Poll of the Day > Do you still own a view master?

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GreenGoblinOck 07/13/17 12:29:03 PM #1:	Do you still own a view master? Yes. And a lot of the slides I bought for it. Yes. But I lost most of the slides for it No. It broke/I sold it. What's a view master? View Results Anyone remember these things? I'm pretty sure they don't make them anymore. --- "What he doesn't know is that I'm just as as worried of Aunt May learning my secret identity as he is of Harry finding out his." Peter Parker, ASM#40 <cite>GreenGoblinOck posted [p:882841785] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote> Do you still own a view master? Yes. And a lot of the slides I bought for it. Yes. But I lost most of the slides for it No. It broke/I sold it. What's a view master? View Results Anyone remember these things? I'm pretty sure they don't make them anymore.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
myghostisdead 07/13/17 1:17:42 PM #2:	They make one now that using your phone and app. I have a few models. I have one that is round. I think it is one of the first styles produced and I have one from the 30s. What is cool is I have old slides from then too. The ones from a trip to Vegas and the Grand Canyon. --- Don't hit the pig in the road by McDonalds in Dardanelle <cite>myghostisdead posted [p:882844495] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>They make one now that using your phone and app. I have a few models. I have one that is round. I think it is one of the first styles produced and I have one from the 30s. What is cool is I have old slides from then too. The ones from a trip to Vegas and the Grand Canyon.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
wwinterj25 07/13/17 1:21:30 PM #3:	I used to. I also used to own one of these: https://img1.etsystatic.com/104/0/12084854/il_340x270.912056807_i4bb.jpg --- One who knows nothing can understand nothing. http://psnprofiles.com/wwinterj - http://i.imgur.com/kDysIcd.gif <cite>wwinterj25 posted [p:882844715] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>I used to. I also used to own one of these: https://img1.etsystatic.com/104/0/12084854/il_340x270.912056807_i4bb.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
darcandkharg31 07/13/17 1:21:32 PM #4:	GreenGoblinOck posted... Do you still own a view master?. I never owned one but I do remember them in like kindergarten. --- This is my signature, there are many others like it, but this one is mine. If you take 110% of what I say seriously then you're gonna have a bad time. <cite>darcandkharg31 posted [p:882844718] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>GreenGoblinOck posted...</cite> <quote>Do you still own a view master?.</quote> I never owned one but I do remember them in like kindergarten.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Wii3Kings 07/13/17 1:57:10 PM #5:	I have three of them one from my mother-in-law she had in the 50s, one I had in the 80s and one I bought my kids around 2010. --- http://i.imgur.com/2o9xRxB.png <cite>Wii3Kings posted [p:882846768] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>I have three of them one from my mother-in-law she had in the 50s, one I had in the 80s and one I bought my kids around 2010.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ParanoidObsessive 07/13/17 2:17:50 PM #6:	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. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:882847864] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>Somewhere, probably. I likely couldn't find it if I wanted to, though. <cite>GreenGoblinOck posted...</cite> <quote>I'm pretty sure they don't make them anymore.</quote> 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. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
fettster777 07/13/17 3:33:58 PM #7:	I'm sure its somewhere in the attic. <cite>fettster777 posted [p:882852365] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>I'm sure its somewhere in the attic.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Alex1976 07/13/17 3:48:56 PM #8:	It's packed away somewhere, probably the attic. --- When ancient man screamed and beat on the ground with sticks, they called it WITCHCRAFT. When modern man does the same thing, they call it GOLF. <cite>Alex1976 posted [p:882853247] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>It's packed away somewhere, probably the attic.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Krazy_Kirby 07/13/17 7:33:45 PM #9:	dont have anymore. pretty sure i threw it out --- Kill From The Shadows. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot <cite>Krazy_Kirby posted [p:882865584] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>dont have anymore. pretty sure i threw it out</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Blaqthourne 07/13/17 7:41:06 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. --- Montreal Expos (1969-2004) http://www.backloggery.com/Blaqthourne Now playing: Final Fantasy VIII (PS1) -- started 7/9/2017 <cite>Blaqthourne posted [p:882866002] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>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.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
gguirao 07/17/17 12:41:25 PM #11:	Not since 1993. --- Donald J. Trump--proof against government intelligence. <cite>gguirao posted [p:883077869] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>Not since 1993.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MrMelodramatic 07/17/17 12:51:45 PM #12:	I don't know what that is --- Proud to be EPic Texas Aggie, Class of 2018 A-Whoop! <cite>MrMelodramatic posted [p:883078413] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>I don't know what that is</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GreenGoblinOck 07/17/17 1:00:19 PM #13:	MrMelodramatic posted... I don't know what that is http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Classic-Viewmaster.jpg --- "What he doesn't know is that I'm just as as worried of Aunt May learning my secret identity as he is of Harry finding out his." Peter Parker, ASM#40 <cite>GreenGoblinOck posted [p:883078875] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>MrMelodramatic posted...</cite> <quote>I don't know what that is</quote> http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Classic-Viewmaster.jpg</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MrMelodramatic 07/17/17 1:33:38 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 --- Proud to be EPic Texas Aggie, Class of 2018 A-Whoop! <cite>MrMelodramatic posted [p:883080698] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>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</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GreenGoblinOck 07/17/17 1:38:50 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. --- "What he doesn't know is that I'm just as as worried of Aunt May learning my secret identity as he is of Harry finding out his." Peter Parker, ASM#40 <cite>GreenGoblinOck posted [p:883081000] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>MrMelodramatic posted...</cite> <quote>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</quote> Actually, it let you see pictures of scenes from movies and cartoons at a time when there wasn't a home video market.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ParanoidObsessive 07/17/17 2:12:14 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 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:883082991] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>MrMelodramatic posted...</cite> <quote>so you put a wheel of film and you can see pictures you took without having to get them developed?</quote> 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 </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ParanoidObsessive 07/17/17 2:18:57 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 --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:883083371] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>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 </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
