The machines were sold with many different puppets so that you could change the show every week. For five cents, the patron would get a thirty second show and a fortune. One of the more common animated fortune games is the 1950's Puppet Theatre. When it became too expensive to continue making grandmother machines, other types of animated characters took their place. The success of these animated fortune machines in the 1930's and 1940's, convinced fortune teller manufacturers that you had to give a show to the patron along with a fortune. We are all familiar with the grandmother fortune telling machines of the 1930's and 1940's, where for a penny you get a fortune card and also watch a life size mannequin go through her routine.
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