What Does Grandma Say?

This creepy animatronic grandma tells your fortune for 25 cents at the Town Hall Museum at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. She's a b@&#h, too... both the fortunes I got were just plain mean.

EDIT: When I went back a few months later, "Grandma" was broken. So here she remains forever on YouTube, preserved in all her creepy, heaving-chest mechanical glory. I highly doubt they make parts for these amusement park automatons such as "Grandma" and "Laughing Sal" anymore, so this may be the last of "Grandma." Sad, yet slightly relieving in a way, even though I'm all for preserving history.

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Entertainment

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• cedar
• point
• grandma
• gypsy
• animatronic
• old
• fortune
• teller
• automaton
• mechanical
• obsolete
• robot

[tuggytuggyboat]

this is a rare look into a machine whose time has come and gone. there is no more than a handful of these original machines still out there that the public can see and play, nearly all are now in the hands of private collectors, working or otherwise. even the junked, non-working models can reach well over $10,000, that is, when you can find them. nearly all the ones you may see nowadays are fakes and reproductions and lack the carnival creepiness of the old ones.

[arfies]

If you ever get out to Cedar Point, check out the Town Hall Museum, where "Grandma" resides, along with a few other (working!) coin-operated machines. Most don't work anymore, but you can still play the hand-cranked Kentucky Derby.

[BigPUTZ]

zideways

[arfies]

I know- I don't know why it did that.

[franfrobbies]

What were the fortunes?