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Robot Tin is minding his younger sister, Nickel, when her balloon carries her off, and he has a devil of a time catching her. There are no interesting wrenches thrown into the works (Tin ultimately retrieves Nickel, and that's that), and this fantasy could just have logically revolved around humans. Then again, the blocky, clomping robots are kiddie eye-candy.