When i was a kid my two favorite toys were the Mattel Thing Maker and Vac-U-Form. Toys that made toys! (A close second was my sister's Easy Bake Oven. Toys that made dessert!)
The Y-Wing "Green Leader" Project - NOW OPEN SOURCE!
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When i was a kid my two favorite toys were the Mattel Thing Maker and Vac-U-Form. Toys that made toys! (A close second was my sister's Easy Bake Oven. Toys that made dessert!)
So all afternoon I've been thinking about the Mattel Thing Maker I had as a kid and go searching on EBay (bad idea!). Now I'm the proud owner (again) of one of my favorite sets of molds for the Thing Maker, the Fighting Men set!
For those of you that are too young to remember Thing Maker, Is was an open face hot plate onto which you placed an aluminum mold filled with liquid plastic. The hot plate heated the mold up to about 390 degrees :eek which set the plastic into a hard rubber which could be removed from the mold after it cooled. There were also molds for bugs, called Creepy Crawlers, monster parts and others things.
From Wikipedia - "It is generally believed that production of the original Mattel Thingmakers was discontinued following consumer safety concerns over allowing children to use a small electric heater as a toy."
I'll say!
For those of you that are too young to remember Thing Maker, Is was an open face hot plate onto which you placed an aluminum mold filled with liquid plastic. The hot plate heated the mold up to about 390 degrees :eek which set the plastic into a hard rubber which could be removed from the mold after it cooled. There were also molds for bugs, called Creepy Crawlers, monster parts and others things.
From Wikipedia - "It is generally believed that production of the original Mattel Thingmakers was discontinued following consumer safety concerns over allowing children to use a small electric heater as a toy."
I'll say!
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390 degree hot plastic - children using a small electric heater as a toy...what could possibly go wrong!?!
Of course, this was back when we would go out all day jumping bikes or hiking and come home for dinner sometime after the streetlights came on and no one was even a little bit concerned...
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Of course, this was back when we would go out all day jumping bikes or hiking and come home for dinner sometime after the streetlights came on and no one was even a little bit concerned...
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Re: The Y-Wing "Green Leader" Project - NOW OPEN SOURCE!
Argh!!! I cut me eyeballs why looking at them images !!!
Argh!!! I cut me eyeballs why looking at them images !!!
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To this day I can still conjure up a whiff of that wisp of fumes that spun off of the top of that plastic at the very moment that it went from solid to molten...
Ah you beat me too it! The interview from the So Cal Prop Party is also on the Tested site:
http://www.tested.com/art/makers/576632-dave-goldbergs-star-wars-model-builds/
http://www.tested.com/art/makers/576632-dave-goldbergs-star-wars-model-builds/
Yep I agree, great video indeed! Seeing those parts mocked up on that Y really gets me excited. I can't wait to start that project.
And that X-Wing too.....beautiful. Good stuff Dave, good stuff.
And that X-Wing too.....beautiful. Good stuff Dave, good stuff.
No worries Max! Glad you posted it.
I can't believe how coherent I am in the interview! When you do these things it just kind of goes into auto-pilot and when you finish the over-riding thought is "Gee, I hope I didn't sound like an idiot!". The video is pretty much 100% of what we recorded so I guess I didn't ramble. Norm is also really good at conducting these interviews. He's relaxed, but excited, which made me the same. And the room was very loud which is a hard environment to talk in.
I can't believe how coherent I am in the interview! When you do these things it just kind of goes into auto-pilot and when you finish the over-riding thought is "Gee, I hope I didn't sound like an idiot!". The video is pretty much 100% of what we recorded so I guess I didn't ramble. Norm is also really good at conducting these interviews. He's relaxed, but excited, which made me the same. And the room was very loud which is a hard environment to talk in.
Hammer3246
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Awesome video, too bad it wasn't longer. There's some pretty funny comments on you tube.
