Szalinzki's Shrinking Machine

The Shrinking Machine is a machine that plays an important role In the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids films and has made minor appearances in the TV Series. Built by wacky inventor Wayne Szalinski, it is capable to shrinking and grow objects or people beyond their natural sizes.

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Inventor Wayne Szalinski spends all night working on the Shrinking machine and by morning he finishes it and begins the tests. However instead of shrinking it blows things up.

While Wayne is at work, the machine is accidentally activated by a baseball that was shot through the window by Ron Thompson and lands in the path of it's laser. This also solves the problem of it blowing things up because the laser was radiating too much heat. Without the laser in the way, the machine successfully not just shrinks the attic chair and the couch but also the kids Nick, Amy, Russ and Ron to the size of pencil tips.

When Wayne comes home he takes out his anger and humiliation out on the machine by destroying it little knowing that it actually works. He soon finds out that it does when he finds his couch shrunk and finds out the kids are shrunk too.

He spends the whole night fixing the machine and after they find the kids he uses it to grow them back to normal size.

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Wayne has begun work on a second shrink ray only this time designed to grow things. Dr. Charles Hedricksen wants to take control of his project but it fails to make it work. During his weekend Wayne takes Nick and his younger son Adam Szalinski to the lab to see if they can make it work.

In they end they do make it work with Adam ending up growing to seven feet tall.

Going back to the lab turns out not to be the option and so they go a get Wayne's original Shrink Ray which has been put in storage. Wayne fits the original Shrink Ray into the back of the family's solar van.

Wayne successfully shrinks Adam to normal size with the help of his wife Diane Szalinski.