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Stretch Armstrong
by Kenner
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This memory was added on: December 31,2004
Man...all your stories are priceless! Got my brother and I laugh'in in tears! I had Stretch monster, brother had Stretch armstrong. One night me, my brother, and Dad had to pickup my Mom from work. It was pouring outside so my Dad carried us to the car (my brother first, me second). I decided to bring stretch monster with me. My Dad scooped me up so fast that stretch monster swung around and gave my Dad a right hook to the face almost knock'in his glasses off. Man, was he ever pissed! -Sniff- I missed my toys.
John C
1970
This memory was added on: December 25,2004
I was getting ticked off at the lizard one and set on fire.
This memory was added on: December 25,2004
My lil brother had a strech armstrong and we loved playing with it. After a few weeks , we were streching him. We streched him as far as he far he could strech however i wasnt satified with the length. So i younger and more horrible back then so i decided to go a little further. 4 foot equals 48in. I carried on pulling it as i wanted to break the 50in barrier. I dont know how far i puled it but it must have been well over 4 foot then suddenly it broke! My bro was in tears all day!
1984
This memory was added on: December 15,2004
I remember Stretch Armstrong! I had Fetch Armstrong the dog. I loved that toy! I also tasted that goo inside once I got a hole in the thing. I seriously tasted like honey.....which is why I didn't eat all of it lol yick. That would be so cool if they brought it back. I'd def. by one!
Amanda
1986
This memory was added on: December 10,2004
This one's for Michele - Yes, I too had a 'Fetch Armstrong'. The canine version of Stretch Armstrong. My brothers had Stretch and that monster one. Guess Mom didn't want me to feel left out!
Cindy
1965
This memory was added on: December 10,2004
My brother and I had Stretch x-ray. He was one of our favorite toys. I cannot recall if we ever punctured him and ate his insides; but I know we had fun stretching the hell out of him. I think I was always a little repulsed by Stretch x-ray. If anyone knows where I could find one, I'd really appreciate it.
Amy S.
1975
rdhead75@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: December 2,2004
This toy got broke after aweek,we stretched it so much some weird gell came out of it
johnny boy
1968
This memory was added on: December 2,2004
this was a kool toy think you can still get em
helen
1967
This memory was added on: November 29,2004
I had "Stretch Monster", and man I loved that toy! All 15 minutes that I owned it. My mom's idiot boyfriend tried to play keep awy with it and threw it into the yard. It landed on a pine cone, and that was the end of that. Who would've thought that a pine cone was stretch monsters kryptonite?
Tracy
1967
This memory was added on: November 22,2004
I had the Spiderman version and my brother had a stretch snake (kinda lame). I liked it when it got a little cool outside and you could "break" the arms and legs without puncturing the rubber and then heal him by getting him warm again....damn! What an exciting toy. lol.
Ken
1968
This memory was added on: November 21,2004
i swear there was also a dog "fetch armstrong" anyone have that one too?
michele
1969
This memory was added on: November 17,2004
I remember the urban myth that the jelly inside was highly poisonous
alex
1969
alx69@bellsouth.com
This memory was added on: October 30,2004
Does anyone recall the exact thing as Streth but it was the HULK and i think Batman as well????????
BC
1977
carrbryan@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: October 14,2004
a buddy of mine and his siblings once ate stretch armstrong. as many found out, when you stretched him too much ooze came out. my friend discovered it tasted like cornsyrup. so they ate his insides. he was later beat in an extraordinary fashion
mark doherty
1983
This memory was added on: October 14,2004
the stufe inside was great if you were mad at someone you gust put a littel in your brothers shose, you know what i am talking about!my brothers and I used to tie his legs in knotts and fight with him it was lotts of fun
anonomus
1989
This memory was added on: September 27,2004
how much fun as a kid cellotaping stretch to my dogs back ! who needed buckaroo ?
gee
1970
gee.hell@btinternet.com
This memory was added on: September 27,2004
I had Stretch X-ray..."the see-thru invader". Not only did he stretch like Armstrong, but you could see through him: guts & all. Recently I was going through my storage unit only to find ants feasting on this sticky substance. Ants everywhere! Said substance had leaked onto several boxes. My investigations led me to the culprit. You guessed it, that son of a bitch Stretch X-ray. He had sprung a leak, and that stuff is next to impossible to remove from your hands. My wife couldn't understand why I wanted to keep the head as memorabilia. The box is funny as hell. X-ray is shown fighting with Armstrong in some really gay poses. I kept the box, too.
Tony
1970
tufoosa@aol.com
This memory was added on: September 15,2004
Ok, I can't compete with Ted's story...jeez pal, limit your information from now on! That was way too much.
