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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.

Posted by Matt on 10/24/2006. E-mail me!

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Lucky me. Happy Halloween and First!

I posted this the other day, but it is the 40th anniversary of the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown this Friday night on ABC.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 10/24/2006 10:54 PM

I used to love these toys.

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 10/24/2006 10:59 PM

I still own a Mad Scientist cartoon VHS where one ep. his lab/house comes to life in Monster House-esque fashion, and the other ep. every sentence “Dr. Sci” says comes to life or makes something happen. I can’t say if I’ve ever seen any other Mad Scientist cartoon. I loved this stuff! I even got a Mad Scientist outfit for my b-day one year.

Chestnuts roasted by EtHM @ 10/24/2006 11:12 PM

I used to love these toys. Thanks for putting this article up,I always love X-Entertainment regardless of what the subject is,but this is the kind of thing you just can’t get anywhere else.

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 10/24/2006 11:16 PM

Not sure what’s up with my weird double half-post.

Chestnuts roasted by Kid Nicky @ 10/24/2006 11:17 PM

Lol that’s awesome. I think I dig the reviews of toys that I don’t remember more than the ones that I do. Yay Monsters!

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 10/24/2006 11:22 PM

I’d pop the lid and tell it to stay quiet. It did, because it was good “Monster Flesh.”

Ah, to be young enough to talk to your toys and feel proud of them when they “behaved.” Hey… wait… I still do that…

Chestnuts roasted by broomstickjockey @ 10/24/2006 11:23 PM

Crap, I gotta work friday, so I’ll miss Great Pumpkin! Even though I watch it every year, I think this will the be the first in a while where I will!

And I had a board game that involved slime called “Wipe Out” where you had to get surfers to the bottom of the wave before the slime came. It was only used once because most of the slime had gotten on me, my friends, and the carpet. I was pissed when I opened it on Christmas, I wanted “Knock Out,” and specifically said it as such in my list. Anyone else here remember either of these games??

I’m currently making a list on my blog about the Greatest Halloween Songs and Best Halloween Cartoons. Which ones should I have? The Jukebox gave me most of my songs, but I’d like to know which ones I should really list!

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 10/24/2006 11:28 PM

I had the bigger lab playset of this type when I was a kid, I bought it at a creepy indoor flea market and the jar of monster flesh was half gone. It was awesome though, it had all these plastic skeleton parts you could put together and then build flesh over and then drop the bastard in the sea monkey tank type thing and watch his flesh dissolve!

Chestnuts roasted by Black Zarak @ 10/24/2006 11:35 PM

freakin awesome, this is the closest i have ever come to first comment. w00t

someday we have to smoke matt, i live in prince’s bay near the train.

this site rocks!!!

Chestnuts roasted by Armando @ 10/24/2006 11:56 PM

I remember back in third grade somebody had some of that red Mad Scientist stuff and shot a little ball of it in the air and it stuck to the ceiling. I remember it was still there on the ceiling when I was in sixth grade. It is probably still stuck there to this day…

Chestnuts roasted by Jon @ 10/25/2006 12:02 AM

Just the mere mention of the name Dr. Wily brought a smile to my face.

I’m such a dork.

Chestnuts roasted by Review the World @ 10/25/2006 12:30 AM

I loved these things! My ma had a “no slime toys” rule, mostly to preserve the still-faultless wall-to-wall carpeting, but so many of my friends collected these that it didn’t matter. The larger sets were awesome, too, but I’ve got a soft spot for anything branded with the “Mad Scientist” name.

(Also, my first comment, for what it’s worth.)

Chestnuts roasted by Declan Dempsey @ 10/25/2006 12:32 AM

Black Zarak I had that one as well, it was a hand me down from my brother as he suddenly got “too cool” to play with it.

I also got the one were you had a I believe it was 12 inch tall see-thru monster that came with internal organs. The organs fit inside the monster like a puzzle, then you filled the monster up with He-Man type slime. It also came with a plastic scalpal that you used to make an incision in the monster, you used a set of tongs to disect the monster innards, man that was fun. Pretty good effect to, it made my brother gag the first couple of times I did it.

Chestnuts roasted by Jester @ 10/25/2006 12:38 AM

Hope I wasn’t the only one to join the Parade today. Remember to pick up all three versions. Black, White, and Velvetine.

Velvetine is worth every dime, even if some of Ray and Frankie’s commentaries come directly from the iTunes sneak peek. Gerard’s essay is pretty awesome. Mikey’s is a little vague. Bob’s is nice and raises the eternal question: Who is Hans?

I don’t need to tell you how awesome the album is. You already know. Self-fufilling prophecies are fun

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 10/25/2006 12:45 AM

Declan-It’s nice to know that I wasn’t the only one who was deprived of “slime” toys. My mom was the epitomy of anal-retentive…I never got an e-z bake either, due to the crumb factor.

I always drooled over these…as always, thanks for the fond (yet jealous) memories Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by MissJess @ 10/25/2006 1:40 AM

The red stuff looks like The Blob. As I have always been terrified of the Blob, I’m quietly sitting here and freaking out.

Chestnuts roasted by LemonWitch @ 10/25/2006 1:48 AM

A Star Comics reference! Long live the painful puns of Michael Gallagher!

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 10/25/2006 2:26 AM

I received the Mad Scientist “Dissect an Alien” set for Christmas one year, and it easily became one of my favorites. He came with removable organs, and a jar of glow in the dark slime.

Chestnuts roasted by Dude McGuy @ 10/25/2006 2:33 AM

Welcome, Declan!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/25/2006 3:10 AM

Not sure what’s up with my weird double half-post. –That sounds like a skateboard trick.

I never got any Mad scientist things growing up. My other always got us the truly boring educational science toys. They never had goo in them.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 10/25/2006 7:32 AM

peewee ejacking.. no?!

Chestnuts roasted by drbong @ 10/25/2006 8:26 AM

These were my favorite gowing up! But the LIVING ICE I had was colorless. This way it seemed more like, well, ice.

The best part of dissolving the monsters in the vat in the bigger playsets was when they got to the point where their flesh was still mostly intact, but their plastic eyes, ears, etc fell off. Awesome.

My first post, by the way.

Chestnuts roasted by RUrahrah @ 10/25/2006 8:39 AM

EtHM: I was sure I was the only person on Earth who had ever seen that cartoon.

Chestnuts roasted by Deuce @ 10/25/2006 9:45 AM

where did you get them?

Chestnuts roasted by Deuce @ 10/25/2006 9:53 AM

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