# Using variables as movieClip instances

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-variables-as-movieclip-instances/175453>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [January 14, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-variables-as-movieclip-instances/175453 "2006-01-14T16:10:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![unchew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7ba0ec/32.png) [@unchew](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/unchew)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-variables-as-movieclip-instances/175453/1 "2006-01-14T16:10:41Z")

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I’m having some trouble trying to duplicate movieclips randomly. I have created an array with the instance names of the MCs i have on stage. Then I’m trying to create a variable that selects one random element from the array. Finally I want to use that variable as a target to duplicate my movie Clips… but it doesn’t work.

Here is the code:

```auto
 
var Items = new Array('bombon', 'regalo', 'corazon');
 
pos = new Object();
pos._x=random(550); 
 
i=0
 
function randomize (){
 targeta=Items[random(3)]
 targeta.duplicateMovieClip("item"+i,i,pos);
 i++;
}

var Int = setInterval(randomize, 10);

```