Mini 1:6 Scale Woodgrain Cigarette Vending Machine

[@DonariaRegia]

Restaurants and bars often had these near the entrance, out of sight from employees. Kids would get their start using those machines. It's a great addition to the arcade, it really was a part of the era.

[@kurohone]

I could not only smell this video, but could actually feel the texture of that thin orange-brown patterned carpet every motel had.

[@TheBathrobeWizard]

Get out of my head, Professor Xavier

[@nickwort123]

My favorite local dive bar still has one of these up and running in the back!

[@LGRBlerbs]

Dang! Still vending out actual packs?

[@Dextrovix-42]

@@LGRBlerbs Apparently cigarettes can be sold in vending machines provided minors do not have access to them. I was surprised to hear that but it seems bars that only have patrons of age 18+ can still have them on the premises.

[@valcouren]

I was going to say a similar thing. Various dive bars, usually in "depressed" areas, still have various models that do still vend packs. I have also seen packs and pouches of loose tobacco in the more common screw type vending machines.

[@mikeey6804]

@@LGRBlerbs There's divebars here in the South that still have them. "You can't just go around vending cigarettes anymore" is MOSTLY true. Cigarette Vending machines are illegal with the *exception* of facilities that restrict entry to minors, for example, a bar or strip club.

[@herbiehusker1889]

I always wondered how these things existed. I used to see them in restaurants and such, but how was it supposed to check your ID?

[@flight_simmer]

My vote is either for Duke chomping on a cigar or the cool crab to replace the main artwork.

[@wizard-pirate]

Cool crab hacking a dart would make cool crab cooler.

[@jasonludewig4126]

"Kool Krab"

[@IsaacMyers1]

the can is replaced with a cig

[@Lost_n_Found_1]

​@@IsaacMyers1 They're whole packs, youngin', lol

[@samuelmeasa9283]

I'd go for the classic Marbaro Man/Cowboy with a Duke 3D print beside it.

[@DaliwolfBacon]

I was born in 1968, and I grew up seeing these vending machines EVERYWHERE! This replica is EXACTLY spot on! The detail is amazing on this!

[@0_1_2]

Okay so go and buy it consumer boy!

[@Autistic_Pixel]

These were in Waffle Houses and pool halls till the state passed the no smoking indoors law when I was an early teen or preteen. I can't remember how old I was. They tried repurposing these to dispense other items but after a year they disappeared totally.

[@odius94]

@@Autistic_Pixel by the door in every Denny's in southern California

[@psychorabbitt]

Even as someone who has never smoked cigarettes at any point, I always thought those old vending machines looked so cool. A Dunkin Donuts in the city where I grew up had one up until the mid 90s, long after every other place got rid of them.

[@performa476]

One of my first jobs was driving routes and refilling these machines. This was back in the 70s and 80s. The replica is a bullseye. Thanks for kicking up some old memories. Yer simply the best.

[@doctorbarber1]

I remember going to this restaurant when I was a little kid that had a cigarette vending machine by the door. Kind of crazy to think that used to be a thing. e: like Clint I'm a non-smoker. In fact I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, but my dad and a lot of his family did. I've always liked the logos and iconography associated with Marlboro, Winston, Camel, etc. Especially growing up in the south with it all over the place in NASCAR.

[@AgentWaltonSimons]

That thing is begging for an Cool Crab in the backdrop art with the "COOL cigarettes" wording on it...

[@LGRBlerbs]

Oh that’s gotta happen now

[@JFD62780]

@@LGRBlerbs Ladies and Gentlemen, the next Joe Camel!

[@W4iteFlame]

Cool Crab will be COOL indeed

[@Anomyzer24]

I want cool crab cigarette

[@DrakeNS42]

Lol, that's great. I don't smoke either but as a fellow child of the 80's there is something nostalgic about that machine.

[@ShoelessJP]

Mini vending machines are 100% a niche I'm interested in, even as someone who doesn't smoke. Great video.

[@0_1_2]

You don’t smoke? I highly suggest that you begin. You’ll find that people will respect you a lot more than they currently do.

[@Al_Lergic]

@@0_1_2 I only smoke when I drink. So about 4 days in a month.

[@BADeByrd]

Back in 1993 in my 3rd grade class we were going on a field trip to Seattle to see the science museum. We had to take the ferry and during that trip the ferry still had that exact vending machine on the main deck. My friend who had a nack for trouble actually bought a pack from that machine and we tried to smoke but no one had a lighter and the match stick vending was empty.

[@rich1051414]

Ah yes, Sucky Trike cigarettes. That one genuinely made me laugh.

