Better.

I miss my Slime Pit (not necessarily a euphamism).

I never had one, but I want an 'Ooze It' thing now. Great list!

What, no Gak? It had the added bonus of making your hands smell weird afterward.

I'll always remember the cheap giggle factor provided by the farting noises whenever u tried to put it back in the tub. Plus, those kids in the original picture scare the living s**t outta me.

One year, for his birthday, I went all out and got my best friend a ninja turtle and some of the ooze. (curiously absent from the list) Dumb ass poured the whole tub on his head while we were eating cake and ice cream. Of course he couldn't get it out without washing his hair thus wasting it. I was so pissed at him for that one. What a dumb ass

What, no dissected Stretch Armstrong? I don't know anyone who had one and didn't bring that toy's life to an end with that fantastic moment of carving into him to see how he worked and seeing that corn syrup goo spill out everywhere.

when I was a kid I remember a board game that employed slime in it. It had some long legged monster that traveled the board and your characters would eventually get below it and he would drool slime on them. I thought the monster was cool though.

@telezombie: I believe that game was Don't Wake Daddy!

Wow. I remembered most of the Mad Scientist stuff I had but totally forgot about the Mad Scientist Dissect-an-Alien until just now. Even without the slime, that stuff was great (Alien organs)

My mother LOVED carpet. She had that damn shag carpet ALL over the house. Even the kitchen (!) had carpet (it was shorter than the shag), which was not rectified with vinyl until the mid-90's. Which of course meant that my friends had slime based toys, but I never did.

Thanks for reminding me of another reason to hate my childhood.

Just looking at all these brings back that sickly sweet smell...oh, and just for the record, the taste - not so sickly sweet.

A friend and I got busted in ALCO for opening up a package just to get a feel of the gooey stuff. A secret in store detective roughed us up a bit, but he was cool enough not to tell our parents.

The Master of the Universe slime pit was awesome! Pour slime on Hordaks enemies to make them loyal soldiers. That Hordak....I think he was just looking for an excuse to indulge his slime fetish.

cool list and nice to see the motu slime pit at number one though would have had green slime in the top five. and agree that the slime from the slime pit ruined many figures plus the fact if one wanted to see how the slime reactor to stinkor or moss man one found out the hard way. not to mention the slime is messy to clean up after wards

I had several of these, and still have my vintage MOTU Slime Pit. I even picked up the Harry Potter version on clearance to put with my 2002 MOTU Snake Men,and then the 2003 updated Slime Pit for the new MOTU line. The new Slime Pit doubled as Skeletor's throne from the show (not an exact replica of it, but pretty damn close) and included a skeleton soldier with a transparent torso that you could fill with slime, and his organs would float in it, a la Mutagen Man. Good stuff!! My nephew was just the right age when that was released, and we had a ball with it!

I hated that shit when I was a kid. Once it dried you could never get it all off without picking at it with a toothpick. Other thing I hated as a kid: fingerpainting and getting dirty.

I had all of these but the Ooze It. And based on the picture and description, I'm very happy I didn't own that monstrosity.

Great call on the Mad Scientist line! I'd forgotten all about those, but I managed to hang on to parts and pieces for years. Those were amazingly fun (and disgusting and a mess, which are also fun). I wonder how many mad scientists today owe their careers to that toy? Dozens? At least.

I always wanted some Ooze that came with a glow in the dark turtle inside, but I never manged to get some.

I think I had at least a third of these—and I know for a fact the dissectable alien is still hiding in a box, somewhere, along with his system of mighty organs.

The house I lived in through kindergarten probably still has some crusty purple ectoplasm remnants along the edges of a carpet or two.

You forgot the oozinator.

I had a Venom one. I put it on my face and referred to myself as 'We' for nearly a week. It was around this time my parents thought about counselling.

As the first child in my family, I was the one responsible for causing my parents to outlaw any kind of toy that wasn't a solid form, including Play-Doh, Silly Putty, etc. My poor little brothers never had the chance to play with any of this stuff.

I also had almost all of these at one point or another except the Ooze-It. I had a ton of the Mattel Mad Scientist stuff. The Dissect-an-Alien was the best, his organs were a fun 3-D puzzle, kept him around long after the slime was gone. I also had the lab, you made monsters with clay around plastic bone, then dropped them into a vat of water with special powder and they fizzed and dissolved leaving only the bones in the bottom of the tank, stripped of all their flesh. Great stuff!

Aw hell! I wanted a slime pit soo bad when i was little. The commercial for it was kickass

During a fight with my brother as a kid, he threw my Venom action figure out the window, breaking it forever ... tragic.

