{"id":5675,"date":"2005-04-02T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/02\/5675\/"},"modified":"2005-04-02T09:49:11","modified_gmt":"2005-04-02T17:49:11","slug":"mr-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5675","title":{"rendered":"Mr Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was surfing randomly while watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0006GQMY6\/ghosthouse01-20?dev-t=D23PLTC2ZRJPCJ%26camp=2025%26link_code=xm2\">The Jayne Mansfield Story<\/a>&#8211;  which I hadn&#8217;t realized had <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0000756\/\">Loni Anderson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/name\/nm0000216\/\">The Governator<\/a> in it.  Bizarre.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>At any rate, I saw this toy I used to have, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.octanecreative.com\/boomerbaby\/toys\/aisle2.html\">Mr Machine<\/a>,&#8221; made by Ideal.  It was a wind-up plastic clockwork man.  You could wind him up, and he&#8217;d whistle and wheel around.  When I owned Mr Machine, I used to wonder how he worked&#8230;  you could see his gears inside.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>But today I found out just now that he was the lamer, &#8220;safer&#8221; version of a even cooler version of Mr  Machine- the earlier version you could take apart!  He came with directions and was over 160 pieces.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>I am so jealous.  Some of these memories online are pretty funny though- recollections of taking him apart and not being able to put him back together again.  I don&#8217;t think that would have been me- I had almost every &#8220;Zoid&#8221; ever made up through the early 1990s, and we kept them in pieces in a giant bin, ready to be reassembled.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Oh crap, looks like once again, <b>I can buy things to overcompensate<\/b>, this time a reproduction from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotisland.com\">Robot Island<\/a>.  A mere $89.  Yikes.  Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/bedazzled.blogs.com\/bedazzled\/2005\/02\/mr_machine_tv_c.html\">here&#8217;s the commercial<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>Someday we will figure out how to efficiently generate energy from plastic.  And then people who live on landfills will be RICH!<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was surfing randomly while watching The Jayne Mansfield Story&#8211; which I hadn&#8217;t realized had Loni Anderson and The Governator in it. Bizarre. At any rate, I saw this toy I used to have, &#8220;Mr Machine,&#8221; made by Ideal. It was a wind-up plastic clockwork man. You could wind him up, and he&#8217;d whistle and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-looky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}