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Time Machine for Sale - Some Work Needed

What do we want?

Time Travel!​

When do we want it?

It doesn't matter!​
 
I love it when people post without reading the thread, so they don't know that the exact joke they're posting was already posted by someone else.
 
Bob Burns, the guy who owned the original movie Time Machine, and biggest sci-fi collector of all, recently passed.
 
alfaniner said:
One of my favorite bits in The Big Bang Theory was when (Leonard, I think) bought what he thought was a tabletop replica of the one from the movie for something like $800. (I can totally see that!) But it turned out to be a full-sized, working replica. (I'd definitely get one, at that price!) By "working" I meant the levers and the big canopy wheel moved. All the guys were there when he tested it the first time, and when he pulled the lever back the others went speeding around the apartment pretending to be in a time-lapse.
(Nit: Leonard pulled the lever back -- it's pushing it forward that makes you go forward in time! Nerds should know that!)
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Not forgetting the Time Machine in the background in Gremlins, where it actually disappears.

Assuming people have seen such an old film, so no spoilers.
 
gabeygoat said:
I remember when we were kids, me and my little brother worked on making a time machine for a few years. This consisted primarily of buying crap tv's and radios at yard sales, disassembling them, and then re-assembling the parts randomly.
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Don't leave us in suspense! Did it work?
 


The Philosophy of Time Travel scene from Donnie Darko movie (2001 version).

"Well, if god controls time then all time is pre-decided."

Killer soundtrack made me so emo.

References: Einstein-Rosen bridge, Stephen Hawking book with an introduction by Carl Sagan, DeLorean in Back to the Future, et al.
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As a writer, what I love about time travel is it's a fictional concept. We saw it in Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and then H.G. Wells' Time Machine...And then some theoretical physicist says these stories are dumb, and then other theoretical physicists say, "Not so fast", and we get Relativity thrown around, and everything is a glorious mess.
 
Trebuchet said:
I have a TARDIS. Just can't seem to get it working so I stow yard tools in it.
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Mrs Tachyon has the shopping trolley that was in the novel and on screen... Johnny And The Bomb by Terry Pratchett.

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One time I tried to think of all the time machines/time traveling devices I've come across in movies and TV. Some are just the means of transportation, some are actual devices made for the purpose. There are quite a few (not in order):

Of course, the classic one from the 1960 Rod Taylor movie and the remake
The Time Tunnel (1966 TV)
A coin (Somewhere in Time)
A hot tub (from the movie of the same name)
A motorcycle (A Fred Ward? movie I forget the name of)
A DeLorean
A phone booth (Bill & Ted)
The Guardian of Forever and The Enterprise/The Sun
The Tardis
A spaceship (Planet of the Apes and TV's It's About Time comedy)
An airplane (Millennium)
A containment unit (Source Code)
A ship (The Final Countdown -- although it wasn't the actual instigator, just a mode of travel)

There are several other lower-budget ones I may remember (or not), or that I'm not aware of.
 
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