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08/05/2003: New Article: The WWF Superstars Molding Kit!

New Article: Ever had this irresistible urge to make Hulk Hogan out of Play-Doh? In 1992, kids could do just that with Craft House’s WWF Superstars Maker — a kit that turned lumps of kneaded dough into Macho Man and the Ultimate Warrior. The playset is only interesting on a sadist level, and certainly didn’t bring a smile to faces of whatever poor kids it was thrust upon. On the upside, it’s the only place you’ll ever find a plastic “Ted DiBiase” clay mold. Oooooh yeah.

By the way — apparently, it’s been revealed “for sure” that Shoutin’ Orange Tangergreen is in fact the true reborn Ecto Cooler. Someone posted in the comments section that they called Minute Maid/Hi-C and got the word straight from the juicy horse’s juicy mouth. Kind of an anticlimactic ending to our journey, but don’t worry — I don’t think we’ve heard the last from Slimer and his green thirst quencher.


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Discussion Thread: 30 comments

very interesting….what the hell do they expect you to do with just red and yellow? you need at least 4 colors so they can each be a different color…well whatever…first post!!

Ghosted by heeloyd @ 08/05/2003 5:15 PM EDT

Second post (I think). Darn.

I think I would want one of those just to let the wrestlers dry out and get wrinkly. Just like they are now.

Ghosted by Sean @ 08/05/2003 5:32 PM EDT

Wow,never this high up on the list.I remember having a farm set for play-doh.I’d send it to you Matt,but I think the play-doh has already turned into a rock by now.

Ghosted by Fhydra @ 08/05/2003 5:33 PM EDT

On the note of dried playthings, while playdoh goes dry and wrinkly, the true king of "leave if for a long time and see what happens" goes to Ghostbusters Ecto Plasm toy stuff. You could use it to smother your ghostbuster toys in moist goo, OR more worthwhile (and less messy) leave the goo in an airing cupboard for a few months.

When you finally remove the lid, the plasm has cultivates a strange grey growth of almost grass like mould. a few long strands as well as a less well defined fur.

Matt, if oyu have any laying about, try this, and take some photos, the grey on purple contrast is a powerful artistic statement.

Ghosted by vyle @ 08/05/2003 5:51 PM EDT

‘though after reading about the Warrior’s rather off-kilter off-screen exploits, it’s not impossible that he added a "YOU MUSS MAKE AH PLAY-DOH MOLD OF ME" clause to his contract. The other guys were just along for the ride.’

Hahahah :)

Ghosted by Taker @ 08/05/2003 6:01 PM EDT

matt, you should cover the WWF cartoon that was so big in it’s heyday. personally i dont remember much about it but the catchy theme song that chanted "Hulk, Hulk"…

Ghosted by kranick @ 08/05/2003 7:02 PM EDT

This kind of reminds me of this T2 Skin Molder thing I had: you pump this gel type substance to a T-1000 exoskeleton and it looks like it had skin…. I also had this T2 care with a giant rocket that went about 4 inches….

Oh well. Just my 2 cents.

Ghosted by SilvaKrown @ 08/05/2003 7:14 PM EDT

Macho Man looks like he’s pinching his nipple. I can’t even think of a witty comment for that. It speaks for itself.

Ghosted by The Ponderer @ 08/05/2003 8:42 PM EDT

Let me holla at cha playa.
Matt, I need to stop kickin myself in da ass, cause every time I get dat feelin you gonna turn this racist bull, you go on an say something like "Regardless, the pro-wrestling fishbowl was rather small, and Hulk was still the Great White." Beelee dat playa. We all know you tried to make Warrior black to appease the Black man, but that isn’t good enough. You see, Warrior aint no negro. He just was Haterizing on Papa Shango and the Papa was Thuggin And Buggin on him because we all know the Black man won’t be let to go over wit da crowd. Beelee dat playa. See now if ya had dah play-doh with DLo Brown, Papa Shango, The Rock, Farooq and then maybe the Brothas would come over ya house to play. But you know ya mama wouldn’t allow dat. Beelee dat playa. She’d be like "Don’t let that black boy in" And then the boy would be like "But I just wanna play WWE Black Superstars play-doh" and ya mama would be like "Get outta here negro, you need ta be caged". Beelee dat playa. Then the boy would send over Rodney Mack and give her a 5 minute White Mama chalange….. Matter a fact, I’ma go talk to Vince about do a commercial right now. And you know there betta be da Big Gold Key in dat play set. Beelee dat playa.

