Time machine

A time machine is an object in The Sims 3: Ambitions. The first trailer for Ambitions, shows an inventor walking into the machine and then coming out in "rags", with spears shooting at him. The time machine has never been featured in The Sims series before, excluding Don Lothario's time travel mishap. This is a Rabbit Hole similar to the Mausoleum. One object that supports this theory is the new caveman Mysterious Mr. Gnome depicted below, which is possibly discovered during time travel similar to how the original Mr Gnome is discovered in the Mausoleum, although there is a video of a sim going into the time machine and coming into the stone age, along with his wife, but this does not depict the use of the time machine. It appears that they end up in Egypt. According an attendee of a UK hands on event, "Grant Rodiek said that your sims can “woohoo” in the time machine, and if a child is conceived it may come out older (or younger) than your couple!" When a Sim uses the Time Machine it moves, shakes and makes noise. When the Sim reaches his or her destination, a window will give information about where he or she arrived and what's going on there, but they are not playable until returned, thus making it a rabbit hole. It's possible to meet your previous self and previous companions and tell them to stop fighting and focus on love and family.Suddenly you will have a child but with no mother. When you travel to the past, you can accidentally knock over a job board -- when you return, one of your housemates will have switched careers, in reference to the movie Back To The Future.

Occasionally, traveling to the past will result in a message about the sim using the machine having saved a child in front of their past self. This results in a new child being added to the household.

The exterior look of the time machine is most likely based on the one seen in Blackadder: Back and Forth.

After travelling in time you will get either a -25 or +20 moodlet called Travelled in Time lasting 4 hours.

Travelling to the past can have huge consequences for your household (New job, new friends, new sim in the household) whereas travelling to the future seems to be more harmless (sometimes you come back with an object or moodlet).