@Felton10 Compared to the $10-$15 per tin putty my wife bought my kids not that long ago lol. 12 tins can be spread around to plenty of kids, well worth $1.666666666666667 per serving.
I would love to review this based on the May 19th offering, but it still hasn’t shown up. Ostensibly it’s shipped, as of 3 days ago it was ostensibly in my city, but as it hasn’t been delivered yet (and after which it still takes my building’s desk staff another day typically to sort it), I can’t offer any opinions other than it looks like it might be fun to play with whenever it arrives.
@Jamileigh17
Mine arrived just this morning. Pretty fun/nostalgic. I had fun handing them out to various family members, but kept one of each for myself.
Hey-I paid $ 19 about a month ago on meh and my granddaughter got some of it on the carpet and it won’t come out. Lucky I got a father’s day gift from my son.
@Felton10 Take a small sample and try oil or peanut butter on it. Often the polymer chains are broken down by the oil. Then you have an oil/dye stain that can be removed with Energene.
@jayman007 Don’t get your hopes up. Clear is a lint magnet and turns into grey dust/dirt colored putty after absorbing whatever is on the surfaces it touches.
@jayman007 I just got my order today coincidentally. The clear is pretty awesome if you were ever a silly putty fan as a kid and imagined the idea of instead of ugly coral of ordinal silly putty it was different colors, or no color so in clear. But a already mentioned, it’s super easy to see the soon to be added lint/dirt/crumbs/oil and all. So wash your hands and don’t drop it lol. But it’s still pretty cool while it’s crystal clear.
@scilynt It looks like mine was delivered today as well. When I get home I’ll check it out right away and see if it’s worth ordering more of this stuff.
Silly Putty and similar materials are composed of silicones dimethyl
siloxane, polydimethylsiloxane, and decamethyl cyclopentasiloxane,
with other ingredients. This substance is noted for its unusual
characteristics, e.g., that it bounces, but breaks when given a sharp
blow; it will also flow like a liquid and form a puddle given enough
time.
Many people and many types of bacteria and mold can digest gluten. If microbes can digest something, that thing can “go bad”. The usual failure mode is getting dirty.
@whomeyesu
To be clear, I was already a handwasher and a noneater of putty.
You’re being optimistic about folks’ adherence to anti-pandemic protocols (owing in part to my taking this shit seriously). I help manage the response in my office and I pay attention elsewhere; people generally only sort of do what they’re supposed to.
As promised, but I mean this in the best possible way.
I bought these last time with a coupon. I decided to open them up and give them a whirl.
Each tin is about a golf ball size of putty. They come in retail packaging, and the putty is inside a plastic bag. I’m guessing to keep it from drying out. Not sure how long they’ll last now that they are open.
The marbleized one tears more than it stretches. It looks absolutely fascinating in the light. It looks like the glitter is underwater. It’s sticky and leaves bits all over my hand when I manipulated it. I can also shred it with my thumb.
The heat reactive is really satisfying to play with. The glow in the dark has the same texture, but the glow is disappointing. I need to try it with my black light.
The clear is the same texture as the marbleized. I suppose when it gets inevitably dirty, just add some fine mica powder to it and you’ll have a new putty. I have some crazy glow powder, so I’ll probably try that when the first one no longer looks clear.
@RiotDemon
Spot on review!
I was worried that the marbled variety would just be two colors mixed, but it’s iridescent and looks amazing in direct light!
The heat sensitive ones are not that sensitive. They need slightly more extreme temperatures than room temperature to hand warmth.
Glow in the dark is cool for a short time, but it’s generally more fun when you can see the putty.
Clear is really satisfying, but yeah, will eventually get all dirty.
@DVDBZN the heat sensitive one worked to my satisfaction. It was reddish out of the package. Held it in my hand until it turned yellow. Then I twisted and stretched it until it marbled and eventually turned orange. Then I just played with it until it looked like yellow taffy. Might be more interesting if I put it in the fridge first? Either way, the texture was pleasing to the touch.
@lkblaser Still waiting for mine to ship as well, ordered a month before my daughter’s birthday which was last weekend. Hoping it comes before her next birthday.
Over one month later, I still have not received my first round of this stuff…how the hell is this even happening?? It is apparently finally with my local USPS after sitting at a Pitney Bowes facility for the last 6 days. What a joke. Is this the new Meh?
@LitreofFarva I have been dealing with the same thing. I checked with my post office and they said they have never received my shipment. Now tracking says it has been sent somewhere else and no one can tell me when I will receive my order. Customer service has not responded.
