid style robot. Forward and backward action.11/02/10 at 11:41Guest_errobotman: Zogg
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ROTATING LUNAR SPACEMAN - MEGO JAPANBlack plastic battery operated robot with astronaut head. Cheap rotateomatic style with opening doors, rotating body, noise and light. Dated 1970 on the box.11/02/10 at 11:40Guest_errobotman: previous caption  Should be Rotating L...
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ATOM ROBOT - YOSHIYA 1964 - JAPANTin wind up/inertia crank action skirted robot. Bump and go mystery action. Loose swinging arms. There are two distinct body variations, one with a silver color and one is silver blue. In addition the are two eye colors: red eye and yellow eye. There is possibly also a green eye.
An example has been found with what looks like a possible sound clicker mechanism inside, but no working version has yet been established. The first sighting is in Western Auto Christmas Catalog for 1964.09/02/10 at 16:42Guest_Paul Astbury: There is one working version of the Atom Robot wit...
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