January 2023
Note: If you have a couple minutes, read the review, if not, just skip it. Nothing sinister here and no demands trying to be made. Just detailing an experience.
I really don't like to leave less than positive reviews on yelp because I feel like there's enough negativity that saturates this app already. So this review is mostly regarding the clarity of how to maintain the slime once you go home.
As a novice slime maker, I have to say, it's a bit disappointing to have the slime almost entirely unusable by the end of the following day. I don't think this completely falls on the employees, but really reflects the system that's in place for them to operate off of.
Again, I had never been here before, but my 4 year old daughter had. We decided it would be a fun "daddy/daughter" date night activity. She had a blast! What kid wouldn't?? So regarding the experience, nothing to complain about. She had fun.
I wasn't really planning on making a slime for myself because, well, what am I going to do with a glittery gooey tub of slime?? But I figured my daughter could play with it.
I really think this business would benefit by having some sort of "scale" when talking about the level of sliminess/stickiness you want your slime to be. Instead of just leaving a bottle of the borax mix and letting it be up to the customer to know how much is too much, or not enough. If there were something along the lines of "1 being the stickiest and 10 being the firmest they recommend", the employees might be able to easier assist. If that makes sense.
Fast forward to bringing this slime home and having a little bag of the borax activator (which totally looks like a drug deal just took place... so keep that in mind if it gets lost in your purse) the little instruction card says to "add drops" of the activator to firm it up, or warm water to make it less firm. Well, being a novice, I thought it meant to sprinkle the borax on, like seasoning some food with salt. Only to read on the bottom of the card that I was supposed to mix the borax with water first.
Needless to say, I added too much borax and turned the slime so firm that it breaks apart and doesn't blend back together as slime should. Like cutting a styrofoam box and... we'll, you can imagine the outcome.
My daughter's slime seems to be doing well so far, so that's good. But mine... it's gonna be one for the garbage can. Not easy as this is not an inexpensive activity.
Being someone who grew up with good ol' Gak slime, I was disappointed to have spent the money on this only for it to be totally useless by day two.
A little more education for the customer and clarity on how to maintain it after would be great.
Also, the previous slime she made a few months ago has mold growing on it. I'm not sure how long these are meant to last, but a reasonable expectation would be at least half a year. And no mold if it's mostly kept in the container. (I'll update with a picture of the mold) I'm curious if that's a common issue? Like I said, I grew up with Gak and don't remember it ever molding. And I had that slime forrrreeeeever.
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