There Was This Toy, And I Can't Remember What It Was Called

[Camazotz Automat]

 Many share that memory of a favorite toy or a toy that was desired but never owned.

While most are unforgettable, there is often a toy that we just can't seem to remember what the hell it was called.  We may have wanted to own it, or we may have owned it and played with it until it disintegrated.

And now (at your advanced age) you've Googled for answers until your fingers are bleeding; you've stared at the screen until the whites of your eyes are as mapped as a Snakes and Ladders board.

No luck.

This is the thread for those toys - a thread for the chance someone might solve the son-of-bitching mystery that is eating at you, day after day.

Instead of napping today, as I should have been, I have been killing time via a barrage of postings while waiting to leave for the airport to catch a Red Eye jaunt to the Netherworld. 

I was hoping to reach some unheard of (for me) percentile activity of 50%.

I did not make my goal, and now I have to get going.

So for the duration of my vacation, if you are so inclined and suffer the malady,

Do This In Remembrance Of Me.

(I can be a sacrilegious bastard, you have to give me that much)

I invite you to post descriptions of those *$!#^?%(}  toys that still haunt you, but the names of which you cannot remember.

When I return, it is my sincere hope to read a half-dozen or more Mystery Toy dramas that are driving those concerned completely bat-shit crazy. Who knows? Maybe someone in the forum will know EXACTLY what you are talking about.


   Until then,

        I remain,

            Your faithful and loyal servant,

    CAMAZOTZ  (THE) AUTOMAT


P.S.

Parting shot to fellow Hell rats:

If you're gonna die, die with your boots on!


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[The General]

In the early eighties, I loved matchbox cars.

Then I got the most amazing toy ever.  A wax pellet was dropped into the opening of a weird electric machine.  The wax was brought to the melting point and then poured into a rubber mold by turning a knob.  You then placed axles and wheels into the mold in the hot wax.  Once the wax dried, you removed it from the mold, and you had your own wax matchbox car.  It came with several molds to make several different models of cars, and several different colors of wax to choose from.  The cars were ugly, but they did roll, and the fact that you made them yourself from hot wax was 98% of the fun.

I have no idea what it was called, and I can't find anything about it on google.

[DangerousBlossom]

Once the wax dried, you removed it from the mold, and you had your own wax matchbox car.  It came with several molds to make several different models of cars, and several different colors of wax to choose from.  The cars were ugly, but they did roll

Master Caster!

[McPhallus]

There was this Swamp Thing-type of creature made from some weird rubbery substance.  You could pull off his arms, legs, etc., and reattach them.

He also had an accessory: a cage you could place him in and then submerge in a little pit.  The accessory also came with a bag of gelatinous goo you could use to fill the pit.  Once the pit was full, you could push a button and the creature would rise from from the pit in his little cage.

[The General]

Master Caster!

nice work!  that's the one.

[MV/Liberace!]

In the early eighties, I loved matchbox cars.

Then I got the most amazing toy ever.  A wax pellet was dropped into the opening of a weird electric machine.  The wax was brought to the melting point and then poured into a rubber mold by turning a knob.  You then placed axles and wheels into the mold in the hot wax.  Once the wax dried, you removed it from the mold, and you had your own wax matchbox car.  It came with several molds to make several different models of cars, and several different colors of wax to choose from.  The cars were ugly, but they did roll, and the fact that you made them yourself from hot wax was 98% of the fun.

I have no idea what it was called, and I can't find anything about it on google.

i don't think you could get away with manufacturing a toy like this in 2012.  people are sooooo safety obsessed, i just don't think there's any way.  i can already hear the arguments against such a toy: "what if kids burn themselves?" or "what if kids drink the wax?"


i think being a kid in america 2012 is probably a buzzkill.

[BobGrau]

: "what if kids burn themselves?" or "what if kids drink the wax?"

It's fun, but educational too!

[fysisist]

i don't think you could get away with manufacturing a toy like this in 2012.  people are sooooo safety obsessed, i just don't think there's any way.  i can already hear the arguments against such a toy: "what if kids burn themselves?" or "what if kids drink the wax?"


i think being a kid in america 2012 is probably a buzzkill.

I remember when I was about 10 or so, there was a toy that had some lead molds for various creatures that you could create somehow by pouring something in them or some pellets or something, I can't really remember the details.  But in any case, the toy heated the molds to cast the rubbery creatures.  This would have been back in the late 60's.  So my friend and I decided to put the molds on the burner on the electric range so we could heat it up more, and as you might expect the lead melted and the kid got in on his hand.  I can still remember the inhuman shrieking and utter look of agony on his face to this day.  So yeah there is no way a toy like this would be on the market today.  I'm surprised they still sell the easy bake ovens that use 100 Watt light bulbs to "cook" those god-awful little cakes and such.

haha... I found it via Google: Creepy Crawlers. 

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Wow the motorized monster maker is cooler than my fav toys (the Micronauts).

