I was wondering what the price was on this Animator and if it was a collecter

Ooh, I had this! I think I might still have it at my parents' house. I loved it, but I think I remember that it kind of sucked.

My mom just called tonight to ask me if I wanted my Animator. She found it in the attic.

dang -says $49.00 at target..in 1985 on the box..and i cant sell it for more then $10.00... ?thanks parents for buying it...but it sucked..:)

It really was a piece of junk. It could only store something like a dozen full screen frames. However, you could play those frames in a user-defined sequence. Meaning, if you were clever enough, you could reuse your set of 12 frames in various orders to create longer animations. It came with a booklet containing several examples like a baseball batter missing 2 pitches and then hitting the 3rd. Of course you could also loop the sequence so you could play your 12 frames over-and-over again. It was junk. Whatelse can I add.

HEY!!! It was NOT JUNK!!! I loved it, although it did suck!!! I cant get the commercial out of my head!!! I wonder if someone has put it on youtube yet?

I wanted one so bad when I was about 5, eventually I got it and was mighty disappointed.

I was talking to me husband about this toy, everyone wanted it, I remember the commercial was a dancing skeleton break dancing. I loved this toy! I have no idea what happened to it though. Of course game boy is much better, but it was cool at the time.

This toy sucked! Mine eventually collected dust under the bed.

I remember feeling mislead by the commercial. Keep in mind I was pretty young so everything was still "magical" to me. So I got the impression from the commercial that you could draw one thing and the toy would magically "animate" it for you. Heh, I didn't get that you had to draw each frame of animation. I got one for Christmas and it didn't work... then I got another one that didn't work either. Third time was the charm. Yeah it was kinda limited but I still remember playing with it occasionally. But I'm not a very good sketcher, so a lot of my own animations were very basic.