The toy that made toys used “bottles of luridly hued synthetic liquid known as Plastigoop - non-toxic in that very special way other chemicals were non-toxic back then,” he wrote. (Want to see the candy version? Check out the Incredible Edibles maker.)Īs columnist Dan Craft remembered in the Bloomington, Illinois Pantagraph newspaper in 2010, “for a 7-year-old recently graduated from Tinker Toys, the Thingmaker was practically a weapon of mass destruction.” The result: rubber bugs… and flowers, dragons, monsters, men, cars and more. Kids would fill an aluminum mold from a squeeze bottle of some colorful plastic compound (that would undoubtedly be considered unsafe today), then would use a high-temperature heating element (estimated to get up to 440 degrees F) to cure the goop into the desired shape. Vintage Thingmaker toys were pretty basic - but could be so much fun.
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