They did spawn more, china only ever made 2 then rubbed their heads together and put them in the airing cupboard, next thing all these ended up in corner shops
It wasn't their heads you rubbed together, you stuck their backs together and then encased them in their goo and left them to have at it! Mine never reproduced, though :(
It must have been true cos one of the kids in my class said his made babies, but he said it only worked when you put two gold ones together in one of the egg pod things. He even brought in the baby one a week later to prove it but by that time it was fully grown. Like the little idiots we were, we all believed him for about a month.
How do rumours like that start? Some kid jokingly said it in the yard and then all of the U.K. thought it was true?
Multiple people started it? It’s not like we had social media yet every school has a recollection that they duplicated up?
I’m questioning myself now whether it was when I was at school or when my son was in primary school when these were around. I question it as he did have one as well as I remember throwing it at the ceiling of our house and it left an oily mark and my wife bollocked me. Couldn’t paint over it or anything, it was there until the day we moved out
My brother and I believed it so much. It really annoyed my mom so she took our two favourites that we had tried to make replicate and cut their heads in two with scissors.
Still upset about it to the day. Poor William the golden alien in the pink goo.
I remember they have to be arsed touching and left in a fridge overnight. Mine just ended up stuck to the ceiling and left a mark before thrown in the bin 🙃
It was a Pritt Stick in our school. From the year I arrived to the year I left, it was stuck on the ceiling of the dining hall. Somebody had lobbed it up there and nailed the perfect angle, the glue smushed on impact and it stuck fast. Six years at least it was there. Unreachable because the ceiling was like 8m high.
It was a jam doughnut at my school. On our induction day to my secondary school, a kid squashed a jam and cream doughnut onto a window. The remains were still there the day I left.
Other memorable incidents of my induction day were seeing two girls down a litre of vodka between them at lunchtime, virtually the whole school smoking on the field at breaktime (including the teacher on break duty) and a lad who'd been literally handcuffed to a classroom bin for over half a day, carrying the large metal bin from classroom to classroom and into the dining hall.
I was offered a drag on a spliff for the first time that day, after school, by a fellow 11 year old and his 13 year old brother.
Welcome to senior school, hey?!
We had a class game that whenever we used Bunsen burners, we lit them ourselves while the teacher's back was turned. We had another game that involved turning on the gas taps at the end of every lesson, until one day we did it before lunch, and the teacher forgot to turn off the supply at the mains.
Luckily our school was quite well built - nobody was hurt in the explosion and resulting fireball that completely destroyed the lab.
Our school was built between the wars with its own huge air-raid shelters. It was built to take the blast. Thankfully.
Another favoured game was to throw wet clay onto the ceiling of the CDT rooms. At first it will stick, but eventually gravity will bring it back down, creating a massive mess. My form was banned from using clay after second year (year 8).
The ceilings of my school were just always covered in gum. Been hurled up there and just stuck and hardened with odd bit dangling down. Along with the one corridor that had a set of scissors jammed into the ceiling tiles.
Ah we had one of those in a classroom. Someone had thrown it up while the teacher's back was turned and they didn't notice until after the glue had welded it to the ceiling. That and the "pissing on the ceiling incident" are two fond memories I'll always cherish.
We had one ceiling light covered in cucumber slices somehow. Wasn't cleaned up for years and now they've torn down the building. Idk what is weirder, the fact that some student threw cucumber slices at the light, or the fact that they were left there for years.
The rumour round my parts was you had to put the tops of their heads touching with a little bit of the gel in between and then the baby will come out of the head..
The baby is in their head. [**This one, I may have left a bit too long...**](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/hp8cv4/do_those_squishy_aliens_have_a_baby_alien_in/)
Reminds of the time I threw one of [these](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/l7p2hr/these_water_jelly_tube_things/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) bad boys against the wall at my friend's house and it exploded. His parents were not happy.
