It’s the Nostalgia for Me

Retro Slime Company is built on the concept of nostalgia.  We want to take you back to simpler times, so you’ll notice most of our slimes remind you of times.  Retro to us ends somewhere in the late 80s when computers started dialing up, and we were offered car phones.  When I got my first…

Why Buy Retro

When we remodeled my bathroom a few years ago, it took five people to get the cast iron bathtub out of the house and onto the lawn.  It was heavy and awkward and built for an apocalypse. In the dead of summer, sitting in the bathtub on the front lawn, I watched the new plastic…

History of Slime

It was a cold day in February of 1976.  Picture it.  S.W.A.T is on TV.  “Disco Lady” by Johnnie Taylor is playing.  You are in your bell-bottoms. But somewhere deep inside toy giant Mattel’s mainframe, slime is born.  It’s hard to believe slime is turning 46 this coming year when she looks so young.  She’s…