Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for May 26, 2024

Unless it’s animated, that could be done with a completely mundane wheel.

It’s definitely MORE awesome now.

A sword but no chest armor.

I am so old.

Viewmaster doesn’t need enhancing.

I loved View-Master. It got me into 3-D photography.

Great visual strip today!

I had one of those when I was about eight, and I’m easily old enough to be Phoebe’s grandfather. How old is her dad?

View Masters are magical devices

Phoebe and Her Unicorn View-Master reels? I see another merchandising opportunity.

Walnut Ridge, Arkansas is celebrating their sesquicentennial with ‘then and now’ tours using View-Master reels made from historical photographs of local landmarks. As the president of the local historical society puts it, “The idea was for people to look at our current buildings, and then the tour guide would say to raise the View-Master to their eyes and press the lever, and they’d be seeing what was on that same spot a century or more ago.” (From The Wall Street Journal)

The U-Master would make a fortune.

The View Master at Grandma’s house came with a box of National Geographic disks.

I remember having a Viewmaster as a child. We nicknamed it “Lenny” after the Toy Story binoculars.

My dad still has an old school one from the 70s with tons of photo reels. I loved playing with it as a kid.

I had a Viewmaster once and it was neat, but before that I had something I liked much more. It was a small handheld projector type thing that took film cartridges, you could look into the eyepiece and turn a crank to watch entire cartoons (albeit without sound). Too bad they didn’t combine the two concepts and make a 3D version, that would have been amazing.

Fun trivia, Viewmaster was originally marketed to adults for things like vacation and tourism photos (and other more mature categories). The first units were made of bakelite and were very high quality looking similar to camera equipment compared to the later plastic toys.

Enchantment must be taken and defended by the sword.

It seems to me she needs to grow into that dress a bit.

ethan is going blonde?

I never had one of those (I’m 42)… but I still have my old Tomytronic 3-d somewhere in one of my cupboards… (it’s the shark one)

Sorry dad. But it wasen’t.

YAY!!!

I’m surprised Marigold would agree to dye her mane. That seems like agreeing that she can be improved.