In the late 60's the mighty Mattel toy company introduced the "Strange Change Machine" which was a fun little toy that was basically an electric hot plate with a plastic dome on top. You could heat up special little plastic cubes which unfolded into monsters and dinosaurs.Check out the awesome commercial...
Man, I love that narrator and groovy science fictiony music. Indulge me while we watch the "extended dance mix" of the same commercial (but unfortunately worse video quality)...
Anyway, there are a lot of sites out on the vast interweb if you wish to know more about this toy, but what those sites don't have are big clear scans of Strange Change Machine instructions...
... and on the flip-side of the instructions, a full-color "landscape map" of The Lost World.
I want one of these!!!
ReplyDeleteVlad always wondered what this toy did. Vlad would have bought it for the graphics on the box alone but to be the creator of strange and monstrous creatures?!? Pure genius! And the commercial transcends advertising and becomes sixties science fiction art with a musical score that could be the soundtrack to Vlad's life! Vlad thanks you!
ReplyDeletei could never get the damn things to squeeze back in to cube, ho matter how hard you tried you could see the limbs and stuff in creases in the cube.
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