Mine is just a regular little girl story.....I loved Stretch, and being not a boy, I could only stretch it so much, though my older sisters helped once in a while. Yes, I tried to punch him, too. Damn am I glad I'm not the only one! I died laughing at some of the above stories. Again, not being a boy, I didn't cut mine open, but one day he just hardened up. Literally, hard as a rock, I couldn't stretch him at all. That sucked but I got a Raggedy Ann and forgot all about it.....till now. Anyway, maybe that's what happened to Ted's. HAH.
J
1970
seejaypea@yahoo
This memory was added on: September 8,2004
HEY TED TWO ABOVE ...HAVE ANY PICTURES OF THAT ? YOU MOM IS A TOY WHORE ! DID YOU TELL YOU DAD ? DID YOU WAK IT OFF ? WELL WHAT ?
LUCKY TED
backthen
pdstarwars@aol.com
This memory was added on: August 26,2004
great toys !!!
This memory was added on: August 17,2004
I used to have a Stretch Armstrong...I still remember the day I missed the bus at school and had to walk home - thats when I heard the strange muffled sounds coming from my mothers bedroom. I thought she was hurt or something, so I pushed open the door and ran in, only to find my mom in bed with Stretch, her legs spread open facing the door with only Stretchs tiny head poking out of a place you should NEVER EVER see on your own mother.
Ted
1970
ted@mailinator.com
This memory was added on: August 9,2004
Hello, I'm sorry for the multiple entries. I am a visually impaired user and learning to use this site. By the way, good job. This is a good way to connect with people. Well, I did have Stretch Armstrong and Stretch Monster, but the most prominent memory has to do with Stretch armstrong.. I was five years old and going to the Georgia School for the blind. It was a snowy afternoon and we had gotten out of school early. During Nap time, my roommate Melvin was playing some sort of mind game and talking to himself. This was a normal occurrance with hem, so I did not get to concerned when he started talking about putting candy on this Stretch armstrong. Well, I should have ben Considering mine was righ there. To make this story a little shorter I discovered he had ripped Stretch's left arm open and that was the first time I got a feel and taste of that stuff inside him. Well, I got a new one and several months later he broke. Well I made the bad mistake of putting him in my toy box and he leaked. That stuff is Sticky, let me tell you. You want things to stick arround, but not like that. Needless to say, Stretch went out with the trash.
Larry G
1971
shadyarcady@aol.com
This memory was added on: August 6,2004
I found a Stretch in the back alley while farting around with my pet doberman. He brought it up to me, I grabbed the leg, and he tore the hell out of it playing tug. A red ooze came out of the wounds. Worried Duke might be poisoned told him to drop it. Had a closer look and there were maggots oozing under his black shorts.
tpeak
1965
peacock65@shaw.ca
This memory was added on: August 4,2004
Were can I buy one? Seriously
TG
1956
nyjets12@gmail.com
This memory was added on: July 27,2004
I have fond memories of my Stretch Armstrong...I remember feeling sorry for him, because his tummy oozed clear goop. He had several cracks and they leaked a clear, odorless substance-it dissolved in water. I bandaged my Stretch Armstrong, but he continued to ooze through his Band-Aid brand bandages. Eventually he fell more apart and I believe my little brother did away with him shortly thereafter. I miss my Stretch Armstrong.
Ron
1968
popart60_@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: July 22,2004
Ahh - Stretch Armstrong. Those bad boys were hard to come by back in the day, but when I finally got one for Xmas, I was stoked. I always found it interesting that you could stretch him across the room, but if you got hit with the thing unstretched - it felt like you were clobbered with a lead pipe! 'Twas a sad day when his red ooze made it's first appearance.
poppo
1968
atio3@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: July 20,2004
oil me up and call me Spartacus...egads, he's gorgeous!!!
marko
1969
marko@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: July 15,2004
I remember I was 7 when my much older brother gave me a stretch armstrong for my birthday. I LOOOOVED this toy. I used to bring it into the bathtub and wash it while i showered. I think the way I treated this toy was the first hint my parents had about my sexual preference.
e
1969
difettosi@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: July 15,2004
In 1978, the red ooze that makes the life blood of a Stretch Armstrong I was warned was made with a strange mix of chemicals plus animal bone marrow fat and alien blood!! Or so I was told. If digested you will become a walking dead zombie, which was another warning I heard about. I never tasted the red/pink ooze but my guess is it is some kind of sugar water...and alien blood. Now the Stretch toy making kids gay because you took long hot baths with it?? That's another issue I'm sure Kenner never considered in the late 70's. After all back then we had the Village People dancing in chains with bondage leather and nobody had a clue, not that there is anything wrong with that. So avoid eating the red ooze and limited bathing to wearing Stretch's black underwear.