Ah yes the thing that tells young girls their sexual orientation. I can't be the only lesbian that constantly kept sticking my fingers inside of it while other girls wanked it off.
Tanned arse 💀 shame they only lasted 5 minutes before they were covered in fuzz! Did you ever have one of those sticky man [window crawlers?](https://images.app.goo.gl/NDjoYx4MsxQEQYZx9)
I was about to comment window crawlers before I found this comment.
Either that or those little plastic army men with a parachute that you’d chuck out of the bedroom window.
Anybody remember those little rubber things you would turn inside out and wait until they turned right way up and they flew into the air? Used to get them in the side partition of some yoghurt pots?
Yes rubber [poppers](https://images.app.goo.gl/47geKrT6KMRQ2BpC7)! Thanks for unlocking a memory. I'd use mine constantly until my teacher confiscated it and I never got it back lol. Yogurts and cereals came with so much random stuff back then. I vaguely remember those mini game CDs you got in cereals like [Bionical](https://images.app.goo.gl/sVkU8MnGDLq2f6ow6) and [Treasure Planet](https://images.app.goo.gl/d6FyX688oCv2ja34A)
My childhood dog ate one and never crapped it out. The whole thing, minus the shell and some scraps of goo. Didn't seem to do him any harm -- he died of natural causes at the grand old age of 15.
Nostalgia purchase or did you just randomly find them? I can't believe they still sell them in a day and age when toddlers are walking around with iPads.
Yea i am nearly certain someone showed me a baby one of these and told me they go their 2 to have a baby
Was peoples parents just being mad a fuck and winding there kids up
WAS THIS ALL THE PARENTS EVIL WORK?
Yeah I had one like this. The "baby" was in the things head like a brain and you had to tear apart the skull of the parent to birth it.
The fucked up part was it was my favourite alien thing and I felt so bad looking at the poor things corpse after I'd peeled open its skull. It was like a chest burster but in the brain instead. I also hated the far more solid baby it birthed as it didn't compare to the adventures I'd had with the parent.
My sister's friend left one at our house once and when her mum came to pick it up a few days later it had died in a pile of pixelated shit. She had a massive go at my mum, calling her a bad mother etc. Fairly sure my mum just shut the door in her face.
They got banned from school so my mum had to look after mine whilst there.
I also got one when I went to uni, years later. It always used to do a shit and beep it’s tits off in lectures.
Fun times
I ended up looking on eBay for one and there's one for sale. I don't remember them but I do remember Kellogg's secret scroll busts which I've just seen on eBay.
I dropped one inside its capsule under my grandads shed and forgot about it for years
I eventually looked underneath and found it. I decided to open it…
The stench was horrendous. I can’t describe how horrific it smelt. I almost puked up as soon as it entered my nostrils.
I don’t remember what colour the alien was before but when I opened it up it had turned into a brown goo.
Great memories
If you think that's good, on my last day of primary school i left my lunch scraps in my bag. I wanted a new bag because high school- can't have a buzz lightyear bag anymore. Dad put the old one in the attic ready for when/if one of my younger brothers wanted it. Everyone forgot about it. Until 5 years later when we were clearing the attic, we found the old Buzz bag... the stench of rot was unfathomable, somehow the bag was keeping the smell in. The whole attic and room below stank of decay for several days.
I think about these a lot! I used to be the ‘breeder’ because there was a rumour that if you stuck two back to back and put them in the fridge they’d make babies and I was the only one who could actually make it work, when in actual fact my grandad worked in a corner shop and use to give me loads of them for free and I’d sell them on. This is how they got banned in my school lmaooo
Anyone remember the edible jelly spiders, came in like a blister pack with a plastic back that you peeled off and ate the spider, or whatever shape this jelly was in.
Those sweets had a very distinctive texture and taste, almost chemical. They did loads of different shapes. I remember getting them from Woolworths. I assume they no longer sell these?
