Thursday, January 6, 2011

Talking Viewmaster

One of my favorite toys as a child. We had a disc set about dinosaurs, and a Popeye one, and the NASA Moon Landing set. I can still remember some fragments of the scratchy sound of the narrator:
 
"The rocket weighed over six million pounds...it was burning fifteen tons of fuel a second..."
 
and the awesome dinosaur one was my favorite. It depicted a fight between some theropod and a brachiosaur...very cool stuff.
 
And the device itself was very cool. Stereo photo discs in 3D with a small record attached! I can remember the distinct "click" of that little button you had to press to sync up the record with the pictures.
 
Good memories.

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