[@bewilderbeestie]

I had one when I was about five!

[@moloch5801]

That made it a 10/10 for me.

[@CraigLillie]

This screams for an LGR logo insert! On Wood-grain backing of course!

[@LGRBlerbs]

Ooh maybe a faux LGR cigarette brand on one of the selectors. Lazy Gold Reserve, for a premium laid back smoke.

[@CybershamanX]

​​@@LGRBlerbs"For that sophisticated relaxingly rich taste..."

[@volvo09]

​@@LGRBlerbs haha, that's a good idea!

[@dalehadley3283]

​@@LGRBlerbs I love that idea!

[@da_tective_clumbo]

i would smoke so many of those

[@MCCENTx2]

This is how I bought Cigs when I was 17. The restaurant I worked in had one of these.

[@005AGIMA]

Ah the days when my parents would take me out shopping, and then we'd go to the cafe in the local sports centre, and the air would be thick with smoke, and the "no smoking section" would be one table. Those were the days.

[@TeskoLove]

My favorite (/s) was when you had to walk through the smoking section to get to the non-smoking tables.

[@andrewdriver3318]

That's a thing that its hard to get younger people to understand, how prevalent smoking was. Dairy queen had ashtrays. I remember my pediatrician taking my blood pressure while smoking, lol.

[@twilliamc3]

This speaks to my 80s brain. I look forward to your inevitable journey to locate 1:6 scale pool tables, couches, etc for this model arcade. Hope your recovery is going well. You got this!

[@JohnLimeson]

Still making great content despite the hardships. You're an inspiration to us all Clint.

[@endsleighplace]

As a 16-year-old, I got to visit California on a language program. Of course, being the nineties, we smoked-it was actually legal in my Scandinavian neck of the woods for some reason. Getting cigarettes proved to be a challenge, though, until we discovered cigarette machines. Those machines didn’t card anybody!

[@TastyBusiness]

Wow, that's a throwback. I remember seeing one of these repurposed into a little art dispenser. Nice to see a unique design preserved, but separated from it's original purpose

[@JAbell1966]

New Wave offered the Art-O-Mat converted version as well

[@orincat10]

they need to do miniature commercial washers and dryers now

[@LGRBlerbs]

I’d honestly welcome that

[@PilkScientist]

The mini laundromat next to the mini arcade in the mini strip mall...

[@DarthTella]

@@PilkScientist with the mini strip club....

[@MikePhalin]

7:29 Clint, I had the same problem with one of their arcade machines. I backed the Dragon's Lair kickstarter and when I got my cabinet it had multiple black paint flakes under the screen. Oh, and the game had several video issues. Kinda worrying considering the price tag on these things.

[@eddiehimself]

We went to Germany to visit my sister last month and it's a bit of a culture shock seeing cigarette machines again lol.

[@benn454]

Europeans still smoke so much.

[@NiallWardrop]

A bonus for school trips from the UK in the 80s was that those were one of the vending machines which would accept UK 5 pence coins in place of the intended 1 Deutsche Mark which was worth rather more. Another notable one was condom machines.

[@RowdyProwdy]

I shamelessly just binge watched your videos 😂! Consider me the newest fan of your channel, from Georgia! You have a great voice, too. I find your videos relaxing and entertaining! Thanks!!

[@LGRBlerbs]

Happy to hear it, thank you! Hope you continue to enjoy 😁

[@CybershamanX]

Love the variants of the actual brand names. 😜

[@LGRBlerbs]

Sucky Trike!

[@CybershamanX]

​@LGRBlerbs I know, right? 🤪🤣

[@volvo09]

Those are awesome! So close to the original that I forgot cool was spelled with a K

[@CybershamanX]

@@volvo09 Same here! 🤪

[@Ivafakename]

Can't wait to see the LGR themed cigarette machine, and of course the LGR cigarettes to go with it, possibly the healthiest youtuber merch available

[@princecharmander]

Duke's as a cigarette brand would look pretty great in there. 😅 "They're as smooth as a baby" in the Duke voice.

[@GoblinBoi666]

That scratch makes it feel real

[@AndrewAlex92]

In a small town in NY that I grew up in, the local volunteer fire department engine company even had one of these inside. I distinctly remember getting my dad packs out of them because he knew I liked pulling the levers.

[@burn0u71]

Now THAT is cool. i remember growing up and seeing those cig vending machines too. very nice find indeed

[@davidinark]

Being a GenXer born in '69, this brings back so many memories of going to the bowling alley with my dad and grandfather as a kid in the 70's and 80's. Too bad it doesn't actually vend like the Coke machine.

