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This device’s inventor installed an Ethicator module that made a boy with well-combed hair disappear when he tried to punch him. A different configuration of this device brought its users to a large round object that they thought was a space pod but was actually a dinosaur egg, an error caused by its users facing backwards. This device burned out after creating five doppelgangers who were later turned into worms by (*) rotating this device (10[1])90 degrees, leading its operator to observe that scientific progress goes “boink”. A water pistol that transforms its target into whatever its user is thinking of was a portable version of one of this device’s configurations (10[1])called the transmogrifier. For 10 points, name this lightweight object that, when placed upside-down, can change little kids into tigers and back. ■END■

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