Nearly 60 years after they were created by a Chicago inventor, Mold-A-Rama machines can still be found all over the city - and the country - molding souvenirs in under a minute. Chicago-based inventor ...

NASA's space shuttle reentered orbit this fall after a 15-month retirement — and this time, it was bright blue. Outlasting the real winged spacecraft by more than a decade, the new space shuttle ...

For many Minnesotans, no trip to the Como Park Zoo was complete without one: a small piece of molded plastic depicting one of the zoo’s beloved animals, often still hot from the machine, shaped into ...

A piece of childhood nostalgia is going away at the Como Zoo and Conservatory. The zoo sharing on Facebook that the Mold-A-Rama Magic machines will be leaving the zoo in a few weeks. The company that ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo announced some unhappy news Thursday morning that triggered a social media outpouring of nostalgia-tinged sadness. It wasn’t the death of a beloved animal ...

The once state-of-the-art winged spacecraft has joined Mold-A-Rama machines as being vintage. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.