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Play-Doh Fun Factory
by Playskool
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This memory was added on: September 25, 2007
Oh my god i went to visit my auntie where i havent been for years and she still has all our old toys we
used to play with including the fuzzy pumper barber shop it still works and all of us had great fun
playing with it with my 3 year old daughter who loved it even though its like about 40 years old.
tam
This memory was added on: April 12, 2007
The allure of Play-Doh is timeless. At age 40 I am still hooked on the scent and the feel of fresh Doh. You're never too old for Play-Doh! :-)
Trish
1966
This memory was added on: March 3,2007
wow i use to play with this in colombia when i was a kid...
1984
This memory was added on: February 23,2007
This was one of my favorite things to play with and my daughter, now my son plays with it. It isn't quite the same though. When I was little, the play-doh came inside these cardboard tubs and I remember how the playdoh would stick inside the tubs I would shake and shake to get it out. Also, they have removed the little boy from all the Play-doh cans/toys which I think is really odd since he was ALWAYS advertised as the play-doh mascot...wonder why?
Poetchime
1969
familyfreeze@comcast.net
This memory was added on: January 29,2007
This was my 6th birthday present. :-) Being a rather unimaginative little kid, I just made a lot of snakes and log houses out of it, but it was fun!
Deb
1967
This memory was added on: January 6,2007
My brother and I were shopping with my mother one Saturday afternoon at JC Penney's; back then, they actually had a toy department. We were strolling past the toys when my mother noticed the "Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop" and stated that she had never heard of it. My brother and I were shocked! We immediately began singing the jingle to her:
Sit right down, crank up the chair as Daddy grows his Play-Doh hair Shave and a hair cut (honk, honk) Brother needs a little off the top In the Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop We'll fix Mother's hair just so You can make it with Play-Doh!
WELL...right after the first verse she started with a fit of laughter so intense that she erupted in flatulence right there in the middle of the aisle!!! My brother and I were, of course, were extremely amused--yet embarrassed--at our mother's lack of control. So, what could we do? Of course, we slithered around to the opposite side of the aisle and completed the jingle unseen, leaving our mother doubled over, helplessly laughing and farting. She never forgot that Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop!
Good times!
Kathleen Bedrio
1966
bunnies1004@aol.com
This memory was added on: January 2,2007
i too had the fuzzy pumper barber shop. it was the coolest playdough toy at that time in the 70's.i wish i had that set again. but it took so long to get all the play dough out of the holes but great fun though,
Darrell
1966
ddm12@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: December 8,2006
My skills were very limited with playdoh..all I knew how to make was " a bird nest, with eggs" lol..so when this fun factory came out..it really helped me. My mother always made me spread newspaper on the table before I brought out the playdoh tho, because she knew I'd string it everywhere. I loved the way it felt, and smelled. but the taste was terrible.
Sherry
1960
snoweyscamper@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: October 21,2006
Oh yah, I cheifly remember three things about this--the Moosher thingie here, the smell and the salty taste. It's great to see this site.
Grulg
1966
uigle@msn.com
This memory was added on: October 18,2006
When this toy came out I was too old for it - even though I did grow up with Play-Doh toys - but I still remember a commercial for it on television. Do you remember it? I distinctly remember part of the catchy tune, "Brother needs a little at the top, in the Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop," and "We'll make Mommy's hair just so, you can make it with Plaayy-Doh!" I cannot remember what my boss told me yesterday to do with a case, but I can sure remember blue hair sprouting out of a kids hair and someone trying to cut that mess off with some plastic sissors. To this day I sing that song (or rather, those two sentences) to my babies.
Dave
1967
This memory was added on: August 29,2006
Ok this is funny, kept us kids busy for hours cutting little shapes and making one giant piece of mudd. Then of course we had to taste it. To this day I remember the smell. The sad part is we used to sit outside under the shade tree with neighborhood kids and play and I don't see that anymore..
Cheri
1960
kenkandu1957@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: August 12,2006
I was an aspiring artist at age 7 and wanted to sculpt pottery, but didnt have a wheel to throw pots on. I did have a Fisher Price record player tho, so I used that, and put a glob of playdoh on it, and added some water and it squished around. Luckily I did not get electrocuted, and unfortunately I never got all the playdoh off the turntable, but it was fun to try. I'd not recommend tho.
Star
1968
quazidejavoo@aol.com
This memory was added on: March 30,2006
I had this one! My boys now have it, their favorite, mine was the fuzzy pumper barber shop! On the hunt for the new model now.
1970
This memory was added on: March 21,2006
I remember the taste of Play-doh really clearly, after 15-16 years. It's really salty.
Vicky
1985
vcuthbertson50@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: January 10,2006
I loved my Playdoh Fun Factory. The colors were great and the smell was heady. I was posessed and used the Playdoh knife to slice my poo. I told my mother and she wigged out. I just thought it could be used for other Playdoh-like materials. I was a curious kid.
Bill
1962
beecough@earthlink.net
This memory was added on: December 27,2005
My sister-in-law and I were just discussing the Fuzzy Pumper Barber shop on Christmas Eve. I still have the current version that we bought for my daughter in 1998. It doesn't come close to the original one. No toy now a day does!
S Hodges
1968
shhodges@msn.com
This memory was added on: November 16,2005
I had Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop!!! OH, of all the toys I wish I'd kept... it was THE coolest.
