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Vending machines aren't usually this aggressive, but they are very difficult to resist anyway. This is the penultimate of 20 drawings commissioned by a guy on the west coast for is fanzine.
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It's been tried. For a while in the late 80's vending machines talked to the customer! It only lasted months or perhaps a year before it was obvious that customers hated the machines talking to them! I suppose it wasn't so much the talking as the chirpiness of it. When the subway car says, "Mxyzptlk Street, next stop," nobody minds. But it's different when you push a button for the 3rd floor and the elevator says, "good morning" or "have a nice day," when you get out. One is useful information, the other is just a stupid game of pretending a machine is alive. I think that's where the talking Coke machines went wrong.
1: I'm reminded of the 7-up commercial with the vending machines on tank treads that were built by the mythbusters crew. At least these don't seem to be able to fire the products like cannonballs at the target.
2: I'm reminded of Futurama when the Slurm machine was attacking the crew and said "I'VE GOT A BIG, BIG THIRST FOR HUMAN BLOOD!"
3: the Cigarette machine reminds me of Futurama's "ULTIMATE ROBOT WRESTLING"; "INTRODUCING... THE CHAAAAIN SMOKERRRR!" "I'm coming to YOUR KIDS' HIGH SCHOOL!"
None of these make this picture any less awesome.
I do like how one of them has four legs. And isn't wearing shoes.
2: I'm reminded of Futurama when the Slurm machine was attacking the crew and said "I'VE GOT A BIG, BIG THIRST FOR HUMAN BLOOD!"
3: the Cigarette machine reminds me of Futurama's "ULTIMATE ROBOT WRESTLING"; "INTRODUCING... THE CHAAAAIN SMOKERRRR!" "I'm coming to YOUR KIDS' HIGH SCHOOL!"
None of these make this picture any less awesome.
I do like how one of them has four legs. And isn't wearing shoes.
Oh my! I couldn't help but be reminded of an episode of "The Jetsons" where George and Jane ended up in Las Vegas and a robot Roulette table and slot machine stormed their room, demanding to be played. (I kinda like the "Helicopter" condom machine as a humorous touch. I could imagine the thing flitting through the halls of the local Hotel or High School, saying, "Do you need Protection...?" It would be as annoying as those Back Street Boys cupids in "Night at the Museum 2."
relatives no doubt to the Nutrimatic Machine*...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhike.....uide/tea.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/hitchhike.....uide/tea.shtml
Took my frustrations on those things a few times as well when it eats my coins and bills without anything in exchange.
A few times, the item I did purchase manage to give another item below it a noticable nudge during its drop to the incoming vent below enough for me to get two treats for the price of one.
Things even out eventually, I guess.
A few times, the item I did purchase manage to give another item below it a noticable nudge during its drop to the incoming vent below enough for me to get two treats for the price of one.
Things even out eventually, I guess.
A vending machine in one of the offices I sometimes work in has a peculiar habit...One of the selections will vend two cans of soda when selected. You'll retrieve the first can and turn away, hear a clunk and turn around, and another can falls into the pocket. As far as I know, it may still be like that.
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