My first SCP.
Many thanks to Sudypt, Mf99k, Netherman555, sirpudding, and Varren Erelim for giving feedback for this article.

Love the concept, but it still needs more polishing.

The "wind it ten times or else" thing feels a bit tacked on for extra danger. You could make the reasoning behind it a little clearer. I'm guessing that the reel has to finish before you can leave… so what happens if you take too long to finish the story, but you did wind it ten times? Do you get a "to be continued"? Basically, the problem isn't an unreasonable one for a Dr. Wondertainment to have, but the way you have this working in the current iteration, it seems like less of a "read the instructions" thing, and more like a "this isn't a finished product" thing. I could see it working, though, if you had to somehow force it to let you wind it less then 10 times, or if there was a safety mechanism that broke easily (say, maybe the detent that only releases the escapement after you've wound the mainspring ten turns gets loose after it's been used many times- I had a windup toy when I was a kid that had this problem)

There are also a lot of little grammar mistakes: "winded" instead of "wound", places where parts of the sentence didn't agree with other parts (…with some being in tuxedos, while others resembling cartoon robbers…), but the real problem for me is that even for Dr. Wondertainment the winding thing seems like an obvious problem with a simple solution.

neutral-voting for now

This reads to me as a formulaic "hey kids! here's a Wondertainment product that will do unintended bad things to you!" article that I've seen on the mainlist many, many times by this point, combined with a "what if cartoons were real" premise that I have never really been interested in. I feel like I've seen this or something like it quite a few times now, and I've never been a huge fan of this sort of article to begin with.

I found this one pretty charming. Upvoted.

Don't think this is there yet, but upvoting anyway

So, there is a pretty solid concept here. Using a camera to render an environment into a cartoon world is right of Wondertainment's alley, and the consequences of such can be disturbing. Unfortunatley how this article is presented makes the idea come across as bland.

There is a lot of potential here for the narrative to develope in interesting ways, but as it stands this could use a lot of polishing to avoid the generic trap.

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I think it's a shame that this post got the response it did. I frequently lurk the "lowest rated" page, and this is by far the best article I have ever seen there. I am impressed with the fact that you resisted the urge to add something arbitrarily evil or overly disturbing (not that that's bad, but it probably would be unnecessary here). The main problem that I can see is the fact that the concept can get a bit boring after reading a couple paragraphs. But I'll up vote in support of good writing and creativity.

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I like this one.

+1

For creativity

Considering the concept, I'd have to give this an up-vote. It's a solid idea, and its implications of misuse do strike a creepy chord. Small nitpick, however:

rendered in a style similar to that of Warner Bros. Animation.

I'm pretty sure there's plenty of other animation companies that employ the same techniques as Warner Bros and that specific detail is rather not that clinical, in my opinion. I'm not too sure on what other term would be appropriate though.

LOVE cartoons. I voted it up.