“Just what do you do with [a] huge mass of reject Flubber??? The obvious answer was to send it to the local dump to be incinerated. This sounded like a good idea until Hasbro President Merrill Hassenfeld received a call the very next day after they hauled it away. The call was from the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island claiming that there was a huge black cloud hovering over the dump. Apparently, the Flubber would not burn properly in the city’s incinerator.” —The Flubber FiascoUseless Information)
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Thanks for that perspective, tlc! My kids loved the movie… I’m sure the flubber would have been great to play with.
I’ve seen this recipe for “flubber” online, but of course it couldn’t be the same as the industrial goop that the article describes.
http://www.netcooks.com/recipes/Kids/Flubber.html
I just wanted to set the record straight about the original Hasbro Fubber goo and the rashes. Maybe those children just had allergies. My friends and I all had the original flubber goo in 1963. We played with our Flubber until it just wore out and none of us ever got a rash. I just loved the way I could stretch it and how high it would bounce, but most of all was it’s unique smell, I loved that too. I thought Hasbro stopped selling Flubber once the movie was over. I have been looking everywhere trying to find some to show my children and grandchildren how cool it was along with my many other toys from the past. I would mind if on some hot summer day someone would get me a small sample of the Flubber that oozes up through the cracks in the parking lot pavement or Hasbro can bring it back!!!