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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!



Discussion Thread: 113 comments

My brother and I got the big food and drink maker labs for Christmas way back. It was an awesome day.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 10/25/2006 10:20 AM

Oh man… I remember when these came out, I had the big set were you would build the monster then dip it in the acid to clean him up….. I also had that Blue orge thing in living ice. I bet if these came out again they would sell as good as they did the first time!

Chestnuts roasted by Mjsgrass @ 10/25/2006 10:41 AM

ETHM

I have the VHS also LOL!

Chestnuts roasted by Mjsgrass @ 10/25/2006 10:42 AM

Invader Norbert:
“Halloween” by Helloween
“At the Graveyard” by Wolf

the ENTIRE “Horrow Show” album by Iced Earth – its an entire album about “nightmarish creatures”. The best songs are “Dracula” and “Im-Ho-Tep (Pharaohs Curse)” but the whole album is awesome. Im surprised no one has ever mentioned it. Its a Halloween staple around here.

Chestnuts roasted by kittycatgirl2k @ 10/25/2006 10:57 AM

Hey guys, sorry this has nothing to do with the post, but it’s so awesome I can’t resist. Check out this video of Vanilla Ice discussing his Ninja Rap from TMNT 2.

Click my name to check it out.

Chestnuts roasted by Tommy @ 10/25/2006 11:36 AM

Like Declan and MissJess, my mother also had a strict “no-slime” policy. My sisters would occasionally bring home slime from the vending machines, but slime-based toys purchased from the store were just not allowed. I do remember seeing the commercials for this line, though. Frankly, I thought they looked like cooler, horror-based Play-Dough sets, and despite my mother’s dislike of slime, we DID like Play-Dough.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 10/25/2006 12:05 PM

Weird Double Half-Post into a Spinning Chia Plot Crossover to Peewee Ejack with a Bamboo Peanut 640 and a Grinding I Came to See Garlic!

And that’s just falling down the stairs.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash on a one-wheeled skateboard @ 10/25/2006 12:22 PM

I remember getting the large monster-dissolving playset for Christmas,and the Disecct-an-alien toy as well. They were pretty neat.

Chestnuts roasted by Overlord @ 10/25/2006 1:26 PM

Again, showing my age here. Those things were popular as I was entering high school so I couldn’t justify asking for them for Christmas. Now, I’m 35 years old and I ask for toys again.

Off Topic:
Watched the Monster House DVD last night, not a bad movie. Very Halloweeny.

Off Topic 2:
My son and I took part in scaring the wiggins out of people Saturday night at a local popular haunted forest. Hell, I could just walk down the line of people waiting for tickets/entry and people would freak out. I can’t remember when I had so much fun for so long (from 7:30pm to 1:30am). We had almost 1000 people go through. We’re doing it again this weekend if it doesn’t rain. If you ever have the chance, work in a haunted house/forest, it’s very gratifying ;)

Chestnuts roasted by freudguy @ 10/25/2006 2:12 PM

Anyone else hear about this 8 movie horrorfest thing coming to theaters? It sounds awesome.

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 10/25/2006 2:38 PM

No way! I had Ogoore or whatever the hell his name is. I loved Mad Scientist but my brother would hord the playset all the time so I had to resort to making my own set out of baking soda play-doh type substance and then dumping them into a vat of peroxide. It works, try it!

Sadly the goop to make ogore turned to crumbs years later. Wish I still had the mold though so I could play Grape Escape with him.

Chestnuts roasted by That Guy @ 10/25/2006 5:01 PM

The Mad Scientist looks more like the one from Robot Chicken than Dr. Wiley to me.

Chestnuts roasted by JLAJRC @ 10/25/2006 5:34 PM

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

What happened to that Matt, what happened!?

Nah i’m just fuckin, i ain’t want to complain about a service you’re doing out of the good of your heart. But it’s getting uber close Matt, and you know it. People need their fix, or you very well could be destroying Halloween for millions…or about all 60 of us.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 10/25/2006 5:44 PM

The possibility exists that my GameStop is going to do a Midnight release of XII. And even if they don’t, the guy let it slip that they actually already have them in the store. I’m not sure if that’s actually true, but it did make me want to pull a fast break and beat him to the door to the stockroom.

If what he says IS true, and even if they don’t do the midnight release, it means I get to have it on Halloween anyway. And this is cool enough on its own.