myghostisdead 07/17/17 2:49:47 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. --- Don't hit the pig in the road by McDonalds in Dardanelle <cite>myghostisdead posted [p:883085097] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>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 </quote> 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.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GreenGoblinOck 07/17/17 2:55:47 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. --- "What he doesn't know is that I'm just as as worried of Aunt May learning my secret identity as he is of Harry finding out his." Peter Parker, ASM#40 <cite>GreenGoblinOck posted [p:883085444] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>myghostisdead posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>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 </quote> 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.</quote> They were still popular when I was a kid in the 90s.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Yellow 07/17/17 3:02:22 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 <cite>Yellow posted [p:883085822] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote>I had one but it's been thrown out by now.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
ParanoidObsessive 07/17/17 3:04:29 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. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:883085954] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>myghostisdead posted...</cite> <quote>Fisher Price has a Classic line now. There are toys from the 60's on up.</quote> 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. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MrMelodramatic 07/17/17 4:45:31 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 --- Proud to be EPic Texas Aggie, Class of 2018 A-Whoop! <cite>MrMelodramatic posted [p:883091710] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>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 </quote> 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</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
MrMelodramatic 07/17/17 5:07:05 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. --- Proud to be EPic Texas Aggie, Class of 2018 A-Whoop! <cite>MrMelodramatic posted [p:883092999] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>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.</quote> 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.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Blaqthourne 07/17/17 5:31:24 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. --- Montreal Expos (1969-2004) http://www.backloggery.com/Blaqthourne Now playing: Final Fantasy VIII (PS1) -- started 7/9/2017 <cite>Blaqthourne posted [p:883094521] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>GreenGoblinOck posted...</cite> <quote><cite>MrMelodramatic posted...</cite> <quote>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</quote> Actually, it let you see pictures of scenes from movies and cartoons at a time when there wasn't a home video market.</quote> It's a bit more than that as it creates a 3D image.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
GreenGoblinOck 07/17/17 10:39:56 PM #25:	Blaqthourne posted... 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. Yeah. I haven't used one in years because I've worn glasses for a long time. It makes it hard to really use it properly. My favorite one was the Jurrassic Park slides. --- "What he doesn't know is that I'm just as as worried of Aunt May learning my secret identity as he is of Harry finding out his." Peter Parker, ASM#40 <cite>GreenGoblinOck posted [p:883113413] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>Blaqthourne posted...</cite> <quote><cite>GreenGoblinOck posted...</cite> <quote><cite>MrMelodramatic posted...</cite> <quote>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</quote> Actually, it let you see pictures of scenes from movies and cartoons at a time when there wasn't a home video market.</quote> It's a bit more than that as it creates a 3D image.</quote> Yeah. I haven't used one in years because I've worn glasses for a long time. It makes it hard to really use it properly. My favorite one was the Jurrassic Park slides.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
Zeus 07/17/17 11:18:59 PM #26:	ParanoidObsessive posted... Somewhere, probably. I likely couldn't find it if I wanted to, though. This. I'm like 80% sure that it's in a bin somewhere that's been moved without ever being unpacked in between. 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 You confused it with a slide projector. Slide projectors have faded away and been classified as obsolete, but there's still a novelty/children market for view master-like devices. 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. They were still big even after the home market. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| In Zeus We Trust: All Others Pay Cash <cite>Zeus posted [p:883115579] in Do you sti... [t:75561082]...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>Somewhere, probably. I likely couldn't find it if I wanted to, though. </quote> This. I'm like 80% sure that it's in a bin somewhere that's been moved without ever being unpacked in between. <cite>MrMelodramatic posted...</cite> <quote>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</quote> You confused it with a slide projector. Slide projectors have faded away and been classified as obsolete, but there's still a novelty/children market for view master-like devices. <cite>GreenGoblinOck posted...</cite> <quote><cite>MrMelodramatic posted...</cite> <quote>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</quote> Actually, it let you see pictures of scenes from movies and cartoons at a time when there wasn't a home video market.</quote> They were still big even after the home market.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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