Oh and Vectrex. Maybe video games don't count though.

[HAL 9000]

haha... I found it via Google: Creepy Crawlers.

I still have my Creepy Crawlers set tucked away in my dad's basement. It was awesome. I recall walking up to K-Mart as a kid to to get the latest innovation for Creepy Crawlers... glow-in-the-dark goo!

Creepy Crawlers totally rocked, as did my Vac-u-form, which I also still have.

[guildnavigator]

I still have my Creepy Crawlers set tucked away in my dad's basement. It was awesome. I recall walking up to K-Mart as a kid to to get the latest innovation for Creepy Crawlers... glow-in-the-dark goo!

Creepy Crawlers totally rocked, as did my Vac-u-form, which I also still have.

I had one of those creepy crawler machines. I also had this other toy that was a mold that was supposed to make a Dracula toy. Dracula wouldn't dry out and solidify so I put him in the microwave for something like 7 minutes. He turned into a purple rock.

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[Camazotz Automat]

There was this Swamp Thing-type of creature made from some weird rubbery substance.  You could pull off his arms, legs, etc., and reattach them.

He also had an accessory: a cage you could place him in and then submerge in a little pit.  The accessory also came with a bag of gelatinous goo you could use to fill the pit.  Once the pit was full, you could push a button and the creature would rise from from the pit in his little cage.

McPhallus, that is one hell of an interesting toy. It possesses a certain Warren Zevon Excitable Boy undercurrent.

Pictured below is a photo I located of a MANGLORD  figure and the accessory, MANGLOR MOUNTAIN, replete with dipping cage. Nice. While this may not be the exact MANGLORD figure you had, the mountain seems right.

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[b_dubb]

I still have my Magnavox Odyssey II. 16k processor, membrane keyboard, and fully programmable with the Basic cartridge. not too shabby for 1977

[Camazotz Automat]

      I still have my Magnavox Odyssey II
                        16k processor
                 
                 (membrane keyboard
                                and
                   fully programmable)

                with the Basic cartridge
                      not too shabby
                          for 1977

Poetry.

[MV/Liberace!]

scroll on down to the "atomic energy lab."  holy shit.


http://www.cracked.com/article_19481_the-8-most-wildly-irresponsible-vintage-toys_p2.html

[onan]

scroll on down to the "atomic energy lab."  holy shit.


http://www.cracked.com/article_19481_the-8-most-wildly-irresponsible-vintage-toys_p2.html

In my 1968 science class there was a 2 inch cube of lead. On one of the faces was a needle size hole to the center of the cube where a small amount of radium was placed. We were all encouraged to look into the pin hole to see the blue glow.

Ahh science.

[b_dubb]

scroll on down to the "atomic energy lab."  holy shit.


http://www.cracked.com/article_19481_the-8-most-wildly-irresponsible-vintage-toys_p2.html

Holy god that's awesome! Ships with real uranium? Explosive chemicals? How did any Baby Boomers survive to adulthood?  Natural selection at its most entertaining.

I'm guessing if you were "lucky" enough to get an Atomic Energy Kit your parents probably had enough cash to get a good attorney when the radioactive materials it shipped with made you sterile

Unfucking believable

[Camazotz Automat]

scroll on down to the "atomic energy lab."  holy shit.

"Ward, it's horrible!  It's unbelievable! I found Yellow Cake under the Beaver's bed!"


Leave it to Atomic Beaver

[The General]

scroll on down to the "atomic energy lab."  holy shit.


http://www.cracked.com/article_19481_the-8-most-wildly-irresponsible-vintage-toys_p2.html

wow.  i want one.

[Camazotz Automat]

wow.  i want one.

Hey, kids!  And I'm talking to YOU, General!

Combine your Master Caster with the Atomic Energy Lab to create some real HOT RODS!!!!

(humming the theme from SPEED RACER)

((go Speed Racerrrrrrrrr gooooooooooooooo))

[Camazotz Automat]

Wow the motorized monster maker is cooler than my fav toys (the Micronauts).

It's difficult to imagine any Coaster or Ex-Coaster not appreciating the specific aesthetic value of the Micronauts Time Traveler.  It easily out-travels John Titor.

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[McPhallus]

In my 1968 science class there was a 2 inch cube of lead. On one of the faces was a needle size hole to the center of the cube where a small amount of radium was placed. We were all encouraged to look into the pin hole to see the blue glow.

Ahh science.

In the "watch world," there's the story of a factory in the 20s that hired young girls just out of high school to paint watch dials and hands with radium so that they'd glow in the dark.  They were paid high wages at the time, but not told that they were exposed to HIGH doses of radium while medical experiments were being conducted without their permission.  They had an astonishingly high rate of cancer, as you might imagine.  The company is now long gone.

