Zoltar the Fortune Teller is the coin-operated machine in the movie "Big" that changed Tom Hanks' character into a grown-up. The publicity from the movie created a market for the machine, and copies ...

In the United States, many 20th-century amusement parks had fortune teller machines that enticed customers. Put a coin (or, in later years, a dollar bill) in the slot, and the life-size figure in the ...

Zoltar says, “If you hear an onion ring, answer it.” The fortune telling machine made famous in the 1988 movie “Big” staring Tom Hanks has oodles of wisdom to dispense for a few bucks. Now, the ...

A rare fortune-telling machine that reads searchers their fates is perhaps the only one left of its kind, and magician David Copperfield wants it for his own. The Gypsy, a Zolter-like fortune-teller, ...

A favorite draw in the cavernous waiting lobby of fun and folksy White Fence Farm fried chicken restaurant in Romeoville, Ill., is an antique fortune-telling machine that, with a drop of a coin, ...