Too bad they don’t make those cool dangerous kits anymore with the mercury and radioactive material.
My nephew asked for one for Christmas last year and everything I found was insanely tame. He likes it, I was underwhelmed, because even in the mid 1990s you could get better stuff.
Dr. Dreadful? I remember those. Particularly the one for making a fizzy green goopy drink. I could never drink any pop, though, so I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to shake carbonated beverages in a closed container. Long story short, the green goopy beverage got shot straight onto the eggshell white ceiling, and into the inset lighting.
Man did that name bring back memories. I was only aware of the DD zombie kit, but a quick look online shows it had a whole series of toys, including an “alien autopsy” kit.
AC Gilbert, manufacturer of such science kits and erector sets, included the fixins for explosives back when I were a lad (mid-late 1950s). I had a blast.
Flashbacks to me at 12 years old playing with my chemistry kit (I got it when I was 10, my mother hid it for two years then gave it to my dad to hide at his place. I found it an hour later) I wanted to make something that fizzed and bubbled. Instead, I promptly lost the directions, mixed everything together and accidently created an acid that ate through the beaker, the table and an inch of floor.
Typo: The second word of the first panel should be “what” not “want.”
Working penance into distraction. well played Todd.
Too bad they don’t make those cool dangerous kits anymore with the mercury and radioactive material.
My nephew asked for one for Christmas last year and everything I found was insanely tame. He likes it, I was underwhelmed, because even in the mid 1990s you could get better stuff.
My favorite as a kid was a mad science-themed candy making kit. Eye dropper of Solution A into Solution B and you get gummy drops, that sort of thing
Dr. Dreadful? I remember those. Particularly the one for making a fizzy green goopy drink. I could never drink any pop, though, so I didn’t know you weren’t supposed to shake carbonated beverages in a closed container. Long story short, the green goopy beverage got shot straight onto the eggshell white ceiling, and into the inset lighting.
“Long story short, the green goopy beverage got shot straight onto the eggshell white ceiling, and into the inset lighting.”
As is tradition. 🤣🤣🤣
Man did that name bring back memories. I was only aware of the DD zombie kit, but a quick look online shows it had a whole series of toys, including an “alien autopsy” kit.
AC Gilbert, manufacturer of such science kits and erector sets, included the fixins for explosives back when I were a lad (mid-late 1950s). I had a blast.
Figurative or literal?
Literal, I suspect.
por qué no los dos??
por que no los dos??
… this was supposed to be a reply to Bartimaeus, ack!!
Flashbacks to me at 12 years old playing with my chemistry kit (I got it when I was 10, my mother hid it for two years then gave it to my dad to hide at his place. I found it an hour later) I wanted to make something that fizzed and bubbled. Instead, I promptly lost the directions, mixed everything together and accidently created an acid that ate through the beaker, the table and an inch of floor.