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Squirmles
by NSI Toys
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This memory was added on: May 18, 2008
I wanted one of these little pets so bad. On TV it was magic and I was in
love. I bought one from a vending machine at Hum Dinger when I was about 7.
Within minutes I accepted that I'd been lied to and had willingly given my
50 cents to the liars. I heartbroken for a day or two then I decided I would
get as good at making it look alive as the guy on TV did. I never got that
good at it.
- Craig
1967
This memory was added on: June 3,2007
as a kid of 10 or 12, i suffered my first rip-off experience as a result of a great ad campaign for this below-average product marketed at a premium price. while its true that the commercial made it look really neat and work like magic, it was hokey all around. the stick-on eyes fell off within the first hour and the frizz fell out by the end of the first week. very disappointing.
jesse
64
unkqty@hotmail
This memory was added on: April 12,2007
I remember begging my mom for one of these.There was also one called Pet Ghost that worked off the same principle,and came in a cardboard haunted house.Great memories!
Scott
1966
This memory was added on: March 29,2007
I can't believe I finally found this toy on this website! I have had thoughts of my little furry friend since I was in the second grade in the 70's but couldn't remember what it was. I was scarred for life when I put him in my pocket and after recess when I pulled him out he flew into the air in a million tiny fuzzy pieces - I cried and cried. I used to dance around to Dancing Queen by ABBA with my squirmles! I am going to have to find one for my babies (and me)! Thanks for ending a 30 year question of the name of this toy!
Paula
1967
pplefevre@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: March 29,2007
You know, I have seen them in dollar stores. I was amazed, since I saw it at a home show for much more, and I thought there was much more to it because the guy who made it work was amazing! I bought an orange one, (it unraveled) and meant to get another one but never did. Now I want to try making one that somewhat works. Anybody know how?
Lolly
kaybee22@gmail.com
This memory was added on: March 23,2007
In my attempts to be saavy with the operation of the Squirmle, I always ended up getting the string tied in knots around Squirmle's body. This made Squirmle even harder to operate. When it was all said in done Squirmles was in the trash and I had a cut on my finger from the fishing wire. A complex situation indeed.
Stephanie Andres
1975
stephanieandres@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: March 22,2007
I was just at the Mall of America, and a toy store had a TV running with all the tricks that this cute little worm could do. I asked the clerk if she had a display worm I could see and she said no,and that they are on an invisible string. I told her I had the same thing as a kid and I loved it! And so did she but neither of us could remember the name. I'm so glad I found this web site. I was a little sticker shocked ($4.99) but might have to get some for my kids' Easter baskets.
Leslie
1967
les2c5@aol.com
This memory was added on: March 13,2007
I got my squirmles out of a dime maching at the Giant supermarket when I was 6. I just now realized that's where his "name" came from... I thought I'd just named him that! Anyway, somehow he found his way onto the Christmas tree, and he's been there ever since. Every year, he gets packed up, and every year he gets wrapped around a branch. Squirmles: A christmad Tradition.
Laura Holloway
This memory was added on: February 3,2007
I remember the gumball machine version. My mother would take me to the supermarket before dropping me of at school when I was five. You never knew what you were getting when you put your quater in but I remember seeing the little fuzzy worm burried in there wih all the plastic rings and fake tattoos. To me it was like gold, the ultimate gumball treasure but it seemed so far out of reach. I had a hard time believing that I could ever have one of the magic worms because only the really special and lucky kids got them. But I would always hope try. Then the day came, much to my horror and amazement that the little green critter came rolling out. I was thrilled, but still could not believe it. I put the plastic case in my coat pocket and my mother took me to school. When I got to the top of the stairs going into my kindergarten it fell out of my pocket and into the gutter in the parking lot below, where I could see it but could not reach it. I looked down on my green friend that I had never even taken out its case, very sad and disapointed. It was the most valuble lesson I would ever learn.
Adi
1368
This memory was added on: February 2,2007
I had a squirmel that was blue and i loved him like he was my own brother. But he got cancer and he started losing his hair.He died the 2nd day i got him.But they are really fun and i got mine at the stockshow.I have about 20 of them now.You should buy a lot of them.Oh yeah his name was Wilie.I loved him.
This memory was added on: January 28,2007
I mastered this toy sort of. I had the invisible string hooked to my shirt button and out to my arm to give the allusion squirmy was moving.
