Tag: Slime

Newer Nickelodeon Slime!

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Four years ago I wrote a four page, (Ecto-Containment Blog Post, August 12, 2013) Ecto-Containtment feature about Kenner’s Ecto-Plazm, slime toy alternatives, and something I still enjoy, Nickelodeon Slime!

Like all good things, Gak and Slime! from Nickelodeon weren’t always going to be sold either on-line or in stores. I was a little surprised when I saw on Facebook in the last 4 months Nick brought back slime!, that glows and is shaped like a foreign germ. As opposed to the “secret of the ooze” canister version.

Their is also a secondary shape that reminds me of a frozen popsicle.

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Prologic’s Ecto-Plazm Photography

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A ghosthead who goes by the handle Prologic9 bought Kenner The Real Ghostbusters first series hero figures and first series ghost figures off a popular auction site. Since he now owned them, he decided to try to recreate Kenner Ecto-Plazm.

This somehow led to me spending numerous hours working on replicating the precise recipe for Kenner’s Ecto-Plazm. I’ve actually gotten about as close as you can all things considered, but I don’t even know where to start with replicating the smell.

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Ectocontainment Spotlight: Mini Goopers

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In 1988 with the larger first series ghost figures and larger Gooper Ghosts already on the market Kenner created and sold smaller Mini ghosts. Which are different, separate, and more affordable ghost figure sets. At $4.99 USD, (1980s dollars, nice) even your allowance money made these obtainable toys.

Kenner’s Ecto-Plazm toys had already reached a crescendo when they created and sold their large Gooper Ghosts. Their’s only so many individual cans of Ecto-Plazm your parents are willing to put up with. In childhood I never had anywhere near as many cans of toy slime as I do in adult hood. I owned more cans of Play-Doh. You know, the less messy play time. They came up with three smaller ghost toys, The Mini Gooper Ghosts,™ Mini Shooter,™ and Mini Traps.™ They could have all come with Ecto-Plazm, but then Mini Goopers wouldn’t be as special.

Kenner Ecto-Plazm

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Slime in Ghostbusters and The Real Ghostbusters is known as ectoplasm. When Kenner produced and sold the first series hero figures, their wasn’t a drop of ectoplasm to be found with them. Unless your parents had also bought you a Fire House.

Then at least you had one 5oz can of what Kenner called Ecto-Plazm.™ Which was mostly purple. Within a year other colors of Ecto-Plazm™ could be bought from your toy store of choice.

Because it is toy slime and not every kid was going to own every Kenner ghost, Ecto-Plazm™ came with different small ghost figures. Knowing it would make a child happy, (our parents not so much) each ghost figure was actually inside the Ecto-Plazm,™ covered in color slime!

I’ve been wanting to write about Ecto-Plazm™ for a long time now. I had fun with this one. Hopefully it’ll bring back fond memories for most of you as well.