For the vehicles appeared in the Time Patrol Bon franchise and the 2025 movie Doraemon: Nobita's Art World Tales, see Time Boat.

The Time Machine allows the user to travel to any point in the past or future. It serves as the entrance to the Time Tunnel and lets the user visit different times and places by setting the desired date and location.

Appearance

The Time Machine consists of a computer operator and a panel consisting of few handles and switches. It has minimum one seat for the driver to sit. It also consists of an antennae like projection(s) which collects signals.

Doraemon's Time Machine is the most commonly seen and used time machine in the franchise. It consists of a nearly-square-shaped chassis, with various appliances mounting on it, such as controls, antennae, etc. The machine is magnetically powered. It originally has the capacity to hold up to three people at maximum. But since it had broken down once, Doraemon upgraded the gadget, and it is now able to transport up to five people. It is placed in the upper drawer of Nobita's desk in Nobita's room in Nobi's Residence. In the 1973 anime, Doraemon's Time Machine had two seats like a car's interior and two levers. It was fully purple coloured. The antennae didn't exist.

Pawaemon's Time Machine can be seen in Battle! Cat-Model Robots vs. Dog-Model Robots. The overall appearance of his Time Machine remains the same as Doraemon's except it has different colors.

Dorami's Time Machine is more advanced as compared to Doraemon's. It is more spacious and comfortable from inside. It is an orange (sometimes red) tulip-shaped machine with its leaf-like base. Furthermore, it has three antennae like projections at the top which seems to appear like the pistil of a flower. Dorami's time machine is placed in the mirror of her room.

The thief's Time Machine which appeared as A Visitor from the Country of the Future was black coloured, having a pair of yellow and red lights front and back.

Time Patrol's Time Machines resembles like a police car having black and white colour with a small red tail like bulb which glows at the top. They are shaped like a computer mouse. The word "Police" is written on it's on both sides.

In Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur, Black Mask's Time Machine was flat and had his face on it. It had an antenna and a chair. His time hole was rectangular shaped. In Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur 2006, his Time Machine was highly advanced and was more comfortable with fewer controls. It was big and wide and was designed like a king's seat. His time hope was hexagonal.

Features

General

• The Time Machine can be used to travel inter-dimensionally, as well as time-wise. It can also travel to other locations.
• The information of the landing place is filled in the computer by the user to let the Time Machine know the place and timeline where it has to transport the user.
• One can try to change the incidents happened in the past or going to happen in the future by using this gadget.
• It has the ability of speech, helping the user to confirm the destination.
• It includes a small tank that contains water.
• Black Mask's Time Machine has the ability to do electro kinesis. It consists of a jet stream and a riper like a bulldozer in the 2006 movie.
• It also has an autopilot option, as seen in Stand by Me Doraemon 2.

Malfunctions

• Specialised skills are required to operate this vehicle. Otherwise, it is possible to be trapped in the void.
• Laser or electricity shocks can damage the Time Machine, causing a crash landing of the gadget in a random timeline.
• If time bleeds occur, time machines could be displaced in time and fall in the vacuum of time.

History

• In Doraemon Came Out!, Doraemon along with Sewashi come out of Nobita's drawer by using Time Machine for the first time.
• In Feudal Lord of the 21st Century, the king used the Time Machine and went to Nobi's Residence in the prime timeline.

Known Owners

• Doraemon
• Dorami
• Pawaemon
• Time Patrol
• Black Mask

Known Users

• Doraemon
• The Gangs (To start an adventure together)
• Nobita Nobi
• Dorami
• Pawaemon
• Sewashi Nobi
• Nobisuke Nobi
• Black Mask
• The Nobleman
• Shizuka Minamoto (In the movie "Nobita and the Steel Troops")
• Time Patrol
• Adult Nobita (Stand by Me Doraemon 2)

Appearances

Naming and Translations

Language	Name	Origin
Arabic	آلة الزمن	Time Machine
Chinese	時光機	Time Machine
Indonesian	Mesin Waktu	Time Machine
Portuguese ({{Br|<Europe>}})	Máquina do Tempo	Time Machine
Spanish (Spain)	Máquina del Tiempo	Time Machine
Tagalog	Time Machine	Time Machine
Thai Baht (Thailand)	ไทม์แมชชีน	Time Machine
Vietnamese	Cỗ máy thời gian	Time Machine

Trivia

• This is the first gadget used in the franchise, but it was used off-screen.
• It consists of a back gear by which the user returns to the previous location where the Time Machine was at rest.
• It can be used negatively by changing the effective historic changes which can cause problems to the nature and environment.
• If the past gets changed, then the present and future also get affected as they change automatically.

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