Thingmaker

They still make Creepy Crawlers, but the "Thingmaker" cooker is now a crappy plastic box with a light bulb heating element and a safety door that won't let you see your creepy crawler cook.

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A second little girl brings her vintage Thingmaker out from under a table and plugs it in.

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Which is unpleasant and I'm sorry to hear it...but coming as I do from the era of lawn darts and the Mattel Thingmaker, I kinda view surviving the dangerous toys of my childhood as proof of my Darwinian fitness...

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And a fellow who goes by "Dr. Goop" specializes in modern formulations of thermo-set goops for Thingmaker toys.

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The Creepy Crawlers Thingmaker was the first consumer product I improved through hacking.

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A woman named Patty has homebrewed her own goop (Patti-goop!) and sells it on eBay so you can use it with a vintage Thingmaker.

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Then you put the mold into an electrically heated unit called a Thingmaker.

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I think I'd bet against your first prediction and offer my own that the first fabs will be children's construction toys along the lines of Erector sets, Legos, and Mattel's Thingmaker.

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So I went along with it and we played Mouse Trap and Easy Money and Operation, baked rubber scorpions in her Thingmaker, assembled a Yellow Submarine mobile, its little paper Johns, Pauls, Georges, and Ringos dangling from black threads.

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996

So I went along with it and we played Mouse Trap and Easy Money and Operation, baked rubber scorpions in her Thingmaker, assembled a Yellow Submarine mobile, its little paper Johns, Pauls, Georges, and Ringos dangling from black threads.

Hoopi Shoopi Donna Suzanne Strempek Shea 1996