Regular C scale I'm pretty certain.

I wish I could tell you. There's no visible brand name on it anywhere. As for where I got it, I order stuff from a number of online surplus outfits, so I'm not sure which. If you look up "MP4 game" on Ebay, I think you might find some media handhelds that may have an NES emulator built in. Good luck.

Ahh... the Moldarama machine! We actually still have several of these that operate in Chicago at local museums and the zoo. We're going to be doing a couple of stories on Moldarama here on Retro Thing. They are truly amazing.

Good eye! The image in the article is Ikea's official press photo of the product, but you're right. There are images there that aren't in the final package. So it seems like there were some changes late in the process to the actual shipping decal package. Like that big square Space Invaders type alien isn't present in the actual product either. The second picture does show what you get, at least it shows what I got at Ikea. You get four identical (except for color) sheets of decals just like that photo. Maybe those elements they took out looked too close to actual game graphics they'd have to license?

You could try... back then I brown bagged it... Oh wait... you mean today? You'll have to pry these Subway coupons from my cold dead hands.

Oh yeah! Forgot about that one. I also had a membership card in a couple of different summer reading programs at the local library. One year I remember a shameless "borrowing" of Pac-Man iconography to make us all want to "gobble" books. Yeesh.

Thanks for the good wishes! Actually the mold wasn't a pain. There are only so many times you can use a mold, and we reached that point. Not unexpected... it just means that we're on to another adventure with something else cool in the future! ;)