Robot Carnival (1987) on Netflix

Plot summary

Nine shorts in different animation styles, robots the common thread. In a desert, a boy finds a coming soon poster for the Robot Carnival and warns his village as a huge rusted machine, robots in niches along its exterior, grinds forward. A mad scientist tries to bring a robot to life with lightning. Alien robot foot soldiers attack a city and take people, among them a girl whose android companion keeps her locket. A man secretly builds an automaton in a shed, apart from his wife and family. Two teenage girls visit a robot themed amusement park, where one finds her boyfriend with her friend. In nineteenth century Japan, a Westerner in a wooden giant robot is challenged by locals in one of their own. In Tokyo, a robotic magician called Red Neck wakes the city's machines.