@bsyris As a 13/14 year old kid it didn’t seem like anything better would ever happen in life. Before moving to Nick studios in Florida, double dare filmed in PBS channel 12 studios on the outskirts of Philadelphia PA. As a result a lot of the kids on the early seasons were picked out of school auditions held in the Philly suburbs. Teams were always classmates and your fellow class got to sit in the audience and cheer you on. Lots of fun but like they always say, at home watching you know every answer, on the show of course the questions threw me. They asked way too many school questions and not enough pop culture!
That said my team won and we made it thru a tough obstacle course with 3 seconds to spare. Top prize was an Apple IIc computer.
@bsyris@macromeh Hah - I had sex so that’s better. Pretty close though at least to my 14 year old brain. Double dare was the greatest thing ever to a kid that age.
The heat reactive stuff I got is really greasy. Clear is super neat, but I’m sure the kids are going to turn it from “clear colored” to “cheerio dust and dog hair” colored soon enough
Get this down under a $1.00 a tin and I will buy it for Halloween treats. A couple years ago I bought the box of 144 fidget spinners and the kids chose those over candy almost every time.
Keep me on the list for when this gets cheaper. The kiddos in the clinic are getting less impressed with the fidget spinners. I need under a dollar a piece since I fund this myself.
I checked this out on Amazon for a price comparison. And guess what I found out? Silly Putty comes in colors! And glow in the dark! AND SHINY, SHINY, METALLIC! And guess what else? SCENTED! They apparently did a mystery scent thing once that included dog shit. People were not amused. I WOULD HAVE BEEN AMUSED! Now it’s all fruit scented.
Anyway, it’s 5 for $5 and available at Target and Amazon.
Wow, I bought two for my niece, got my email confirmation, then I see they are sold out! Lucky me! Yea, I bought two, for my 12 yo niece, OMG, she turns 13 in a few weeks, she will be a TEENAGER! Yea, I bought two, both for her, not one for her, and one for me, no sir, both for her. Yea, that’s the ticket, both for her, not one for her and one for me, yea, that’s the ticket! I keep wondering if she is too old for this stuff, heck I am 59 and I am not too old for this stuff!
Specs
What’s in the Box?
Price Comparison
$39.96 for 12 Similar at P.C. Richard & Son
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
Nice
@Stallion As compared to what?
@Felton10 Compared to the $10-$15 per tin putty my wife bought my kids not that long ago lol. 12 tins can be spread around to plenty of kids, well worth $1.666666666666667 per serving.
I would love to review this based on the May 19th offering, but it still hasn’t shown up. Ostensibly it’s shipped, as of 3 days ago it was ostensibly in my city, but as it hasn’t been delivered yet (and after which it still takes my building’s desk staff another day typically to sort it), I can’t offer any opinions other than it looks like it might be fun to play with whenever it arrives.
@Jamileigh17 You are lucky you haven’t gotten it.
@Jamileigh17
Mine arrived just this morning. Pretty fun/nostalgic. I had fun handing them out to various family members, but kept one of each for myself.
@Felton10 IDK, it seems like a good fidget
Hey-I paid $ 19 about a month ago on meh and my granddaughter got some of it on the carpet and it won’t come out. Lucky I got a father’s day gift from my son.
@Felton10
I would try various cleaning solutions, working your way up to isopropyl, to see if you can dissolve/dillute it and mop it up.
@Felton10 Maybe even try the chewing gum trick and use ice cubes (or dry ice) to make it brittle enough to crumble out of the carpet fibers.
@Felton10 Take a small sample and try oil or peanut butter on it. Often the polymer chains are broken down by the oil. Then you have an oil/dye stain that can be removed with Energene.
@Felton10 vinegar
@Felton10 Try sucking on the affected area to loosen up the putty.
Good thing I ordered the $4 tubs of putty last week or I would be seriously tempted to get this.
@sammydog01 Exactly. Why would I pay $1.67 per tub when I just paid $1 each?! I mean, just how much putty do they think I can eat?
Grab 'em by the putty!
– Putty-grabber-in-chief
/giphy christian values
@mike808 think you spelled it wrong
Fingers crossed that some gets thrown in the IRKs
I was excited to get my hands on the clear but over a month later and it hasn’t arrived. I’m over it.
@jayman007 Don’t get your hopes up. Clear is a lint magnet and turns into grey dust/dirt colored putty after absorbing whatever is on the surfaces it touches.
@jayman007 I just got my order today coincidentally. The clear is pretty awesome if you were ever a silly putty fan as a kid and imagined the idea of instead of ugly coral of ordinal silly putty it was different colors, or no color so in clear. But a already mentioned, it’s super easy to see the soon to be added lint/dirt/crumbs/oil and all. So wash your hands and don’t drop it lol. But it’s still pretty cool while it’s crystal clear.
VAN GOGH! MANGO! TANGO! AWESOME!