Oh God Yes!!!!

Chestnuts roasted by K- @ 10/25/2006 7:02 PM

Unless I’m mistaken, Monday = Scare Glow, Tuesday = Mad Scientist. So you can hold off on the admonishments for the time being, since there’s puhlenty of Wednesday left to go.
Welcome, RUrahrah!

Chestnuts roasted by squee4242 @ 10/25/2006 7:09 PM

someone just got pwned.

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 10/25/2006 7:48 PM

It’s 9:33 PM… do you know where YOUR new countdown entry is??

Chestnuts roasted by Old E @ 10/25/2006 9:33 PM

Well using your theory, yeah, you’re mistaken.

Scare glow was posted on Sunday night, ready to read for Monday’s entry.

Mad scientist was posted Tuesday night, ready to read for Wednesday.

There wasn’t a post on monday night ready for Tuesday. Tuesday went by with nothing until the usual nighttime post ready for the next day.

Unless you wanna go by the theory that Mad scientist was posted Tue, so that’s tuesday’s entry (even though that’d be a stupid system due to how late they’re posted), and you’re trying to say there’s plenty of wednesday left to wait for it. In that case, well where was Monday’s?

Can’t work it different ways in order to fit in with your analogy.

Chestnuts roasted by Dan @ 10/25/2006 10:18 PM

I’m not the only one who remembers Mad Scientist! YES!

I actually went a step further with mine. The “monster flesh” and “living ice” would become traps for my G.I. Joes, which they would escape with a dunk in the “acid.”

In retrospect, that would probably have burned the flesh right off of Shipwreck as well.

Naw, it wouldn’t. Shipwreck was made o’ solid brass.

Chestnuts roasted by Blake @ 10/25/2006 10:31 PM

I had all of those Mad Scientist toys, they freakin ruled. Dissect an Alian, the lab, and the others.

I had the clear living ice too, which looked pretty cool. I chucked it up on the ceiling of my basement and that shit never came off. My pops was pissed, I bet that stuff is still congealed up there with new owners wondering what it is. It’s living ice bro.

Chestnuts roasted by Pete @ 10/25/2006 11:32 PM

OH. MY. WORD.

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/10/jason-movie-deaths.html

You know what that is? That’s a video of every death in the Friday the 13th series. EVERY death…in chronological order.

Chestnuts roasted by Cid @ 10/25/2006 11:39 PM

somehow i totally missed mad scientist altho i remember doodling mad scientists all the time in grade school and they looked alot like him so maybe that’s where i got it from.. damn how do yall remember so much from childhood i can barely remember last year

Chestnuts roasted by drbong @ 10/26/2006 2:57 AM

Man, I wish there was a new Transformer article every once and awhile…

Chestnuts roasted by Erik Majorwitz @ 10/26/2006 4:11 AM

Welcome back, Major!!

Matt, I don’t think you were that sadistic, if you couldn’t bear to destroy action-figures for no good reason… Now, one should never underestimate the inherent sadism of 12 – 13 year old girls. This is why so many NKOTB Cabbage-patch dolls have been found without heads or limbs in the San Francisce Bay area. Archaeologists of the future will postulate a religious cult worshipping geeky, half-gay weirdos with braces and odd hairstyles, culminating in an orgy of ritual slaughter-by-proxy through doll-like effigies. This may work for the Backstreet Boys as well. I forsee learned doctoral theses on the Early Information Age and its strange religious practices. (Maybe all those “Neolithic fat woman” statues were toys???)

Er, where was I before I distracted myself so badly? Oh. We didn’t ever get Mad Scientist Toys in South Africa, but seeing as the government banned Black Beauty (it’s. about. a. horse.), I’m not surprised. Uhhh, why do all mad scientists have Einstein hair these days?

Oh, and Maa-aaatt! Finish the Chia plot! We will say Ni! until you do! ;)

Chestnuts roasted by arete @ 10/26/2006 7:00 AM

Anyone remembe the Will Vinton Claymation specials of the late 80′s early 90′s, with the California Rasins? I stubbled on it on Amazon and havn’t seen it since watching the originals in the early 90′s.

The Halloween one was great and had Wilshire Pig. Anyway, I found it on youtube and knew that you guys would probably love it.

Click my name to watch the Claymation Halloween Special.

Chestnuts roasted by Fox @ 10/26/2006 10:04 AM

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