“Robert was an answer to this massive amount of tin toys that were coming from Japan,” says Justin Pinchot, a Los Angeles-based collector of vintage toy robots and ray guns. “It was really ...

Available in commercial form since the 1850s, vintage tin-plate toys generally refer to pieces ... cowboys that could stiffly make a draw and menacing robots that chinked pleasingly across the ...

Anyone with fond memories of playing with wind-up tin toys as a child – or anyone who appreciates groovy retro design – should ... from wind-up robots and racing cars to waddling penguins ...

Most of his robots are animated. Some light up, others can move across the floor and one raises and shoots a Flash Gordon-like laser gun. Technically, they're tin toy robots, all manufactured in ...

The toys are broken down into decades and have specific categories like robots, G.I. Joe and Star Wars. "When you walk in, you're going to start off with some vintage tin toys and an introductory case ...

Dear Mr. Smith: We have had this metal toy car in the family for many ... Unfortunately, had this been a space rocket or robot of the same vintage, you could have expected to get hundreds, perhaps ...

A mint in-the-box example sold recently for $1,834. During the 1950s and '60s, many imaginative tin robot toys were made, mostly in Japan. Q: My mother has had a mahogany Chippendale center table ...

The third and final day of McFarlane Toys ... The new DC Retro 6-inch figures include Adam West Batman and Burt Ward Robin as well as Superman, The Joker, Lord Death Man, and Robot Batman ...