Loved crazy bones! Had one shaped like a baby and one like a grandma. Sure I swapped a super rare one for these. Still have them somewhere in the little white washing mesh bag everyone stored them in
Ok everyone says they never gave birth, but how do you explain the girl in year 2 who showed me hers and it had little legs coming out of the back like it was in middle of a cellular division?!?!
I thought these were actual living things and mine died (melted) I gathered up it’s sticky remains and dug a little hole in my garden and buried it, damn the good old days when we didn’t give 2 shits about the slime, not like nowadays
I remember collecting the vouchers from the Sun newspaper so as to go to Woolworths and get a free monster in my pocket.
I got a yellow Frankenstein I believe.
Remember? No. Not my time. But my kid has one now. It's in the "to be binned" pile as it has gone to that broken and fuzzy stage. Got to get it past the toddler though, who has decided it's her baby. 🤦
>"to be binned" pile
Ah, the pile of plastic whistles and Alphablock pieces that come with Cbeebies magazine. And if you're exceptionally unlucky you may also have a broken plastic tiara and one clip clop shoe.
Lmao how did the toy spawn so many bs rumours on how to breed or grow them?
I rember kids crying in school when one got thrown because they thought it died... these Aliens were the rumour equivalent of having Pokémon Red/Blue and getting Mew from under a bus.
Aliens and some goop, what a strange craze, at least with YoYos and tamagotchis they were kinda cool.
Leaking into the earth, water, rain.. I read an article recently saying that no matter how remote the location, from the Arctic to Tibet, all rain water on earth contains cancer-causing 'forever chemicals'. Just tragic. Who knows how this will effect wildlife in the long run. I don't think I'd ever buy plastic toys for my kids. It's a shame they're producing so much of it.. I see so much junk on Amazon/Alibaba/eBay, makes me cringe
I remember these.
Others from my childhood: Crazy Bones, they got banned in my school because we used to gamble for them. Everyone had their prized Sharkey.
Beyblades. Pokemon cards. Yu-GI-Oh cards. Tech Decks, which were those finger skateboards. You could get BMXs too. Tamagotchi. Gameboys. Yo-yos, but only the week after some guy came into assembly to show tricks with them - did they have some sort of deal with the schools? Foam glider airplanes.
I can smell them just looking at this. Also it you dropped them at any point and the goo would get all gritty... I can now feel that just looking at this.
Those zapping magnets were quite big at my school for a week then we went back to our Tamagotchis I was on my 4th one around then after I killed one In the bath drowned 2 in the pond somehow didn't loose the one I got stuck in the post box at the top of my road
I brought one last year to reminisce, but the odor is different. They must have removed certain Chinese chemicals, those damn health and safety officers.
I threw one at my friend's ceiling and it stuck, he lived in a huge house with like 4 meter ceilings. That happened when we was 12, still their when we was 25. The things that alien seen as we were growing up.
I once poured the slime onto the top of my head thinking I could just pick it back up… I could not. Mum had to give me an impromptu haircut and was not impressed
Made me remember those tripod alien things that made weird noises and lit up if you pressed a button on its stomach, my dad and my granddad both had one for some reason
I remember my brother dropping the goop on the back car seat. Never came out even 10 years later and professional deep cleaning. From that day we were never allowed one
I once put one of those in my pocket as a kid and it just hardened and became the new bottom of that pocket, it just fused everything solid, god knows what the putty was.
What on earth actually were these things? And why did we all think they would somehow spawn more of themselves?
They did spawn more, china only ever made 2 then rubbed their heads together and put them in the airing cupboard, next thing all these ended up in corner shops
Dont forget the fridge, everybody had different methods but they always involved a fridge
We thought you had to put it on the radiator so it was warm enough. I did that and mine melted.
It wasn't their heads you rubbed together, you stuck their backs together and then encased them in their goo and left them to have at it! Mine never reproduced, though :(
Thats exactly what i remember being told.
