Wormee, Squirmles and Frizzlies?

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Finding this ad for "Wormee" by Imperial Toys made me realize that this toy concept has been around non stop for 40 years, under multiple names.

My dad sold these as "Squirmles" back in the day, to the best of my knowledge this was the brand everybody ripped off:



You can see a display box of Squirmles in the top right corner of the photo above.

I still see (and occasionally been conned into buying) Squirmles at those touristy gift shop/traps/vaccum cleaner for a wallets places I stumble into every vacation.




Remco AHI launched their own brand called Frizzlies in the early 1980s.

BTW, I'm really good at these things, you'd swear it was alive!




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[Neutron X]

I had these but mine came from in a capsule/gumball machine back in the 70s. They were a lot of fun.

[Iron Mego]

I loved these, and now my daughter does.

[Earth 2 Chris]

My son conned us into buying him a rather expensive version of this at tourist trap down around Gatlinburg, TN nearly 10 years ago. They even had a promo video for the thing playing!

Chris

[Marvelmania]

Loved these things. I remember getting them as "Squirmles" and they would come in a thin plastic tube usually found at the checkout counters of cheap chain stores. I also got a few out of vending machines in the little plastic bubbles.

[Bruce Banner]

Oh yeah, I remember these things.

[Mikey]

I had one back in the day --- did not work like on the TV commercials (of course)

[ScottA]

Good Lord I remember these.

[rche]

We just picked up a couple of these on a road trip to visit Gramma.

[HardyGirl]

I had one of those too, and I couldn't do it to save my life!

[Allie Fox]

I seem to remember there being a television commercial for these.