Zoltar Speaks Fortune Teller Demo (inspired by 1988 film BIG (Tom Hanks)

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