vintage tomy camera

thats the one!!

i figured out what the notches in the pictures are for, too. when the slides were being assembled, chances are the pictures were the blank grey they are when dry. the notches would have been for the assembly team and the final packaging dept to make sure each set had one of each and no duplicates.

i have noticed tomy was notorious for using the different colors for different parts of their sets, for example the record players. i have seen many times where, say the yellow record played "this old man", and then in another set it was the red one etc. this meant the dies used for molding were filled with any color they liked from the 4 used. they did the same the with "play, stop, eject" buttons on top as well.
i am curious to find out if the same is true for the picture slides. will be hard, as the few images i found mostly showed them all blank, and i dont think people know how they are activated. i myself would never have known but for the box being included.