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RUSSIAN ROBOTS

Thanks to H.I. Gosses and Arjen L'Amie for the invaluable information

Information on the subject is still fairly thin on the ground, but here at least are a series of pictures of robots that have received little or no attention.

 

 
 


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!