Thingmaker Chill-A-Tron Lab

Mattel's third run, the Thingmaker Chill-A-Tron Lab. This one carried the Nickelodeon label. Once again, a totally different way of molding. This time, you combine water, powdered "Monster Mix", and color "Gooze" to make the liquid "Goop". Then you put the mold on ice & water in the "Chill-A-Tron", and pour the goop into the mold. The cold makes the Goop form into a gelatin-like state. The creatures, when done, are transparent but still pretty cool looking.

So what went wrong this time? Why did it only last a few months in the stores? First off, it's again very messy, like the TM2 Goop. It's kinda neat making your own Goop, but you have to use up all the portion you made, or it will dry up. Speaking of drying up, the creatures, when left out, again like the TM2 creatures, would dry up and turn ugly. If that wasn't bad enough, for some reason, they would also develop extremely sharp edges!? If the creatures won't hold up after making them, what's the point?

Like the TM2 molds, I like these very much. My favorite, the giant spider, is the largest creature to be made in any Thingmaker-type set. The mold was simply huge! Besides the 3 molds that came with the set, there were 6 accessory molds, each one including more Monster Mix & Gooze. Also, there were 2 accessory sets: Bog Wogs & Mad Scientist. Very nicely done kits. The Bog Wogs had some really neat creatures in there. All the packages were nicely done & very colorful. Unfortunately, all the molds & kits couldn't save the Chill-A-Tron, which was doomed from the start.

Again I'm trying to think of something we can use in these molds to make the creatures with. If anyone can think of anything, let me know.

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