WHAM-O Super Elastic

[speedamagooch]

Super elastic bubble plastic was like, "Intro to huffing."

[3bhui]

Chemical toys seemed to be the most prevalent in the early to mid 70s. It's almost as if there was a bunch of leftover chemicals from the Vietnam war that companies got really cheap.

[elchicho25]

LMAO! Those fumes I inhaled while almost having cardiac arrest trying to blow a bubble out of that thing.. ahhh miss the old days of REAL toys..

[mindsaglowin]

Okay, they didn't "last."

[Bullseye5477]

We used to chew on this stuff like bubble gum. It's a wonder I'm still alive.

[tyronechonglu]

I once put a gob of this crap on my friends fathers car bumper, lit it on fire and biked away.

Good times

[tyronechonglu]

Better living through chemistry

[3bhui]

@tyronechonglu

Haha. There were lots of public relations commercials in the 70s done by the most polluting companies claiming that they were doing society so much good by making the environment cleaner.

[vulcangrl13]

I got some knovkoff of that elastic bubble plastic today at the dollar store. Played with it inside because I was a dumass and now I'm high... This isn't fun. I feel horrible... I think I'm gonna pass out....

[notredamehesamighty]

Once I got some of this sticky, napalm-based stuff on the curtains and I thought my mom was gonna kill me. Even as a little kid I was smart enough to know this toxic stuff was horrific. It smelled like pure gasoline! And it was meant for kids. If you have any doubts about how free market companies regulate themselves THERE'S YOUR ANSWER.

[Coasterdude02149]

@notredamehesamighty ROTFLMAO!!!!! The fumes would take you to places like Pluto but man, it made great looking bubbles.

[dandypajamas]

more like super elastic bubble CANCER.

[Zeppelinfaktor]

Little did those children know that within those toys was the leftover nuclear agents from Los Alamos National Lab...

[devtrev]

I wonder how many cancer causing agents were in that crap.

[briva]

Mikey, the Life cereal kid, inhaled Super Elastic and became a crack whore.

[billpage]

cool

[jeepers2655]

Had a super ball....through it at our fence......blew up or?.....never saw it again.......

[miamad]

I used to get high on this stuff, then self suck.

[BlurnGanston]

@miamad It improved your flexibility?

[regressing2apes]

the superball was the namesake to the american super bowl. the daughter of i believe pete raselle had a super ball and the rest is history ... die

[1donkey]

I forgot about super elastic bubble plastic, but now I remember... I made big bubbles just like the commercial.

[Sheri451]

I remember getting that bubble plastic. I never could blow it up like a ball. Only little teeny looking things that usually burst. I never did like the way it smelled.

[devtrev]

God only knows what chemicals were in that stuff. Probably the same ingredients as Happy Fun Ball.

[Gorbachenko]

@devtrev Yes, I remember blowing up a pretty nice sized ball once and making the mistake of removing my tongue from the straw. All of that disgusting, no doubt toxic air shot right back into my lungs and set me off in a coughing spasm. It's a miracle I didnt drop dead on the spot! Needless to say I stopped playing with the stuff after that...

[dapletd]

@dapletd after reading some on the Super ball & Bubble plastic & the Vac-u-form it brought back memory's that were not that great.Like the bubble plastic did have fumes that were bad to breath,and had to be careful not to suck them up the straw,& the Super ball would break & the Vac-U-forms plastic could have fumes and getting the plastic off the heating element was not fun.Tend to overlook that and just remember the stuff that was fun.

[kaylarose823]

Me and my neighborhood friends use to get high off snorting super elastic bubble plastic then pull out the good ole water wiggle (with the orange cup head removed, exposing the metal hook) and have that beasty beast flying around us, dodging it before it beat the crap out of us!!! Great California Summer days of the early 1970's!!!

[bigovid]

i used to blow one up, inhale the chemicals in, barf into the straw to fill the ball w/puke, then throw it against the wall

[68lincoln]

Great kid stuff from my childhood days! I had a few Superballs by Wham-O, they were the best, my Scottie dog was always trying to chase one of them. Fun times back then and we didn't need cell phones and texting as kids to be entertained. A buck and a half bought a Superball and for five bucks you could get a pretty good skateboard. We had fun back in those days as kids.

[CJDeDJ]

EPIC WIN

[JimAsian1]

Hi What happened to the color in this commercial. I think it was in color or filmed in color.

Does anyone know?

Thanks.

[Justliquor]

We had this stuff and the original Superball (which really would bounce over a house, I know because I lost mine that way), The fantastic Johnny 7 One Man Army gun and the Secret Sam spy case. Man those were huge fun. I really feel sorry for kids today.  Super safe, super BORING and politically correct. "Hey Kids, now you can save the planet with Mr. Environment and his Earth-friendly Trash bag" Geez. I wish kids today could have what we had in the 60's. You know, REAL fun.

