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MarkM
10-24-2006, 04:09 PM
Had a conversation in the pub last week and I had described to me an old game machine, the concept was that you had several drums like the buddist prayer wheels on a spindle that you spin to show a cow, pig whatever and then you attempt to spin the next drum to show the next part of the picture, same concept as a fruit machine but vertical and pictures of animals or people. My question is what would you call this game/machine. I want one, now I could make one but the construction would be rather complicated if you did it correctly, IE stainless steel shaft, roller bearings, decent bracket to hold the spindle etc etc, even going a simpler route with cutting the drums with a router and using marbles or similar as a built in ball race is still a complicated method of making it and rather time consuming for something that I will only use occasionally. So anyone know what the hell I am talking about?
I have had it suggested that is was a far east thing with a Monkey/Elephant/Tiger for the pictures but anything can be adapted but I need the correct name of the game/machine to be able to go any further with this.
Altimas
10-24-2006, 04:51 PM
http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/10/99/Fisher_Price_See_n_Say_Farmer_Says_Electronic_Leve r_Toys-resized200.jpg
this it?
MarkM
10-24-2006, 04:58 PM
No, think of a cylinder in the vertical postion, but divided into 3 pieces
This is a prayer wheel and I think this is a two part one
http://www.wholeworldcompany.com/graphics/images/small/wwcn006.jpg
behemoth
10-24-2006, 04:58 PM
::edit:: guess not.
same concept as a fruit machine
I think you lost a lot of people right there.
I'm lost a bit too, is it like a vertical fruit (slot) machine? Do you win? Or is like a children's toy? Is it a pub game? Is it an historical game?
rkjunior303
10-25-2006, 09:09 AM
silly brit's and your wacked toys ;)
MarkM
10-25-2006, 03:25 PM
A fruit machine is what we call , well a fruit machine that you see in bars and clubs and casino's all work on several drums laid horizontally trying to match the symbols. What I am looking for is the same thing but vertically instead of symbols you have a picture split into 3, the idea being that you are attempting to spin the 3 body parts. It exists as a card game version and I am sure that I have seen something very similar in the machine form I want.
It is simply an old game but in machine form it would still be old but not quite as old as the card version. That said perhaps a victorian version is what I am thinking of having seen. many 'games' etc are based on victorian originals.
thecavemankevin
10-25-2006, 03:41 PM
Take a week to rethink your humour MarkM
SCpoloRicker
10-25-2006, 05:36 PM
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/3251/owllol1fg.jpg
Lohman446
10-25-2006, 05:38 PM
A fruit machine is what we call , well a fruit machine that you see in bars and clubs and casino's all work on several drums laid horizontally trying to match the symbols. What I am looking for is the same thing but vertically instead of symbols you have a picture split into 3, the idea being that you are attempting to spin the 3 body parts. It exists as a card game version and I am sure that I have seen something very similar in the machine form I want.
It is simply an old game but in machine form it would still be old but not quite as old as the card version. That said perhaps a victorian version is what I am thinking of having seen. many 'games' etc are based on victorian originals.
Slot machine in America. Don't get too high on the "victorian" originality there Mark, I am betting ou should look towards the orient for that original idea? :) Hehe, it took me a long time to figure out what you were talking about.
Slot machine, One armed bandit, Mechanical Pick-pocket. In Las Vegas terms, it's known simply as a "slot"
tropical_fishy
10-25-2006, 10:17 PM
No no, he's not talking about a slot machine. He's talking about those little toys that you get at like, the aquarium, that are 3-D octagons. Each side has a different animal, and you can make little mutant animals by turning different sections. Kind of like a rubics cube for the stupid kids.
MarkM
10-26-2006, 05:24 AM
No no, he's not talking about a slot machine. He's talking about those little toys that you get at like, the aquarium, that are 3-D octagons. Each side has a different animal, and you can make little mutant animals by turning different sections. Kind of like a rubics cube for the stupid kids.
That's as a good a description as I have seen and I have been searching online stores for special needs toys, the pictures I will change for a more adult theme but to date no joy in finding anything.
Lohman, quite possible it is the Orient that had the original concept after all where do the prayer wheels come from, but the Victorian era would have been the time for conversion to a 'game', no way am I buying an orginal as a modern version will do nicely. Different cultures have different toys, in 50/60's America (if TV and movies are to be believed) had children wearing caps with propellers on the top pulling small wheeled barrows but that never happened here, so the hope is it is an america toy I had seen that never really took off here.
billybob_81067
10-26-2006, 10:04 AM
the pictures I will change for a more adult theme
Ohhhhh.... we didn't need to hear that! Remember this is a PG 13 forum! :p
SCpoloRicker
10-26-2006, 10:59 AM
I have seen and I have been searching online stores for special needs toys, the pictures I will change for a more adult theme but to date no joy in finding anything.
He's a witch! Burn him!
/various other MP references
behemoth
10-26-2006, 11:18 AM
Ohhhhh.... we didn't need to hear that! Remember this is a PG 13 forum! :p
Too bad i cant edit his post. The 2k6ers! THINK OF THE 2k6ers!!!!!!!!
tropical_fishy
10-26-2006, 11:44 AM
He's a witch! Burn him!
/various other MP references
Very small rocks?
behemoth
10-26-2006, 11:50 AM
Very small rocks?
CHURCHES! CHURCHES!
/great gravy
Pneumagger
10-26-2006, 11:59 AM
A DUCK! :cool:
:hail:
behemoth
10-26-2006, 01:00 PM
A DUCK! :cool:
:hail:
who are you that is so wise in the ways of science?
MarkM
10-26-2006, 04:26 PM
Ha ha, by adult I meant replacing the Baker or Builder in cartoon form with something not quite so childish in appearance, how this will be used if I can ever get one will include at times children but to use childish pictures would be an insult to adults. Film stars would work well enough but size would depend on what size the 'machine' turns out to being. I can see that I will have to make this but I was trying to avoid this as I reckon at a rough cost it will be in excess of $150 as I want this thing to last so over engineering will have to be done.
etjoyride
10-26-2006, 04:46 PM
I can picture what you are tlaking about in my mind, but have enver sene one in person.
Red no bluuuuuuuue!!!!
(please don't say i have that backwards :cool: )
I think I understand what you're trying to make... But why make it?
MarkM
10-26-2006, 05:17 PM
I think I understand what you're trying to make... But why make it?
If I can't buy one I will have to make it. Buying one is the route I want to take.
behemoth
10-26-2006, 05:33 PM
I can picture what you are tlaking about in my mind, but have enver sene one in person.
Red no bluuuuuuuue!!!!
(please don't say i have that backwards :cool: )
Blue. No,--Yelllllllooooowwwww
behemoth
10-26-2006, 05:35 PM
Mark, may we ask what the hell you need this for? :p
MarkM
10-26-2006, 05:43 PM
Mark, may we ask what the hell you need this for? :p
A sort of gamble type of thing. The other option is a pin wheel but that would have to be made to allow the seqments be in favour of the house but a pin wheel has been done and it quite obvious (Wheel of Fortune) this is just a different variation on a theme.
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