I don't know what rabbit hole sent me to discovered the Mold-A-Rama, but I've ever since been hoping to one day see one IRL.
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I don't know what rabbit hole sent me to discovered the Mold-A-Rama, but I've ever since been hoping to one day see one IRL. Closest I got to one was in Milwaukee, but we got there late and had to leave early so I didn't have the time to visit the county Zoo to check one out.
In short, it's an injection molding machine, except it's intended as a curiosity rather than a factory machine. They make various toy figurines and you get to watch as it happens as the whole mechanism is under a transparent dome.
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I don't know what rabbit hole sent me to discovered the Mold-A-Rama, but I've ever since been hoping to one day see one IRL. Closest I got to one was in Milwaukee, but we got there late and had to leave early so I didn't have the time to visit the county Zoo to check one out.
In short, it's an injection molding machine, except it's intended as a curiosity rather than a factory machine. They make various toy figurines and you get to watch as it happens as the whole mechanism is under a transparent dome.
@apzpins they have a couple forms of these. When I was kid we went the San Diego zoo and they had one that made wax figures. I got a cast of a cockatiel. They are really interesting machines.
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@apzpins they have a couple forms of these. When I was kid we went the San Diego zoo and they had one that made wax figures. I got a cast of a cockatiel. They are really interesting machines.
@apzpins looks like they still make them to order. https://moldville.com/
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@apzpins looks like they still make them to order. https://moldville.com/
@boyago I was actually wondering if they'd be just resurrecting the original 60s machines constantly or if ones with more modern internal design and safeties were made.
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I don't know what rabbit hole sent me to discovered the Mold-A-Rama, but I've ever since been hoping to one day see one IRL. Closest I got to one was in Milwaukee, but we got there late and had to leave early so I didn't have the time to visit the county Zoo to check one out.
In short, it's an injection molding machine, except it's intended as a curiosity rather than a factory machine. They make various toy figurines and you get to watch as it happens as the whole mechanism is under a transparent dome.
@apzpins there are a couple at PHoF. Both are currently down, but when the lot are running, they are a lot of fun.
Iv watched work be done on them. It’s a bucket of hot plastic underneath. The output isn’t 100% perfect, so a box of good moulds is kept around to hand to kids who don’t get a good one.
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@apzpins there are a couple at PHoF. Both are currently down, but when the lot are running, they are a lot of fun.
Iv watched work be done on them. It’s a bucket of hot plastic underneath. The output isn’t 100% perfect, so a box of good moulds is kept around to hand to kids who don’t get a good one.
There are a couple at the Henry Ford museum as well.@Tydence I found a list of active ones back in the days, but never got to check one out. I guess it was a bit like the elusive McDonalds pizza.
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I don't know what rabbit hole sent me to discovered the Mold-A-Rama, but I've ever since been hoping to one day see one IRL. Closest I got to one was in Milwaukee, but we got there late and had to leave early so I didn't have the time to visit the county Zoo to check one out.
In short, it's an injection molding machine, except it's intended as a curiosity rather than a factory machine. They make various toy figurines and you get to watch as it happens as the whole mechanism is under a transparent dome.
@apzpins The pinball hall here in Vegas has a couple of the Disney mold-a-ramas!
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@apzpins there are a couple at PHoF. Both are currently down, but when the lot are running, they are a lot of fun.
Iv watched work be done on them. It’s a bucket of hot plastic underneath. The output isn’t 100% perfect, so a box of good moulds is kept around to hand to kids who don’t get a good one.
There are a couple at the Henry Ford museum as well. -
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