What the Heck is This?

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What the Heck is This?

On 11/16/2018 at 09:40 PM by KnightDriver

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It looks like an arcade cabinet but it's just cardboard.

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I've seen this at movie theaters in my area. You download an app and then use the background on this cardboard kiosk to play a game on your phone. Neat idea, I thought.

Oh, and I saw Fantasic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald on IMAX. It's really good.

I got this collectable card too.

Comments

Super Step Contributing Writer

11/17/2018 at 12:03 AM

I'll still need to watch the first movie.

KnightDriver

11/17/2018 at 09:48 PM

I liked the first one but I wasn't crazy about it. I almost didn't see this one, but I'm glad I did. Things are getting closer to the Harry Potter time frame, with more familiar names and locations.

Cary Woodham

11/17/2018 at 10:02 AM

Looks like a pretty elaborate advertisment for a free-to-play game. Although I've noticed companies tend to do that sometimes. I get some of the best press promo material from free-to-play games, at least lately.

I saw the first Fantastic Beasts movie. It was all right, but kind of weird and didn't make much sense to me. But then, I'm not a big Harry Potter fan. I don't hate it, but I just never really got into it. I did enjoy the Fantastic Beasts LEGO game, though. I'll probably skip out on the sequel, but I may catch it on Netflix or the dollar theater.

KnightDriver

11/17/2018 at 09:45 PM

Yea, it's made for Harry Potter fans for sure. I'm a fan but not a raving one. I thought the recent one was really good, Potter fan or not.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

11/18/2018 at 12:15 PM

What in the holy hell is this?

KnightDriver

11/20/2018 at 12:21 AM

It's cardboard fakery to get you to download a game on your phone. I think the app uses the background on the cardboard "screen" through your phone's camera and then overlays a shooter game. It's kind of neat. It's actually making me want to make my own out of used cardboard I got laying around. I could pretend I actually have an arcade cabinet. Ha ha.