[misterwhitefolkz]

Amen,brother....cowboys and indians would get you enrolled in a racial awareness class. How about a frisbee or nerf football or a schwinn bike? Kids these days just want to text and play video versions of things they should be doing for real!!

[HipHopJun]

I always wanted to try out those Cherry Bombs.

[colleenfrances]

that shit looks so cool.

[randsterama]

yes ... it was really cool. And it had a solvent-like smell that

probably was getting us high before we knew what getting

high was.

[TYofSON]

damn i want some

[philmfan]

I had a Firetron and thought it was hot stuff, but it wasn't long before I realized the best Wham-O Superballs were the black ones.

[Aliendear]

Super elastic bubble plastic was fun when I was a kid. Wham-O made some neat stuff.

[raremorning]

Once I switched the tube of Crest with the tube of Super Elastic Bubble Plastic and my little brother brushed his teeth with it!!!!

He died shortly thereafter of a mysterious illness.

[eraContraband]

hahahah wow thats messed up

[randsterama]

I had both of these toys when I was a kid - along with creepy

crawlers thingmakers and other stuff that could be considered

"hazardous" in today's over-protected society. It was great !!

[Aliendear]

Those electric toys were fun, and no one ever started a fire or got hazardous. Mattel had neat stuff.

[supermariofreak0071]

does that firetron superball really bounce that high.

[d5ive]

Yes. I always ended losing mine shortly after buying them.

[supermariofreak0071]

you could replace your car tires with that firetron superball stuff.

[supermariofreak0071]

cant you get something similar to that super elastic bubble plastic at the dollar store or something.

[d5ive]

You can, but it's lower in quality so the bubbles don't get nearly as big and the bubbles are only in one color.

The original ones squirted out with multiple colors. There was even a version that was clear, but with blue and green swirls through them so it would kinda look like a huge marble.

[angieelahr]

but where do they sell it? or they dnt sell it nymor?

[d5ive]

I've seen the cheap ones at grocery stores within the past year, and more recently, at the 99 cent store here in San Diego.

I haven't seen the original one in over 20 years.

[randsterama]

sometimes you can find them on eBay

[supermariofreak0071]

yea haveing that stuff for shoes would be fun.

[Weeteg24]

I want it! Haha

[RespectMyGangsterism]

Can I get some shoes made out of that zectron superball stuff?

[afroebob]

DUDE!!! that is a awsome idea!!! bounce like 10 feet in the air without even trying! IM SO GONNA DO THAT!

[madamerotten]

The product contained polyvinyl acetate dissolved in acetone, with plastic fortifiers added.

[BunniesChinchilla]

classic commercials they made seance back then but now you dont know what there trying to make u buy now :/

[ford1979truck]

lol thats true

[7DARKHELLS]

Superball was a blessing to all window repair men!

[george319]

im 45 and i bin using that crap for ten years

[MelStar111]

ooooo...i remember the smell of super elastic bubble plastic...was better than sniffing my grandfather's cigar smoke or the beer off of old aunt gert's breath!!! no wonder i later had quite a problem with jack daniels! lol great stuff..great fun, that super elastic stuff! :) good memories

[ford1979truck]

Why did they get ride of this stuff ...was it bad for the health some one plz tell me

[knexcoaster]

idk y they got rid of it but i was told they got rid of it cuz people just got sick o fthem and no one bught them anymore

[george319]

i used to chew this stuff the real superballs are longgone the new ones stink

[frizspin175]

that bubble elastic stuff always stuck to my hands. Do they even make that anymore?

[Rick2008CP]

they dont make that stuff anymore, you can only get it on ebay

[mromeyn]

This is what those were all about, OMG I can remember my friends and myself chewing on this stuff!

[mromeyn]

Chemically, the bubbles contained polyvinyl acetate dissolved in acetone, with plastic fortifiers added. The acetone evaporated upon bubble inflation leaving behind a solid plastic film. Besides the obvious potential for messes when letting children play with liquid plastic, the substance also emitted noxious fumes. The fumes could become concentrated inside the straw, so users had to be careful never to inhale through the straw while inflating their balloons.

[GurleyMann7]

way to just copy and paist from fucking Wiki

[george319]

oh please every kid i knew inhauled it that would explain a lot

[zabadu]

Just because your friends were idiots doesn't mean everyone was. I'll lay you odds you aren't even in the age range of this product.

[FantomNX]

man those superballs are amazing! they dont sell the firetron anymore but they sell the original, and its very hard to find

[Ipwn3dI0]

i got the new whamo superball, its no were near as good as the old ones i directly compaired em. new ones = waste of money get an old one off ebay

[huehnerfuss]

I could never get my super elastic bubble plastic to blow up any bigger than a football. They always looked like kidneys or livers or some other internal organ.

[pazvato]

Yes they were. I remember the first thing I bought with my paper route money back about 1971 was a super ball at Hoskins 5 & 10. Now, 5 & 10'a are gone and kids don't deliver papers anymore.

[56BUICKRiviera]

Fine products!