You keep saying the product failed. If it never got off the ground at that time, I doubt it wasn't because of its popluarity. I live in a more rural area and the nearest city has 60,0000 people in it. There mall is not very big, yet it has 2-3 photo booths in it. Look, with cell phones today, how do the booths make it. I have hardly ever seen anyone in those booths, yet you find them everywhere. Why would anyone pay for those pictures when the can take on themselves on their phone, yet people must obviously do it. I dont feel popularity will be a problem in this case. And by the way, there are many other places besides malls to put these in. I could only imagine how these would go in clubs and bars.
This is my opinion only.