@jayman007 same here, mine still hasn’t arrived.
@scilynt It looks like mine was delivered today as well. When I get home I’ll check it out right away and see if it’s worth ordering more of this stuff.
Glad I got the 12 for $19 back on May 19. Fun toy and easy to regift to kids. Not sure that they’re worth 12 for $20 though.
@Fe2_O3 but they are worth 12 for $19?
Are they worth 12 for $10 tempting
and contemplating buying this…
meh.
Mr. Hankey, is that you and your family?
I keep trying to figure out if it’s gluten-free. And I can’t. No, I’m not wanting to eat it, but, yaknow, it’s putty and it gets on your hands.
And if you tell me, “wash your hands”, you can go fuck yourself.
/giphy fuck yourself
@joelmw I looked at my container. There is nothing listed.
Wear gloves?
@joelmw The Wikipedia entry for silicone says:
Many people and many types of bacteria and mold can digest gluten. If microbes can digest something, that thing can “go bad”. The usual failure mode is getting dirty.
Don’t confuse silicone with the element silicon.
@RiotDemon Thanks for checking out the container. Ha, from the reviews, I think my uncertainty is beneficial.
@hamjudo
/giphy huh?
So are you saying the silicone will eat the gluten?
@joelmw looking online, it looks like most putty is gluten free.
Question, are you worried about absorbing it through skin or residue being left on your hands?
@joelmw So don’t wash your hands. As everyone’s already doing this not to spread COVID-19 so it shouldn’t be a problem.
@whomeyesu
To be clear, I was already a handwasher and a noneater of putty.
You’re being optimistic about folks’ adherence to anti-pandemic protocols (owing in part to my taking this shit seriously). I help manage the response in my office and I pay attention elsewhere; people generally only sort of do what they’re supposed to.
As promised, but I mean this in the best possible way.
/giphy go fuck yourself
yielding almost a 1.4lb ball of really weird looking shit.
FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY
I bought these last time with a coupon. I decided to open them up and give them a whirl.
Each tin is about a golf ball size of putty. They come in retail packaging, and the putty is inside a plastic bag. I’m guessing to keep it from drying out. Not sure how long they’ll last now that they are open.
The marbleized one tears more than it stretches. It looks absolutely fascinating in the light. It looks like the glitter is underwater. It’s sticky and leaves bits all over my hand when I manipulated it. I can also shred it with my thumb.
The heat reactive is really satisfying to play with. The glow in the dark has the same texture, but the glow is disappointing. I need to try it with my black light.
The clear is the same texture as the marbleized. I suppose when it gets inevitably dirty, just add some fine mica powder to it and you’ll have a new putty. I have some crazy glow powder, so I’ll probably try that when the first one no longer looks clear.
@RiotDemon
Spot on review!
I was worried that the marbled variety would just be two colors mixed, but it’s iridescent and looks amazing in direct light!
The heat sensitive ones are not that sensitive. They need slightly more extreme temperatures than room temperature to hand warmth.
Glow in the dark is cool for a short time, but it’s generally more fun when you can see the putty.
Clear is really satisfying, but yeah, will eventually get all dirty.
@DVDBZN the heat sensitive one worked to my satisfaction. It was reddish out of the package. Held it in my hand until it turned yellow. Then I twisted and stretched it until it marbled and eventually turned orange. Then I just played with it until it looked like yellow taffy. Might be more interesting if I put it in the fridge first? Either way, the texture was pleasing to the touch.
Just realized this set does not come with the heat reactive putty, so ignore that.
The stuff I ordered in May still hasn’t even shipped!
@lkblaser Mine shipped, but there’s still no projected arrival date.
@lkblaser Still waiting for mine to ship as well, ordered a month before my daughter’s birthday which was last weekend. Hoping it comes before her next birthday.
@lkblaser same! I got a shipping notification and tracking number but no ETA. Like it’s lost now.
@lkblaser I finally got mine last week.
Look, I’m not gonna beat around the bush, and will just straight-up ask you: how does this stuff taste?
@ShotgunX My kids report that while it is mostly flavorless, the texture can’t be beat
All are delicious except for the glow in the dark which has a strange metallic aftertaste.
Over one month later, I still have not received my first round of this stuff…how the hell is this even happening?? It is apparently finally with my local USPS after sitting at a Pitney Bowes facility for the last 6 days. What a joke. Is this the new Meh?
@LitreofFarva I have been dealing with the same thing. I checked with my post office and they said they have never received my shipment. Now tracking says it has been sent somewhere else and no one can tell me when I will receive my order. Customer service has not responded.
@bweather @LitreofFarva Takes about a week for customer service to respond, but they always do.
Cheap knock-offs of Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty. You get what you pay for… not the original.
