The Story of MAD SCIENTIST & the Gross Out Toy Trend: A Video Years in the Making

I always wanted one of these but alas, those were boy toys. I did, however, get this grow your own dinosaur thing. I haven’t heard of it since I had it. It was pretty big. May have come out with the first Jurassic Park movie. You would use out these shapes in this flat corkboard material and put it together like one of those 3-D puzzles and set it up in the chamber where it would get wet and the pieces would swell kinda like a sponge but would dry hard in that swollen shape. Like some coral covered monstrosity of a fossil in SpongeBob. And the SMELL. I can almost recall it plainly. Anyone else remember this?

It was definitely a 90s thing too because I remember seeing advertisements for it while watching cartoons like the tales from the crypt cartoon and got my parents to buy me a kit. This was between 1996-1999

This is why I am a paying channel member. Thanks for reminding me of a cherished series of toys that I loved as a kid but haven't thought about in over 35 years. I am surprised that you weren't a fan too, though. I'm also surprised that you still have obscure but loved things from the good ol' days to spotlight but I'm glad you do

I loved all my Mad Scientist toys. My parents did too, which is why I had almost all of the toy line.

Much to mama's chagrin, dad bought me Garbage Pail Kids cards. I traded them all for some kid's baseball card collection when I got older.

I wasn't very fond of these toys as a kid. I liked monsters and grotesque characters, had no problem if something wasn't "clean cut human hero" etc. But I always felt that toys about pouring slime and going through several steps like building up flesh to dissolve etc… it was too much work. I wanted cool monsters / characters I could bang together for my toys, and most of these felt like there was too much preamble to get to the fun parts. Still… I certainly have fondness for these times and these toys. A time where the nastier you went, the better. Even if it wasn't a very mature rebellion, it was still a fun one.

I had forgotten about these. But the ad with putting on the skin and dissolving it brought it back. Never had any of these, was never really in to sticky, slimy stuff.

Say, what was the toy line from the 90s where all of the figurines came in trash bags that dissoved under a tap?

I miss slime being a gross-out toy instead of the sensory stuff it's become. Gui Gui?! Why are you trying to make it pretty? Why does Barbie come with slime now? Not saying it needs to be a gendered toy, but make it gross! It IS gross. It's gross when it falls onto the living room carpet because you weren't supposed to play with it in there, and your mom made you pick the dried up slime when it's at its most disgusting. Now you add freaking glitter and sprinkles to it. That's really gross.

And we're now in the era of comfy slimes! Where entire businesses are made up of people making different textures of slimes! They never went away, only evolved.

Okay, I admit it: I LOLed

shout out to Michael Kenworthy in the adverts! The Blob AND Return of the Living Dead 2.

Ahhhh Halloween…the most wonderful time of the year!!! F13th, Halloween and NoEs marathon…also got to watch The Monster Squad and who can forget, David S. Pumpkins!!! 🎃 🧟‍♂️🕸…

The ending!! 😂😂😂

Man… Part of me misses the "ruin your carpet" gross out slime of my youth. This cutsy stuff with rainbows and unicorns my kids get nowadays just makes me sad.

I really liked the monster lab, but the dissolving flesh wasn’t reusable, so it seemed like I would have to re-up the supply. That made it a no-go. Also mom’s biggest problem with any slime toy was the fear it would get in the carpet, not that it was the psychology harmful work of Satanists at Mattel 😂.

Except for the coloring book I never had any mad scientist toys but I did have doctor dreadful stuff

I had that toy when I was a kid, the only problem my parents had was I got the slime in the carpet 🤣

I didn't see these being advertised or sold in my area as a kid, but man I wish I had owned them. I'm in my 40s and I really want to melt the flesh off some monsters now.

The late 1980s into the 1990s was the best time, I'm so glad to have grown up then.

Not even any mention of Dr Dreadful!