[ziznak]

In the "watch world," there's the story of a factory in the 20s that hired young girls just out of high school to paint watch dials and hands with radium so that they'd glow in the dark.  They were paid high wages at the time, but not told that they were exposed to HIGH doses of radium while medical experiments were being conducted without their permission.  They had an astonishingly high rate of cancer, as you might imagine.  The company is now long gone.

There's more to that story... I think it was on "1000 ways to die" which I highly recommend.  Great show.  Anyway, yeah so one of the girls that worked with the radium paint took it home and was using it with her man in glow in the dark hide the sausage games... it didn't end well.  That watch company made some sort of military either aviation or submariner watches if I remember correctly. 

Here's another good one of similar ilk... how about that shoe fitting X-ray machine??  Classic.

[Camazotz Automat]

I also had this other toy that was a mold that was supposed to make a Dracula toy. Dracula wouldn't dry out and solidify so I put him in the microwave for something like 7 minutes. He turned into a purple rock.

In the very unlikely situation that you still own the vampiric purple rock, and depending on the condition thereof, I would be interested in purchasing said Dra-Cool. It sounds as if you may have stumbled upon and accidentally created The Philosopher's Stone.

I might even consider trading a dual winged turtle shell guitar pick, hand-crafted by yours truly.

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[Camazotz Automat]

In my 1968 science class there was a 2 inch cube of lead. On one of the faces was a needle size hole to the center of the cube where a small amount of radium was placed. We were all encouraged to look into the pin hole to see the blue glow.

Ahh science.

And yet the powers that be declared Wilhelm Reich crazy and unsafe regarding a  claimed observation of an entirely different type of "blue glow."

Perhaps a large toy company should reexamine this market and reboot the whole idea/product as The Orgone Factory*.  Completely safe. Comes with steel wool, wood box, iron box, various glass tubes, cables and accumulator construction blueprints. 

*Orgone not included.  For entertainment purposes only.

[999]

In the "watch world," there's the story of a factory in the 20s that hired young girls just out of high school to paint watch dials and hands with radium so that they'd glow in the dark.  They were paid high wages at the time, but not told that they were exposed to HIGH doses of radium while medical experiments were being conducted without their permission.  They had an astonishingly high rate of cancer, as you might imagine.  The company is now long gone.

There was a pretty good documentary about this,  I saw it in the early 90s - not sure if this is it on youtube (on my list to watch no pun intended)
RADIUM CITY 1987 Complete 102 min. Feature Documentary Film

[Camazotz Automat]

I still have my Creepy Crawlers set tucked away in my dad's basement. It was awesome. I recall walking up to K-Mart as a kid to to get the latest innovation for Creepy Crawlers... glow-in-the-dark goo!

Creepy Crawlers totally rocked, as did my Vac-u-form, which I also still have.

I remember when I was about 10 or so, there was a toy that had some lead molds for various creatures that you could create somehow by pouring something in them or some pellets or something, I can't really remember the details. 

haha... I found it via Google: Creepy Crawlers. 

I had one of those creepy crawler machines.

We may have enough interested parties here to commission the custom design of a set of molds featuring C2C hosts' faces and accessories.  Imagine a rubber head of Ian in glow goop, or an angry red rubber "Gorge" monster head.  The Art Bell set would come with extra cat molds.   

"This is Art Bell, and you've just cast me in electric blue goop.  You are a twisted monkey, now, aren't you?"

Ian's accessories: bible and crucifix, also in glow goop.

Gorge with vitamin bottles and a life-size mustache for wearing. And since Gorge is obsessed with his heart, there should a fully veined heart specimen mold.

George Knapp with a Ray Gun or Venusian scout ship.

You could also modify hosts you didn't like... "Look, I gave John Wells a centipede dick," etc.

Lots of possibilities. Hours of fun.  Make'em Trade'em Sell'em, as Mattel was known to say.  Pimping rubber instead of THC.

All poured of goop and cooked in Thingmakers.

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[Agent : Orange]

Anyone remember Inhumanoids?

There was one giant monster that had a ribcage that opened to take hostages...

[Mind Flayer Monk]

Anyone remember Inhumanoids?

There was one giant monster that had a ribcage that opened to take hostages...

Yep, the little boy (their human sidekick) would ride in there too.

[pate]

I recall this "Jaws(tm)" game that I played as a kid, at some point I used the plastic shark to terrorize the dawgs in the house as a young troll...  I feel bad about that, them dogs didna derserve that, and pooped in the house in protest as a result of my shenanigans.

Damn kids...

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7563/jaws

The movie really freaked me out, damn cable repeats.

I really wanted to post in this thread because of "Age of Mythology(tm)" by MicroSuck gaymes.  So many precursor "Fed-ex" type missions!  Let me git to the player v. player bits, but not the World of Warcraft type clones...

I expect I expect too much...

Really, it is about the Norse bits on the campaigns that I dread/tread hear.

"Tillboy"  0) (troll smiley)

"Tillboy" or at least I hear that when clicking on the bqwahtevahs...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGnHLusGuu4

'pologies!