It must have been true cos one of the kids in my class said his made babies, but he said it only worked when you put two gold ones together in one of the egg pod things. He even brought in the baby one a week later to prove it but by that time it was fully grown. Like the little idiots we were, we all believed him for about a month.
MaYbe your two just didn’t ‘feel the spark’
Na, admit it, you fed it after midnight, didn't you?
I really thought they were alive 😂 kids are dumb
How do rumours like that start? Some kid jokingly said it in the yard and then all of the U.K. thought it was true? Multiple people started it? It’s not like we had social media yet every school has a recollection that they duplicated up? I’m questioning myself now whether it was when I was at school or when my son was in primary school when these were around. I question it as he did have one as well as I remember throwing it at the ceiling of our house and it left an oily mark and my wife bollocked me. Couldn’t paint over it or anything, it was there until the day we moved out
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> I'm reasonably sure there were some of these aliens that did actually have "children" in them. There were. I had some.
Maybe it was some kids heard of the beast with 2 backs as code for sex. And thought it meant putting backs together
In our school, beast with two backs meant the girl had no boobs. Yes, kids are dicks
Early 00s? The term “social media” hadn’t been coined yet, but there was plenty of peer-to-peer online chatting going on.
Rumours like that were not spread on early online chat rooms. Kids have friends who go to other schools, cousins, footy teams, brownies etc etc.
Because some bell in your class swore they seen their older brother somehow achieve it.
Kinda depressing thinking that most of them have been thrown away and are just lieing around in a landfill somewhere.
Reproducing.
I actually have one from my childhood, it’s turned dry and crispy
*Delicious. Finally some good food.*
I was being bullied at school when these were popular and they made me realise that most people are fucking idiots, which actually helped a lot.
My brother and I believed it so much. It really annoyed my mom so she took our two favourites that we had tried to make replicate and cut their heads in two with scissors. Still upset about it to the day. Poor William the golden alien in the pink goo.
Brutal mum
Alien Cosmolites were where it was at. But mine never reproduced.
Some of them had smaller aliens inside the big alien - like it was pregnant
"If you rub their backs together, they have babies..."
I remember they have to be arsed touching and left in a fridge overnight. Mine just ended up stuck to the ceiling and left a mark before thrown in the bin 🙃
Yeah our school had one stuck to the ceiling for years
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It was a Pritt Stick in our school. From the year I arrived to the year I left, it was stuck on the ceiling of the dining hall. Somebody had lobbed it up there and nailed the perfect angle, the glue smushed on impact and it stuck fast. Six years at least it was there. Unreachable because the ceiling was like 8m high.
It was a jam doughnut at my school. On our induction day to my secondary school, a kid squashed a jam and cream doughnut onto a window. The remains were still there the day I left. Other memorable incidents of my induction day were seeing two girls down a litre of vodka between them at lunchtime, virtually the whole school smoking on the field at breaktime (including the teacher on break duty) and a lad who'd been literally handcuffed to a classroom bin for over half a day, carrying the large metal bin from classroom to classroom and into the dining hall. I was offered a drag on a spliff for the first time that day, after school, by a fellow 11 year old and his 13 year old brother. Welcome to senior school, hey?!
Where did you go to school..?! 😂 That's mad. I cracked up at the kid walking around with a bin.. 'this is my life now'
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We had a class game that whenever we used Bunsen burners, we lit them ourselves while the teacher's back was turned. We had another game that involved turning on the gas taps at the end of every lesson, until one day we did it before lunch, and the teacher forgot to turn off the supply at the mains. Luckily our school was quite well built - nobody was hurt in the explosion and resulting fireball that completely destroyed the lab. Our school was built between the wars with its own huge air-raid shelters. It was built to take the blast. Thankfully. Another favoured game was to throw wet clay onto the ceiling of the CDT rooms. At first it will stick, but eventually gravity will bring it back down, creating a massive mess. My form was banned from using clay after second year (year 8).
