The Flubber Fiasco

“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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  • 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!!!

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