Fischer Price Movie Theater | Vintage Toys

I remember we brought home the Fischer Price Movie Viewer from the US. The "theater" comes with a small screen where you can watch 8mm images stored in a cartridge. It also allows you to project the images. Fischer Price introduced this to the market in 1977. They previously made a viewer in 1973. I don't remember if my parents bought it for me during my first trip to the US with the whole family. It may also have been a gift from one of our relatives in the US. 

I still remember using it and would watch the film on the screen. I would also project it on Daddy's cabinet. I only had one cartridge and that's what I watched over and over. They probably couldn't find additional cartridges here, so I soon got tired of watching the same show.

One issue we encountered though is plugging it. Since it's US made, the plug required 110 volts. Back then we had some outlets at home where you could plug 110 volt appliances. My parents fussed over it. We found the gadget while decluttering my childhood home. The plug was gone. I think they may have tried to use batteries to get it to work. 

You can watch how it works through this video:

Too bad, it probably won't work anymore. I saw there are some being sold on eBay. Not sure what we'll do with it at this point since it's not working. I also thought it was long gone, but Mom apparently kept a lot of my toys. Nowadays, kids can just easily watch a film from a mobile phone/tablet. TVs are also huge nowadays, so no need to project stuff. This was fun to have when I was a child. It probably planted the seeds on why I become interested in tech stuff. 

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Stories from Old Treasures

We finally started to clear my childhood home. It took me months before I could start working on it. To be honest, it did not feel right to open Mom's cabinets and drawers. She had kept the things in our home organized and she always told me not to touch things that aren't yours. I knew though I had to get things going since the items stored in my childhood home are better re-homed. I'd rather give stuff away so it would be useful. 

The process is hard, even more since I can't really do the sorting in person. I got help from Ally Canita. She's the decluttering coach who helped us last year go through and organize our home. I couldn't bring myself to open the cabinets and drawers I know Mom organized. Ally and her team went through each of the rooms for several weeks. I'm now doing the painful process of going through each and every item. 

It's quite therapeutic TBH. I've been coming across toys and items I used to cherish when I still lived in my childhood home. Miggy also found some of his favorite childhood toys. I realized Mom kept our things she thought was important for us. I had thought most of those items are long gone. I even found giveaways from my previous jobs, lol. 

So I thought on Thursdays, I would write stories about my old toys and things. It's been interesting to read up on some of my old toys (now vintage!) and Miggy's toys. Sweetie said some of them have value. Quick look on eBay confirms there's a lot of vintage stuff being sold online. It's just fun for me though to go through the items and reminisce. 

I started this last month on Mom's birthday. I sorted through some of her craft supplies and found 26 pairs of scissors! I'm not surprised she has so many because I'm the same. She believes it's important to have several pairs of scissors in each room of the house since you'll always need one. It's true! In our kitchen we probably have at least 2 used for food and a couple more for opening packages. 

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