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Photos, videos: Louisiana resident Kevin Hardy's antique Japanese tin toy robot collection Don't worry about having to memorize the phrase, "Klaatu barada nikto," in Kevin Hardy's house, because ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This battery-operated space-themed ...
Since drawing some robots to decorate his son's room, Mr. Golden has done a whole series of "Roundbots" and "Minibots," affectionate tributes to the tin-toy robots of an earlier generation.
My tin plate fleet! Enthusiast builds up collection of 2,000 traditional toys featuring boats, cars, motorbikes and even robots ...
Lesser has paid as much as $15,000 for a rare, silver Robby the Robot. “When the Japanese brought the prototypes of the toy Robby over here to the Toy Fair in 1956, they were in silver.
A rare 1939 Japanese Lilliput robot has fetched £2,280 at a unique auction of robots and sci-fi toys. The tin plate wind-up toy which stands six inches high was part of a collection of almost ...
The two are part of a collection of almost 1,000 tin plate and plastic robots, flying saucers and rockets built up by a North East couple over the past 40 years. Toy specialist auctioneers Vectis say ...
An antique Japanese tin toy reproduction of Robby the Robot from the 1956 sci-fi classic, 'Forbidden Planet,' walks across Kevin Hardy's dining room table in Watson.