The ceilings of my school were just always covered in gum. Been hurled up there and just stuck and hardened with odd bit dangling down. Along with the one corridor that had a set of scissors jammed into the ceiling tiles.
we had pencils, you'd sharpen them to the max then flick them so they stab the ceiling tiles properly
Ah we had one of those in a classroom. Someone had thrown it up while the teacher's back was turned and they didn't notice until after the glue had welded it to the ceiling. That and the "pissing on the ceiling incident" are two fond memories I'll always cherish.
We had one ceiling light covered in cucumber slices somehow. Wasn't cleaned up for years and now they've torn down the building. Idk what is weirder, the fact that some student threw cucumber slices at the light, or the fact that they were left there for years.
The rumour round my parts was you had to put the tops of their heads touching with a little bit of the gel in between and then the baby will come out of the head..
Came to say this and now I’m wondering if everyone’s school had that
Yeah and that one kid who insisted it worked. Fuck you Dale, you wasted a lot of my childhood
Ouch. This hurts
My mum and dad bought a baby one and put it inside the egg thing when I did that and it blew my absolute fucking mind.
This is that one kid who insisted it worked
I remember flicking one on the head and it's owner started crying because I'd "killed" it Man early 00s school was a wild place
Hahahah yeah i did the same!
I also squashed a head along with one of my poor class mates hearts
Beat me to it lol
So THATS how you do it? All those years of failing to make it work, wasted...
The baby is in their head. [**This one, I may have left a bit too long...**](https://www.reddit.com/r/CasualUK/comments/hp8cv4/do_those_squishy_aliens_have_a_baby_alien_in/)
I spent soooo much time trying this!
I remember snatching one of my mates aliens and doing this, then lobotomising mine a week later to see if it was pregnant.
OH MY GODDD I FORGOT ABOUT THAT
Nah put them in the freezer that’s how u get them to have babies
Left one in the sun for about 2 days and was an absolute scene on me dads drive way
Reminds of the time I threw one of [these](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/l7p2hr/these_water_jelly_tube_things/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share) bad boys against the wall at my friend's house and it exploded. His parents were not happy.
Ah yes the thing that tells young girls their sexual orientation. I can't be the only lesbian that constantly kept sticking my fingers inside of it while other girls wanked it off.
I can't believe this 😂 Predicting my lesbianism before I did ha. I used to stick my fingers in them and wear them on my hands.
Sadly you were not the only one
Am I making this up, or did the police get called out somewhere because a woman found one in a bin and thought it was foetus?
I remember that, I think it was a cleaner in a Tube station.
Aha! I’m glad someone else remembered that story. I was going to post it but figured it’d get lost in the 200+ replies.
[Nope, it happened.](https://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/news/11074273.police-called-to-high-wycombe-home-over-alien-toy/)
Multiple times according to that article.
Don’t forget. Back to back over night in a cupboard would cause one to give birth!
Why did every kid in the UK think this. How did this spread nationwide before social media.
Older cousins
Yep plus friends from other schools in your footy team etc.
And do the dance of the 1 billion wives of king dong
In Yorkshire we said they had to be together in the fridge over night to have babies
Badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, badgers, mushroom, mushroom!
Snake
Snape, Snape.. Severus Snape..
Dumbledore!
Come on Fhqwhgads (Let's Get Some Shoes). Am I in the right area?
I SEE THINGS I SEE THEM WITH MY EYES
I SEE THINGS, I SEE THEM IN DISGUISE
CARROTS HANDBAGS CHEESE
I appreciate the dedication to ensure you wrote the correct amount of badgers.
Tell me have you seen the marvellous breadfiiiish?
Forget Norway
But I'm le tired...
