Magic 8 Ball Versions
| Type | Novelty toy |
|---|---|
| Inventor(s) | Albert Carter Abe Bookman |
| Company | Mattel |
| Availability | 1950–present |
| Materials | Plastic Alcohol Blue dye |
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The Magic 8 Ball is a toy used for fortune-telling or seeking advice. It was developed in the 1950s and is manufactured by Mattel. The user asks a yes-or-no question to the large plastic ball, then turns it over to reveal a written answer which appears on the surface of the toy. The Magic 8-Ball is styled after a Billiards ball.[citation needed]
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This is the $25 Giant Magic 8 Ball available from ThinkGeek (although I did happen to see it for cheaper on sites that rhyme with Roys R Rus and Bamazon). It contains the same Magic 8 Ball answers you've used to make all your important life decisions up this point, but is 2.5 times larger for even. The 'Magic Eight Ball' trademark and various 8-Ball answers are used without permission of Mattel Inc. Is in no way affiliated with this web page, or with its proprieter, or with the 8 ball Twitter bot with which we are also associated. The purported magical powers of the Online Magic Eight Ball are in no way meant to imply. Spike's 8-Ball reaches into the future, to find the answers to your questions. It knows what will be, and is willing to share this with you. Just think of a question that can be answered 'Yes' or 'No', concentrate very, very hard, and click on the 'Ask' button. Then let Spike's 8-Ball show you the way!
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- Both the Mattel magic 8 ball and the online 8 ball game by LEGOMENON are really easy to play. With the classic Mattel 8 ball, all you had to was hold the eight ball in your hand and ask your yes or no question out loud or in your head with the 8 facing up. The rules are very similar and equally easy when it comes to the online version of.
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Origin[edit]
An 8-ball was used as a fortune-telling device in the 1940 Three Stooges short, You Nazty Spy!, and called a 'magic ball'.[1][improper synthesis?] While Magic 8 Ball did not exist in its current form until 1950, the functional component was invented by Albert C. Carter, inspired by a spirit writing device used by his mother, Mary, a Cincinnati clairvoyant. When Carter approached store owner Max Levinson about stocking the device, Levinson called in his brother-in-law Abe Bookman, a graduate of Ohio Mechanics Institute. In 1944, Carter filed for a patent[2] for the cylindrical device, assigning it in 1946 to Bookman, Levinson, and another partner in what came to be Alabe Crafts, Inc. (Albert and Abe). Alabe marketed and sold the cylinder as The Syco-Slate. Carter died sometime before the patent was granted in 1948. Bookman made improvements to The Syco-Slate, and in 1948, it was encased in an iridescent crystal ball. Though unsuccessful, the revamped product caught the attention of Chicago's Brunswick Billiards. In 1950 they commissioned Alabe Crafts to make a version in the form of a traditional black-and-white 8-ball.[3]
Design[edit]
The Magic 8 Ball is a hollow plastic sphere resembling an oversized, black-and-white 8-ball. Inside, a cylindrical reservoir contains a white, plastic icosahedron floating in alcohol dyed dark blue. Each of the die's 20 faces has an affirmative, negative, or non-committal statement printed in raised letters. These messages are read through a window on the ball's bottom.
To use the ball, it must be held with the window initially facing down. After 'asking the ball' a yes–no question, the user then turns the ball so that the window faces up, setting in motion the liquid and die inside. When the die floats to the top and one face presses against the window, the raised letters displace the blue liquid to reveal the message as white letters on a blue background. Although most users shake the ball before turning it upright, the instructions warn against doing so to avoid white bubbles, which interfere with the performance of the ball itself.
Possible answers[edit]
The 20 answers inside a standard Magic 8 Ball are:[citation needed]
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Ten of the possible answers are affirmative (●), while five are non-committal (●) and five are negative (●).[citation needed]
In popular culture[edit]
The Magic 8 Ball appeared in the 1995 Disney/Pixar animated film Toy Story, with a reference to the 'Don't count on it' reply by the character Sheriff Woody[citation needed]. A Magic 8 Ball film was under development in 2006 by Universal Pictures with Tom Shadyac attached, but moved to Paramount Pictures by 2010[citation needed]. Neither of the studios produced a film. In June 2019, Mattel Films announced the film was being produced by Blumhouse Productions with director Jeff Wadlow and writers Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach.[4]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Minichiello, Mia (2015). 'The Great Dictator (film)'. Salem Press Encyclopedia. Salem Press.
- ^Coopee, Todd. 'Magic 8 Ball from Alabe Crafts (1946)'. ToyTales.ca.
- ^Walsh, Tim. (2004). The Playmakers: Amazing Origins of Timeless Toys, pp. 94–5. Keys Publishing, Sarasota. ISBN0-9646973-4-3.
- ^McNary, Dave (June 4, 2019). 'Magic 8 Ball Movie in Development at Blumhouse, Mattel'. Variety. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
Magic 8 Ball Answers
Patents[edit]
- U.S. Patent 2,452,730—Liquid Filled Dice Agitator ca. 1944
- U.S. Patent 3,119,621—Liquid filled die agitator containing a die having raised indicia on the facets thereof, 1962
- U.S. Patent 3,168,315—Amusement Device ca. 1961
External links[edit]
- 'The Inscrutable Magic 8 Ball Revealed!'. eBaum's World. Retrieved September 24, 2017.