YOU ADDED VENOM! I loved Venom. The plunger thing was nearly impossible to push but the slime was BLACK! Black slime was the greatest invention ever. It even beats wheel in my opinion.

Great list! I was thrilled to see one of my favorite toys the Slime PIt as number one.

Oh God Ghostbuster Slime. My mother hated that shit. Never got it out the carpets. Seriously goop of any kind kind is the perfect kids toy. They will never tire of it.

I had a Dissect-an-Alien when i was a kid and I LOVED it. I also had a kid's book and coloring book from the set. Sadly, all of them have gone the way of most of my childhood toys (i.e to my Dad's burn-barrell when he cleaned out the basement...).
Thankfully, my friends found their old Dissect-an-Alien and hooked me up. It currently lives on a shelf in my living room.

Seriously, what the hell is up with that kids face in the Slime advert?
Deformed, scared, REALLY excited??

My parents would never let me have slime, so one day I decided to make some. Out of various cleaning chemicals, detergents, soaps, etc, mixing them all together in plastic cups, heating them and then freezing them. My parents found the cups, and immediately put locks on all of our cabinets.

What, how could you forget the Aliens Queen hive playset. With slime pouring action!

LOL @ Rob. You did this whole thing just to mention Masters of the Universe, didn't you?
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Yeah. You know it.

I used to try to stockpile the .25 cent gumball machine slime but that shit never kept. Eventually you open the plastic egg and you just had a shriveled up raisin floating in some nasty smelling chemical.

Ha ha, I remember that oozing Venom!
I kept, like, 90% of his slime sealed in
that spider so I could save it forever.
I'm sure it's dried to dust now....

Manglor Mountain anyone?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9zwe3w55D4

And people think video games make violent tendencies

Huzzah for the RGB Ecto-Plasm!! Unfortunately, my canister that came with the firehall playset was immediately taken away and put up over the back door of my old house, as the folks feared it getting stuck in the carpet. I never did get to poke around in the slime....

On a related note, could someone PLEASE help me? I remember the Mattel Dr. Mad toys, but I SWEAR there was a Dr. Mad cartoon that followed the adventures of crazy old Dr Mad and his teen sidekick/assistant as they dealt with the repercussions of Mad's wacky experiments. Usually, from a monster being set loose.

I think it might have been on the old copy of "The Great Bear Scare" at Video Magic in Minot, ND, but since they've gone DVD, there's no way of knowing. Guys, Rob, please... please help put this old 'buster's mind at ease and confirm this happened!!!

Okay, not to say that it belongs on the list, but among the brief flurry of Mork & Mindy toys (remember when Robin Williams was popular?) there was Mork Slime.

It came in a egg, of course, like L'Eggs. And unlike L'Eggs, it made a certain sense because Mork always had a sort of egg-based mythology. Anyway, the slime was yellow, like a yolk. Instead of clear, like albumin, which would have been more logical and almost infinitely cooler.

Plus it had a blue plastic "chibi Mork" suspended in the goo. Except we didn't know what superdeformed was in 1982, we just thought Mork had become a Munchkin.

i had the slime pit... it was awesome stuff...

The cartoon with Dr.Mad did in fact exist, and it is in my garage somewhere on vhs lol. It was short from what I can remember. Something about the Dr.Mad's house being given the ability to make anything spoken about come to life. At one point the house comes to life and takes to walking/dancing through the streets.

Not to be rude but technically there are 9 items on the list (if you count the tie for # 7.) God i used to love the slime that made fart noises.

Oh my goodness gracious. I still have one of those small Ghostbusters ghosts that came with the little can of slime and when i was a kid my parents bought 2 of those He-Man Slime Pits since the slime didnt last that long LOL

I remember the very first slime toy from the very early 60`s & that was Flubber.It was a tie in to the movie Son of Flubber.Mine got stuck in Beaver`s hair. :(

found the board game I was talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhEwHLwWaM8

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/boardgame/10967

When I got my mad scientist kit it was Xmas 1986 and I was nine. I could never really get all of the guts back in well enough after taking them out for the first time (puzzles just ain't my thing) but I can still remember how the whole thing smelled. Sort of like patchouli and new rubber... I smell it sometimes and I shoot back to that morning in '86. Weird...

#4 - That child's eyes will haunt my dreams forever!

I still have my slime pit. Never has been there a play set more versatile across every line of action figures I played with.

GI Joe, Transformers, COPS, all must get caught by the evil cult that must slime them!

Just don't slime Moss Man. It says so right on the instructions.

Awesome! I remember every one of these! My brother and I actually had the green slime in the trash cans around 1975 or so. Let me tell you.. green slime is extremely hard to get out of corduroys! LOL!