Chace, that looks great. I’ll have to get some Irish Spring body wash for my uniform.
For ectoplasm they used mucilage. It’s edible/ same stuff you find in jello.
Dissolve borax in water, (add food coloring if you want)slowly add mucilage to desired consistency.
Or you can use white Elmer’s glue if u can’t find mucilage.
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Does the shampoo smell strongly? I don’t think my slime should smell good.
It does strongly smell good, but everytime I’ve used it, its either been outside on a hot summer day or in a con. In both f those cases there are enough foul smelling folks running around…
That of course is when using it on the uniform, for props like jars the scent isn’t noticeable.
Awesome ideas.
Chase did you makeup that pink slime label or find it kicking around somewhere?
It’s actually in a thread somewhere here on gbfans, but damned if I can find it now. It has a couple of misspellings too so you may be better off just remaking your own.
I used nickelodeon slime mixed with water on Mine, and after it dried, gave a nice crusty green mucas look, like nasty snot. Then I went over it with washable UV glow paint so it glows in the dark. All of the dried slime and glow paint washes right off. I will post some wet/dry pics of the slime on My uniform if I can locate the pics.
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Found the label, I think.
http://www.gbfans.com/fans/props/other/3963/5/
I can make up my own but needed a starting point. Thanks for the help.
Sadly, no. They used Methylcellulose. It’s a food starch/thickening agent. It comes as a white powder you mix with water to the desired consistency. If you’ve ever had a Tim Horton’s glazed donut, you’ve eaten it lol
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Mucilage is a edible viscous glue, commonly used in gelatin.
Methycellulose a semi-synthetic mucilage byproduct, is used as a laxative. I doubt they use that as their frosting…people would be crapping themselves.
Plus just watch the fucking DVD commentary, it’s said during the library scene.
“We’ve been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay Puft’s okay! He’s a sailor, he’s in New York; we get this guy laid, we won’t have any trouble!”
I did watch the DVD commentary. Hence where I found the information. I don’t quite understand your tone. I wasn’t trying to be a jerk or anything by what I said. I’m just trying to make sure people get the correct information.
To be precise, Harold Ramis states it as being “MethylCellulose Ether” in the commentary, and also calls it a “Chinese food starch” if I remember correctly.
If you’d read the Wikipedia article on Methylcellulose, ( Methyl cellulose - Wikipedia ) You’d see at the bottom it being listed as the exact chemical used as Slime. Not mucilage. It’s also listed in that very article that it is commonly used in foods as a thickening agent.
Another resource is THIS document, taken from Don Shay (presumably from his book “Making Ghostbusters.”) It ALSO states that the slime was made with Methyl Cellulose.
Do some fact checking please before you come at me with your chest puffed out acting like you know what you’re talking about.
You’re original reply was pretentious. Give the right information, but don’t call out people like you’re the smartest guy in the room.
Methycellulose is a Mucliage, ergo I wasn’t wrong.
“We’ve been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay Puft’s okay! He’s a sailor, he’s in New York; we get this guy laid, we won’t have any trouble!”
For the OP… I used this for my slime, it comes out awesome.
“We’ve been going about this all wrong. This Mr. Stay Puft’s okay! He’s a sailor, he’s in New York; we get this guy laid, we won’t have any trouble!”
Similar, but not the same. Methylcellulose does not occur naturally, mucilage does. Methylcellulose is a common food additive and is/used to be the main ingredient in KY Jelly which, coincidentally, was and is commonly used by FX artists to make something look “slimy”.
Also, I thought gelatin contained, uh, gelatin. You know, collagen rendered from cartilage, bones and connective tissue. Yummy.