Tony
1964
This memory was added on: January 26,2007
i had a real squirmel and many fake ones from the gum ball machines... i kept them in a decorated egg crate and one day my mom just threw them away (she is a weird woman). my sister and i remember them as frizzlies, so its been years since ive been able to find them on the web!!
nikki
1978
This memory was added on: January 10,2007
I have recently noticed items similiar to these in the JoAnn's Super Store. They were in with the kid's craft stuff and I think they were referred to as wiggle worms or something like that. Hope you can find them.
This memory was added on: January 5,2007
My greatest memory of my Squirmle was that my cat ate it. She didn't seem to suffer any side effects and lived for years afterwards!
Eddie
1961
This memory was added on: January 5,2007
I loved the squimies too! They were not to expensive and great little furry friends. I just recently saw one in a toy store going for $4.00. I couldn't believe it, back in the 70's we could get them with some change. Even the gumball machines would have smaller versions in them that you could buy for a quarter.
Cheryl
1966
This memory was added on: January 2,2007
We bought one for my 6 year old son who DID get it wet. Guess what? it did not fall apart! Now he wants to make dozens for his upcoming Bug Birthday Party. I imagine this pipecleaner stuff comes on a spool, but I can't figure out what terms to search for. any ideas?
Rayellen
1969
This memory was added on: November 1,2006
There was some story on UK TV, some consumer program which said that Squirmles were a rip off because if you get them wet, they fall apart.
At the time, I thought this was pretty stupid - after all, why would you get it wet?
As a result I spent hard earned pocket money on one (well....pocket money, anyway), and subsequently got it wet and it fell apart.
Ho hum.
Simon
1965
This memory was added on: October 25,2006
Okay, I LOVED my squirmel. As children of the 70's, my best friend and I would rush home after school, put the Bee Gees album on and "dance" with our squirmels. We weren't into mastering the squirmel "tricks", but into JiveTalkin, Stayin Alive, and How Deep is Your Love dancin' with our squirmels. Now that I look back I think Robin and Maurice Gibb kinda looked like squirmels, not so much Barry.
Emily
1973
This memory was added on: July 12,2006
i jsut got one adn i'm 12 and a half and i love it and i was wondering is there any cool tricks you guys remember i can do the cup one and throw my finger but nothing else i love this toy so nice and fuzzy i don't want to leave it
tony
This memory was added on: June 22,2006
I had an orange squirmles just like the one in the picture. I was like five or six when I got it and I couldn't make it do all the cool tricks that it did in the commercial but I still liked it. I remember really pestering my mother to get me this thing. I also remember that I left it next to the sink in the bathroom one time and a friend of mine got it wet when he was washing his hands. It looked all shriveled up and one of the eyes fell off. I was really upset and my friend wouldn't confess to the crime. I still remember seeing it there next to the blue sink in my bathroom in a little puddle with one eye missing. Boy was I upset.
David Sandholm
1973
This memory was added on: April 26,2006
When I see a Squirmel I think "hours of fun" just watching it squirm and whirl...and slowly over time lose its fuzzy fur. Then it looked sick and wimpy...thats when you knew it was time to get a new one.
neige
1976
This memory was added on: April 26,2006
Mine is pink and it is soooooooo cute! I named it Pinky and it kept me busy for hours and hours. Buy 1 they're cheap! :) and be happy :)
Kendall
1995
This memory was added on: March 3,2006
WOW! I LOVED my Squirmles! Since they were so cheap (price and craftmanship) I probably went through about 20 of them during a summer.
Bruce
1968
This memory was added on: February 27,2006
Oh, I had one of these when I was 6 or so. It seems to me I lost it pretty quickly, but I loved it because there were so many commercials for it, and it looked so cool on TV. I don't think I ever got it to do some of the tricks you could do--I was, after all, an uncoordinated little kid. For years now, I've struggled to remember what this toy was called, and I just randomly stumbled across this site, and now I know the name again! Thanks!
Clint
1974
This memory was added on: January 21,2006
I can still hear the commercial in my head for "Squirmles." I loved the couple that I had. They were orange with those funny google eyes. I would play with them so much that eventually the "nose" where the invisible string was attached would start to unravel. I would be so bummed. It was great to see this site and be able to read and share memories about some of my favorite toys!
Tiff
1969
This memory was added on: December 6,2005
Another classic toy, another classic misadventure. After bugging my parents for weeks to buy this toy for me and promising that I wouldn't destroy it or loose it, they finally caved in and bought it for me. Two months later, while on a school field trip to Kew Beach (Toronto), my orange squirmel got stuck in a tree while performing stunts, frantically tried to rescue it, could not free it in time before we had to board the bus and head back to school. Never did tell my parents, never did get another one. Sorry for abandoning you, Buddy. I still think about that day(spring 1975) once and a while. Hope your still squirming around somewhere. (true story, but you have too LOL, right?)
