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Summer Megaparty: Make My Monsters Grow MORE THAN THIS!

Note: I've decided to extend the Megaparty into the month of August, partly because I skipped some days but mostly because I'm just digging doing it and will probably be more likely to keep doing it if I say I will. So, let's continue the party!

It's time to see the results from the Grow-A-Toy experiment from a few posts back. Are you amped?


I'm putting cotton in my cheeks so I can sound more like Sean Connery when I say, "I'm waiting to be impressed." I'm pretty bad at judging mass, but does that seem like a 600% increase in size to you? To provide some sense of scale, I've included one of those cute little animal statues Tetley Tea used to give out for no apparent reason.

Bumble fared a lot better than Kong, but as expected, the finely detailed features seen in his small, dry form were almost totally eradicated by the rapid, soaking growth. If Tootsie made vanilla Toosie Pops, his head is what one of them would look like just before the bite that brings us to the chewy center.

Kong is just a mess. If a dog took a shit and it looked like that, I'd be impressed at the Kong similarities. But since it's supposed to look like King Kong, I'm left wondering why it looks like dog shit. All of his detailing is gone. The only silver lining is that, if you turn him sideways, he kind of looks like a black goldfish speeding away with a stolen money bag.


Even if they aren't pretty, I'm still hoping that Kong and Bumble just need a little more time to realize the incredible size advertised on their packages. They're back in the water now, but I need them to hurry the fuck up, as they're keeping us from any opportunity to make a pitcher of iced tea. Perhaps I should've chosen different items to use as Grow-A-Toy tanks?

Posted by Matt on 07/26/2007. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 91 comments

I’ve never commented before but am a long-time fan of the site. Just wanted to say my fiance and I are really enjoying the Summer Megaparty! So glad to find you’re going to keep it going! Awesomeness!

:o )

..and holy cr@p! FIRST! WOW! :o )

Chestnuts roasted by Kelly @ 07/26/2007 9:12 PM

Thanks, Kelly!

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/26/2007 9:13 PM

Welcome! And I’m enjoying the “mailto: crap” link in my last post! LOL

Chestnuts roasted by Kelly @ 07/26/2007 9:15 PM

My party-in-the-sky predictions are coming to fruition. When do we start the looting, Kingklash?

Chestnuts roasted by Knegative @ 07/26/2007 9:15 PM

hey Matt,long time reader,first time poster.i’m not much for them water growy things,but at my local wally world they got these little packages with random marvel comics characters that like that,i dunno do something like that but apparantly you have no clue what character your getting till you drop em in water?i duno they sound cool,anyone seen these things?anyways this site is tits

Chestnuts roasted by Awesome Bill From Dawsonville @ 07/26/2007 9:15 PM

But Matt, haven’t we been through this before with growing water thingies? They allways need more time than it says on the package to reach their full potential. Although Kong definately does look like crap. Poor Kong.

Chestnuts roasted by Hazzard @ 07/26/2007 9:17 PM

Poor, pathetic Kong. It wasn’t the airplanes, ’twas water that killed the beast.

BTW, has anyone had any damn luck tracking down a copy of Monster Squad on DVD? I checked seven, yes SEVEN, different stores today that should have had it, but all were sold out.

Chestnuts roasted by Magic Toy @ 07/26/2007 9:18 PM

Now for the second part of the experiment: Seeing how they handle being shrunk back down. And then the third part, growing them again!

Chestnuts roasted by DocDragon @ 07/26/2007 9:20 PM

Awww… shrinking them back down is never fun. They just end up looking like wrinkly, dried-out old pieces of crap. At least, I’ve never had a grow-in-water thingy that hasn’t ended up that way.

Chestnuts roasted by TE-Ryan @ 07/26/2007 9:22 PM

Poor Kong looks as if he’s covered in tumors.

Chestnuts roasted by iAMYou @ 07/26/2007 9:29 PM

Water + Kong = Inside out Kong???