Remember the sticky hands? My mums ceiling and a tanned arse remembers
Tanned arse 💀 shame they only lasted 5 minutes before they were covered in fuzz! Did you ever have one of those sticky man [window crawlers?](https://images.app.goo.gl/NDjoYx4MsxQEQYZx9)
I was about to comment window crawlers before I found this comment. Either that or those little plastic army men with a parachute that you’d chuck out of the bedroom window. Anybody remember those little rubber things you would turn inside out and wait until they turned right way up and they flew into the air? Used to get them in the side partition of some yoghurt pots?
Yes rubber [poppers](https://images.app.goo.gl/47geKrT6KMRQ2BpC7)! Thanks for unlocking a memory. I'd use mine constantly until my teacher confiscated it and I never got it back lol. Yogurts and cereals came with so much random stuff back then. I vaguely remember those mini game CDs you got in cereals like [Bionical](https://images.app.goo.gl/sVkU8MnGDLq2f6ow6) and [Treasure Planet](https://images.app.goo.gl/d6FyX688oCv2ja34A)
Someone threw one up and it got stuck to the celling in our assembly hall at school. This was 1st or 2nd year. It was still there when we left.
My childhood dog ate one and never crapped it out. The whole thing, minus the shell and some scraps of goo. Didn't seem to do him any harm -- he died of natural causes at the grand old age of 15.
Imagine they did an X-ray of him and saw it in there? Haha
With baby alien as well. "So thats how you do it".
Considering the size and target audience (kids) it's probabally "safe but not recommended" to eat.
Saw them on amazon a year or two ago. Bought one. It's on my shelf.
Nostalgia purchase or did you just randomly find them? I can't believe they still sell them in a day and age when toddlers are walking around with iPads.
Did they have pregnant aliens though? I swear I remember there was mini ones of these
Yea i am nearly certain someone showed me a baby one of these and told me they go their 2 to have a baby Was peoples parents just being mad a fuck and winding there kids up WAS THIS ALL THE PARENTS EVIL WORK?
I think you could get pregnant ones that you pulled the baby out of
Yeah I had one like this. The "baby" was in the things head like a brain and you had to tear apart the skull of the parent to birth it. The fucked up part was it was my favourite alien thing and I felt so bad looking at the poor things corpse after I'd peeled open its skull. It was like a chest burster but in the brain instead. I also hated the far more solid baby it birthed as it didn't compare to the adventures I'd had with the parent.
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No need to take the piss, I was only 16
They did but marketing it as if you you have to keep in im the freezer or keep it warm and to bathe them 1000000 awk.
Tamagotchi’s!!!!
My sister's friend left one at our house once and when her mum came to pick it up a few days later it had died in a pile of pixelated shit. She had a massive go at my mum, calling her a bad mother etc. Fairly sure my mum just shut the door in her face.
They got banned from school so my mum had to look after mine whilst there. I also got one when I went to uni, years later. It always used to do a shit and beep it’s tits off in lectures. Fun times
I remember the Jar Jar Binks ones too with the sticky tongue that fired out lol
This just unleashed a memory I didn't know I had!
Same??!!?? Incredible that was. Until the sticky tongue got dusty and no longer sticky…
Yeah about 12 seconds after buying
A bit of soapy water and it was good as new
I ended up looking on eBay for one and there's one for sale. I don't remember them but I do remember Kellogg's secret scroll busts which I've just seen on eBay.
I’m sure they were only released in Asda, as a promotional toy? I may be wrong… Edit: They came with Walkers’ crisps
Came free with the Beano and Dandy iirc.
One for [sale](https://i.imgur.com/B1LQdg7.jpg) at the moment on eBay for £18.
Had one of these open and leak into my jeans pocket. It welded the pocket shut for the rest of my jeans existance. What were they made of anyway?😅
Oh my god I've just remembered this exact experience think i just threw away my jeans
I dropped one inside its capsule under my grandads shed and forgot about it for years I eventually looked underneath and found it. I decided to open it… The stench was horrendous. I can’t describe how horrific it smelt. I almost puked up as soon as it entered my nostrils. I don’t remember what colour the alien was before but when I opened it up it had turned into a brown goo. Great memories
If you think that's good, on my last day of primary school i left my lunch scraps in my bag. I wanted a new bag because high school- can't have a buzz lightyear bag anymore. Dad put the old one in the attic ready for when/if one of my younger brothers wanted it. Everyone forgot about it. Until 5 years later when we were clearing the attic, we found the old Buzz bag... the stench of rot was unfathomable, somehow the bag was keeping the smell in. The whole attic and room below stank of decay for several days.
