My small but growing collection...

I guess I can't put it off any longer... gotta post a pic or three of my collection. I've been collecting old japanese tin robots for a long time, but I'm still new to vinyl. I'm definitely hooked, though (for better or worse), so while my collection's nothing compared to most people's on the board, I'm pretty sure it'll keep growing (much to my wallet's dismay).

(Didn't seem like the place to post pics of my tin toys, but if anyone's interested, I'll post a couple.)

Oh, thanks to a bunch of board members who've sold me a good chunk of the SB stuff.

 

The black Captain Max is great...

 

This is a perfect place to share your tin robots! Do it!

 

Please post you tin toys!!!

 

Awesome start man. Lookin good.

 

Very nice! Looks fun!

 

nice stuff so far...that walder brain is a nice piece

 

I love the way you have your display set up
The Xam's look amazing as a set. Great collection.

 

If you start getting into Gargamel and RxH, all that space will be filled up in no time

 

Here are some pictures of my vintage toys. The photos SUCK. I've got better, individual shots of almost every toy on my web site: http://www.atomicbox.net/dratomic. (Still under renovation, but the toys are all in place...)

The robots are all from between 1949 and the mid 1960s. Most are tin, most are from Japan -- obvious exceptions would include the Daleks. The ray guns date from the early 1930s up through the late 1950s, and are either pressed steel or plastic. They're pretty much all from the U.S., and I just included them to show the depths of my madness. If anyone has any questions about this stuff, feel free to ask.

 

Very nice collection and your display skills are very focused. Great setup and some of those robots just make me smile. Thanks for sharing.

 

Awesome, I love the gun collection.

 

awesome!! That room looks like the weapons room from Men in Black!!!

 

wow that robot collection is so focused and displayed well. It's like a testament to the modern eras view of the future.

 

wow, that robot and ray gun collection is out of this world!!
friggin awesome man!

 

Hey... I saw your house in Atomic Ranch, it is awesome!!!

Love the gun display!

 

Thanks... it's grown since that issue. (the collection, not the house, unfortunately... I think I've got a bed, somewhere...)

 

I really love that raygun collection.

 

Nice Daleks.

Do you have great 50's furniture collection too?

 

I love the variety in your collection. Is that brick for some would-be thief?

 

I get more questions about that brick...

The brick is from the remains of the Daisy manufacturing plant. A friend snuck into the construction site as they were taking down the building and snagged it for me. Daisy made the first toy ray gun ever -- the Buck Rogers XZ-31 Rocket Pistol -- in the Thirties. So my friend thought it'd be appropriate for me to have the brick as a souvenir.

 

^^Daisy the BB gun maker? I used to love those crank rifles they had.

 

Best vintage robot collection that I've ever seen on this board.
Best ray gun collection that I've ever seen on this board.

 

Freaking great collection!

 

The robot/ray gun collection is just staggering. Thanks so much for sharing that. A labor of love for sure!