Mikey
1965
This memory was added on: November 11,2005
i got one of these in the summer of 2005 a this cool toy store at lake george in newyork it was cool but i gues it squirm away i thought it was a waste of five bucks be cause it worked on a thin clear string but it stills amaze the other that dont know
jimmy
1993
This memory was added on: November 2,2005
I bought one last month in Portugal because of the advert. I called mine 'Horace' and it is great.
Tim
1987
This memory was added on: October 17,2005
They do still make them. Got one for my son recently...down on the Ocean City MD boardwalk.
Michelle
1963
This memory was added on: October 8,2005
So much fun!! Played with it for hours! Wished they still made them so I could get them for my kids! :)
Barbara
1963
This memory was added on: August 5,2005
I don't feel so silly now that I see I am not alone in my love of squirmles. I don't think I had an official one, but I had several of the 10 cent bubble gum machine types from the King Cole market. I still have one that I have saved all these years...probably close to 30 now. He is orange and in primo condition. He resides in my cedar chest with all my other "important" saved items. I recently went with my family to Fla, and found some of the Magic Wigglees there. They were $5.99, but I had to get some anyway...to reminisce. My kids each got one and quickly lost interest. I confiscated them, and they have been relocated to my personal collection for safekeeping. What memories I have of those little fuzzies and my attempts to bring them to life. Thanks everyone for the stroll down memory lane!!
Ferret
1969
This memory was added on: July 28,2005
My sister and I had each had a green Squirmles. I remember how very soft they were and the thin "hair" like fishing-line tied around his nose to pull him this way and that. We'd have them weave in and out of our fingers like cute fuzzy snakes! Sometimes his nose would get stuck behind something, like when I would wind the string around a pencil to have him crawl around it, but for the most part we got a lot of enjoyment out of the little guys; so much so, that they began going bald! The soft hair wanted to pull out of the inner white string....his hair receded about 1/2 inch before I shortened up his neck by tying up the inner thread shorter....he didn't weave around quite as good after that, but he looked much better! LOL! ;)
Donna Miller
1972
This memory was added on: June 12,2005
HAH! So THAT'S what they were called, I'd totally forgotten their offical name. I remember having a few of these little things waaay back in the day.
I think around 1984-85 as I remember Hurricane Gloria taking place & not being able to go to Toys-R-Us to get a new one, as one of mine met an unfortunate death with a vaccum cleaner. O_O
I vaugely remember small blue & pink baby ones in addition to the green & orange ones I think I had. I know I had an orange one, but not 100% sure about owning a green one. I'd totally forgotten about these until I was in a local store called "Value Village" today.
I was just out & about killing some time while riding my bike & decided to peek inside to see what it was like. After wandering around aimlessly for a good 10 minutes & stumbled upon an end-cap with these things called a "Magic Worm".
They were marked at $1.99 each & they only had orange & green ones from what I saw. So, to be nostalgic, I plopped down $2.16 & walked out with a orange Magic Worm.
When I got home I did a google search for "Magic Worm" & thise site came back in the search.
Thanks again Retro-toys for solving the answer to an almost 20 year riddle as to just what these weird little things were called. ^_^
-Chris
Chris
1979
This memory was added on: May 4,2005
I was in Las Vegas about three months ago and I found a magic store/novelty store and they sold Squirmles... THE ORIGINALS... well, new ones but with the same packaging and everything... i almost bought one or two but didn't get back to the shop before they closed for the day...:o(.... it was at the base of the monorail station in the lower floor of one of the casinos.... those things were pretty cool... I used to freak people out who didn't know about them...LOL
Jimmy
1967
This memory was added on: April 12,2005
Wow.. I forgot all about that thing! I don't know for how long it was popular, wether it was a few weeks or a whole summer but that was the IT thing to have for a while... Squirmles.. LOL That and SLIME were very cool to own.. Some kids weren't allowed to have slime and would play with mine and my sisters like it was gold...
