Mold-A-Rama

Mold-A-Rama is a brand name for a type of vending machine that makes injection molded plastic figurines.

Mold-A-Rama machines debuted in late 1962 and grew in prominence at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

[4][5] American inventor John H. "Tike" Miller is credited with conceiving a free-standing plastic-molding machine in the 1950s.

He licensed his mold-making patent and related technology to the Automatic Retailers Of America (Aramark), which operated Mold-A-Rama machines as a subsidiary company through 1969.

[6] Aramark divested all machines and service locations by 1972 because of the high cost of the equipment.

A Mold-A-Rama machine at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle
A tractor from a Mold-A-Rama machine at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago