I would love a Cartoon Booth in my Arcade

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I really would. If you have one in your garage or arcade, post a pic. Here's one on CL in my area, love the cedar roof shakes:

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At the risk of sounding ignorant yet again, does the booth simply play cartoons? Do you pick what you watch or does it just play a loop?
 
I remember those exact booths - they had them at the mall when I was a kid.

As I recall it used some kind of projection to show the cartoons - it was not a TV monitor.

Not sure how many cartoons it showed but I think you only got one film for a quarter so you had to put several quarters to see all of them (maybe there were 3 I think).

Hard to imagine something like that being on location today.
 
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I think they ran a Standard or Super 8 sound film loop cartridge. I hate to say this but porn shops used to use something similar.

As a kid, It always seemed like a special treat that a movie was running "just for you". Some of us were actually born before VCRs (& DVRs) were in every home.
 
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I also remember a smaller version of these being around. They were still sit down environmental cabinets.

Those might be more practical than the bigger sized machines.

I guess you could buy a bunch of 8mm films off ebay and swap them out in one of these so you could literally play hundreds of movies in this set up. I'd assume the projector was controlled by some kind of timer, and it was just regular 8mm film in there. I guess another option is to get an old 8mm camera and make your own home movies to play in it - presumably of yourself playing arcade games or some kind of home movie starring your family.

I remember some lucky kids in the neighborhood having 8mm cameras and every once in while we would make a movie starring ourselves. Usually they were war movies or something that involved a shootout or a horror movie theme. Would be kind of cool to see those movies again. I never had my own camera and projector, though. My dad was too cheap to buy stuff like that.
 
I really would. If you have one in your garage or arcade, post a pic. Here's one on CL in my area, love the cedar roof shakes:

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So what is stopping you Phet? :) I remember those things too from BITD. I e-mailed that guy to about that. I love the thought of one, but I am not sure about the practicality part. They take up a lot of space. I never found out what he wanted for them, just that they did have the projectors and stuff.
 
though proably not a hard build for something new and custom.
maybe a cabret version :D

then mod them to play good cartoons.
Like WB instead of the terry toon and universal wannabes
 
though proably not a hard build for something new and custom.
maybe a cabret version :D

then mod them to play good cartoons.
Like WB instead of the terry toon and universal wannabes

Agreed. Smaller footprint, custom artwork, comfy seat. Then stick a nice LCD/DVD combo in them. My son would love a Herculoids, Space Ghost or Godzilla themed one.
 
I haven't seen one of those in ages. To be honest, I think I had erased them from my memory. Until your post, I had forgotten about them completely.
 
Agreed. Smaller footprint, custom artwork, comfy seat. Then stick a nice LCD/DVD combo in them. My son would love a Herculoids, Space Ghost or Godzilla themed one.

Woah!, you just unlocked some childhood memories in my brain! Thanks!

I would think from a nostalgia perspective you would want the film, otherwise it just looses what it was. Actually, you really need a you own late 70's early 80's mall to properly experience the nostalgia. I hear those are pretty cheap these days. :D
 
I remember those....funny to think how cool they were back then. I also remember a even cheesier version of that. It had a fiberglass cartoon figure, and a telephone reciever built into it. You would insert a quarter, and then pick up the telephone and you would hear a story or nursery rhyme.
 
I forget the details, but the words Fairfield come to mind. There was a loop cartridge based system that was probably Super 8 sound, but might have been Standard 8. There was two types of Super 8 sound, the most popular being magnetic but I have an optical sound film and projector as well. The other "Problem" with this is that *most* duplicated Super 8 cartoons in color were on Estar based film. This film fades and turns red about 95% of the time. Super 8 Technicolor or Fujicolor was extremely RARE and the use of Kodachrome (or Ektachrome) wasn't common in duplication. So there might be some challenge in finding good content. I know the 5 or 6 color Super 8 films I still have, have faded colors.
 
At my local Sears in Florence, AL, when I was a kid - there was one against the wall right when you came in. It was the entrance for the catalog/garden center/tools side. The cabinet was red and played the Terry Toons stuff..Heckel and Jeckel, Woody Woodpecker, etc..
 
I had one, and still have the mini version. Got a couple from either Dek or bclark. Booths are tinier and I could barely fit in it. They had a projector that would reflect off a couple of mirrors. I still have parts and marquees for the larger version somewhere.

Funny, this topic comes up quite often.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=219935&highlight=cartoon+booth

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=189935&highlight=cartoon+booth

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=163882&highlight=cartoon+booth

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=73531&highlight=cartoon+booth

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=42948&highlight=cartoon+booth
 
I had one, and still have the mini version. Got a couple from either Dek or bclark. Booths are tinier and I could barely fit in it. They had a projector that would reflect off a couple of mirrors. I still have parts and marquees for the larger version somewhere.

Funny, this topic comes up quite often.

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=219935&highlight=cartoon+booth

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=189935&highlight=cartoon+booth

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=163882&highlight=cartoon+booth

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=73531&highlight=cartoon+booth

http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?t=42948&highlight=cartoon+booth


Yeah I know it has, but every time I attempt to bump an older thread to add relevant info, it tends to get ignored. I hope you don't hate me now.
 
Yeah I know it has, but every time I attempt to bump an older thread to add relevant info, it tends to get ignored. I hope you don't hate me now.

Nothin but man love for you Phetish. I was stoaked on my booths when I got em. Traded one for a jukebox and 3 games.

It was to small for me, took up to much space, and couldnt get that fuggin projector to work. On my smaller one, Im going to put a flatscreen in for pr0n.
 
Nothin but man love for you Phetish. I was stoaked on my booths when I got em. Traded one for a jukebox and 3 games.

It was to small for me, took up to much space, and couldnt get that fuggin projector to work. On my smaller one, Im going to put a flatscreen in for pr0n.

Make it a 2-seater and I'm there.
 
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