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December 13, 2010 By 1 Comment

Christmas Morning 1956 – Robert the Robot?

Over the weekend, I was looking through some old family photo albums and came across this picture:

christmas 1956 robot

My uncle is sitting in front of the tree playing with a new toy robot Santa brought him. I think this is a Robert the Robot from Ideal, but if it’s a rare Japanese import, worth tens of thousands of dollars, I would be more than happy to pass along that info to my dear old uncle. Any robot experts out there? Here’s a close-up:

Have you ever found anything fun in an old Christmas photo?

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  1. lee goggin says

    December 28, 2010 at 4:35 am

    think I remember this well. Had a lot of fun with that robot , sure wish i had it now. If we only knew then what we know now.

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