Helen
1971
audiate@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: November 12,2005
Someone below mentioned The Fuzzy Pumper Barber Shop. That was the coolest Play-Doh toy ever. That I remember well. No one ever remembers that one.
Tracy
1970
This memory was added on: April 14,2005
I was such a tomboy and this was my solution to barbie- UGH but of course I found that you needed a good steak knofe to scrape and clean before you re-loaded your new inventions!!! Another thing that Ruby Nell (nanny) said-- "you'll poke your eye out..." about-- how did we go from fuzzy pumper barber shop and fun factory to games where there is no interaction with other humans--?
ashley
1967
swim_withme@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: April 3,2005
Yet another toy my mom claimed would give us worms. Anything that made a mess she would say "Oh that junk. That gives you worms"
Like we cared. Just to own this, and get to play with that plastic knife was worth an infestation of any kind of parasite.
The big deal was the laying of the newspaper prior to playing with it. Poor Ma would go through all the newspaper, and spread it on the table or floor. Within ten minutes we were off that paper, and dried Playdough went everywhere.
My youngest brother was a budding artist. He'd discard those yellow shape things. Which like others have mentioned wind up in a junk drawer. My brother proceeded to make quite an interesting collection. Playdough vultures, and tombstones abounded. He had a village like the night of the living dead. Zombie's he named Fred. At some point my poor mom was a little worried cause Regan of Excorsist fame had a friend that was a sculpted bird. She urged my brother to use the Playdough gadget, but he was an inventor. A free spirit.
Eventually my dad had to come home from work, and talk to him about his little passion of Playdough. Then my mom went on her rant "I told ya it was junk. They're all gonna have worms". We all just smiled because my brother had moved on to Silly Putty mixed with something else.
Noelle
1960
This memory was added on: January 28,2005
Before you put fresh play-dough in, you had to get all of the dried remnants out so they didn't mix. My sister and I were fascinated with this process of scraping all of the dried play-dough out of the cracks & crevices of the fun factory. It was very satisfying to use a fork and pop dried little play-dough pellets out of, say, the spaghetti mould, or to see if you could get the thin, dried play-dough crust off of the curved part that pushed the play-dough through in one piece. And then we always liked to make "worms" with moulds, squealing out "ewwww" as the bright-pink play-dough worms blindly spilled out onto the kitchen floor.
Deanna
1974
deinerpowell@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: January 24,2005
I remeber seeing ads for this in Donald Duck magazine(I´m fråm Sweden.)I wanted one really bad. Instead i got a HUGE can of really ugly yellow Play-Doh, without the cool machine thingy. I was really disappointed. The Play-Doh smelled awful andf I hated using it. Most of my friends liked it, though, and liked the smell too. Some even tried tasting the goo. Yuck!
Anders
1959
westrom@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: January 23,2005
I loved putting the playdoh through the various shapes of the fun factory, I would spend a good part of the day doing this, in fact I loved playdoh so much I would often be found eating it!
Michelle Kehm
1964
mkehm@zsf.org
This memory was added on: August 22,2004
I remember playing with this thing for hours on end when I was about 5 years old and when my little sister,Katie, was old enough to play with Play-Doh we'd both play with the fun factory for most of the day.
Sarah
1982
laprincipessa82@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: May 10,2004
i didn't have the fun factory but i had the ice cream truck with a bell that annoyed my mom to death. i would ring it constantly.
chris davis
1971
chrisdavis89@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: April 21,2004
My brother and I used to spend hours using the playdoh fun factory to make pretend cookies, cakes and pasta, that we would serve in our "resturant" that was visted by my dolls. Whats ironic is that my brother grew up to br a pastery chef.:)
marla and sean
1969 1966
joemacfan2000@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: October 30,2003
The picture is of a Fun Factory Junior. We had a few of these but we also had the REAL Fun Factory, which was a whole lot bigger. As I remember it had a plunger that pushed the Play-doh down and out and it was levered so you could get some real pressure on the sucker. (Not enough to shoot the Doh though, even though we tried.)
One problem with all of these was that the Doh would stick to it and get mixed with other colors. Play with it long enough and ALL your Doh would be that wonderful poo color.
Cyberqat
1963
jeffpk@iname.com
This memory was added on: July 28,2003
Anyone remember the fuzzy pumper barber shop? With the cool clippers that "worked"???
Angela
1973
sweet_pea7950@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: July 7,2003
The best I told everyonen i bought it for the kids buti really bought it for myself. That was the only time we were allowed to play with knives!
Leezie
1975
Lizardonearth@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: June 4,2003
I still have one of those yellow things with the shapes in my "junk" drawer I refuse to throw it away
John
1976
darklymanner@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: June 3,2003
Like the previous message, I also fondly remember the "toilet humor" that this thing brought out of us as young kids. We referred to it as the "Poop-Doh Fun Factory".
Kevin
1932
This memory was added on: May 9,2003
This one was a regular laugh riot. Put the play-dough in, pump it out. The slides provided a variety of shapes to pump. Of course as kids the only thing we could think of was a little "toilet humor" I mean, what else could you do with a foot long length of play-dough oozing out the front of the toy.
joseph c. kuhar
1960
jkuhar@chooseabs.com
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