I never asked for this Christmas 1968 but I wanted to after seeing my nephew's. I reckon if I had my Mum would have tried to get it back in the late Sixties. I'm not even sure if it was available outside of America. My Dad's brother's son had one but he had connections in the States, the swine!
Did you have a Strange Change on Christmas Day readers?
I never had this but a kid in my 2nd? grade class had it. He brought it to show and tell and the smell of hot plastic was kind of neat but to me, it had limited value as all you could do was heat up a cube of plastic and see what it was and then crush it back to a cube. Once you had done that a couple of times the cubes would always not crush fully back and you could see various body parts and recognize what it was. The other part was the metal plate heating area was hot, very hot and so was the plastic. The set owner actually burnt his fingers showing us how it works.
ReplyDeletePoor kid, burning his fingers doing a demo! I does sound like it could get boring Lance but I soooo want a go at Strange Change still!
DeleteI had it. Creepy Crawlers, too. Loads of fun.
ReplyDeleteFabulous Baron! Still got any creepies?
DeleteIt's been a long, strange trip, and my vintage toys are gone. They live on in my memories though.
DeleteScott Manley had a video on this called "This Toy Blew My Mind."
ReplyDeleteIrradiated plastic was the first memory material
Who is Scott Manley? And was Strange Change irradiated?
DeleteHe is an aerospace historian—ah…here is the link
ReplyDeletehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UAiggoGBXD8&pp=ygUQU2NvdHQgbWFubGV5IHRveQ%3D%3D