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I call these the cereal robots because I believe they came in boxes of cereal. If memory serves. the cereal in question was Cap’n Crunch, a cereal with its finger of the pulse of the nation’s youth; years later, they would have a Cap’n Crunch-themed CD-ROM game pack-in<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is a little fuzzy but I recall that this amphibian creature came as a kit that you had to assemble. It could really float due to styrofoam in those side tubes. Wind it up and the flippers propel it through the water.<\/p>\n Here’s a grab bag of random robots. The one in the lower right corner is the robot from the airport<\/a> (I didn’t remember the match until after the photo shoot):<\/p>\n A robot that transforms into a pinball machine (which actually plays), which is only slightly less weird than robots that transform into rocks<\/a>. That yellow plane could be wound back on a flat surface and when released, would race forward and shoot sparks.<\/p>\n 2 more miscellaneous robots:<\/p>\n The red robot was a generic, no-name transforming robot. I think the white one may have been some kind of actual Transformer.<\/p>\n Here are some miscellaneous robots that don’t fit into any well-defined toy lines such as Transformers, Gobots, or Robotech. First up is some rubber robots. I have no recollection of how I obtained them: Click for larger image I call these the cereal robots because I believe they came in boxes of cereal. If memory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robots-of-the-80s"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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