When I was growing up I had both the Thingmaker for Creepy Crawlies, and a Vacu-Form - they were two of my favorite toys. I especially liked making the shrunken heads, although you couldn’t make too many because they used a lot of Plastigoop, and that stuff wasn’t cheap. Later on, I had another toy with a heating element and you’d take these plastic blocks and put them into it. As it would heat up they’d unfold into some kind of monster that you could cool off and play with. When you were done you’d heat it up again, and stuff it into a press to squish it down into a block again. But then I discovered Estes …
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