[@irkalla100]

I grew up seeing these too! 80s kid here. My first pack was from one of these! Glad to say that's a habit I left behind. This is so cool!!

[@harrkev]

Now you need cigarette burn marks on the mini game cabinets. That is the height of realism.

[@LGRBlerbs]

They actually make special editions of some of their machines with a pre-worn look, with various burns, stains, marks, stuck chewing gum etc

[@SchardtCinematic]

I've never smoked. But took in plenty of second hand smoke as a little kid in the 70's growing up. These machines are so classic I used to pull on the knobs as a kid too.

[@univon4892]

Awwh, how amazing!!

[@SchardtCinematic]

@univon4892 nothing like hearing your Dad and Mom say the non smoking section in a restraunt and still smelling the smoke coming over from the smoking section. Lol

[@univon4892]

@@SchardtCinematic Ohh haha!!

[@proteque]

Everything scaled down hits my "I need this"-buttons.

[@RandomAssaultPodcast]

it's funny, I don't smoke and I hate the smell of cigarettes, but I've always loved seeing these machines lol

[@0_1_2]

I highly suggest that you start smoking

[@microbuilder]

Ah yes, all the old brands I so vividly remember lol Cool, Wonstin, CAMAL, Vargini Slims, Sucky Trike...

[@Fritz1ern]

Good 2 see ya back at it, Clint.. My heart went out to u and all affected by that fierce storm.. Season greetings from Norway!

[@BSKustomz]

The scratches are period correct It's also not entirely accurate unless the one corner is broken out and has like a bunch of duct tape or electrical tape holding it together

[@Robbie-mw5uu]

this is some intense cope to justify receiving a damaged $80 product

[@BSKustomz]

@Robbie-mw5uu This is some intense trigger to justify ragging on a joke that these were always beat to shit in real life

[@ericn.wilson2345]

As far as cleaning the inside glass goes, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have a pack of pipe cleaners handy for this type of contingency. Even the crafty ones that will never touch a pipe would be perfect.

[@piotr78]

​@@Robbie-mw5uuThe commenter didn't even buy the product..

[@arlandi]

Great to see you back, Clint! If that thing uses a tiny screen and can display a slide show or video from sd card, that would be cool. Imagine that thing displaying old cigarette ads. But probably will cost more than 100 buck.

[@chrismcovell]

They really need one of those late-70s/early-80s drink dispenser vending machines that drop down a paper cup then fill it with hot chocolate / coffee, etc.

[@acomingextinction]

i feel very, very understood by the offerings of New Wave Toys.

[@onidraky]

This brought back memories! My whole family is big into bowling and it brought back memories of seeing one of these every week at the bowling alley. I always used to play with the plungers as a kid, and have also never smoked, haha.

[@JettBlast]

I miss the motion clocks for various Beer and Soda companies. They were art and advertising usually having various lights a motor to make the pattern or light to change to get people to really notice them. Very nostalgic stuff you post. I enjoy your hobby.

[@JeSuisUnePatate]

It's good to see you Blerbing again.

[@revrenlove]

Cutest little death sticks! LOL😂

[@matthewpalmer7184]

Honestly, the scratches add character to it, it's accurate to them!

[@myownirvana]

This brings back memories. I was born in 77 and funny enough I remember one of these at the local Ukrops grocery store in Ashland, VA. It's funny because Ukrops were religious so they didn't sell alcohol and were closed on Sundays, but they had one of these up front in the early 80s. haha

[@404MULTIFAIL]

"Sucky Trike" is easily the best fake brand on that machine, 10/10

[@TitanSix]

The bar my dad ran used to have one of these next to a couple of old-school candy machines, back when you could actually use a handful of change to buy a pack of cigarettes. I think my dad bought one or two packs from it to show me how it worked. I don’t touch cigarettes, but seeing this brings me back to being a 5-year-old, hanging out at the bar where my dad worked.

[@fungalcoffee]

Very cool, for better or worse these were a thing before my time but im always a fan of vending machines, old things and sacle props

[@ankimotto]

the scratch definitely add to the autenticity of the vintage feel of it

[@MrButtonpresser]

I remember these from the 70s in Australia. Pubs and clubs would always have them, usually right by the toilets. You would pay in full dollars and if there was any change it was taped directly to the cigarette box. Great for us kids at the time. Mind you, your local shop keeper would sell cigarettes to anyone with money.

[@Imberis]

Wow, I haven't thought about cigarette vending machines in SO long. They were everywhere. "Vargini Slims" made me laugh.

