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I couldn’t resist a bit of classic vending from the “Frigid Fruit Company”, they knew how to name stuff in olden times e.g. The Fifties. This is a very early machine that vended apples. Much like today apart from all almost every detail. Now all we get is Coke, Beer, Pizza, Candy Floss, Used Underwear, Shoes, Cars, Films, Money, etc. One can only imagine what life would be like if we carried on with this sort of system. For one thing we wouldn’t have to listen to bloody Jamie Oliver whine on about how kids are all too fat because of EVIL VENDING MACHINES!
Oh and if you didn’t get the caption to the first image you might want to have a leaf through Genesis at some point. Oh, and the bible is a work of fiction and any similarity to any persons living or dead and events is purely coincidental.
I’m going to assume this is Japanese. It is too late for me to be arsed to check.
I must say, the Japanese seem to have a vendetta against jobs students because every one they make removes a job options for us. This one removes the need for a bartender. No longer a friendly face pulling your pint but a cold hard machine dispensing you luke warm bottles of beer for your hard earned…Yen. I may try to make this a weekly feature (I won’t) called “Machines That Stole our Student Jobs….on a Monday” I may even make a logo and a jingle.
PS. Japan, the day you make a Poundland vending machine there will be trouble.
These were my favourite things as a kid. This may go some way to explaining my current admittedly bulky stature. These and pocket money + ASDA. I do think there is a small charm to the old clunky coin machines. The satisfying clunk, the suspense in waiting to see if it worked or not and the rush of getting a handful of sweets. They seem to be so common that in most towns there will be a long forgotten one stuck to a wall filled with sweets that have most likely gone sentient.
I am getting increasingly worried about the future of the humble shop assistant. While hunting down interesting vending machines I am always concerned about the sheer number of vending machine shops. You don’t have to pay a vending machine. I don’t want to loose my job to a clockwork toy dispenser. However, they are severly more photogenic than I am and also more efficient at serving people, I cannot go a day without dropping something or accidentally insulting somebody. Its just my way.
On a side note, a big thanks to all my new followers.
Lego vending machines FTW. I don’t think the world has enough Lego vending machines. Made from Lego, vending Lego or just Lego models. If I knew where a Lego vender was near me I would never ever have wages and more Lego than I knew what to do with. I would end up building a massive skyscraper or possibly another lego vending machine.
It may not be immediately obvious to you but this is a vending machine of dry ice or solid carbon dioxide. Only in Japan, who I am sure we will be seeing more from quite soon.
iPods are revolutions…now you get them from vending machines. Thus proving the world is finally getting rid of all human shop assistants. A worrying thought, when will we have the first poundland vending machine?!
Football, us Brits are not good at it as the 4-1 defeat proves. So Im not entirely sure this vender will go down well on our island. I see the novelty value though and it has a nice looking column mechanism and a nifty LCD screen. It also is notable for a vending machine with a literally endless number of ball jokes.
I came up with a clever system to get images of interesting vending machine by tracking sites down via IRC and asking permission from copyright proprietors for the use of their image. The I thought “Fuck that” and put other words before the word vending machine into google image search. This is from cotton candy vending machines.
There were 2 images of this particular vender. This one made me look less like a pedo. It also made me feel sad as I do not know anywhere with this kind of vending machine. I really want some candy floss now. All this from my third vender.
There are many things I think could benefit from being dispensed from the cold, Judge-less steel of a vending machine…Hardcore Pornography for an example, Condoms are another shining example of vending brilliance. However, Pizza I want made by a cheerful yet pissed Italian gentleman and delivered by his cheerful, friendly and a tad empty inside wife. Or at best made by a bored teenager and delivered by a bored teenager who is fully dead inside. It is the joy of Pizza. I must say, the pizza vender is defiantly taking pride of place as my second vender
