Replica Zoltar Speaks Fortune Teller Demo (inspired by 1988 film big)

I finally got around to making a video of this little project that I completed in 2008. As a collector of old slot and penny arcade machines from the 30s and 40s, I thought that the original fortune teller appearing in the 1988 film big was the most visually interesting piece I had ever seen. To the best of my knowledge, the original fortune teller existed only as a movie prop, and was never a real production unit, so I built one in my basement shop. It is 8 1, 2 feet tall and comes in at over 600 pounds. This was done entirely by looking at screen captures from the DVD and by guessing at the internal mechanisms and parts that I could not see. It is fully functional and operates just as you see here, including the music and sound effects. br br I wrote a short story about this for the Homebrew feature in MAKE magazine volume 21, available January 19, 2010. I hope to post another video shortly showing a slideshow of the construction process for anyone who may be