Farmington Hills, Michigan - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

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Address:
31005 Orchard Lake Road, Farmington Hills, MI [Show Map]
Directions:
I-696 Orchard Lake Rd exit. Two miles north, on the left side, just South of 14 Mile Rd, across from Kmart and behind the California Pizza Kitchen.
Hours:
M-R 10am-9pm, F-Sa 10 am - 11 pm, Su noon - 9 pm (Call to verify)
Phone:
248-626-5020
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Marvin Yagoda and the Cardiff Giant. Farmington Hills, Michigan - Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
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Farmington Hills, Michigan - Marvelous Marvin's Mechanical Museum

Another must-see, esp. if you find yourself w/an excess of spare change, is Marvelous Marvin's Mechanical Museum in Farmington Hills, MI, on Orchard Lane Rd. I like to think of it as a test of nerves. Jam-packed w/video games, old-school mechanical fortune tellers (plus their newer cousin, a fortune-telling device that scans your palm like a bar code), motorized dioramas (my fave is "The Drunkard's Nightmare," where your coinage summons devils from the cupboards and a snake out of his hootch jug), toy planes circling endlessly overhead. A little overwhelming at first and not for the weak for any extended period of time, like, more than 20 minutes. [Miranda Leigh Tarrow, 07/10/1997]

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