Electro Man is the forbidden dream of so many collectors that at the end of 2021 it was auctioned for $84,000. Yes, that’s right, you heard me right: eighty-four thousand dollars!!! It is a 1960s Japanese tin robot, battery-powered, highly animated, and beautifully lithographed.
Much more modestly, I made a hand-pushed, paper version of it, named Electro Paper Man, trying to reproduce the richness of the lithographs and the complexity of the movement.
In the main mechanism of EPM, the wheel drives a quick-return mechanism, where the slotted bar, which forms the leg, is in turn connected by a lever to the arm.
Electro Paper Man’s first mission takes him to Mars, where the little hand-powered robot explores the red landscape in search of regions with a more favourable atmospheric composition. The short film also puts EPM’s characteristic walking and arm mechanism into action, turning the model into a playful science-fiction protagonist.
This project was developed from Tim Braslavsky's 3D model (cgtrader.com) and iconographic material on the web pages: Tim Braslavsky Portfolio Vintage Spacetoys ALPHADROME ROBOT AND SPACE TOY DATABASE The Old Robots Web Site
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