PMscenarios, 10 months ago

Early birthday present from my family.
(my birthday is the 23rd. Got express shipping to make sure it delivered to my door)

So excited to look at beautiful robots.

Robots 1:2 is a photography book of the collection at Vitra Design Museum.
Picured is the first and last robot in the book (details in alt text). I've always been interested in these early tin robots

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag is sort of an art book and a sci-fi narrative/(fantasy)American roadtrip.
Haven't read anything by him yet, but I fell in love with the illustrations. So excited to explore his world

Third is Anime Arcitecture - Imagined Worlds and Endless Megacities by Stefan Riekeles (more in next post)

• I really tried with the alt text but am kinda guessing a lot

#Books #SciFi #Robots #Artbook #present #TinRobot #Retro

Robot Lilliput P: KT D: Kuramochi Shoten, CK Clockwork Japan 1937 15.2 cm Small orange tin robot with a square face with a big nose and open mouth with 5 pointy teeth. It looks a bit derpy. It has a tube and 3 dials illustrated on its chest, and the designation NP 5357
Pes Pluto P: Hardtmuth N.P D: Koh-I-Nor Battery operated Czechoslovakia 1976 12 cm On the left is a cardboard box with the robot dog illustrated on On the right: Robot dog pez dispenser. The head and feet are red, the body is light blue. Its upper jaw has yellow and black warning stripes and its nose is a little red ball. The body seems to have a little internal motor connected with yellow wires to a red battery and some dials. It looks to have 2 circular cut outs above its legs showing the red underneath. Its tail is 3 decreasing in size balls in the colors blue, red, yellow. The illustration on the box shows it having 2 yellow balls as ears, but these are not replicated on the tin robot
Inside of Electric State. Theres text on the left (too small to read). The main illustration is a landscape with trees, mountains and grey skies. A small car is driving alone on a curvy road. On the hill is a very pointy sci-fi looking fighter plane? It is broken down and decorated with a cartoon cat licking its mouth at the top. The cat has a turret sticking out of it. On the side of the plane is painted U.S Air Force