Do you still own a view master?

07/13/2017 02:17:50 PM

07/13/2017

02:17 PM

Somewhere, probably. I likely couldn't find it if I wanted to, though.

GreenGoblinOck posted...

I'm pretty sure they don't make them anymore.

I think they do, actually.

They're cheaper and shittier, obviously, but that's been true for every iteration of them over the last 50+ years.

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fettster777

07/13/2017 03:33:58 PM

07/13/2017

03:33 PM

I'm sure its somewhere in the attic.

Alex1976

07/13/2017 03:48:56 PM

07/13/2017

03:48 PM

It's packed away somewhere, probably the attic.

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Krazy_Kirby

07/13/2017 07:33:45 PM

07/13/2017

07:33 PM

dont have anymore. pretty sure i threw it out

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Blaqthourne

07/13/2017 07:41:06 PM

07/13/2017

07:41 PM

#10

I have a few, including a metal one from the '40s. One Bugs Bunny set of wheels from the '40s is extremely impressive -- the characters look like clay figures, unlike later ones from the '70s and beyond that look like paper cutouts.

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gguirao

07/17/2017 12:41:25 PM

07/17/2017

12:41 PM

#11

Not since 1993.

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07/17/2017 12:51:45 PM

07/17/2017

12:51 PM

#12

I don't know what that is

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http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Classic-Viewmaster.jpg

07/17/2017 01:00:19 PM

07/17/2017

01:00 PM

#13

MrMelodramatic posted...

I don't know what that is

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07/17/2017 01:33:38 PM

07/17/2017

01:33 PM

#14

so you put a wheel of film and you can see pictures you took without having to get them developed?

I can see why that's more or less become obsolete

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07/17/2017 01:38:50 PM

07/17/2017

01:38 PM

#15

MrMelodramatic posted...

so you put a wheel of film and you can see pictures you took without having to get them developed?

I can see why that's more or less become obsolete

Actually, it let you see pictures of scenes from movies and cartoons at a time when there wasn't a home video market.

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07/17/2017 02:12:14 PM

07/17/2017

02:12 PM

#16

MrMelodramatic posted...

so you put a wheel of film and you can see pictures you took without having to get them developed?

No, it's more so they can sell you discs that are effectively a slide-show projector presentation with the projector, and that only one person can look at at a time.

They were hugely popular, and often used images from TV shows and movies that were big at the time, or had sweeping vistas (like, say, the Grand Canyon) so you could sort of get a primitive virtual reality view of what it would look like to go there without having to go there.

One also shows up as a major plot point in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23SVHUPrUJ4&t=2m20s

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07/17/2017 02:18:57 PM

07/17/2017

02:18 PM

#17

Though now that we're talking about it, I'm kind of curious whether or not any of you younglings ever had/saw one of these:

http://www.retroland.com/fisher-price-movie-viewer

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e5/16/59/e51659e9f5a3e100df6557fe8736b420--fisher-price-vintage-toys.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/ef/c9/1aefc91a9d329ee30dc6742313bfc0b1.jpg

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myghostisdead

07/17/2017 02:49:47 PM

07/17/2017

02:49 PM

#18

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Though now that we're talking about it, I'm kind of curious whether or not any of you younglings ever had/saw one of these:

http://www.retroland.com/fisher-price-movie-viewer

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e5/16/59/e51659e9f5a3e100df6557fe8736b420--fisher-price-vintage-toys.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/ef/c9/1aefc91a9d329ee30dc6742313bfc0b1.jpg

I had a friend that had one of those. Fisher Price has a Classic line now. There are toys from the 60's on up.

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07/17/2017 02:55:47 PM

07/17/2017

02:55 PM

#19

myghostisdead posted...

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Though now that we're talking about it, I'm kind of curious whether or not any of you younglings ever had/saw one of these:

http://www.retroland.com/fisher-price-movie-viewer

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e5/16/59/e51659e9f5a3e100df6557fe8736b420--fisher-price-vintage-toys.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/ef/c9/1aefc91a9d329ee30dc6742313bfc0b1.jpg

I had a friend that had one of those. Fisher Price has a Classic line now. There are toys from the 60's on up.

They were still popular when I was a kid in the 90s.

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Yellow

07/17/2017 03:02:22 PM

07/17/2017

03:02 PM

#20

I had one but it's been thrown out by now.

http://i.imgur.com/irV8tRQ.png
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uFPEcySxx8

07/17/2017 03:04:29 PM

07/17/2017

03:04 PM

#21

myghostisdead posted...

Fisher Price has a Classic line now. There are toys from the 60's on up.

Yeah, I know. And they're actually still selling the viewer I posted. I was just curious if anyone here had one, because they seem a bit pop-culturally more obscure than the Viewmaster.

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07/17/2017 04:45:31 PM

07/17/2017

04:45 PM

#22

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Though now that we're talking about it, I'm kind of curious whether or not any of you younglings ever had/saw one of these:

http://www.retroland.com/fisher-price-movie-viewer

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e5/16/59/e51659e9f5a3e100df6557fe8736b420--fisher-price-vintage-toys.jpg
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1a/ef/c9/1aefc91a9d329ee30dc6742313bfc0b1.jpg

I've never heard or seen these, but that's actually really cool! I would have loved this as a kid. I might still love it now lol

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07/17/2017 05:07:05 PM

07/17/2017

05:07 PM

#23

ParanoidObsessive posted...

No, it's more so they can sell you discs that are effectively a slide-show projector presentation with the projector, and that only one person can look at at a time.

They were hugely popular, and often used images from TV shows and movies that were big at the time, or had sweeping vistas (like, say, the Grand Canyon) so you could sort of get a primitive virtual reality view of what it would look like to go there without having to go there.

on one hand, I kinda think my initial idea would have been way cooler <_<

but, on the other, I follow a lot of tumblrs that have the settings and sceneries of shows (mostly animated) that I watch. Like, in colored-in storyboard style or whatever. And those are really cool to look at, and I've always thought this would be great when 3D really takes off. So I can see how being "in the Candy Kingdom" (of course, with whatever you were actually looking at) would be neat, especially if that was really your only way of getting to see the world like that outside of the show itself.

Right now though, I'd still opt for a tumblr post than a goggles type thing with a static image.

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Blaqthourne

07/17/2017 05:31:24 PM

07/17/2017

05:31 PM

#24

GreenGoblinOck posted...

MrMelodramatic posted...

so you put a wheel of film and you can see pictures you took without having to get them developed?

I can see why that's more or less become obsolete

Actually, it let you see pictures of scenes from movies and cartoons at a time when there wasn't a home video market.

It's a bit more than that as it creates a 3D image.

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