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Attack of the Vintage Toy Robots! Justin Pinchot on Japan's Coolest Postwar Export | Collectors Weekly
SFO Museum - The 1950s were the golden age of space-themed toys. Japanese manufacturers pioneered the robot toy craze in the late 1940s with Atomic Robot Man, a wind-up, tin lithograph toy
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Attack of the Vintage Toy Robots! Justin Pinchot on Japan's Coolest Postwar Export | Collectors Weekly
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