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Type |
Tool, Special, Noequip |
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Behavior |
Pre-Remix: teleports the player to a secret level.
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Synonyms |
None Known |
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Available in |
Scribblenauts, Super Scribblenauts, Scribblenauts Remix, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Scribblenauts Unmasked, Scribblenauts Showdown, Scribblenauts Mega Pack |
The Time Machine is a fictional machine able to travel through time. It originally functioned as an easter egg that could allow players to travel through time themselves and access several hidden levels and areas.
Behavior
Scribblenauts
In Scribblenauts, the Time Machine is a rideable object. When interacted with, the screen will flash and teleport the player to one of three different levels.
Super Scribblenauts
In Super Scribblenauts, there are five accessible levels, with two secret ones that players have a low chance of being sent to. The first secret level is a re-creation of the first level in Scribblenauts (with a collectable Starite that is required for 100% completion). The second level sees Maxwell finding another Maxwell using a Time Machine.
Completing all levels in challenge mode seems to increase the chances of being sent to one of the secret levels (about one in every ten tries).
Scribblenauts Remix
In Remix, the time machine resets the level.
Scribblenauts Unlimited and future titles
Starting with Unlimited, the time machine no longer takes players to any additional levels or secret areas. This change was made due to the removal of linear levels. Objectives and starite missions were now included in large open areas that took longer to develop than the individual levels in the DS games, so the developers felt it was hard to justify making new areas only accessible with the time machine (and teleporter). Additionally, the time machine levels also functioned as extra sandbox locations to mess around with objects in, as the DS games only included a sandbox area on the title screen. All the locations in future games could be used as sandboxes, further contributing to the removal of the levels.[1]
When interacted with, the time machine puts a sepia filter on the screen with film static, plays piano music and gives Maxwell a mustache and top hat to emulate the appearance of old silent movies.
Time Machine Rooms
Scribblenauts
| Name | Description | Picture |
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| Medieval Age | This room contains a princess, a king, a queen, a knight, and a War Horse. There are immovable drawbridges. A throne is at the far end of the right room guarded by a warlock. | 
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| Dinosaur Age | This room takes you to the dinosaur age. There are several herbivorous dinosaurs; which are a brontosaurus, a charonosaurus, a stegosaurus, and a normal dinosaur. | 
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| Space Age | A place with an alien, four Robots , and a hostile cyborg fighting the robots. | 
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Super Scribblenauts
| Name | Description | Picture |
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| Time Warp 1/Dinosaur Age | A remake of the original dinosaur age room in Scribblenauts. It features an azure compsognathus, a stuffed brontosaurus, pterodactyl and a dinosaur egg. To the right of the room is an invincible tyrannosaurus and invincible triceratops fighting each other. | 
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| Time Warp 2/Ancient Egypt | This room takes you during Ancient Egypt. To the centre of the room is Julius Caesar and Cleopatra walking around the obelisk. To the left of the room is a pharaoh, sarcophagus and a pyramid. To the right of the room is a camel, sultan, merchant and another pyramid. | 
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| Time Warp 3/Medieval Age | A remake of the original medieval age room in Scribblenauts. To the left is a tan circus, vegetable stand, Pied Piper, small pillory, well, and a squire near a tower. To the right is a knight walking to the large fort, a jouster on a War Horse and a king. | 
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| Time Warp 4/Wild West | To the left of the room is a chief, tepee and fur trader. To the centre is a cowgirl, armory, a cowboy on a tamed horse and a graveyard. To the right of the room is an invincible sheriff and invincible highwayman fighting each other with revolvers between an invincible cactus. | 
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| Time Warp 5/Possible Future | To the left of the room is a smoking invincible flaming transmission tower debris, skull, Rocking Horse and some rubble. To the centre of the room is a flaming smoking invincible Trailer Park, Cole Phillips with a carbine fighting with a cyborg with a Plasma Rifle between a flaming invincible Telephone Pole. To the right of the room is a metal android with a plasma rifle. | 
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| Secret Warp 1/A1-1 | The same action level 1-1 from the original Scribblenauts. This level can appear as a Time Machine warp area in Super Scribblenauts, but the chances are extremely low (4.5% or less). To find all 121 Starites in Super Scribblenauts, Maxwell must visit this area. This version features Maxwell from the previous game. It looks like a normal Maxwell, and it briskly steps to the left and right. It can be modified with adjectives, but it can't be identified with Identify Mode or spawned normally. The secret Starite sits on the tree. | 
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| Secret Warp 2/Outer Universe | An ever rarer chance (less than 4.5%) on getting this room. There is the time machine you came out of, and another time machine next to it. It also features a past version of Maxwell, who runs from off-screen to the other time machine and transports away. After a few seconds later, the time machine explodes. | 
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Trivia
- In Super Scribblenauts if you get to the scenario with two time machines, and try to identify the other time machine, the lens will not detect it.
- The secret levels in Scribblenauts are shown as T0-1, while in Super Scribblenauts they are shown as A1-1.
- In Super Scribblenauts, if any adjective is applied to a Time Machine and then another Time Machine is used to warp away, then the other Time machine will have whatever adjectives your one has when you come back.
- Most of the normal levels in Super Scribblenauts (All but Egypt) have 2 characters fighting each other. In the Medieval stage, the knight on the warhorse will always kill the other knight, whereas in the others both are invincible.
- In the files of Scribblenauts Unlimited and Scribblenauts Unmasked is an unused sprite for the time machine which resembles the sprite from Scribblenauts.