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November 02, 2005

Super #1 Robot

We wandered into the McNally Robinson bookstore on Prince St. in Soho last night and stumbled across a wonderful art-design book devoted to a distinct Japanese product. "Super #1 Robot: Japanese Robot Toys, 1972-1982" beautifully catalogs a widlly imaginative collection of all sorts of plastic, diecast, aluminum and metallic small-scale play automatons. The period from 1972 to 1982 was the golden age of Japanese robot toys. "Super #1 Robot" is a defintive document of every robot by every Japanese manufacturer of the era. Published by Chronicle books, "Super #1 Robot" is the work of Tokyo-based American writer Matt Alt and LA-based Robert Duban. Saburo Ishizuki, the founder of a couple of well-known robot toy designer-manufacturers, has contributed an afterword that puts the collection into the important Japanese perspective. Brilliant stuff for the coffee table, "Super #1 Robot" is a book that every guest will pick up.

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Posted by Thurston Ali at November 2, 2005 02:34 AM