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The shell seems softer now than it was when I was a kid ... anyone know if they changed their formula? Tulane97 01:30, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How does it work?

This is linked from the Elenium-115 page. Why? 67.11.135.160 (talk) 01:02, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Tim Price?

The discussion of the history regarding Tim Price seems completely unverifiable. If anybody can provide a reliable source for that it might be able to stay in, but claiming that a company stole somebody's idea without giving them any credit or compensation seems inappropriate if there isn't any source other than anecdotal evidence. DoC352 (talk) 20:36, 11 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I absolutely agree. It doesn't seem to be professionally written, either; "brain child"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.214.93.105 (talk) 23:52, 7 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This page [1] claims this version:

Developed in the 1960s through a collaborative effort between the U.S. Army and Industrial Light and Magic, magic shell was designed to be a bulletproof camouflage coating for armored vehicles. After botched field trials in Cambodia and Syria, the delicious butterscotch coating was tried on a Swedish LVKV9 deep in the frozen Siberian tundra. One of the servicemen got some magic shell fragments on his tongue, and the rest is history!

--Auric (talk) 01:45, 11 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Magic Shell/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

The last paragraph about the creation of Magic Shell has no references. Mellifluousmelody (talk) 06:10, 25 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Last edited at 06:10, 25 January 2009 (UTC). Substituted at 22:49, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Original product is not the page's subject

If Magic Shell was invented in Australia as Ice Magic, then why isn't Ice Magic the page subject? 119.18.0.97 (talk) 14:11, 26 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This whole page needs to be redone

One reference just used to verify the product's name in the UK and it's a personal website. There's no sources for anything else. I went to go reword the first sentence of the first paragraph in the history section, but realized it doesn't even have a reference for the claim it makes, and I can't find any reference of Daniel Keevers on the internet nor Cottee's supposed acquisition of the product. Then I realized the rest of the paragraph isn't even dedicated to the history of the product, it's just listing flavors and saying to keep it at room temperature.

I don't know if you're supposed to leave unsubstantiated claims on a page and just mark it as citation needed, but the whole paragraph is genuinely completely useless so I'm just going to delete it. If anyone with any actual knowledge of the history of magic shell comes to this page with a citation they can add it.

Also most of the external links are dead. Riggsmarion (talk) 02:28, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]