My friend had the 90s version and we burned ourselves numerous times. The fumes are also reasonably burned into my memory for some odd reason...
I had always been concerned about burning down a house. IIRC, my friend had accidentally melted all sorts of things playing with this thing and putting the metal mold on the wrong things (ie: Melting carpet).
This on top of certain issues with accidentally spilling the goop into fabric or on clothes and either leaving goop in it, or weird neon color stains being left behind. While fun, IMO the toy did have many different "ways this could go wrong" ranging from stains to burns.
Sure it's not as egregious as stuff like BPA in food containers, and I have really sweet white carpet rather than the orange, red and brown stuff they used to have everywhere...
Hey, does anyone remember that disgusting plastic smell, taste and burning feeling if they didn't properly wash certain water bottles in the 90s?
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