WHAT: A 60-year-old Japanese tin robot, originally given as a Christmas ... Together, the five are considered the most wanted of all vintage toys, and owning all five today is a Holy Grail of ...

a Los Angeles-based collector of vintage toy robots and ray guns. “It was really the beginning of the plastic era.” That’s not to say Robert was some cheap knockoff. Cranking the handle on ...

A recent auction of vintage toys provided a fun look into what designers of yesteryear thought humanoid robots would look like in the future. The trends are pretty apparent. These robots adhered ...

And that version is a vinyl action figure, which doesn't match up to the antique metal Japanese toy robots in Hardy's collection. That's one of the most important characteristics in Japanese ...

The past and future intersect today as Sotheby’s puts up for auction and viewing toy robots, space toys and cast-iron antique toys from the estate of F. H. Griffith. “He was one of the ...

“The thing about robots is in a way, they’ll never be antique toys,” Lesser said. “They’re always modern looking; they’re locked into the future.” They’re also connected to the ...

then you can give a big thank you to Takara Tomy and Hasbro for bringing these shapeshifting robots to your grubby little kid fingers. Today, these vintage Transformer toys are incredibly valuable ...

More than 200 toy robots dating back to the 1960s are to be sold at auction. The robots are being sold by an anonymous collector, who began to buy them when he was a child. They date from the ...

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 ...

Over 200 vintage toy robots, dating from the early 1960s to the 1990s, will go under the hammer on Friday 2nd March. The… Posted by Chippenham Auction Rooms on Monday, January 15, 2018 There are ...