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10/24/2006: Mad Scientist Toyzzz.


Continuing on with my “toys that have nothing to do with Halloween but kind of do” series, here’s a look back at some of the smaller toys from the Mad Scientist collection. You know the one. The one fronted by that weird Dr. Wily-esque guy in a lab coat. The only that had big playsets that let you dissolve clay monsters and create visuals like the climax scene in either Gremlins movie. The toys featured in this article are on the simpler side, but they were some of my favorites, because I do so love shallow tubs full of neon ooze with funky titles.


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Wow- this went in an interesting direction.
I also had a CPK- it was a bald baby and I named it Papcheck. I know. I don’t know why I had it, but I’ve had it for as long as I can remember. I actually did not realize that they came with names until I found the birth certificate a few years ago. I don’t remember what her real name was. I more clearly remember the book I had, featuring photos of the dolls playing hide and seek in a forest or something. It was really weird.

I was more fond of the Magic Nursery dolls where you didn’t know if it was a boy or girl until you dissolved the diaper or something. I got one and I ended up winning twins, so I had three for the price of one. I can’t remember how that worked, but it was a sweet deal. One of my really good friends back then had a lot of the Magic Nursery animals. Those were pretty cool.

Ghosted by Rainbowfeet @ 10/27/2006 5:15 PM EDT

deuce is blogging from the pen!

Ghosted by drbong @ 10/27/2006 5:23 PM EDT

Loved these toys when I was a kid. Although they just sold it and moved, I believe there is still purple slime smooshed into the woodpanel walls of the family room in my parent’s house.

Ghosted by Timbo @ 10/27/2006 6:20 PM EDT

My bald Cabbage Patch baby was named Natalie. You know how you associate some words with things as a kid, because you’d never heard them before? I don’t think I ever met anyone named Natalie, so in my mind Natalie = nettles, as in stinging nettles. For some reason this didn’t bother me, and she kept the name.

My brother was another boy who had a CPK. My parents are very liberal/equal rights/anti-stereotype people, so he had My Little Ponies and I had Transformers. It worked great until the crushing preteen need to conform took over.

Ghosted by Welsh Rabbit @ 10/27/2006 7:01 PM EDT

Rainbow – I always wanted one of those Magic Nursery dolls, and I’d like to live vicariously through you if I could.
Papcheck?

Ghosted by Jessica Marie @ 10/27/2006 7:04 PM EDT

Well, so much for “starting Monday, there will be new Halloween Countdowns every day until Halloween — including next weekend.”

Ghosted by Anonomys @ 10/27/2006 8:29 PM EDT

Wow, where the hell is Matt? :o Strange of him to not even post and let us know what’s up…

I had, and still have, many Cabbage Patch Kids. My first one was named Suzette. She was from the very first wave, way back when. Blonde yarn pigtails and blue corduroy overalls. I loved her. I also had one named Justin that could hold a crayon, others named Tony, Rosalie, Anne, Roy, Cleo, Greta … oh crap, I can’t remember the rest of them. Probably had about 3-5 more of them. I was addicted.

MissJess, I, too, have a CPK with lesions on it’s head! It was a baby one that smelled like powder, and her name is Anne. Actually, her lesions kinda turned dark colored… It’s really gross. :?

Ghosted by Ryane @ 10/27/2006 8:44 PM EDT

Yeah, I’m worried too. We have our differences, but I love ya Matt. Come back to us, please. Even if it’s just to say you’re busy as all hell.

Ghosted by K- @ 10/27/2006 8:59 PM EDT

Jessica Marie-
You can have the imaginary memories of one of the triplets. She’s a little girl and she’s awesome. You can name her whatever you want. :)

Yeah, Papcheck. (?!) I still don’t understand where that came from- must have been because I was so little.

Ghosted by Rainbowfeet @ 10/27/2006 11:39 PM EDT

That cartoon strip panel in which the Ogre flesh gets yanked and distorted, and is thrown agains the wall…it awoke something in me. Or rather, it brought back this delightfully sadistic glee that I felt as a kid, doing these exact same things with my toys. Geez, Matt you hit it right on the mark. We WERE sick sadistic bastards back then. And we probably still are now.

Ghosted by Venison @ 10/28/2006 2:31 AM EDT

“VIOLA!”? Viola is a small village in northern Italy. The correct term would be voilà (voire = to look, là = there).

http://www.bartleby.com/61/81/V0138100.html

Ghosted by Henk Tiggelaar @ 10/29/2006 5:18 AM EST

I would sell my soul for my “disect an alien” kit I got for Christmas one year….

Ghosted by Courtney @ 11/13/2006 11:50 AM EST

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