Rick Rockwell
1969
wizcheese@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: July 11,2004
I was reading an earlier posting about a green, lizard-like Stretch Armstrong type of toy. I've been scouring the internet for a picture or even just someone else who knows what I'm talking about. The thing was 10-12 inches tall and when you squeezed around his waist he would appear to flex and expand. My dad got me one when I was 4 or so (early 80's) and proceeded to chase me around the house scaring the bejeezus out of me. I'm fairly sure it was called the Crusher. It would be a really cool thing for me to find or see a picture of.
Matt
1977
groundskeeper24@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: July 2,2004
I didn't have Stretch Armstrong, but a friend did. When I pulled his legs, Stretch's nylon banana hammock slipped and revealed (I swear am not making this up) genitals that my friend's brother had sculpted from Silly Putty.
Patrick Murphy
1970
bigmrf@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: June 10,2004
I remember having stretch armstrong and also had a hulk stretch thing...wish i still had either of them,ill be loaded by now!!!!!*sigh*.If only my mom/dad stuck it in the attic instead of it leaking allover the place!!!!:-(
ricky
1972
This memory was added on: April 12,2004
Yeah...he "bled" too easily...there was also a green enemy guy...he stretched too...but I can't remember the name...
Jeff Graber
1969
jeff@jumpspace.com
This memory was added on: April 10,2004
I never had a Stretch Armstrog, utI wanted one. My main reason for wanting one was because at the time he was the closest thing to a pro wrestling doll that I could find. I thought he somewhat resemled a popular wresler known as "The Crusher". When the monster version came out I thought he would make a great "masked" opponant for "Stretch"! I even built a small ring from wood. My requests for one of these stretch dolls was never honored and since I was a kid who never saved money buying one myself was not possible. My younger sister, a tom-boy type appeared in a style show at the local discount center where my father was a manager. For doing this she was given a gift certificate. I asked her to use her gift certificate to get a "Stretch Armstrong. She agreed initially, but in the end opted to use her gift certifiate for a Barbie alarm clock. I was not happy.
I have heard the gel inside resembled "Close-Up" toohpaste. Is this true?
John Westland
1965
JohnnyWestland@WebTV.Net
This memory was added on: March 4,2004
Gross to say, but I hacked open the Monster with a hatchet and actually ATE some of the red goo with my friend. I'm 37 and still alive, though I sometimes wonder about what that shit was... By the way. it was quite sweet! Reminds me of the Ackroyd skit..."Bag of Glass" ,etc. Remember?
Jeremy Blaustein
1966
This memory was added on: February 21,2004
strecth sucked , but hugo was kewl.. anyone have any info on hugo
rad
1966
radrikkk@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: January 19,2004
I think Stretch was invented by some scientists who wanted to test kids like the way you test chimps by giving 'em something to test their problem solving abilities. After stretching ours until his skin started to fray (and almost breaking my freakin' knuckles by punching the bastard), my brother and I decided to operate. We cut him open with a big double edged utility knife that my dad used all the time, and as soon as the pink ooze spurted out of him, I knew two things: I had unleashed some kind of alien crap as bad as "the Blob", and that my dad would beat the crap outta me if I didn't clean the ooze off his knife. And work bench. And utility room floor. And carport. And my clothes, hands, etc. I remember using the garden hose to frantically try and dissolve that pink shit. We eventually cleaned the knife, but I remember big blobs of it still on the ground with ants stuck in it. We ended up keep Stretch's head as a trophy.
Kuryakin
1963
kuryakin11@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: January 9,2004
Wow, I remember my brother had Stretch Armstrong and Stretch Monster. I don't think they liked the heat--I think Armstrong sprang a leak spontaneously and got stuck permanently to the bookcase during one bakingly hot summer. Like others, my bro and I overdid our stretch test of Stretch Monster when we tried to drag him around a door frame to try and see just how much he stretched. Heh heh. They just don't make toys like they used to..
V
1968
applemuppet@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: January 3,2004
My Cousin got a 'stretch armstong' for xmas, we thought he could stretch for miles, so we each grabbed an arm and pulled him until this gel come out, we got into trouble from my aunt, she returned it to the store saying there was a hole in it, she ended up getting something different instead of another 'stretch armstrong'.
D
1967
channi2000@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: January 1,2004
My fondest and strangest memory of stretch armstrong and his pal the stretch monsteris as follows... My brothers got them for Christmas (19??) and they as well got new bikes. One brother got mad at the other and threw his stretch at the other one and it hit the peddle of his bike which had spikes on them.. It burst and we all knew we would be in trouble. I can't remember about how much trouble we got for busting it but I do remember we got in trouble for eating the gooo inside.. Gross I know but it tasted like carmel...
