Maybe you analog kids new this, but I gave up film years ago.
I did buy some of the last batch of 600 film packs for my kids to play with and see what us kids did with cameras in the '70s.
Thankfully, some folks refused to give up on the 300 million extant instant cameras 
and have revived an old Polaroid film plant in The Netherlands to keep providing instant film for those still have a use and desire for it.
I give you The Impossible Project
What’s the draw? I mean I can understand why people want to stay with film, but Polaroid was always a tradeoff of quality for instant gratification. Now you can get that instant gratification with digital with a much smaller tradeoff of quality, and save some money too.
There’s instant gratification you can not only see, but touch and give away, there’s the magical drama of watching it develop – and the strange off colors are part of the appeal. The utter absence of digital perfection is something that some people love. So much so there is an app called hipstamatic that makes your digital photos look crappy like a polaroid. It’s a look that is intensely nostalgic.
Like making ice in those old-fashioned ice cube trays and all the ice is a different size. It appeals to some people, even if, you would argue, perfectly uniform ice is “better.”
The draw is you can pass the pictures around for everyone to look at, say at a party or after Thanksgiving dinner. A feature that way beats passing around a camera or huddling around a computer.
And, if grandma likes a particular picture you can just give it to her! Which beats having to download it and print it and mail it to her.
The modern digital instants are rather great for all the reasons Polaroid Instant was great, and they’re higher quality. But yeah nostalgia rules OK.
Polaroid has their own instant digital, though it is a bit pricey.
And if you are an ‘artist’ there are things you can do to a polaroid as it develops to make interesting effects ranging from just pressing on areas with a blunt stylus to scrunge together the chemicals to using heat or cold to modify chemical action. Some of the faux ‘paranormal’ effects are done with twidgeting the chemicals like that.
Anybody except me remember the old school polaroid black and whites that you had to rub a chemical fixative stick on to stop the developing after peeling the paper backing?
A few years back when the last Harry Potter book came out, we went to an event at the local bookstore. One of the free activities they had was having a magic photo taken in your costume. They were using Polaroid instant cameras and you should have seen the wonder on the kids’ faces. Having their picture taken and handed a seemingly blank bit of paper they were totally confused at first. I think they were then told to say a spell or something and when they were done there was their picture! Magic! Much more magical than the digital pictures than they were used to.
That is SO cool!
I was given a polaroid when I was about 10, an expensive toy for a kid in those times, I used it until my parents tired of buying the paper/film. I wish we had kept that camera. 
We took one on a trip to China back in the early 80’s. Since the film packages took up so much room in our luggage, we quickly got into the groove of taking photos (mostly of children) and handing them out. What a great ice breaker! Back then people still wore the drab green/brown/grey “uniforms” but dressed their children in bright colors and patterns, with enormous hair bows on the girls.
Everywhere we went, especially in the more rural or remote ares, people who were wary of us became very animated and “smiley” when they saw the photos develop, which resulted in even more photos.
Although we thought we’d be bringing some polaroid photos back home, we ended up giving all of them away. Fortunately, we’d brought our regular “film” 35mm cameras, too.
Sure do, the “Swinger.” Christmas gift when I was a kid, and I still have it somewhere in the basement. I’m waiting for it to go up in value in the thou range and I’ll put it on ebay.
Put your feet up and relax.
These still show up in the Goodwill camera box every week. I know, because I check!
I pick up things like thisfor my collection all the time for about 10 bucks.
The only appeal is nostalgia, which I’m not sure is so viable. Don’t get me wrong – I’m a sucker for nostalgia too, and would probably play with a Polaroid camera were one around, but I’d not buy it. I’d buy a real camera that takes good photos like a normal person.
Oh my god, I had one of these, and an Argus,and some generic pink plastic in 128 =) but my real love was the Leica IIIa I swiped off my Dad =)
I don’t think nostalgia is the only appeal, although it is a big appeal. Like I said, some people actively seek out the not-goodness of the pictures a polaroid takes. Similarly, Lomography is the special art of taking pictures with the exceptionally crappy Russian-made Lomo camera - once the snapshot cam of the proletariat, today people pay extra for so it can leak light and do crazy unpredictable things to their pictures. As you can see from the above link, people spend quite a bit of effort touching up their perfect digipics so it looks like they took them with a Soviet-era piece of crap.
I remember seeing that website a few years back, when they were still trying to replicate the Polaroid film packs. I didn’t know that they had succeeded.