We're still waiting for warmer weather to want to work on our own Mold-A-Rama machine (which has a leak we need to fix, and there is still the problem of the coin return that shoots money back inside the machine), but in the meantime we got an unexpected addition to our collection!
Last year I was contacted by someone in Tennessee who came across my blog and said she collected Mold-A-Ramas, and would we be willing to trade? I told her we liked the fun of going to the places and getting them ourselves, but that if she paid us back we'd be happy to pick things up in our area of the country and send them to her. We ended up getting her figures from our zoo here in Milwaukee, along with things from Toledo, Detroit, and Chicago. (Someday we will get to the Como Park Zoo and we'll be sure to pick her up some more there.)
She was pleased with the box of Mold-A-Ramas we sent her, and the other day (right around my birthday no less) we got a surprise package from her! Four retired figures from the Knoxville Zoo that we wouldn't be able to get anyway, even if we visited, including a chimp we've never seen before:
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Mold-A-Ramas in the Miami Area (the Museum of Discovery and Science, Zoo Miami, Monkey Jungle, and Seaquarium)
In the continuing (and are you thinking endless?) saga of our Mold-A-Rama Road Trip, we went from Orlando down to Delray Beach to visit my aunt and uncle, and on our way south stopped in Ft Lauderdale for a quick trip to the Museum of Discovery and Science. It was free with our reciprocal membership to Discovery World here in Milwaukee, and we spent a couple of hours there.
It's a small science museum, but what they had they did well. We saw our first spiny lobster, and they also had fish and turtles. The giant shark sculpture was kind of cool. The second floor had a lot of puzzles to solve, which kept us busy, and they also had an exhibit on "fear" which was interesting. They had a great screen where you had to use your shadow to catch fruit falling from a tree without being attacked by a shadow lion. Quinn was amused to pieces antagonizing that virtual cat and happily did that until closing time.
There was one Mold-A-Rama machine at the Museum of Discovery and Science, and that's where we got our second fighter jet.
It's a small science museum, but what they had they did well. We saw our first spiny lobster, and they also had fish and turtles. The giant shark sculpture was kind of cool. The second floor had a lot of puzzles to solve, which kept us busy, and they also had an exhibit on "fear" which was interesting. They had a great screen where you had to use your shadow to catch fruit falling from a tree without being attacked by a shadow lion. Quinn was amused to pieces antagonizing that virtual cat and happily did that until closing time.There was one Mold-A-Rama machine at the Museum of Discovery and Science, and that's where we got our second fighter jet.
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