Chestnuts roasted by Danny J @ 07/26/2007 9:33 PM

Water + Kong = Chewed up black licorice?

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/26/2007 9:34 PM

Yo did you put them in warm->hot water? Otherwise they won’t grow properly. I tried a dinosaur in tap water and nothing happened after a day other than it getting swollen and gross (like Kong above) but in warmer water it grew just fine.

Chestnuts roasted by Eddie Lightning Frog @ 07/26/2007 9:34 PM

Poor Kong looks like black mushrooms on a tree or something. At least Bumble is still fairly recognizable.

And yay for the MegaParty! I was hoping you’d keep it going. Other than my vacation, it makes up for these last few months being kinda dull.

Chestnuts roasted by starwenn @ 07/26/2007 9:35 PM

Eddie: I must admit that the water is just room temperature. Maybe…maybe I should microwave them?

Chestnuts roasted by Matt @ 07/26/2007 9:36 PM

If you microwave them, please video that. I predict explosion, and I think it would be entertaining.
I have had these types and they seem to get far bigger than yours. But we left them for a week. Well, the parts of them that my son took apart.

Looking forward to the extended megaparty. I was thinking the other day that it was nearly over, YAY for it not being. There’s not going to be that much time between this and Halloween.

Chestnuts roasted by kb @ 07/26/2007 9:40 PM

Gotta tell you, I’m enjoying the mailto:crap as well Kelly

As for the experiment, I wouldn’t say they’re too bad. Kong looks like he suffered a terrible accident :D But I’m still itching for one of those Bumbles.
And when I first had these things when I was four, I didn’t knew you could shrink them back down again. We threw out my Cocoa Pebbles’ Pebbles grow-thing!

Oh, and Awesome Bill I’m pretty sure I’ve seen those Marvel things.

Chestnuts roasted by Tutsuro @ 07/26/2007 9:43 PM

Jesus, Kong looks AWFUL. That sucks, man. What a let down. :(

Chestnuts roasted by Muppet Baby @ 07/26/2007 9:48 PM

Magic Toy I found Monster Sqaud on DVD at Coconuts, which is a sister store of FYE/Sun Coast. Has anyone seen those play until you win claw machines at WalMart that usually have crap that you would find in a gumball machine in them? I got a grow a baseball player in one of the machines and have yet to grow him, the article has inspired me to find him and throw him in a cup of water.

Chestnuts roasted by son @ 07/26/2007 9:52 PM

Wow, those are still really small. Great description for Kong- he really does look like a goldfish thief. Also, yay for more Megaparty!

Welcome, new posters!

Chestnuts roasted by Rainbowfeet @ 07/26/2007 9:55 PM

That Bumble looks frosty, almost like a snow sculpture with dyed parts. I wonder if it was intentional?

Chestnuts roasted by Paul W. @ 07/26/2007 10:00 PM

Wow, Kong DOES look like a black fish who just robbed a bank.

Chestnuts roasted by Annette @ 07/26/2007 10:12 PM

Kong looks like a piece of Duke.

–Excited about the extension Matt!

Chestnuts roasted by Joker @ 07/26/2007 10:16 PM

I always wonder if toy companies ever test these kind of toys to see if they come out looking good enough to justify selling. They probably just make them look good small, and just not give a crap whether or not it looks o.k. hydrated. I dunno, I guess the idea of toy scientists wearing lab coats and goggles in the Mattel Toy Testing Headquarters testing grow-a-toys in big beakers makes me feel good.

Chestnuts roasted by trotskyismyniece @ 07/26/2007 10:21 PM

That reminds me of the gremlin grow toy you did. All bubbly and gross. But that was cool because it reminded us of the mutating scene in the movie Gremlins.

Awesome Bill Those are called Zizzlingers our beloved regular Mystie wrote a blog post on her site about the disney princess version she bought, complete with video.

click here for the article

Chestnuts roasted by Goob @ 07/26/2007 10:39 PM

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