Stretch Armstrong Blues

[starsky]

i love stretch armstrong. i bugged my mom all the time for one and she finally bought me one xmas 1978. sad to say, when i opened it up, it was leaking badly with corn syrup all over it. we took it back to the store and they had no more. lucky enough to find one at atlantique city toy show back in 1998 for only $40 and in mint condition. i was too scared to stretch it tho.

[Jason73]

If they make a movie I'm sure they will want to use likeness of the actor playing Stretch for the new toys, however I hope that Hasbro rereleases this toy with the original Kenner head sculpt as well. Wow, that would be awesome. I'd probably stock up on them.

[LadyZod]

Cap toys released a Stretcharmstrong back in the 90's.
It had a awful head and didn't use the original body mold. It used one of the other stretch creatures mold instead. Needless to say it died a slow painful death... It was clearanced at KB Toys: The real world isle of misfit toys.

[palitoy]

I've never able to get my hands on a stretch monster, had Stretch, X Ray, Superman (it went poorly) , Plastic Man , Hulk, two Spidermen but never the Monster. I kind of quit after that.

This past summer I bought an empty Stretch Monster box from Charlie, thinking it would suffice but it doesn't and now I don't know what to do with it.

[Brown Bear]

My original Stretch head was glued to a 12" Hulk body (painted flesh tone) back when I was a kid. He still looks cool.

I always wanted to get a Stretch Monster head shrunken to mego scale to put on a Hulk body.

[Surfsup]

I've had them all over the years apart from the Mego Elastic Heroes. I'm just down to my fave, the original Stretch Armstrong. I do regret selling my Stretch Monster though and will have to find a replacement at some point.

I've been lucky enough not to have any of them leak on me. They've always struck me as pretty resilient toys.

[Twiki1979]

I own a armstrong,monster,xray and even a few of the mego elastics and i can tell you the armstrongs are made WAY better than the megos...the skin is alot thicker than what mego used so they hold up alot better....

[TrueDave]

Cap toys released a Stretcharmstrong back in the 90's.
It had a awful head and didn't use the original body mold. It used one of the other stretch creatures mold instead. Needless to say it died a slow painful death... It was clearanced at KB Toys: The real world isle of misfit toys.

Why not get one of these stretches and swap heads?

I did the most digusting thing with my stretch. My buddy was coming over. I had it down my pants with the arm hanging out. He came in my room I scooted back from my desk. He freked when he saw what was coming out of my zipper but when I grabbed it and stretched it he went nuts !!

[Sideshow Spock]

Does anyone have one of the Mr. Fantastic stretches that came out with the FF movie a few yrs back? Is it holding up? I bought one and enjoyed it for a year or so, then I set it aside and forgot about it for several months.

When it turned up again (it had been stored at normal room temp), it had become rock hard. No matter what I did, I couldn't get it to soften up again (please, no viagra jokes). I ended up chucking it.

So it's almost impossibe for me to believe that any stretch could hold its flexibility for 30yrs, since Mr F. couldn't even manage two..

[kryptosmaster]

So it's almost impossibe for me to believe that any stretch could hold its flexibility for 30yrs, since Mr F. couldn't even manage two..

I know my original 70's SA lasted at least a few years before I had to chuck it. Unfortunately the rubber started to get stretch marks (lol, I know but I didn't know what else to call them) and eventually started to ooze out of those tiny stretch cracks. That crap was like cement once it got on something so I had to throw him out. Hindsight tells me I should have kept him anyway but at the time he was more a broken piece of junk than a future collectible. Besides, he was making an awful mess and was useless as a stretch toy anymore.
I also do not believe for one minute some statistics I read on a website dedicated to SA. This site claims there were only something like 40,000 SA made total. That's baloney. This was a major popular toy and were in EVERY store and tons of people I know had one. There's no way production was under 1,000,000 units in my opinion.
Rich