Beware The Robots
Okay, so this blog isn’t really about heavy metal, but pressed tin lithography probably wouldn’t have grabbed your attention. The tin toys pictured above are brand new and something we have carried at Blast From The Past over the years. They are not huge sellers, but we always find people that enjoy collecting them.
Though they are technically reproductions, they are one of the most faithful to the original items that we sell. The toys are nearly identical to the originals from the 50’s and 60’s and even the boxes look like they came right out of the past. Many of them are simple wind ups, but my favorites are the battery powered versions. Those walk, blink, spin and fire machine guns. You can easily build your own intergalactic army.
I was not fully aware of how exacting the detail was until my wife and I saw a display of original tin toys at Epcot a couple years ago. The Japanese pavilion at a massive tin toy exhibit on loan from the world’s largest private collection. We were constantly pointing out the toys we either had or have had in inventory.
Strangely enough, as popular as these types of toys once were, I only have one vague memory of a toy robot in our house. I recall my older brother getting a battery operated robot for one of his birthdays, but I have no further recollection of it. No memory of seeing it around the house or ever playing with it. Perhaps, that was part of their master plan. These enemy robots have been infiltrating our homes for years, but they have used powerful hypnosis rays to make us forget while they await the day their conquest begins.
Well, I gotta go. I have to take the batteries out of some robots.