Beakers of Slime

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I was inspired to do a slime collection after seeing a couple of great ones. I wanted to have them in beakers instead of some of the other containers I’ve seen like in the courtroom scene of GB2. I settled on Ectoplasmic Residue, Mood Slime, and Black Slime and got my ingredients together.

Here’s how it has come together initially:

I mixed the soap, glitter, and highlighters together but the glitter all sank to the bottom. Mixing the green highlighter with green soap made it a lot darker than I wanted it. However the Ectoplasmic Residue and Mood Slime worked well under the black light:

The labels were heavily inspired from: http://www.gbfans.com/fans/props/other/3963/5/

As I mentioned, I wasn’t happy with how dark the Ectoplasmic Residue became, so I mixed a yellow highlighter with the remaining green soap and was happy with the result

It also worked out better under the black light:

I still have some alterations I want to make but wanted to post my progress.

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Nice! I always love the highlighter-in-water trick.

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The problem with letting someone else’s labels ‘inspire’ you is that when they have a typo, you get a typo!

It should be spelled PSYCHO-

Not PYSCHO-.

Aside from that old peeve of mine, I’m tempted to try this highlighter trick now.

And I was thinking earlier that someone needs to make the little scoop that Egon used to pour slime into the toaster.

Alex

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Good catch Alex. I was so focused on the “Magnatheric” part, I didn’t even pay attention to be beginning. Spelling was never my strong suit. For a while on the Black Slime label I had “Shador’s Island” instead of “Shandor”. Luckily I plan on printing the labels on adhesive paper and I can correct in other mistakes.

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If memory serves wasn’t it just some measuring spoons?

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It was a Honey Dipper/Server only without the grooves:

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nope its a spoon, watch as he’s dipping it out and holding it flat at :06

in your screenshot he’s holding it sideways with the round part toward the camera to pour it out.

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I’ll be dammed all these years that what I thought it was!

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Anybody know what the top to the beaker of mood slime in the courtroom scene is? I’m looking for a way to cover my beakers and the best I can find are watch glasses.

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To me it always looked like a wide petri dish base.