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Submitted by Sarah K
This stuff was awesome for making bubbles, but we had no idea you could roll it and make superballs out of it too! For such a simple concept, blowing a durable, catchable bubble was worth hours of entertainment.
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God. As a child all that did was get you high from the fumes! It smelled awful!
Yes. But it was that “awful-in-a-good-way” kind of awful!
My mom always put this in our Easter baskets; we loved it
Awful? The fumes smelled amazing! That might explain a lot about me now as an adult.
I got to play with this stuff once, made a huge mess, and then it was declared verboten. *sigh*
The superballs where sold separately, it was just in the same ad.
I only got to play with this once in preschool. I wasn’t very impressed.
I just saw this is the supermarket yesterday, I didn’t hink they sold it anymore.
I’ve never used that before. It looks fun! But then again, commercials always lie…
Totally Toxic Win!
The smell wasn’t anything to the taste! (And don’t ask how I tasted it.)
How?! I wana know why! ehehe…
My mom bought some of this for us because she played with it as a kid. I remember the smell. She told us not to put it in our mouth, and I remember thinking that there was no WAY I wanted to.
our bubbles never got very big. Softball size at best.
Still… was kinda fun. An odd childhood memorie.
For those curious, it tastes like broken batteries. (Don’t ask how I know how that tastes either…)
Mostly, I had one of those bubbles (after it deflated and was squashed) I mistook for the ’saved gum’ that used to be all the craze in my youth. You would take the gum out of your mouth and put it back on the wrapper for later. That was also how I kept that stuff from getting into the carpet because I would’ve died a horrible death.
… You said not to ask, and that basically guarantees I will. How do you know how broken batteries taste?
(Yes, that IS a valid URI. If anyone cares, it refers to the Diablo II Ultimate Strategy Guide.)
Aww, it stripped it out! YOUR SOFTWARE IS BROKEN AND DOESN’T ACCEPT ALL URIS! It was urn:isbn:0-7440-0105-6)
I tried the bubble stuff a few years ago, the smell was like paint! I got all woozy. And then I accidentally put the end of the tube that previously had the goo on it in my mouth instead of the clean end, and I was really icked out. If I screwed this up as an adult, I can’t imagine what mishaps little kids had with this.
everyone remembers the fumes and how cool this stuff was, but what I remember was that even tho the colors came out of the tube in clear swirls of red, blue, and yellow–when you made the bubble it all blended together and you ended up with these ugly muddy brown colored bubbles. They never looked like the commercial. But sitting on Nanna’s patio and blowing them in the summertime was a fond memory.
I know a couple of kids who mistook that stuff for gum.
Thankfully not taffy. :S
Nope, gets two thumbs down, it never worked for me…I kept trying to blow bubbles and they always popped, I gave it up in frustration.
And the commerical always had someone poke the balloon with a fork, so amazing!
I never got that crap to work and I just got it smudged in my hair. That stupid pipe they gave out with it always tasted like the goo.
Actually you can’t make superballs out of the SEBP. Wham-o just put the two products in the same commercial. I’ve never gotten a tube of the real SEBP, I always got the knock-off stuff that came in a tube the size of a tube of superglue, and that knock-off stuff never worked right. But I did have the chance to play with an original superball, and man do those things hurt when you throw them at the ground and they bounce back into your face
Yuck! This stuff was gross! The bubbles never got very big, and if you tried to play catch, they would deflate after the second toss. Not to mention the smell. Urrgh!
do they still make this stuff? i have NEVER seen it before( i must have had a sheltered childhood lol) and I kinda wanna try it
I’ve seen them in the toy isle at the grocery store, except they come in tiny little tubes instead of the big one seen in the commercial.
Also, aren’t those extreme superballs banned because so many kids injured themselves and everything around them?
This stuff was around when my parents were kids. My dad tod me some people would get high off the stuff.
I’m not old enough to know what this even is. But it looks cool. And that’s all that matters I suppose.
im 18 but this loooks AWESOME!
where to buy?
(and wheres the time machine to make me 10 again?)
WE NEVER got cool stuff like that!!! Because the one and only time… I blew a huge gloppy bubbly mess of it all over my freshly painted and stensiled bedroom wall. My mother was pregnant for my brother and said the fumes from my “airplane glue” made her sick …
I loved the plastic bubbles! They were great. It took a little practice getting big ones; but once you learned how to do it, was it ever fun!!
Lol, I’ve never seen that before, but it looks cool
I like the look of the super ball! But I live in Ireland and even if they did still sell they probably wouldn’t sell it in Ireland
I remember a freind knocking out a ceiling tile in a classroom with a superball.
Brookshire Brothers grocery stores still sells the balloon stuff! I work there and have to face that aisle every time I close… Hmm.. I might end up buying it, just to relive the old days. -grins-
I have played w/a lot of this stuff-probably more of the knock-off brand. I have bought it for my children & other kids in the family-just a little treat to be able to give them. I wasn’t perfect but it passed the time & a few kids together can have a lot of laughs trying to get it to work! My older brothers were able to make bigger bubbles than one. And we found that if you worked together, the person NOT blowing the bubble could pinched the holes & better to make a bigger bubble! Hey, for a buck, it was ok!
I feel like this stuff was toxic… But who cares! Blowing the stuff was so hard in the beginning, too. I always puffed out my cheeks when I blew so they ached afterwards. Good memories