Comments on: Halloween Countdown ‘08: SLIME TIME Watches!

By: littlebit-83

littlebit-83 — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:35:06 +0000

CRAZY! I SO remember these. I’m Female and I remember watching the commercial for these when they came out and I wanted one so bad, but never got one. (I was too young, and had no money). “WHATS THE TIME.. SLIME TIME”. LOL.

By: alk

alk — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:27:45 +0000

The bats and the snakes are my favorites… the black bat may be my top pick, but the frogs/toads are just silly. They look way to friendly to be in the same group as the others.
Maybe they had to include them because frogs are the only slimy animal pictured?…. huuumm…for real wearablility, I would have to say the snakes. They’re compact and limbless and ALMOST shaped like real watches.

By: Hayden

Hayden — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:06:58 +0000

Wow I read this whole article saying to myself, “what a silly watch”, then I saw the picture of the green snake watch and then I said “Oh man! I had (still have) that watch!” I had no idea it was called Slime Time, or that there were other variations of the green snake that I had. I remember they had a very strong 80s plastic smell that smelt like TECHNOLOGY and FUN to us kids.

I’d be damned if I ever wore it to school though, haha.

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:22:18 +0000

I had one of those things as a kid, actually the purple bat, and until now I thought it was something I just imagined. And here I thought you’d already tracked down every crazy toy from my childhood.

By: Rastika

Rastika — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:00:35 +0000

Oh Matt! These were incredible and I just about had a seizure when I checked the blog today and saw this. I absolutely loooved my purple bat watch! I too attempted to wear it everywhere and if you think you were ridiculed in elementary school as a * boy * with a bat watch, imagine my shame as the only girl in school to think these were heaven sent just for me. Yup. I was a special girl. Still love it though, Thanks again for the memories

By: nick

nick — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:05:59 +0000

i had a pen that came out a couple years before these watches came out that was an evil purple demon bat, way meaner looking than the bat watch. it was a big purple blob of rubber and the clear reservoir that came out of its mouth was full of sloshy red fluid (BLOOD!). the ink was also red. i’m sure they made other varieties, but i had “the purple demon bat thingy” one.

By: Ecsix

Ecsix — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:56:55 +0000

The most impressive one of those “grows in water” toys I’ve encountered was this crocodile one I had when i was 10. Maybe it was an alligator, I can’t remember how to tell the difference but I can guarantee this thing was not anatomically correct enough to differentiate the two.
Anyway I grew it in my bathtub and transferred it into one of those huge “quality street” candy containers and convinced all my friends it was a pickled crocodile. I was the biggest badass in school for that week.