Gina
1964
This memory was added on: April 4,2005
I took a bath wipe to my cat Shiva tonight, & after it dried I hugged him, snuggling the silky fur on his freshly cleaned, plushy neck... And out of the blue I exclaimed without thinking, "You're just like my Squirmel!!!" And I bust into uncontrollable laughter. I have not thought of those things in more years than I can safely count. So I ran a search for them, which brought me here. I wore out & systematically dismantled (much to my mother's wrath) several Squirmels at about age 4 or 5, & I was surgically attached to them. The green one was my special favorite, & I was a forlorn little girl when Squirmels couldn't be found anymore. I don't know why I didn't see the shared likenesses before...! Looking at Shiva now, and considering his fuzzy carryings-on when I am trying to sleep at 9am, & wiggle-worm belly waves from the floor, it's been there all along!! Beyond sheer mass & size, the one major difference being, that I used to have those ones wrapped around my fingers... Where as, on the other hand, this one has me completely wrapped around his! I think I need to get a new Sqirmel & share the wealth (under close supervision, kids) with kitty. He'll see the same wonder in it that I did, I'm certain.
Heather
1967
This memory was added on: March 16,2005
What I know as Squirmles is Magic Worm. I first saw one at a home show at the Quest center in Omaha, NE. I begged for one but I didn't get it. One reason was the price: $6.00! The other was my dog would eat it. My parents don't ever trust me! My mom said she would get me one on the websight of Fun for all Toys! Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!
Rebekka Kent
1991
This memory was added on: February 17,2005
I was recently thinking I know I had a little worm or something called a Squirmles when I was a kid - and the Internet being the wonderful tool that it is - allowed me to plug the name in and now it has all come back to me! I don't think I was very good at operating it.
Lauren
1966
This memory was added on: January 22,2005
When I was 8, I begged my father for an orange or red squirmles. He came home with an ugly, smelly rubber snake instead. I proceeded to have one of the worst tantrums of my youth. Presents were suspended for about a month due to my behavior. I eventually got one though and invariably lost interest quickly.
Andrea Eisen
1966
This memory was added on: January 19,2005
OOOHHH!!! Squirmles!!! I remember the commercials and begging for one. I finally got one and my baby brother dunked it in a full coffee mug. That was the end of Squirmles.
Tara
1965
This memory was added on: January 5,2005
I can't believe it! I'm seriously choked up! I have been thinking about Squirmles for years and searching the Web, but remembering (incorrectly) them as Wormles! I had a red one when I was about ten. I used to torture the kids next door (toddlers), telling them that it was my magic worm and he was going to get them and eat them! I had a blast! Thank you so much for having them here! I've GOT to have another one!
Richard
1964
This memory was added on: January 4,2005
I forgot about my Squirmles until my 9 yr old daughter came home today with the 'prize' she picked from the box at afterschool Bingo -- a bright yellow SQUIRMLES!!!
She was surprised at my excitement when I saw it and told me all her friends asked why she wanted that, "it's just a stupid worm thing", they said.
I feel like a kid again!!!!
Marie
1963
This memory was added on: December 31,2004
I ripped the eyes off of mine... Is it just me, or was our generation just a bit too easy to please toy-wise? This was meant to entertain? Imagine the blank stares we would get today if we handed this to OUR kids.:)
Wendy
1969
This memory was added on: December 13,2004
I had one when I was a kid - about 8 or 9 I think.......I just bought one for my 9 year old son tonight! :) It's now called magic worm - but what a blast from the past! :)
Kal
1966
This memory was added on: November 23,2004
WOW! Squirmles. The second I saw these on TV I knew I had to have one, in each color that is, I begged and pleaded, I did a million chores, until finally Mom took me to Woolworth's to get MY Squirmles. I don't even remember how much they cost I just know it was way more than I had. THe second we got into the car I tore open the package to Find that I had to tie a piece of thread to my shirt button, I didn't have a button shirt on, and then to the Squirmle to make it move by moving my hands. WHAT? They didn't really move? Ok OK...well I'd go home get a shirt with a button on it and surely it'l work. Yeah ok, string broke each time, until finally my little Squirmle was in the bottom of my toy box collecting dust. MAn that thing was great LOL
Pottsie-Host of the Retro Lunch Show
1964
This memory was added on: November 16,2004
I remember having one! If I remember correctly, my mom was the one who was pretty good at operating it.
Tracy
1968
This memory was added on: November 10,2004
Thomas
1971
This memory was added on: November 10,2004
Squirmles were by far my favorite toy growing up! I have been trying to find a source for years, recently got set up and now sell them.
If anyone is looking for them for the holidays, send me an e-mail and I'll get you some pictures. These are specially treated at the nose and tail to prevent fraying and come with invisible string.
I sell 3 packs of Orange, Green & Yellow for $5.50! Paypal works fine.
If anyone is interested in reselling in their area, just drop me a line.
