Halloween is always a trip down Memory Lane. I was chuffed to see this old cheap set of magic tricks online. I sooo remember the BIG MOUTH trick as if it was yesterday. My favourite jokes and novelties all came from an amazing mail order firm called Ellisdons. I got a Skull Jackinabox, a Restless Skeleton and loads more creepy stuff. I've a catalogue I'd forgotten about somewhere so I'll post a few bits. But the spooky toy I most hanker for was bought in a shop, most likely Thomas Mears in Preston, by my ever-patient Mum and Dad, GLOW GLOBS as pictured below. Basically Glow-Globs were shapes of luminous putty in day-glo colours. I had the set below with the scalliwag, ghost and ghoulie. They smelled great too! They were stuck to the side of my bedside cabinet so I could watch them glow as I fell asleep! It worked! I was gone in no time! Quite scarce now they occasionally surface on Ebay and there's a nice set on this cool Flickr site as well.
I remember Glow GlobS! Wow! Very hard to work with, as I recall.
ReplyDeleteI never worked with them Toadster. Were you all in an Office together!
ReplyDeletehee hee. Samhain jape!
LOL. Cheeky! ^_^
ReplyDeleteSeriously, that was one difficult modelling material to use. I remember we had to warm it by the cooker before it became malleable.
You know I really don't remember modelling with the stuff. I must have done. It makes sense that they had to be warmed up, cos the shapes had to stay solid in the shop!
ReplyDeleteHmm, yes, a point I hadn't considered.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe cos the stuff had to be held close to a light source? If it was too soft, it'd melt.
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