Weeellll I’m glad I didn’t pay £35 for it 😉 But it is quite good. Predictably it’s tiny tubs of the stuff, you could fit the contents of one tub inside a mug and for 20 quid you got one of each colour – pink, green, yellow and blue. It is indeed pretty much just flubber with polystyrene beads in it so for a fiver per tub it’s way overpriced. I got the second set half price offer so a further four for a tenner, which I would say was more of a fair price for it really.
It is quite dry and takes a lot of working and kneading to get to a workable state and I would say it is more of a craft material than a toy really. I’ve made a globe out of a small plastic ball covered with blue and green and it does look pretty good but projects like covering a phone with it or a scooter like they do on the advert would cost about £100 in Floam to complete!
The kids are very happily playing with it, quoting lines from the TV ad and mashing it up with bits of silver foil (the booklet suggests models made of foil or papier mache could be covered in a thin layer of floam, or wire used to make armitures (which I know about from watching the W&G dvd extras!)) but I think they’d have been just as happy with a tub of playdoh each really as that is the sort of play they are doing with it.
So rich grannys to pay for it, kids older than mine who are really into their arts and crafts with different media or making it yourself from the recipe Sarah posted a link to in a comments box some way below I’d recommend. Buying it yourself or expecting to redecorate your lounge in it? Erm, that’d be a no then!
Aha, so now we know, thanks for testing this product, Nic!
Comment by Ali — 23 February 2006 @ 12:45 pm