Food items and a Crystal Shard appear as temptations at the end of each hall, which a proficient player can obtain while still escaping the robot's trap. If Robot Toy succeeds at pushing him into the wall at the end of the corridor, it KOs the hero. If Kirby touches the machinery, he takes one point of electrical damage. Enemies, specifically Sawyer, Fishbones, Cairns, and Scarfys, act as obstacles to slow him down-these are effortlessly defeated as the robot charges through. The hero must outrun it and float through the next thin platform to progress.

When Kirby climbs through the thin platform in front of one, it activates with a metallic sound and gives chase. Six of them stalk the halls of the factory's last room. Robot Toy appears exclusively in Stage 4 of Shiver Star. Robot Toy's apparatus appears to be a metal slab with one electrical face, two spinning cogs on its side, and caution tape. Likewise, the machine's movements are similar to those of a wind-up toy: It turns its head, sways its body back and forth, and swings its arms up and down as it walks. A silver windup key on its back spins as it walks, giving it a toyetic appearance. It has two circular orange eyes and a row of triangular teeth on its face, three red stripes across its chest, two silver clamps for hands, and a double-pronged brass spike atop its head. Its body is built from complex polyhedrons: Its head is an elongated hexagonal bipyramid, its body a rhombicuboctahedron, and its feet chamfered rectangular prisms.

Robot Toy is a giant, bipedal green robot.

The crystal shard cassette tape