Tammy
1968
mom_o_chris@hotmal.com
This memory was added on: October 21,2003
My uncle poked a hole in mine Im lookin for one does any one know whre i can fine one
Lateef Clark
july 21 1975
lala1975@msn.com
This memory was added on: October 17,2003
I never had the gay looking Stretch Armstrong but I did have Stretch Monster and the later one to come out Stretch X-Ray. Anyone remember this oone. He was Monster's predicesor but you could see thru him and view his internal organs. I still have him. He does not leak and still stretchs due to the many rubdowns I gave him with silicone from a tube. This was my Dad's idea. If everyone knew this trick there would be a lot of Stretches still kicking around.
Baron/MI
1971
twizted187@aol.com
This memory was added on: September 26,2003
I remember getting stretch for x-mass. My brother got someother stretch thing that was green and looked like a lizard man. Anyway, my grandfather was stretching it and his ring, that I now have on my right hand, caught the doll and ripped it. This oooooozzeeee started coming out all over my grandmothers kitchen. Well, my dad read the package and supposidly there was a way to repair it by dipping the toy in boiling water. He did this and the toy repaired itself only to rip open again when I stretched it. BUMMER
Rocky
1971
rgvadala@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: September 25,2003
My brothers had Armstrong and the Monster, I was blessed with Olivia the pink stretch octopuss. It was my favorite toy. One day Olivia developed oozing holes around her neck. A neighbor told us if you iced the holes they would close up. I believed this and would faithfully nurse my "dying" friend. One day, Olivia was gone,and a month later my mom confessed to throwing her away while I was at school. I at least wanted to keep the head.
PDW
1972
arielmermd@aol.com
This memory was added on: August 21,2003
I had stretch monster in about 1977 .I was 14 yrs 0ld, I thought it was cool. my dad even got a kick out of it too.anyway after about 3 yrs. of having it displayed in my bedroom ,I was a bit too cool for it so I put it in the styrofoam tray it came in ,and stashed it in my closet. years later around 1990 I was at my moms house and was looking through my old closet for cool old stuff, at the bottom of the closet in the corner was a pile of red hardened goo with a petrified "mouse" stuck in it. on the shelf above was the styrofoam box that contained my strech monster apparently the goo had eaten through the monster and dripped slowly down the back of the closet and trapped a mouse years earlier!the mouse was half skeletal! pretty cool huh?
michael rodriguez
1963
michaelrodriguez926@msn.com
This memory was added on: August 18,2003
My last memory of playing with this 'weapon of mass destuction' was stretching both arms and accidently loosing one of them, its hard as rock head snapped back and nearly knocked out my 2 front teeth.
mark bunce
1967
mark@smartideasdesign
This memory was added on: August 9,2003
I got a Stretch Monster and my brother got a Stretch Armstong...I put his Stretch Armstrong in the freezer then broke off his arms and legs...I was a mean brother.
brian
1966
bksmith66@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: July 31,2003
I worked in the toy department of Alexander's Department Store at the Connecticut Post Mall from 1976 to 1979. What I remember most about this toy is the godawful mess the red goo inside the doll would make when some little stinker (or clumsy me) cut a doll with a knife. That stuff was stickier than crazy glue and twice as hard to get off of clothing, shoes, flesh, etc.
Anyone remember Slime?
Mike McGarry
1958
micthekwik@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: July 29,2003
My Stretch Armstrong got ruined by one of my friends who chewed on his feet ! (How strange is that ! ) I was amused with the toy for a month anyways. Thats probably why I wasn't heartbroken that my friend used it as a chew toy.
Bill
1964
billyre@earthlink,net
This memory was added on: July 20,2003
My little brother had this toy. I remember the silicone ooze coming out from his punctured skin after we stretched the living hell out of the poor bastard for a few months.
HeyJoe
1964
This memory was added on: July 5,2003
Stretch was cool to play with...you could stretch him out real easy....did you ever punch the dude??? i almost broke my hand...we were wacky as kids.
rans
1967
rans14@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: June 24,2003
my older brother poked mine with a knife.. ....that was the end of that toy.
Hey, you mentioned HUGO!
DR
1968
nh156@Yahoo.com
This memory was added on: June 6,2003
Evel Knievel could kick this guys ass! I had this toy and my cat bit him and some red ooze outer space came out . "Hugo Man Of 1000 Faces" ...now that was a cool toy. My dog ripped him to shreds!
BRIAN
1965
bhealy36@hotmail.com
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