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DIY vending machine lets you make your own toy

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Chicago-based product development specialists Squibbles Ink, together with Rotofugi, have refurbished a vintage Mold-a-Rama machine to create a DIY vending machine that lets you make your own toy. 

Called the ‘Roto-a-Matic’, for a token that costs six dollars, the machine lets you make a plastic toy figure. 

The original Mold-a-Rama machine works by injecting molten polyethylene plastic into a mold, and blasting it with air to freeze the plastic into shape.
via DesignTaxi

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