{"id":960,"date":"2008-10-17T23:35:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T06:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2008-10-17T23:35:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T06:35:20","slug":"a246-creepy-crawlers-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=960","title":{"rendered":"#a246 :: Creepy Crawlers mold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101708.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101708-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-961\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101708-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101708-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/101708.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Creepy_Crawlers\">deeply iconic toy<\/a> from my youth let you commit a sort of reverse archaeology:<\/p>\n<p>Begin with the shapes left in metal by &#8220;disgusting&#8221; creatures &#8211; an aluminum &#8220;fossil&#8221; that holds the power to create a form of life.<\/p>\n<p>Pour plasma-like &#8220;Plasti-Goop&#8221; into their very absence. Heat it on a small thermoelectric hotplate. Watch the forms congeal and cool. Then tweeze out bug simulacra &#8211; now endowed the &#8220;lifelike&#8221; jiggle of insect energy &#8230; and completely creep out your little sister.<\/p>\n<p>Utter heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many great toys, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-order.net\" title=\"cialis\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">sildenafil<\/a>  The Mattel ThingmakerTM  was watered down, neglected, and bastardized into something sort of resembling its former glory due to too many small-minded parents suing over their children&#8217;s burnt fingers, but it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backtobasicstoys.com\/item\/productid\/6670\/txt\/Creepy_Crawlers_Workshop\/?source=PDGOG08\">still available in some form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This deeply iconic toy from my youth let you commit a sort of reverse archaeology: Begin with the shapes left in metal by &#8220;disgusting&#8221; creatures &#8211; an aluminum &#8220;fossil&#8221; that holds the power to create a form of life. Pour plasma-like &#8220;Plasti-Goop&#8221; into their very absence. Heat it on a small thermoelectric hotplate. Watch the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,4,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artifact","category-objet","category-part","category-tool","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}