Hey You, Slimeball!

Ooze.  That's one word that describes the Slime from Slime Pit.  It's one of the more popular playsets of the Horde as well, but then again, the Horde only had one other playset.  Shame on you if you don't know that the Horde was part of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe toyline.  One of the more successful action figure toylines of the eighties.

Well, I won't bore you with the chemical details of what slime is, other than the fact that it's a non-Newtonian fluid, probably a pseudo-plastic one.  And if that went over your head, you have my rheology tutor to blame.  Yes, being a duke means you get to have the best education, eventhough I have no idea how the flow of toothpaste, for example, will help in governing the county, but I digress.  Oh, and details of how to take care of slime can be found on the Slime page.

Slime Pit was basically a pit, but then again, you would have guessed it right?  Well, it has to be a pit, otherwise it can't be sold in Europe these days, where the naming of products is strictly regulated such that an apple has to be called an apple and not an orange.  Duh!  As if anyone can mistake an apple for an orange or call an apple an orange, but I digress again.

Besides the pit, Slime Pit also has a cool wall with Hordak's visage on it and a three piece skull.  Urm... obviously that's not a human skull, because we know that a human skull contains more than 3 pieces of bones, right?  Well, at least I hope you know that.  A human infant has more bones than an adult because the skull or cranial bones hasn't yet fused.  And I'm off topic again?  Where was I?

Yeah, so basically what happens with Slime Pit is that you put the slime in the skull, put a figure of your choice in the pit, push the lever on the back such that a claw traps the figure and holds it in place, tip the skull and the figure is covered up in slime.  Gruelsome and totally fun too.  Oh, of course, the figure that you choose can't have any hair of any sort, real, synthetic, or otherwise, so please don't try to slime your pet hamsters.  You might get what looks like a ball of lint from your washing machine with legs - Urgh!

Of course, the compound isn't limited to the Masters of the Universe line by Mattel.  Other company also had a try with the icky fluid, marketing as Mutagen Ooze for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Playmates) and Ecto-Plazm for Ghostbuster (Kenner).  There was even a dinosaur bone contraption that held small buckets of the stuff with its ribs called "Goop-a-saurus".  Urgh is right!.

It would seem, however that the clown suits at Mattel would make the best use of it for not only did they use it once, no, not even twice but at least three times, in three different toy lines over the past 20 years.  The first time is the one mention above, as slime for the She-Ra's antagonists, the Horde's slime pit.  This was sometime in the mid eighties

The second time it appeared might not be such a memorable one.  I mean how many people would remember the Mad Scientist toyline from the late eighties?  It wasn't even an action figure based toyline.  Well, the slime was repackaged in translucent see-through containers, this time as alien blood.  Oh, and I musn't forget that it glows in the dark

There were three monsters with the Alien blood, the cards of two of which, Sammy Sneeze and Oscar-I-Rot are shown below.  The third one, Billy Belcher, well, let me not spoil it for you...

You might also be able to see from the back of the cards that there was a "Dissect-An-Alien" kit.  This also came with monster blood.

Well, flash forward to the new millennium, with the new Harry Potter toys by mattel.  Apparently there have already been figures with tubs of slime, although I haven't seen any yet.  And the icing on the cake?  A Slime Pit, with the same colours as the Horde one, this time as part of the Harry Potter line and it's now the Slime Chamber.  Recycled Slime and Slime Pit, anyone?

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