| These are the days of | | | | with movable appendages bolted on. The attraction |
| remote-controlled-state-of-the-art toys. This case is | | | | came from the painted features of the tin toy. Wound |
| especially true with toy robots. The Robosapien is a | | | | up springs and some simple gearing gave other tin toy |
| good example of how complex toy robots have | | | | robots limited mobility. You just needed to wind up the |
| become. The Robosapien can walk, talk, navigate | | | | toy and set it on the ground. The tin robot would walk |
| obstacles and pick up objects all at the touch of a | | | | in a straight line most of the time. It did not matter that |
| button or even by voice commands. It runs on | | | | most robots tend to veer a little to one side because |
| batteries and has potential for a lot of fun. A long time | | | | suddenly, you are the master of a little tin Frankenstein |
| ago, toy robots were made of tin. Complexity was | | | | monster! |
| way simpler but the fun factor is still the same. After | | | | Manufacturers became more and more creative over |
| all, a toy needs to provide you with hours of fun be it a | | | | time. As a result, more nifty features were added onto |
| tin toy or an electronic toy. | | | | tin toy robots. There were robots that would walk |
| Tin toy robots were generally built with squarish parts. | | | | after being wound up and then pause for a short while |
| They normally come with a square tin head with some | | | | to emit sparks from their mouths. Some tin toy robots |
| robotic feature or another. The robot bodies were also | | | | had multi-colored gears mounted on the front panel of |
| square or rectangular. I guess this is because mass | | | | their tin bodies that would rotate while the tin robot |
| producing square shaped tin parts were simpler and | | | | was in motion. |
| helped keep the cost down. As production methods | | | | Tin toy robots could also take a fair amount of abuse. |
| improved, tin toy robots of various shapes and sizes | | | | Rough play will result in scratches and dents but the tin |
| started to hit the shelves. Rounded shapes started to | | | | bodies offer a decent enough protection for the tin |
| become common and more complex functions for a | | | | robots to keep on functioning. Nowadays, tin toy |
| tin toy became the norm. | | | | robots are a collectors item and can fetch a good |
| The simplest tin toy robots were basically a tin cube | | | | price on the tin toy collectors market. |