A museum in Michigan which is dedicated to displaying a variety of animatronics and other coin-operated machines. It was originally owned by the late Marvin Yagoda, until he died just after New Year'
s of
2017, when ownership was transferred to his son, Jeremy Yagoda. Due to the COVID-
19 pandemic, the museum was forced to shut down temporarily, until Michigan reaches Phase
5 of containment, and was faced with financial trouble due to maintenance on the machines, but thanks to a GoFundMe, they were able to remain afloat. Though Marvin died in
2017, he is attributed with the quotations "Wouldn’t the
world be better off if we took nonsense more seriously?", and "
Don’t use time or
words carelessly; neither can be retrieved".
Furthermore, the "fabloo" band known as "Tally Hall" created an album named after Marvin'
s Marvelous Mechanical Museum, and Marvin himself appeared in an episode of the Tally Hall internet show
Person 1: I heard there'
s this one place with some sort of weird robots and
stuff down on Orchard Lake Road, called Marvin'
s Marvelous Mechanical Museum. Anyone wanna come with me?
Person 2: Sure, I think I heard some neat stuff about it online