This may not mean much to people here but IT'S FINALLY HERE!
This is a limited edition (only 100 made) Alphadrome Strenco ST-1 tin robot. It was made by Volker Strauss (who now owns the Strenco company) exclusively for Alphadrome board members. This is a special reproduction of the first toy robot ever made in Germany back in 1955. The robot comes in a silver tin with "Strenco" embossed on the lid. He's a wind up that shoots sparks out of the hole in his chest.
Volker made these to coincide with his limited release of 2004 "gold" editions ST-1s available to the public.
You can see he's number 73 of 100.
Meeting the other bots.
"ST-1's nipples are primed and ready to fire!"
He's pretty nice! Something about him seems a little different than the usual classy retrobots. I wanna say that he has shades of Darth Maul but after seeing that previous thread I'm not gonna insult this much cooler looking toy. [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
Thanks CM! I don't know if it's obvious or not but there is a lack of "metal tabs" that normally hold vintage robots together.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Maybe that's it...and he does seem more simpler. And he has a sort've antiquated classiness to him, less like a toy, ya know? I mean the usual robots have bold flat colors, less chrome, more graphics, etc.Originally posted by Andyman:
Thanks CM! I don't know if it's obvious or not but there is a lack of "metal tabs" that normally hold vintage robots together.
Here's a pic of the original ST-1 from 1955.
Very Cool!
Great addition to the robot collection!
two thumbs up!
Super Neat-O-Jet !, Andyman
that is BAD ASS!
Very cool!
Xmas?!?
it IS February, y'know... [img]wink.gif[/img]
sweet score!
and one out of 100?
wow! [img]eek.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
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