SPACE ROBOT aka CONEHEAD - YONEZAWA - JAPAN

Tin wind up Robby style robot. Conehead is the obvious nickname for this robot. Despite being such an old-style robot this toy was still available in the 1968 Yonezawa catalogue, where it is referred to as the Mechanical Space Robot. This robot was designed for the Japanese market. It is based on the T26 prototype version of the Tetsujin T28.

Yonezawa used the body as the basis for two other robots: the Robby Robot astronaut, and the Roby Robot. It is a simple wind-up mechanism with the switch in the lithoed front panel. The arms are feeble flat claws dangling from two dome structures. There's no doubting that the style is that of Robby from the "Forbidden Planet".

The order of production of these three related robots has not been established, they may have been contemporary. Conehead has a spectacular head that immediately gives the robot an exotic, almost bizarre appearance. Two vast googly eyes, forming a spark panel, overlap and look like sunglasses. He's got pin-like hard rubber ears and a similar head point.

Two box variations shown. There are minor changes to the text.

Featured in the 1967 Yonezawa catalog.