Thanks to H.I. Gosses and Arjen L'Amie for the invaluable information
Perhaps the most common of the
Russian robots. It appears that there are a considerable number of variations:
litho chest plate, trimmings, plastic edging etc. Plenty to keep the variation
collectors happy for years. These were
Rainbow of colours
Light blue
A rarer green version.
The "Kit-robot". This has a different
litho-ed breastplate, (for comparison see Arjen's detailed photo)and comes
in parts;for the "Little Mechanic" to put together,as I presume it says
on the box. It also has a larger, flat box. But for the rest is looks
more or less the same as the others. Though not more beautiful,it is rarer.
This lot: 2 body styles, 3 heads, 3 types of arms and 6 colours; in any combination. Battery operated walkers, all in the same boring window box. Though there is, rarely used, a somewhat more appetizing box with a picture.
And her's the box.
A w/u Russian robot, about 25 cm
tall.Head turns form side to side, the ball rolls to and fro and the meter
spins. Same weird plastic all Russian robots are made of. Totally blackened
mechanism. No box,..I regret. This one must have existed in 1960 as I remember
seeing it as a kid.
A Monument to poverty. Both in idea's, as it is a straight rip-off, as well as in execution. The box is the worst. Simple white cardboard with an ultra thin piece of printed paper stuck on.
And here is the brother in stylish red and grey.. The body is cloudy plasic. The plastic feels kind of greasy and more silky than shiny.It is also slightly radioactive (true!).
The only battery operated robot I know of. Parts of the robot seem to have been made of re-cycled dentures. The arms are a core with asymetric rings. Hands are spring loaded. The mechanism is of the well known, completely blackened
Here is the walker Arjen already showed. With its box of ground up tree-trunks and Apparatznic's underwear. Simple action: It walks.. Same springs as on the well known boxy robot. A Slavonic cousin to the Thunder and the Lunar Robot.
A highly impressive, 33 cm tall,w/u, clock, with swinging pendulum.
They are simple w/u walkers
in many colours. Two mechanical versionsne with three dots and one where
the nose is the
brake (on the left) Never seen a box for any of these.
Another recent release.
More robots in the back row. Details
to follow
And let's end on a rarity. A battery operated corker!