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First, you take various bottles of colored goo. Then you pour the goo of the color(s) you desire into metal molds (of monsters, insects, flowers, etc.).
Finally, you cook the goo-filled molds on a hot plate (the goop solidified at 390F, to give you an idea of how hot) until the liquid solidifies.
Hot plates! For young children!
What could possibly go wrong... ?
[Let me guess - someone will be along to tell us shortly that kids these days just don't have enough character, in part because they have no scars from youthful hot plate burns...]
That's it! We had so much fun with those.
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Super Elastic Bubble Plastic
Another Wham-o product. I remember seeing it sold as "Plastic Bubbles" under a different brand before the Wham-o version hit the market.
As an interesting side note on improper uses for toys. Anyone remember the
racetracks that came with 2' sections of plastic that you snapped together to
build your own hotwheels tracks? My mother repurposed those a few times when a
belt, flyswatter or switch wasn't handy
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Yep. When I started babysitting (at age 12) the lady gave me a section of orange racetrack and told me to use it if the boys didn't mind me.
Anyone remember the fuzzy wuzzy bear soap. Not a toy but what made it fuzzy?
mold?
I'd never heard of it before (but know the song), but was thinking that it was probably something that starts growing when wet, like some sort of seed. But then I went and watched a commercial for it on youtube, and it said it gets fuzzy after 3 days of being left out of the packaging. So just the air makes it grow fuzz and not water? It did not look like something I would want to wash my hands with, thats for sure.
I loved lawn darts. That's one thing we always took camping with us. I had clackers and had no problems with them. Those were big while my cousin was stationed in Vietnam. We sent him some and he said others got them too. The only problem was everytime they got them "clacking" good, everybody jumped for cover thinking they were being fired on.
What gets me is some of the "gun toys" that I grew up playing with. Who remembers Johnny Seven OMA 1964 JOHNNY SEVEN OMA TOY GUN COMMERCIAL - YouTube , and Sonny Six Killer Outrageous&hysterical 6th finger toy from 60's,anyone have or remember these? ? That last one was a cap gun that looked like a finger.Can you imagine all the people upset over gun toys being produced? Bring back the good days!
The only toy that really upset me? My pet rock. It ran away!
One of the kids across the street from me had the Johnny Seven OMA. One of the guys in my class in school had the Sixfinger.
I had a pretty good arsenal. My favorite was the Dick Tracy Thompson SMG that fired perforated roll caps until the mechanism got jammed with black powder residue and paper fragments. Also had a very nice scaled-down M1 Garand and a very well-detailed .45 ACP that was full size. Had both versions of the U.N.C.L.E. gun (no THRUSH gun) and an Agent Zero M gun that was disguised as a camera.
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