[@WildkatPhoto]

Im old enough to have been around these "live". They absolutely nailed it.

[@andrewh7085]

Whenever someone shows a video of these model arcade machines I honestly didn't get the appeal. Seeing this though hits me right in the memory hole. I remember using these in my early years and always forgetting that they only came in soft packs. All of these memories that I totally forgot are flooding back.

[@Fortuna1]

Wow, is very realistic the form and the effect with lights, the props made more effect or retro and classic

[@The_Magic_of_Zelda]

I love these mini vending machines.

[@SmoothEmJay]

That scratch would annoy the hell out of me, forever.

[@benn454]

It's honestly historically accurate. These machines were never exactly pristine back in the day.

[@NiallWardrop]

@@benn454 Many showed the consequences of failing to vend correctly for a drunk customer desperate for a smoke.

[@Robbie-mw5uu]

it doesnt matter if the actual machines were scratched, Im not paying $80 for a damaged model

[@benn454]

@@Robbie-mw5uu Then don't.

[@landark1967]

From my memories of these things in the entrances to every sit down restaurant in the country in the 80s, the scratches add more realism to it. If anything, it needs a lot more. And the glass needs to be absolutely filthy.

[@Th3James]

As a Canadian former smoker I'd love a full size vending machine some day with replica packs I can load modern cigarettes in. I'd take up smoking again just from the coolness factor alone. This looks awesome. I WANT ONE :D Edit: Modern Canadian smokes have garbage packaging with warnings and dead lungs. These machines and visiting cousins in Murica always blew my mind seeing these in small town Ohio in the early 2000s

[@DulgannForgeflamesGameArchives]

This video had already more than earned my like (as virtually every LGR video quickly does), and then I saw the Lucky Strike logo reworked into "Sucky Trike." Now I really wish I could like videos more than once.

[@dotcom624]

Very ‘Cool’ video. I remember these machines from Perkins back in the day. Always wanted to get some at 12 years old. No smokers in the family, just looked neat. Can see why marketing changed and they don’t exist anymore. They were near the prize “well” that I tried to get as many different items from as possible. Always hoped for a fresh fill. Remember always ordering the “Little Shaver”. Speaking of ‘Cool’s, my German teacher in 10/11 grade back in 1996-98 used to tell us how he smoked Cools for a week in 10th grade. Also how he used to keep a bottle of Schnapps in his desk drawer back when you could. Really great teacher. 😢

[@dotcom624]

Also remember when checking in to restaurants requesting “2 for non” or whatever to request the non-smoking section (that would be 5 ft away from the smoking section, lol).

[@pigfish99]

I could honestly see a LGR logo with the cool crab on the beach being the display on this.

[@CyberCreeper22]

ngl the scratches work with the vibe

[@benn454]

Yeah, those machines didn't stay undamaged for long.

[@mgratk]

Memories! I used to buy cigarettes for my grandpa out of those machines, not a lot of times, but I remember the machines were cool. He had black lung from working as a breaker boy, smoked all his life, and it wasn't what killed him, so I guess he won the smoking lottery.

[@RickyX64]

I hope you recover from the hurricane damage as soon as possible! The last one of these that I ever saw in the wild was in an office building in Los Angeles in the early 2000's. It looked like it hadn't been used in ages.

[@detfan1982]

The cutest little deathsticks 😂

[@TDUShelby]

I've 100% seen at least one of these in real life. Don't remember where, don't remember when, but it was definitely in the small town I spent my childhood in. The locally-owned supermarket had a '60s-era Camel poster at one of the checkout counters for so long, I'd bet it was still there by the time we moved in '08.

[@Bacon420]

This dang machine got me started 31 years ago...hahaah it was outside the department of health (not joking) where I worked when I was 18 :)

[@IRWPD]

This takes me back. There was a machine like in the lobby where my grandfather lived.

[@thelaughingmanofficial]

Man I remember these, they were around town everywhere, even when I was in Jr. High School. In fact they were an easy way for kids that age to get Cigarettes.

[@aschen]

i know they aren't terribly legal anymore, but the old promotional cigarette ads and props in corner stores are super nostalgic to me. i remember a specific Kool one from the corner store my grandma used to go to for her lottery and cartons. It had a rotating light in it to make it look like it had a flowing waterfall.

[@ponyote]

Wow. Those machines were everywhere in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Ohio when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s. Most were a lot less brand agnostic than the one portrayed. They were either more Cam or Lucky dedicated.