Ghosted by Theodore R. Long @ 08/05/2003 9:30 PM EDT

Did anybody happen to catch the Ultimate Warrior on C-Span a couple of weeks ago? No, i’m not kidding. I’ll be darned if I could figure out what he was rambling about, but you know it’s gonna be entertaining any time a guy with the legal name ‘Warrior’ is involved. Here’s a link to the video clip, if it’s still available:

http://video.c-span.org:8080/ramgen/jdrive/smil/e072103_youngamerica.smi

in order to get straight to the Warrior’s speech, skip the first two speeches by moving the little round ‘clip-position’ thingy in Real Player to the end of the clip twice.

Ghosted by Goggles Pizano @ 08/05/2003 9:45 PM EDT

Come on, admit it. You ate the play-doh. Ok, maybe not ATE, but we all know you tasted it.

Ghosted by candybar @ 08/06/2003 1:47 AM EDT

Good piece I esp. liked the crystaline doughy substance (I believe they only gave you red & yellow to make Hogan, jeez that guy even had an ego with toys) it was very pretty. All the wrestling toys from back then were crappy with the exception of those big rubbery ones the wwf put out, those may be the best wrestling toys of all time. They had a pretty good likeness, were extremely durable and pliable enough so that if you chunked it at somebody it would hurt but not to the level that warrants crying or fights.
Every one always makes fun of early 90’s wrestling but that was when I became a fan so it couldn’t be all that bad, like the kranick above stated there was the Rock in Roll wrestling show, (though technically it’s probably an eighties thing, like Cyndi Lauper) plus a real good arcade game, and a comic book (there was a preview in the pages of WWF magazine and the only thing I vaguely remember is the Natural Disasters lifting a car and Mr.Perfect calling the Texas Tornado a name, hitting him and running away). It wasn’t the best of times but sure wasn’t the worst (Katie Vick,David Arquette winning WCW championship).
As for Jim Hellwig (Ultimate Warrior) he must be one of the biggest in jokes in all of wrestling history, the guy is such a sanctimonious asshole. I’m one for political involvement but since when has being buried up to your neck and face to face with a rubber snake earned you the title of "political expert". It was funny though, I guess I can put up with him as long as he amuses me so. People who want more funny wrestling stuff should check out wrestlecrap.com and scoopthis.com (scoopthis doesn’t post any new stuff but the site is big enough that you can check it out for days and good enough so that you enjoy it).

Ghosted by Happnin' Mojo @ 08/06/2003 2:30 AM EDT

haha this is great!

Ghosted by Eric @ 08/06/2003 2:57 AM EDT

kinda related, but does anyone remember these toy sets that came with a big thing of gross mud to hide plastic dinosaur bones in? it might have been a hot wheels thing i dunno, but that mud tasted real bad

Ghosted by satas @ 08/06/2003 3:34 AM EDT

http://www.livejournal.com/users/mindsuckr/70242.html#cutid1

a story based on hulk syrup. XE readers might find it funny.

Ghosted by mindsuckr @ 08/06/2003 3:35 AM EDT

so on another note, i finally watched the warrior thing, and i know the kid who introduced him, he goes to my college ohio university, i think i should be proud

Ghosted by satas @ 08/06/2003 3:39 AM EDT

The heart attack comment made me spit soda on my computer screen. Thanks a lot.

And am I the only one that would actually believe Teddy Long has so little to do that the reply up there is actually him? Maybe that’s just me.

Ghosted by The Other Sean @ 08/06/2003 4:52 AM EDT

the teddy long guy is so funny. and the worst thing is that the guy doing it can never go : "ooh its mee im the funny one" cos he cant.

spakin of playdoh, i remember i wanted to make extra modulok pieces.

my plan as a kid was to make molds by pressing the bits into playdoh, and leaving them to go hard, the once it was hard, putting soft doh in the now hard molds, and viola, instant (okay 2 weeks) modulok spares.

trouble is the doh kind of lost its shape in the going hard process, so i decided to try again, making sure the molds didnt get mishaped this time but 1st i’d need to soften up the doh.

i1/4 filled an ice cream tub with water and put the hard doh in.

after a few weeks or so i realised id forgotten about the tub in my wardbrobe. i went in, and retreived the tub, hoping my playdoh would have absorbed the water and be good as new.

strangely the lid seemed stuck on very firmly…what was going on?

after lots of tugging i got one corner up, just a bit, and smelt the most horrible stench i had ever experienced EVER. (and considering my job that’s saying something.)