Thomas
1971
This memory was added on: November 6,2004
I still have my squirmle!!! It is orange, and pitiful looking, but intact. He has been in my jewelry box for almost 30 years now! WOW! My seven year old just picked it up and said, "This is sad". So in an effort to show her my childhood I got online to see if there are any out there. All of your messages put a smile on my face.
Barbara B.
1966
This memory was added on: October 2,2004
Melanie
1969
This memory was added on: October 2,2004
Oops - hit add too soon...
I just had to say THANK YOU for putting this on your site. I literally was just starting a what I thought was sure to be a futile search for the name of this thing on the internet...and was SHOCKED when this was one of the first sites I came across. I wondered for years about this thing, whatever happened to it, and whether I'd ever be able to find another one. I have no idea why this thing cast such a spell over me. Gonna go find me one - thank you!
Melanie
1969
This memory was added on: October 1,2004
I got a squirmle when i was at my Grandpas house, I played with it all day! Made it crawl thru fingers, out of cups, etc. My parents came to get me, and i couldnt wait to show them the cup trick. I tossed the squirmle in the cup and to my horror slowly pulled out a coffee drenched squirmel... :(
Sue
1962
This memory was added on: September 7,2004
I remember how my dad used to make squirmles jump out of his hand and crawl through his fingers. My favorite Squirmles was the orange one. :)
Raven
1969
This memory was added on: August 26,2004
Squirmle! Why did I want one so bad?! Well, I got it as a birthday present one year. I got pretty good at bringing it to life, and, sure got a lot of strange stares when I'd play with it. I was a little upset about his eyes being crooked, I remember.
Brian
1967
This memory was added on: July 27,2004
I remember going to Woolworth's back in the mid-'70's and discovered Squirmles. I had to have one. It had to be one of the simplest things I owned, but how clever it was-in and out of pockets. It lasted about a month before its demise to the vacuum cleaner.
Ron
1968
This memory was added on: June 8,2004
when I was little about 4 or 5, my aunt who is 10 years older than me, had the greatest barbie houses ever made!! Well, when she would go to school I would go up in her room and totally ruin them. You can imagine how mad she was when she came home!!! Well, I was terified of this little squirmle!! So what did she do?? Tied it to her door handle!!! I never went in her room again!! Unil my uncle showed me it was only a toy of course!!!!
Cari Furia
1972
This memory was added on: May 27,2004
What memories I have of squirmles. Each month we would go to the local radio shack for the free battery of the month club, my aunt would buy my brother and I a new squirmles from the McCrory's next door. We would play with him so much that we needed a new one all the time. Wish I had one now. Years later they came out with the knock offs in the gumball machines. No comparison.
Gotta Love Squirmles.
Lisa V
1968
This memory was added on: March 24,2004
I still have a couple squirmles. and still love them. I enjoyed making them come alive, and thinking I was fooling people into thinking they were alive. I remember buying my first one when I visited my grandmother in Brooklyn, NY, at a small dept. store called Kresges. She bought it for me and I never got tired of it--even till today!!
Meri Harary Fleischman
1969
This memory was added on: February 24,2004
I was recently listening to a tape I recorded on my 12th birthday in 1975.I was talking about the gifts I'd gotten,one of them was a Squirmles, which I described as a "little toy caterpillar" I remember the commercial,where the kid said "I don't believe it!" and the father said,"That's right,Squirmles is unbelieveable!"I think it was sort of hard to tie the string to its nose and its paper eyes fell off after a while.
David
1963
This memory was added on: February 11,2004
I had a Squirmles in the '70's. I had just gotten it and my family was having dinner and like a dummy, I set it beside my plate. Spaghetti sauce and Squirmles fur don't mix. It was never the same again. I was so bummed and my mom wouldn't get me another one.
Sarah
1964
This memory was added on: January 24,2004
I'll join the club. Had one of these and could never get it to work like they demonstrated on tv. I so much wanted it to work as their advertising claim. Oh well, it's a fun memory anyway!
Joyce
1962
This memory was added on: January 9,2004
Boy oh boy did i ever love Squirmles. Yeah, they had little ones in the gumball machines--I had a green and an orange big one, and then got at least 25 of them from gumball machines at Laneco--I think they were a dime. I made a squirmles house out of empty kleenex boxes glued together and cut out windows for the squirmles to squirmle around. Wow, this is the kind of thing that makes me want to dig *deep* into every box that has ever languished in storage to see if I can just find my (very long-vanished) squirmles collection.
