Hello Creepy Crawler Fans,
My favorite toy as a child in the 60’s, was the Thingmaker toys by Mattel. I had
the Creepy Crawlers, then the Fun Flowers, and finally the Picadoos. In the mid
80’s, I was going through a healing phase of my life, and I wanted to refocus my
mind concerning my childhood memories. I decided it would help my healing
process to go back and relive some of the positive things. So, what better way,
than to get out the Thingmaker toys that luckily my Mom had saved for me in our
basement for all these years. I had the original boxes, instructions, molds,
etc, but what about goop? It was nowhere to be found.
I was fortunate enough to find an antique/collectible dealer in a toy magazine
that I could purchase all the other mold pack sets that I didn’t have as a child.
What a dream come true! But then was the problem of finding some goop.
With some investigating, I was lucky enough to find a source of goop, but I had
to mix my own colors. It just happened to be the same company that sold to
Mattel in the 60’s. Does it sound too good to be true? I thought so, too, at the
time!!! News of this discovery spread by way of the antique toy dealer. I used
to spontaneously get a check in the mail usually from New York. It was someone
wanting a set of goop colors! I thought that was really something. People actually
paid me to mix goop! This experience has always inspired me to someday try to
market the goop and have it available to the general public.
In 2004, after I retired, I could finally focus on living my dream. After about two
years of working on color formulas, marketing, designing the label, writing
instruction sheets, etc, I started to sell PATTI-GOOP on eBay. I have
received countless emails from my wonderful customers, telling me how I
helped them relive some of their favorite childhood memories by baking
PATTI-GOOP and sniffing the reminiscent smell. Also, many of my customers
are sharing the experience of these incredible vintage toys with their children
and grandchildren. Now I firmly believe that is was not a coincidence that I
found that original manufacturer, it was meant to be, for a lot of reasons.
Now I am living another dream come true, by building my own website, so that
I can share my whole toy collection with the world, and provide the best
pricing for PATTI-GOOP .
I want to thank all of my customers for making PATTI-GOOP
a success!
Sincerely,
Patty
the Creepy Crawlers, then the Fun Flowers, and finally the Picadoos. In the mid
80’s, I was going through a healing phase of my life, and I wanted to refocus my
mind concerning my childhood memories. I decided it would help my healing
process to go back and relive some of the positive things. So, what better way,
than to get out the Thingmaker toys that luckily my Mom had saved for me in our
basement for all these years. I had the original boxes, instructions, molds,
etc, but what about goop? It was nowhere to be found.
I was fortunate enough to find an antique/collectible dealer in a toy magazine
that I could purchase all the other mold pack sets that I didn’t have as a child.
What a dream come true! But then was the problem of finding some goop.
With some investigating, I was lucky enough to find a source of goop, but I had
to mix my own colors. It just happened to be the same company that sold to
Mattel in the 60’s. Does it sound too good to be true? I thought so, too, at the
time!!! News of this discovery spread by way of the antique toy dealer. I used
to spontaneously get a check in the mail usually from New York. It was someone
wanting a set of goop colors! I thought that was really something. People actually
paid me to mix goop! This experience has always inspired me to someday try to
market the goop and have it available to the general public.
In 2004, after I retired, I could finally focus on living my dream. After about two
years of working on color formulas, marketing, designing the label, writing
instruction sheets, etc, I started to sell PATTI-GOOP on eBay. I have
received countless emails from my wonderful customers, telling me how I
helped them relive some of their favorite childhood memories by baking
PATTI-GOOP and sniffing the reminiscent smell. Also, many of my customers
are sharing the experience of these incredible vintage toys with their children
and grandchildren. Now I firmly believe that is was not a coincidence that I
found that original manufacturer, it was meant to be, for a lot of reasons.
Now I am living another dream come true, by building my own website, so that
I can share my whole toy collection with the world, and provide the best
pricing for PATTI-GOOP .
I want to thank all of my customers for making PATTI-GOOP
a success!
Sincerely,
Patty