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It’s a long shot but I’m guessing from those old Superman cartoons. That’s a guess but I vaguely remember that bot somewhere.
Gigantor…
One of my favorites when I was a young boy back in the early to mid-60′s. I remembering really wanting to have a robot just like that myself.
Giiiiiiigannnnntoooooorrrr!!!!
Now you blew the fuses Michael!
Delete this comment.
Have a good day.
JLD
http://www.gigantor.org/
Tokyo-based artist Mitsuteru Yokoyama; the adventures of the robot (in Japanese, “Tetsujin 28,” translated as “IronMan 28″) had appeared in a boys’ magazine (Shonen) and were successful enough to generate a black-and-white animated TV Series called “Tetsujin 28-Go”.