Stretch Armstrong
 

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How many of you have had a ' Stretch Armstrong '? And how many of you have had this toy for more than a week without cutting him up with scissors to see what makes him tick ? I would of liked to be in the R&D lab when stretch was invented . Better yet , I would of liked to pitch the idea to the Kenner toys .
"I have an idea for a new super hero. He should be made of a material that will allow children to stretch his limbs up to 4 times the width of his body, and they'll snap right back into place! His accessories should be a pair of shorts and thats it . "
Heh . I think Stretch has encouraged a whole generation of scrotum yankers !:p

Never had one...but now i feel deprived

never heard of this before.

i live on a sheltered island i guess.

I had one for awhile. Definatly entertainment for a few days but then I started to poke it to see what was inside. Stretched died a few weeks after I got him because his limbs wern't warm enough when I went to pull them and they snappd off.

I had one before but a tug of war betwixt me and a friend left poor Stretch a double amputee.

I had one........and a green friend of his, can't remember his name.

Poor stretch.

He was but one of many toys to fall under the combined wrath of our mighty sun, and magnifying glass.

Glorious wasted summer afternoons.

I never had a Stretch Armstrong, but we did have some stretchy wrestlers. I don't remember which ones, but I remember we poked holes in the armpits so every time you raised his arm white stuff would come out.

I had one! So did my friend. Til my friend tore it's arm off...

I had one. From the EIGHTIES!!!

i had it for a year, then i did a fun full body cavity search. i took a safety pin and bled him to death

its so much fun to pull on the arms and legs until they become so long they snap off and leak this odd gooey substance that is nearly impossible to remove from carpets.

it tastes like maple syrup!

It's probably best I didn't ever have one.

I had one. I cut a slice into him within the first week. I still remember the smell, consistency and look of that goop and it has been almost 30 years. Yikes.
Dills KaBoom

In the 90s, they tried to bring Stretch Back. They made these crazy Villians that look like Burnt Pudding and gave Stretch's dog like a Nuclear Bomb or something.

I had a Mini-Stretch once. It was like Regular Stretch, except about half the size. I put him in the freezer and then his arms snapped off

I never had one and the only person I knew who did would go nuts if someone suggested destroying the toy just to find out what was in the sucker. So from what I read it was fine sand and then later became some sort of goo?... interesting...

not really, but I have always wanted to cut one open.

this entire thread makes me laugh


he also features in detroit rock city a very funny movie.

Had a Stretch - but I was more partial to my Mike Powers doll, er... action figure.

I never actually had one, and like everyone else, all my friends cut theirs open within an hour. Why can't we use this technology for something useful?

i had two of them, the first one was cut open, at my moms prompting, to reveal the red fluid inside. She bought me one to replace it a few days later.

They re-relased Stretch like 90 trillion times... unfortunately I never fell into one of the re-release timeslots during my childhood :(

It's a damn shame.

Your mom sounds cool. :)

I didn't have one, but I played with it in pre-school all the time.
I want one now, though. :D