Yesterday I bought this magnificent book Robots – Spaceships & Other Tin Toys (Kitahara, Teruhisa / Shimizu, Yukio – Hardcover – 15.5×21.7 cm, – 352 pages – Multilingual Edition: German, French, English). This Taschen’s 25th anniversary special edition features the Tehurisa Kitahara collection of tin toys from the 50s and the 60s – various tin aeroplanes and ships, rockets, clockwork robots, the Coney Island Rocket Ride, Godzilla, Batman, Popeye, Fire Dept. cars, big American limousines, genuine precursors of today’s toys and grownup designs. An excellent gift for the boys (aka adults), this amazing book transported me back to childhood, a place of colorful dreams and interplanetary adventures.
Who, with more than 30, hasn’t had one of these in hands?
