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    You have to be a 60's kid to remember this! The Mattel Thing Maker!

    This was a great way to scare the neighborhood girls. Great toy! Heat and melted goo!!!!! And we lived. LOL

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    Re: You have to be a 60's kid to remember this! The Mattel Thing Maker!

    They were still around in the 70s I had one I wish they still existed

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    Re: You have to be a 60's kid to remember this! The Mattel Thing Maker!

    Quote Originally Posted by lostforawhile View Post
    They were still around in the 70s I had one I wish they still existed
    I figured you knew them
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    Re: You have to be a 60's kid to remember this! The Mattel Thing Maker!

    Pretty sure they made them up into the 80s and 90s. I remember seeing them. Or maybe it was the edible candy versions of those that we had...

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    Re: You have to be a 60's kid to remember this! The Mattel Thing Maker!

    fond memories...

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    Re: You have to be a 60's kid to remember this! The Mattel Thing Maker!

    Quote Originally Posted by Bluntman View Post
    I figured you knew them
    they were great!! and everything you made had that weird smell of toxic chemicals they hadn't banned yet!! those were the days!! I remember one Christmas getting one and our tree with the psychedelic light show tree topper, the silver disco tree was in the other room, those were trees with those red fabric balls that always unraveled
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    Re: You have to be a 60's kid to remember this! The Mattel Thing Maker!

    they had them in the 90's i had one. it wasn't called the same thing but it made horrid chemical creepy crawlers, i think it was the creepy crawler or some shit.
    dead white and blue

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    dead white and blue

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    Re: You have to be a 60's kid to remember this! The Mattel Thing Maker!

    Quote Originally Posted by stat1K View Post
    they had them in the 90's i had one. it wasn't called the same thing but it made horrid chemical creepy crawlers, i think it was the creepy crawler or some shit.
    Yep, Creepy Crawlers. I still remember the ads lol.
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    Re: You have to be a 60's kid to remember this! The Mattel Thing Maker!

    Quote Originally Posted by stat1K View Post
    they had them in the 90's i had one. it wasn't called the same thing but it made horrid chemical creepy crawlers, i think it was the creepy crawler or some shit.
    Yep I do remember the cooked rubber type smell now that I read this LOL. And Today Aug. 4th 2012 I am officially 51 years old. Very odd I am young.
    My '66' GT I built. My first Hot Rod magazine Cover "Summer 85". I've had it for 32 years, since I was 18. It's a trailer queen. 289 Hi-po, t-10 Toploader 4speed, 9 inch rearend.

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