Mattel is bringing back the "Thingmaker!"

[Archae]

As a $300 3-D printer.

It is interesting, though!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2016/02/12/mattel-resurrects-thingmaker-3d-printer/80236104/

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. I loved Thingmaker. Genius of Mattel to build on that.

[Archae]

2. Me too.

We had three sets of molds, the "pencil guys," the flowers and the "creepy crawlies."

The hardest part was finding the "Plastigoop!"

[Gidney N Cloyd]

3. My dad had an issue with spiders and tossed the big creepy crawler spider mold.

[Frank Cannon]

4. Can't tell you how many burns I got from that gadget.

And I loved every minute of it.

That was back when toys were dangerous and made us grow into real men and women.

[BlueSpot]

5. Heck yeah!

Between my brothers and I, we had the creepy crawlers, the creeple people (I think that was the pencil faces) and the flowers. Wasn't there another one that was just lots of little squares and you used different colors to make pixel pictures? It was always exciting to go and get more plastic goop! I think we all had many burned fingers - and we learned about consequences and to be more careful.

I don't remember what plastic goop cost per bottle but I bet it was a lot cheaper (even on an inflation-adjusted basis) than the stuff you have to feed into that printer.

So it sounds way cool but also really expensive. It might be fun to download the app and play with it. And then I'd want the printer. You know, because.