@StillWoot2Me Not if Pitney Bowes is involved.
I was lucky enough to compete on double dare in 1987. Good times.
@bdp Well, I’d like to hear more about that!
Was it a good experience?
@bsyris As a 13/14 year old kid it didn’t seem like anything better would ever happen in life. Before moving to Nick studios in Florida, double dare filmed in PBS channel 12 studios on the outskirts of Philadelphia PA. As a result a lot of the kids on the early seasons were picked out of school auditions held in the Philly suburbs. Teams were always classmates and your fellow class got to sit in the audience and cheer you on. Lots of fun but like they always say, at home watching you know every answer, on the show of course the questions threw me. They asked way too many school questions and not enough pop culture!
That said my team won and we made it thru a tough obstacle course with 3 seconds to spare. Top prize was an Apple IIc computer.
@bdp Wasn’t it shot at the current studio location on North 6th Street?
@bdp @bsyris Obvious question: has anything better happened in your life since then?
@cinoclav yeah that sounds right.
@bsyris @macromeh Hah - I had sex so that’s better. Pretty close though at least to my 14 year old brain. Double dare was the greatest thing ever to a kid that age.
The heat reactive stuff I got is really greasy. Clear is super neat, but I’m sure the kids are going to turn it from “clear colored” to “cheerio dust and dog hair” colored soon enough
Get this down under a $1.00 a tin and I will buy it for Halloween treats. A couple years ago I bought the box of 144 fidget spinners and the kids chose those over candy almost every time.
@mshipp I like that your trying to promote brain development rather than cavities.
Putty me once, shame on you. Putty me twice, shame on me.
Comparing it to Aaron’s Thinking Putty, these tins are about half the size. 3.2 oz vs 1.8 oz.
I can’t compare the quality because my order from MAY is still parked in Greenwood.
But this is what you really want, a full pound.
https://puttyworld.com/collections/mega-tins-thinking-putty
@blaineg twice the price though.
@blaineg THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT!
Unless you’re completely unhinged, then you need the 50 pound box.
https://www.deseret.com/2002/9/13/19677079/grown-ups-are-going-wild-for-big-gobs-of-silly-putty
I have considered it a few times.
@blaineg
@blaineg WE NEED A PUTTY BUYING POOL! Hey, @Snapster, Casemates for putty! Please?
@blaineg Ooh, needs slower impact.
@blaineg and thus puttydrop was formed. I guess it’s better than the idea of rawchickendrop I had.
@sammydog01 PSA: < and > adjust speed on Youtube.
Also, there’s several other puttydrop videos out there.
@blaineg I meant slower impact of the putty with the ground so it does something other than crack into pieces.
@sammydog01 So, the moon then?
@blaineg The moon would be perfect! Or a height where it doesn’t reach terminal velocity. Or underwater. Does putty float? Off to the Google.
They got me. Tropical-studious-centipede
Is it non-toxic?
I’m stunned. Someone in Montana spent $60 to buy 36 containers of slime! Wow.
Keep me on the list for when this gets cheaper. The kiddos in the clinic are getting less impressed with the fidget spinners. I need under a dollar a piece since I fund this myself.
@mtb002 Two words: SILLY PUTTY! Just keep it out of their hair.
You can triple dog dare me an I ain’t buyin.
@cranky1950 I triple dog dare you.
@blaineg I ain’t buyin
I see this takes over a month to arrive. Hmm…Why not just order knock off putty from whatsapp for 2-3 week shipping?
I checked this out on Amazon for a price comparison. And guess what I found out? Silly Putty comes in colors! And glow in the dark! AND SHINY, SHINY, METALLIC! And guess what else? SCENTED! They apparently did a mystery scent thing once that included dog shit. People were not amused. I WOULD HAVE BEEN AMUSED! Now it’s all fruit scented.
Anyway, it’s 5 for $5 and available at Target and Amazon.
It should have been MUCH CLEARER that this is four packs of the same assortment of 3. NOT an assortment of 12.
Not Happy!
@mrsunshine13 from the specs:
@mrsunshine13 @RiotDemon Photo shows it too.
@mrsunshine13 @RiotDemon @sammydog01 Instructions unclear, putty exploded in the microwave.
Wow, I bought two for my niece, got my email confirmation, then I see they are sold out! Lucky me! Yea, I bought two, for my 12 yo niece, OMG, she turns 13 in a few weeks, she will be a TEENAGER! Yea, I bought two, both for her, not one for her, and one for me, no sir, both for her. Yea, that’s the ticket, both for her, not one for her and one for me, yea, that’s the ticket! I keep wondering if she is too old for this stuff, heck I am 59 and I am not too old for this stuff!