Trying to figure out what this thing was callled

[mrblotto]

Hey all,

Waaaaaaay back...I'd say about 1988 or 1989 perhaps....I was at our local mall (back when it was a couple years old and actually full of stores lol) and wandered into the Spencers Gifts there. It was one of my favorite stores back then. All sorts of wacky stuff from rubber chickens to black lights and rubber halloween masks and gag gifts.

Anyhow, I saw a pretty interesting (at the time) product there. It was some sort of device that would take music and make cool designs on whatever surface you pointed the thing at. It made red, yellow, and maybe green lights. I dont wanna call them 'lasers' but that's kinda what they looked like, even though they weren't. At any rate, I bought it and messed with it for a while. A few years later it disappeared though

Info:
-About the size of an old-timey tape recorder (11 X 6'ish inches). Maybe 3 inches thick
-black plastic exterior
-had a 'tilt' adjuster - nothing more than a hinged piece of plastic that fit onto the back of the device freely
-Had an RCA plug on the side where you plugged in the audio source (stereo, tape, radio, amp, etc)
-The thing would get a little hot after a while. Maybe that's why its not around anymore
-Some 'special' bulb had to be ordered if it needed to be replaced.
-on the front/top there was a clear plastic window maybe 2 inches X 5 inches, and inside there you could see a round mirror that looked to be loosely attached to something, and would vibrate to the beat of the music, reflecting the wacky colors all over whatever it was pointed at.

I was trying to figure out what the hell that thing was called as it was pretty cool back then lol. I've looked around on Google for vintage/80's spencer gifts catalogs to no avail.

Attached is the requisite MS Paint drawing lol

 

[zinfamous]

I would try scouring the headshops. My assumption is that it was simply a CD player with a rudimentary laser display--I doubt it was trying to sync to the music...but who cares when you are stoned off your gourd?

I miss Spencer's Gifts.

 

[stormkroe]

I remember walking in one when I was a kid, I saw a display of poor man's birth control devices. It was a guillotine with a wang sized hole in it, my mom wasn't impressed when I asked her what it was.
Ahh, the grief only a child can give their parent

Edit: OP, here it is, all grown up. http://m.spencersonline.com/products/ss-3d-laser-party-light

 

[rudeguy]

I remember walking in one when I was a kid, I saw a display of poor man's birth control devices. It was a guillotine with a wang sized hole in it, my mom wasn't impressed when I asked her what it was.
Ahh, the grief only a child can give their parent

Edit: OP, here it is, all grown up. http://m.spencersonline.com/products/ss-3d-laser-party-light

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[Iron Woode]

Untz Untz Untz Untz untz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ime1P9mA-ZQ

:awe:

 

[Printer Bandit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSytc2l9WgI

 

[VirtualLarry]

I remember walking in one when I was a kid, I saw a display of poor man's birth control devices. It was a guillotine with a wang sized hole in it, my mom wasn't impressed when I asked her what it was.
Ahh, the grief only a child can give their parent

Wasn't that... for cigars?