Vic
1968
This memory was added on: January 9,2004
I really thought my Squirmles Hefe' was alive for years... Then my mom sucked him up in the vacuum cleaner
it was a sad day!
EJ
1971
This memory was added on: December 20,2003
Oh my god, I had a Squirmle. I saw the commercials on tv and was fascinated by all the things it did, but unfortunatelm I didn't realize at 7 that it was all controlled by invisible thread. After much begging, my mother bought me an orange one which I promptly ruined by putting it in a glass of water as per the commercial (I didn't know the glass was EMPTY). Needless to say I cried for days.
maria
1968
This memory was added on: December 19,2003
I won a Squirmel from a TV show (JP Patches) and was so excited when it arrived. It was the orange one and I remember practicing in the bathroom in front of the mirror...it fell into the sink and was ruined. I was crushed!
kim
1967
This memory was added on: October 18,2003
Wow! I loved a dozen squirmles to death. Even one of the flourescent green ones! I wish I had one today--great stress breaker. The replicas just won't do. Please send me a higher resolution photo of your packaging (front and back, please). It is my personal quest to find out where squirmle came from, purchase the rights and return that little wiggler to the market. Any info you have would be helpful! Please email me!
Joe
1970
This memory was added on: September 25,2003
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who loved my squirmle. We had a gift exchange party at my school for Christmas and I begged my mother to buy squirmle for my gift to pass. I remember thinking "what lucky duck is going to get my present?" I couldn't wait cus I just knew I would be making a new friend for life when I revealed that It was me that brought the best toy on the table! Well... needless to say it didn't quite go that way. They all laughed at the squirmle and the girl who picked it cried. So I did what anyone would do I offered to trade with her! She got my stupid barrettes, and I got the squirmle! I would try and try to get people to watch as my squirmle magicaly came to life, but these people just didn't get it. Man I loved that orange thing, I kept it for years.
Melinda
1969
This memory was added on: August 27,2003
These were a coveted toy when I was in the 5th grade. A friend and I bought two from a vending machine for a quarter, we became good at it, making them appear animated, we were experimenting and I had the idea to have my Squirmle jump out of a teacup on the table and when I motioned for it, it flopped out and splatted soaked in tea, it ruined it, not realizing there was tea in the cup (duh). I was so bummed, especially since my friend still had his. I was hoping it would dry out become fluffy again, but it was ruined.
1964
This memory was added on: July 20,2003
Oh man, I was telling my seven year old daughter all about these the other night when she was going to bed. I told her my Squirmel was yellow and I brought her to school with me every single day for a year and how I LOVED her!!
I am a seller on Ebay and just wondered... hmmm, so I logged on and lo and behold THERE was a SQUIRMEL!! Now she is looking forward to the arrival of her red squirmel, Squirmey. Talk about a natural high -- your kid getting the same toy you had when you were her age. I almost cried on the spot.
sigh... ain't life grand?
Kathleen ^_^
1966
This memory was added on: June 25,2003
My husband and I have been trying to find one for years. If anyone has one to sell, email me.
MS
1964
This memory was added on: June 24,2003
FLASHBACK... i remember buying one in a gumball machine at Rich's dept store, it was smaller than the one on TV but i played with it for days, had it down pretty good too..
I remember you had to tie the string to a button on your shirt and move your hands away from you to make it work..
DR
1968
This memory was added on: June 12,2003
I must be the only kid on the planet that actually got my Squirmles to look like they did on TV. It looked real to me, but never seemed to impress anyone else. Is it really sad and pathetic that I actually got mine to twist around my finger? There should be a club for Squirmle owners, like the one they have for Volkswagon Beetles.
Corey
1968
This memory was added on: June 4,2003
OMG I remember this thing...I could NEVER get it to twirl around my finger like they showed on tv..i think i ended up giving it to my cat to play with.
Karen
1969
This memory was added on: May 15,2003
I remember taking mine back to the store because I thought it was dead. Never could master the art of making it "alive" as it was on the TV commercials... finally resorted to simply making it slide like a worm.
Ed
1961
This memory was added on: May 13,2003
Oh my gosh, I loved these! I remember treating them as pets and trying to fool people into believing it. Yeah right!
Cindy
1970
This memory was added on: May 9,2003
Ahhh, another one of those toys that looked absolutely fantastic when demonstrated on TV. Then you finally got your folks to buy you one and the fun factor evaporated after a few hours of frustrating attempts to make the damn thing do what it did in the commercials. Maybe I just didn't try hard enough...
Joe
1965
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