determined to discover the source of this smells i gave it all of my strength and yanked the lid as hard as i could.

with a rasping noise and a splat the lid came off, and i hit by what appeared to be a combination of green slime and white candy floss.

the playdoh had gnemouldy in th tub and the huge growth of mould had grown into the the gap between the tub and the lid, sticking ithard, thats why it was so hard to opn and caused me to have to rip it so hard.

not wanting to get in troublefor being such a ool wit my playoh i put my mould and slime coveredt shirt nd the wet (but still fairly hard) play doh, and the tub in the bin. but it took a very long bath to get the stench off me.

imagine if matt had tried similar with the playdoh in the wwf set.

i woul d hav made a great series of photos.

Ghosted by 'tin man @ 08/06/2003 6:59 AM EDT

sorry for te spelling, i type like a seal

Ghosted by 'tin man @ 08/06/2003 7:00 AM EDT

I remember pulling the cap off of some kind of ancient Play-Doh and it being covered in a green and blue spiky mold. I’m still in therapy. Okay, maybe not. But goddamn! That’s disturbing when you’re a little girl.

Anyway, you’ve gotta love the Play-Doh stuff of today. I have to imagine that the "Fun to play with, but not to eat!" is more than a little disingenuous on Hasbro’s part. They know that some kid’s going to be passing this through his digestive system in less than 24 hours after opening it.

McDonald’s Play-Doh (Actually, I think this is ancient).

The George Foreman Play-Doh Grill I know they have to turn a buck, but when you’re schilling McD’s to kids, do you think these kids are worried about their cholesterol levels?

Play-Doh Lunchables

Ghosted by Molten @ 08/06/2003 10:46 AM EDT

dang i want that play-doy grill!

Ghosted by kennef @ 08/06/2003 2:08 PM EDT

I never like wwf but i loved play doh.

Ghosted by Jared @ 08/06/2003 2:28 PM EDT

Oh yeah and ive seen the Mc dondls play doh on tv about a year ago.

Ghosted by Jared @ 08/06/2003 2:31 PM EDT

way off topic guys but did anyone else enter the ugo "win tickets to c freddy vs jason" contest here in manhattan? i won and i am going on thursday and wondering if any fellow blogers are gonna b there, :)
i cannot wait to c this movie!!!

Ghosted by jessica @ 08/06/2003 3:22 PM EDT

i bet its a load of boiled arse. i only liked 3 jason movies.

oes anyone remember playing with fymo?

it was like playdoh, but you could cook it and it went hard, so you could keep your creations.

Ghosted by 'tin man @ 08/06/2003 3:42 PM EDT

My aunt gave me this for my birthday and yes it did suck. I just kept impaling them with pencils.

Ghosted by bobby @ 08/06/2003 8:05 PM EDT

The WWF crap factory!

Ghosted by platoonpunch @ 08/09/2003 4:57 AM EDT

im paling them with pencils sopunds fun. or what about throwing darts?

the whole dart board potential of play dohis terribly over looked

Ghosted by 'tin Man @ 08/09/2003 10:32 AM EDT

To Theodore Long (may I call you Teddy L?):

My mum ALWAYS let me play wrestling games with the black kids in the neighborhood. I am sure that Matt’s mother let him do the same. But then… she always let me play with them while she was trying to talk to their dads with her hand between their upper thighs… hmmm….

And you may believe that, player.

Ghosted by freakachu @ 08/09/2003 10:43 PM EDT

Right. So now that the sarcasm is out of the way, I want to tell you all a terribly off-topic story:

About eight years ago, my half brother, who was five at the time, was an OBSESSIVE Hulk fan. Well, my step grandma (my brother’s real grandma) worked in the check-cashing store in the Mall Of America– right next door to where the Hulk was JUST OPENING his (short-lived) new restaurant!!

So of course, it was easy-peasy for Grandma to get my brother there for the grand opening. And we have LIVE VIDEO (which I think was also actually played on TV) of my little brother up on Hulk’s shoulder, in front of hundreds of screaming, crying fans. It was an awesome moment.

A couple months ago, I saw my brother for the first time in five years– and he STILL HAS HIS HULK POSTER UP ON THE WALL. Apparently he is convinced that Hulk was never a bad guy, and that wrestling IS real– Hulk was just FORCED to pretend to be mean.

The kid’s fucking thirteen. Is this taking it too far…?

Oh, and jessica, congratulations!!!

Ghosted by freakachu @ 08/09/2003 10:55 PM EDT

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