Who Had Creepy Crawlers?

[Bruzilla]

I have a complete set of Creepy Crawler molds that came with an old Mattel vacuform kit I bought, and I was going to bring it to work for Halloween to let everyone make some crawlers but the goop I ordered hasn't shown up yet. I was telling some of my co-workers about this and they had no idea what Creepy Crawlers are! How could you grow up in the 1960s and not know what Creepy Crawlers are?

So, I was wondering how many on this forum had a Creepy Crawlers set when they were a kid? I did.

 

[Richard Cranium]

The vacuform kit was cool! But with the heat that thing put out, they could never release that to the public today.

 

[Bruzilla]

Yeah, some of the younger folks here were amazed that anyone would give an 8-year old a 350 degree hotplate as a toy.

 

[moparmarks]

I had one. Also had the Hot Wheels kit where you made your own cars. Yep the good ol days. The 60's. Hot iron toys. Clackers. Lawn Darts.

 

[RustyRatRod]

We always played with real bugs and snakes and all.

 

[Richard Cranium]

There was lots of ways for us to burn stuff back in the 60's! Remember wood burning kits which were like a paint by numbers except you had a hot soldering iron with different shaped tips to burn the wood & create a picture. My sister had an Easy-Bake oven. How about starting fires with a magnifying glass and Cox powered gas cars & planes.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Yeah I had my share of Cox powered stuff. Nothing like a kid with a 32 ounce can of jet fuel.

 

[super-bee_ski]

I "got burned" once or twice on mine.
Remember that smell when the PVc plastic melted?
My younger sis had an easy bake oven, same Christmas.
Was that around 1965?

 

[dryheat]

My Dad bought me a Creepy Crawler set one year for Christmas. I never got to use it though ... turns out that he wanted it to make plastic baits for fishing ... best Christmas gift he ever got.

 

[Bruzilla]

Here's another odd one.. the Strange Change machine. It was an offshoot of the creepy crawler over but with a clear plastic cover. You put plastic cubes into the cover and as they got hot they would expand and become monsters. Then when you wanted to change them back, you heated them up again and put them in a little crushing device on the front that formed them back into cubes.

We also had the Incredible Edibles oven that basically made candy creepy crawlers. The FDA would have fits about that now. ;)

 

[satman72]

Wow! According to today's "experts" it's amazing that us older folks are still alive!!!

 

[ZR9B]

had the creepy crawlers...lead solders...dont pour hot led in them if the mold is wet..not good...cox pull start dune buggy, airplanes had a helicopter that after I put a bigger tank on it I never saw it again....

 

[Moparsmitty]

Still have a little scar from my wood burning set. Consider it to be educational.
Remember when you could buy a chemistry set at the store. I think they were made by the same company that made the Erector Set. Another great toy.

 

[Ron 73]

Still have a little scar from my wood burning set. Consider it to be educational.
Remember when you could buy a chemistry set at the store. I think they were made by the same company that made the Erector Set. Another great toy.

I think i had every chemistry set they made in those days, and some i made up myself.. My mom was always afraid i was going to blow up the house lol.

 

[Bruzilla]

When I was growing up in Plum, we lived directly across RT 286 from the Holiday Park VFD. My sister had one of those super chemistry sets and we were watching the episode of Star Trek where Kirk makes gunpowder to kill an alien and my sister and I ran up to her chemistry set to see if she had charcoal, potassium nitrate, and sulfur, and she had all three, so we tried to make out own cannon. We took it out in the backyard and lit it off. It didn't fire the ping pong ball we loaded in it, but it made this massive plume of black smoke that the guys at the VFD saw.

A few minutes later, we saw one of the fire trucks going up and down our street looking for the source of the smoke, but all the evidence had been cleaned up by then.

 

[bigredbird]

I had a CC set, and burned my hand several times on the damned thing. My sister too. Our folks just wagged their fingers and said "Be careful next time."

We used to have competitions at school to see who could make the coolest custom-colored bugs. I think this might've been where the car-customizing bug bit, too.

 

[Moparsmitty]

I searched and found that the Erector set and Chemistry set I had were made by a company called Gilbert Toys. You can't buy them anymore. Wonder why????? The chemistry set is #3 on the list of the Worlds Most Wildly Irresponsible Toys. #1 was a toy called Atomic Energy Lab. I don't remember that one. It actually came with Uranium. I'm not kidding, look it up.

 

[ChargerRTguy]

I have a creepy crawler set and original box, also have the fright factory too. Almost forgot the hot wheels factory where you inject plastic into a mold to create cars. I still have the plastic and we used to re-use the old cars and melt them down. I might try and make a few cars for yuks.

 

[99ss]

I did and I bought it new for my kids a few years back.. They still make them

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had the creepy crawlers...lead solders...dont pour hot led in them if the mold is wet..not good...cox pull start dune buggy, airplanes had a helicopter that after I put a bigger tank on it I never saw it again....

LMAO!

 

[ChargerRTguy]

I did and I bought it new for my kids a few years back.. They still make them

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LMAO!

Cox, pull start dune buggy ..I remember that, was yours purple ? Mine was.... I will have to look downstairs in the basement, see if is still around...lol.