[@FloridaMann123]

I have a weird nostalgia for cigarette memorabilia. I dont miss the days of cigarette smoking being commonplace, but the aesthetic of it was so prevalent in my childhood. The ads being everywhere, machines in stores and restaurants, race cars in Marlborough liveries. I've never been a smoker, but I want this.

[@LGRBlerbs]

That’s exactly it. I have no affinity for the actual product but the marketing and the aesthetic is prime nostalgia

[@bewilderbeestie]

I tell my much younger work colleagues about the days of smoking on aeroplanes and they don't believe me.

[@joshuagray6061]

So happy you're alive and well and still doing your thing

[@LGRBlerbs]

Thank you, being alive and doing things is preferred!

[@thatcriticvideo]

This reminds me of wonderful memories of bowling alleys as a child.

[@leafbelly]

Love these videos of the miniatures! Thanks, Clint!

[@dh2032]

At 6:22, "bic lighter, truly the cutest little death sticks! 🙂

[@--BiZ--]

Love it!! Thanks for another great Blerb sir! Hope all is well with the hurricane restorations!

[@houstoner]

There's still one of these exact machines in use at a local pub. I quit smoking, but it was cool to use it a few times when I did.

[@FreihEitner]

I had mostly forgotten about those machines, but I remember them from my childhood in the 1980s. There was one in an alcove near the entrance to my local Sizzler steak house.

[@the_beefy1986]

Hilarious the slight changes to the brand names, but the logos look pretty spot on

[@stompertv2392]

My parents used to set my baby basket on top of these apparently. I'm glad I was born in this generation, imagine being forgotten on a Redbox.

[@Ahkmedren]

This is super cool! I remember seein' these around at the mall and my town's diner! I hope to see what it looks like with the Cool mountain range and the blacklight, I imagine that one really pops if it is a true blacklight!

[@PandoricaLost]

It just needed one of the small Coke cans next to the ashtray! So Coooolll 😁

[@superstarichiban]

Wow. Nostalgia fix. The bar that I worked at as a bouncer/DJ back in the early 2010’s was the last one of these I ever saw. It allowed smoking indoors so it was a no-brainer. I quit smoking there. It was easy - to curb my craving I just inhaled. 😂

[@DrJIMMI]

I remember still seeing these machines at our local grocery store in the 90s. still see them at some antique stores

[@JPR3D]

I mean, the scratch adds to the authentic replication. Whenever I saw these they were never factory fresh.

[@jamescunningham8092]

This brings back memories. As a young teenager in the early nineties, my best friend and I would sneak into a local restaurant with one of these vending machines so we could buy cigarettes. Horrible habit and I've long since kicked it, but I'll allow myself some nostalgia nevertheless.

[@BozowolfnHD]

A person could spend their income on these machines. I would love to decorate my home with the Replitronics machines.

[@k24civic]

I remember my dad would take us yo breakfast on Saturdays. Hed give me money to go buy his camels and a gumball. God this brings back such good memories 😢

[@erikm12]

I remember being about 6 or 7 in the late nineties and the bowling alley whose youth bowling program I attended still had one of these! When my mom wasn't looking I'd run over and pull as many of the knobs as I could because she absolutely loathed that machine.

[@derekchristenson5711]

Hah! I'm no smoker, either, but I remember one of those in the entryway to the local Denny's when I was a kid in the 80's, and maybe into the 90's. Very much where kids could buy from it without being observed... seems like a bad idea in retrospect, hehe.

[@dannybrezelhorner2715]

I went to a college that turned a cigarette vending machine into a machine that sold cigarette box sized art pieces, it was actually pretty neat you never really knew what you were gonna get

[@pokehybridtrainer]

I have not seen this in real life since the 90s at a bar where I used to live. Took me back some.

[@danielvest9602]

In order to make the rest of your arcade setup authentic you now have to put cigarette burns on everything 😂

[@RetroGamingNook]

This knockoff branding is still pretty nostalgic even though I never have smoked. My dad smoked Kool and my mom smoked Viceroy cigarettes. I often was sent to the vending machine at Holiday Lanes bowling alley in my hometown back in the 70s to drop those coins and pull that handle. Kachunk!..shhhhiiip...plunk. It was usually to earn a dime or quarter to play a pinball or arcade game.

[@Robbie-mw5uu]

yikes both parents smoking around their child truly disgusting era

[@BinBintheRiceCake]

To look at at the cup half full, I feel like the scratch only adds to the authenticity of a cig vending machine setting in whatever corner of a dimly lit arcade/bar.

[@franzpattison]

Great to see you posting Clint, even if it's just LGR Lite right now 😂💕