Attack of the Vintage Toy Robots! Justin Pinchot on Japan’s Coolest Postwar Export
By Lisa Hix
— Everyone is always looking for the next big thing. In the 1960s, it was going into space. In the '40s and '50s, the frontier was technology, with a particular focus on "What's going to make our lives easier?" For the very first time, you had cars with automatic-transmissions, automatic washing machines, and perpetually cooling refrigerators.
I mean, we were coming out of an era when you scrubbed your clothes on a washboard and cooled your icebox with a big block of ice.
Even the first...