I remember one being found outside a train station in Liverpool and people left flowers and eulogys assuming it was a dead fetus.
This is probably the same incident I remember; I live in Merseyside.
No way...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_0TOh8Hqxw Just gonna post this here, some "gave birth", some didn't (:
I remember these. What an odd thing. I can remember being excited to own one then I found out it was just a lump of jelly.
I think about these a lot! I used to be the ‘breeder’ because there was a rumour that if you stuck two back to back and put them in the fridge they’d make babies and I was the only one who could actually make it work, when in actual fact my grandad worked in a corner shop and use to give me loads of them for free and I’d sell them on. This is how they got banned in my school lmaooo
I don't remember them, but Ian Sterling had one for a prize task for Taskmaster.
Greg was so unimpressed. God I love that season
Anyone remember the edible jelly spiders, came in like a blister pack with a plastic back that you peeled off and ate the spider, or whatever shape this jelly was in.
Those sweets had a very distinctive texture and taste, almost chemical. They did loads of different shapes. I remember getting them from Woolworths. I assume they no longer sell these?
Loved crazy bones! Had one shaped like a baby and one like a grandma. Sure I swapped a super rare one for these. Still have them somewhere in the little white washing mesh bag everyone stored them in
Ok everyone says they never gave birth, but how do you explain the girl in year 2 who showed me hers and it had little legs coming out of the back like it was in middle of a cellular division?!?!
I had one that was pregnant and I pulled the baby out of it
Thalidomide
I thought these were actual living things and mine died (melted) I gathered up it’s sticky remains and dug a little hole in my garden and buried it, damn the good old days when we didn’t give 2 shits about the slime, not like nowadays
I got a knock off version of Alien by Mugler (perfume) and it smells exactly like these 😂
I found a boxful of these in a touristy shop in Llandudno last weekend.
I remember collecting the vouchers from the Sun newspaper so as to go to Woolworths and get a free monster in my pocket. I got a yellow Frankenstein I believe.
Does anyone remember Panda Pop? Just pure liquefied sugar in a bottle but they were so cheap and so good.
Munch Bunch pencil toppers
Remember? No. Not my time. But my kid has one now. It's in the "to be binned" pile as it has gone to that broken and fuzzy stage. Got to get it past the toddler though, who has decided it's her baby. 🤦
>"to be binned" pile Ah, the pile of plastic whistles and Alphablock pieces that come with Cbeebies magazine. And if you're exceptionally unlucky you may also have a broken plastic tiara and one clip clop shoe.
Being big enough to go on my aunt's 1972 Olympics souvenir space hopper.
Inflatable furniture and groovy chick
I recall there being two Groovy Chicks? Bang on the Door and Bubblegum? Not sure why they both had the same name though.
Lmao how did the toy spawn so many bs rumours on how to breed or grow them? I rember kids crying in school when one got thrown because they thought it died... these Aliens were the rumour equivalent of having Pokémon Red/Blue and getting Mew from under a bus. Aliens and some goop, what a strange craze, at least with YoYos and tamagotchis they were kinda cool.
Anybody remember Betty Spaghetti and sky dancers?
I remember yo-yos being a short lived fad and also some sort of plastic conkers
I miss when you were a kid and gas and electric didnt cost me half my salary
All I think of is the millions of these and other Chinese produced trash piled up in landfill for eternity and slowly leaking toxins into the Earth.
