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Robot Fun
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About Tin Toy Robots
Article by Arturo Ronzon
These are the days of remote-controlled-state-of-the-art toys. This case is especially true with toy robots. The Robosapien is a good example of how complex toy robots have become. The Robosapien can walk, talk, navigate obstacles and pick up objects all at the touch of a button or even by voice commands. It runs on batteries and has potential for a lot of fun. A long time ago, toy robots were made of tin. Complexity was way simpler but the fun factor is still the same. After all, a toy needs to provide you with hours of fun be it a tin toy or an electronic toy.
Tin toy robots were generally built with squarish parts. They normally come with a square tin head with some robotic feature or another. The robot bodies were also square or rectangular. I guess this is because mass producing square shaped tin parts were simpler and helped keep the cost down. As production methods improved, tin toy robots of various shapes and sizes started to hit the shelves. Rounded shapes started to become common and more complex functions for a tin toy became the norm.
The simplest tin toy robots were basically a tin cube with movable appendages bolted on. The attraction came from the painted features of the tin toy. Wound up springs and some simple gearing gave other tin toy robots limited mobility. You just needed to wind up the toy and set it on the ground. The tin robot would walk in a straight line most of the time. It did not matter that most robots tend to veer a little to one side because suddenly, you are the master of a little tin Frankenstein monster!
Manufacturers became more and more creative over time. As a result, more nifty features were added onto tin toy robots. There were robots that would walk after being wound up and then pause for a short while to emit sparks from their mouths. Some tin toy robots had multi-colored gears mounted on the front panel of their tin bodies that would rotate while the tin robot was in motion.
Tin toy robots could also take a fair amount of abuse. Rough play will result in scratches and dents but the tin bodies offer a decent enough protection for the tin robots to keep on functioning. Nowadays, tin toy robots are a collectors item and can fetch a good price on the tin toy collectors market.
Basic Fun David Kirk Stacking Robot
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- This colorful Robot stacker has various body parts on each side of each piece for oodles of fun
- Designed by David Kirk, creator of the Miss Spider book series
- Unique, quirky and engaging
- Mix and match sections for endless possibilities
- Part of the David Kirk’s Fun House Collection
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Master storyteller David Kirk, creator of the Miss Spider book series, brings his creative genius to a line of pre-school pull toys, stacking toys and jack-in-the-boxes aptly named David Kirk’s Fun House. Beautifully designed and lovingly made, David Kirk’s Fun House sparks imaginative paly and provides hours of fun for kids of all ages. Unique, quirky and engaging, these toys will foster a lifetime of creativity. David Kirk’s Fun House – Where imagination lives.
Basic Fun David Kirk Stacking Robot
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Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
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If you’ve seen Robot Chicken’s previous Star Wars specials, you should know exactly what to expect from this latest installment, just more of it 45 minutes worth, to be exact. That’s three times the length of the usual Robot Chicken episode, not counting the three hours of extras included on this new Blu-ray release. It’s good to see that even three installments in, the Robot Chicken crew hasn’t …
Robot fun question by gregg: Can anyone find the link of the robot chicken episode where they make fun of the show heroes?
It is a clip of sylar taking a stupid ability but it’s really funny.
Robot fun best answer:
Answer by Anna
Here is the link, lol
“bot bot”,
My grandson has a retro space theme, so anything robot is great and this toy was perfect for him being little over one year old
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|how about make him sing a little song after he says thank you lol
@DundeeDude thanks dude!
spotted the little fella in the dundee degree show
fulled him with some coins and off he went like a rocket lol.. great work btw.
@supersomething1000 technically if it was a small flat coin lookin’ stone then yes it would – but that’s not very charitable of you!
@Manjusang yeah it is
Tim, is he saying ‘ow’ when he bumps in to things? Massively cute! – Irina
Is it just me or does the music sound like Super Mario music? ^^
What happens if you put a small stone in it instead of money would it say thanks anyway?
1:02 **pats** **hugs** hahahah!
@Eugenijus81 I think DONA is very impressive. And a complete coincidence that Min Su Kim and I released our very similar projects at pretty much the same time!
Nice thing! Much funnier than Korean DONA
@CosimoStory right now, yes it would be very costly as this is the only model. Made by hand over about 2 months of hand crafting moulds and forming plastic. So I am keeping a close eye on it when it is out and about! Ideally I would like to have them bulk produced by machine so that would significantly bring their cost down though someone would still be needed to keep a watch over them
@timarethephysics I mean like losing these DON-8r, or ppl abusing it causing malfunction wouldn’t that be rather costly? Or are these manufactured cheaply etc? I was just wondering the whole praticality of this. But yeah I get your point.
I’ll take that: “swoosh” And its gone!
@isad1012 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
@RegTrainer2 DON-8r is not left out on its own, it requires someone to watch over it whether there is one or more DON-8r’s out and about. This is much like how automatic tills in supermrkets still require at least 1 member of staff. However I am aware I have not made this clear in my video so I am working now on how to emphasise this
@CosimoStory technically yes you could but what is to stop you grabbing and running off with other donation boxes? What’s to stop you just outright stealing money from someone on the street? DON-8r is a means to emphasise the goodness of people and their willingness to support. There is never a massive amount of cash inside it as donations are primarily very small – it is more a promotional vehicle for charities. Getting their name noticed in a public environment in a playful manner
Cant believe no one stole it.
@timarethephysics Interesting
What if someone just takes this and runs off?
@Lagos08 no it is automatic. Each coin donated instructs DON-8r to move for a set length of time. It has bumpers on the front to avoid objects
does anyone controll it?
This Annoys me Id Break it
i find this hard masturbate to
porque mejor no se lo dan a un pobre*