Stretch Armstrong Stretch Armstrong Stretch Armstrong is a large, gel-filled action figure first introduced in 1976 by Kenner. In 2016, at the New York Toy Fair, Hasbro announced the return of the Stretch Armstrong toy in its original 1976 design. Stretch Armstrong is an action figure shaped as a short, muscular, man with blond hair wearing black trunks. The doll's most notable feature was that it could be stretched from its original size of about to . If a tear did develop, it could be fixed with an adhesive bandage. Information on how to repair Stretch was provided in the toy's instruction
Rubber hose animation the introduction of this animation style. Rubber hose animation gradually faded away when further sophistication of the cartoons was introduced, especially by Walt Disney. He wanted to make his cartoons more realistic and have them follow much of the same rules as live action, a direction that would later be named full animation. He saw animation as a potential surrogate for live action, where he could do what was impossible in live action once it achieved his demands of realism. This was a direction that did not allow the fluid bodies seen in the rubber hose style and, due to