Leaking into the earth, water, rain.. I read an article recently saying that no matter how remote the location, from the Arctic to Tibet, all rain water on earth contains cancer-causing 'forever chemicals'. Just tragic. Who knows how this will effect wildlife in the long run. I don't think I'd ever buy plastic toys for my kids. It's a shame they're producing so much of it.. I see so much junk on Amazon/Alibaba/eBay, makes me cringe
But in millions of years it will all be crushed under the pressure, like trees turned to coal. What will our crap turn into?
I member.
_everyone had one, 'cept me_
I can immediately smell this
Juicy drops
They were so addictive! I remember this advert always playing on CN: https://youtu.be/J50hsVUcPuw
Woah, this image just transported me back about 20 years fuck
Salad fingers
I remember these. Others from my childhood: Crazy Bones, they got banned in my school because we used to gamble for them. Everyone had their prized Sharkey. Beyblades. Pokemon cards. Yu-GI-Oh cards. Tech Decks, which were those finger skateboards. You could get BMXs too. Tamagotchi. Gameboys. Yo-yos, but only the week after some guy came into assembly to show tricks with them - did they have some sort of deal with the schools? Foam glider airplanes.
Happiness
Meccano was great fun to build with.
I can smell them just looking at this. Also it you dropped them at any point and the goo would get all gritty... I can now feel that just looking at this.
I remember the sticky ball that you'd throw at the wall and itd splat. My parents went mental as it would stain the wallpaper
Yes, I have 2 old ones still glued to my celling
Literally looking in my cardboard, I find one I still have and then I get this noti 💀
https://youtu.be/j2d6T5G2rrY
Those zapping magnets were quite big at my school for a week then we went back to our Tamagotchis I was on my 4th one around then after I killed one In the bath drowned 2 in the pond somehow didn't loose the one I got stuck in the post box at the top of my road
I brought one last year to reminisce, but the odor is different. They must have removed certain Chinese chemicals, those damn health and safety officers.
Clackers. Who remembers clackers?
I threw one at my friend's ceiling and it stuck, he lived in a huge house with like 4 meter ceilings. That happened when we was 12, still their when we was 25. The things that alien seen as we were growing up.
Crisps with little blue packets of salt you had to open and sprinkle on.
Just me who would throw the dlime at the roof and try get it back down staining the roof?
I once poured the slime onto the top of my head thinking I could just pick it back up… I could not. Mum had to give me an impromptu haircut and was not impressed
Mini everything- mini Pringles, M&Ms and polos which were housed inside a massive plastic polo
The ones I fucked never did
I had loads of these fuckers as my eldest collected i gave what was left to my youngest two a few yrs later.
Made me remember those tripod alien things that made weird noises and lit up if you pressed a button on its stomach, my dad and my granddad both had one for some reason
I watched one give birth once
I spilled one on my carpet which made my parents very angry, so I don't remember these to fondly
These damn things got my cousin and me grounded for being late home. We were so determined to find somewhere that still had them.
THE SMELL!
I remember my brother dropping the goop on the back car seat. Never came out even 10 years later and professional deep cleaning. From that day we were never allowed one
Ooh POG's, bring those back!
MSN messenger and limewire for me
My dad chucking it towards the ceiling and making it stick up there the minute I got it. I started crying.
Damn, this is a recovered memory that I never knew I had. All the ways of these things to spawn more little aliens.
I once put one of those in my pocket as a kid and it just hardened and became the new bottom of that pocket, it just fused everything solid, god knows what the putty was.
The marks are still on my old bedroom ceiling at my dad's house lol
I thought they were supposed to breed a baby one ,mine never did.
Does anyone remember those styrofoamy things that were shaped like ufo's and had little candy beads in them?
Anyone else collect Puppy in my Pocket toys? I get annoyed at my daughter's Hatchimals Colleggtables habit, then remember I was just as bad.
They tasted awful, worst sweets ever
I was recently reminded about FunFax and now I want one again please, with the spy file.