Everyone wants a personal time travel equipment , but with so many dissimilar devices to choose from , how do you make a well - informed determination ? Everyone bed about Doc Brown ’s Delorean , the Doctor ’s TARDIS , and H.G. Wells ’ contrapulation , but what about some of the other metre time travel gizmos ? We walk you through the nine practiced I , and excuse how each one can take you back to that painful in high spirits school moment .
The Guardian from Star Trek : In “ City on the Edge of Forever , ” Kirk and Spock had to hop through a gargantuan talking stone sinker for survey a crazy Bones back into the Great Depression . Bones had a pyrexia and a speculative skin rash , Spock had to work in a soup kitchen and work up a gadget in what niggling spare time he had , while Kirk spend all his time wooing Joan Collins . Later , they were able-bodied to hop safely back through . If that ’s not easy clip travel , then I do n’t know what is .
The Omni from Voyagers ! : Voyagers ! run on NBC from 1982 to 1983 , and featured the awesome pocket - watch sized Omni as one of the cool time locomotion devices ever . It had a miniature scale modelling of the earth inside , and blood-red and green lights that would tell you if time was “ menstruate usually ” or if it had been disturbed . You would spin the dials and lay it ( and bury it ) and locomote back to any time you want , which usually just pass off to involve temporal anomalies involving famous hoi polloi .
The Flash ’s Cosmic Treadmill : Barry Allen decided he need to check out time travel , so he invented a treadmill that guide ( zing ! ) on cosmic shaft of light . A speedster could set it to a specific metre , either forwards or rearwards , and then run on the treadmill until it send him back to that time . Get this , they stayed in that time by “ maintain his internal vibration ” that was specific to that time travel . babble out about working overtime . Later Wally West discover he could time locomote without the treadmill , but nothing really beats putting the word “ cosmic ” in front of something . If only he ’d manufacture the cosmic ab - cruncher and cosmic stairmaster .
Dr. Evil ’s Time Warp Machine from Austin Powers 2 : This is from the category of time machine where they never even attempt to excuse to you why or how it works , it just does . Which is how all malefic genius machine should work . Who needs all that explanation about tachyons and the space - time continuum and all that ? Plus it had a psychedelic look and feel to it as well . You just run up to it and throw yourself on it like a velcro wall , and you pop out in the appropriate time … as long as they have another time machine on the other end , apparently . Granted , Austin ’s own new Volkswagen bug clock time automobile might have looked cool , but that was just a Delorean ripoff .
Doctor Doom ’s Time Platform : Not to be outdone by all the time travel go on in the DC universe , where it seemed like if Superman sneezed he ’d end up in the 1800s , Marvel had their own action happening with Doom and his time car . Doom never really got enough acknowledgment , building working Doombots , devices that gave mass superpowers , creating massive weapon and all that idle words . Maybe because he was too whiny and bitchy when it come in to the Fantastic Four . Anyhow , his time political machine was a platform that you ’d stand on , masturbate with some controls , and then you ’d be sent back in time , no problem ! Why he never conquered the damn world with this thing I ’ll never know .
The Time Traveling Roller Coaster Ride from Timecop : In this Jean Claude Van Damme flick , you hop into what looked like an amusement car park drive , and got blast towards a wall that you hop would spread up into a time - portal before you got smushed into jelly . It uses the whole “ speedup as fourth dimension change of location ” idea , but really does it in style . We just wish there would have a been a “ You Must Be This HIgh To turn on This Ride ” sign next to Van Damme . Or at least someone asking for his Es - ticket .
The Timespheres from Terminator : They were n’t the most pragmatic devices , because when you were mail back through them they burned off all your wearing apparel . Meaning you could n’t be sent back or send on into a heavily populated sphere unless you did n’t beware everyone seeing your junk . Now , do n’t ask us how they can send machines back in time as long as they ’re continue with cutis . It boggles our thinker too .
The centime from Somewhere in prison term : Christopher Reeve get word how to travel back in fourth dimension from 1980 to 1912 in monastic order to be with Jane Seymour , who he ’s lessen in love with from staring at old photo of her . Yes , it ’s corny , we know it . But when he finds a Lincoln cent from 1979 in his pocket and zaps back to the future , even you might admit you have feelings , you robots . It was ground on the novel Bid Time Return by I Am Legend author Richard Matheson , and is Reeve ’s well - known film outside of the Superman serial .
Uncle Rico ’s Time Machine from Napoleon Dynamite : Sure , it did n’t work and it appeared to only make your testicles hurt ( no melodic theme what it did to women ) , but you had to give the ripoff artist who invented it credit for including things like “ clip crystals . ” We ’d still want one , just to screw with people .
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