Yes, they're available once again. For $129.00!!!! Oh well, I guess nostalgia isn't cheap. As kids we got one of these from my parents' friends Milt and Wally Waterman. Milt was a Vice-President of a bank in South Holland, Illinois, and while they didn't have kids, they always got us the neatest stuff. Long dead, I think about them every Christmas, more and more in awe of how they always got us the neatest present of the year even though they were rather old even then.
The plastics of the time back then smelled kind of like cheese, at least it did to me. I hope they didn't re-create that!
Your shortcut to the Mister Machine is broken, leaving it rather a mystery machine.
Posted by: The Comedian | 10/31/2005 at 09:27 AM
I fixed the link, sorta. Spilsbury.com is one of those sites that make it difficult to link to the exact page, so I just linked to their front page.
Posted by: Tom McMahon | 11/03/2005 at 06:21 AM
Though this doesn't apply to all database backed websites, you can often strip off most of the query terms from the URL and still wind up with a working link.
For example, I removed "&langId=-1&pageSize=9&beginIndex=0&sType=SimpleSearch&resultType=2" from the original URL created by using the search box on spilsbury.com and I was left with:
http://www.spilsbury.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=30001&storeId=10001&productId=6196
which is a much more compact URL.
I'd never heard of Spilsbury before. It has some pretty neat stuff, including the Christmas Story leg lamp.
Posted by: The Comedian | 11/03/2005 at 07:43 AM