Don’t forget…
The Blob is still alive. They couldn’t kill it - it would splatter and regenerate. So they carried it alive to the N/S Pole. I saw it when I was 12.
“The Blob is still alive”
The town in Pennsylvania where the movie was filmed, has a festival every year since:
https://thecolonialtheatre.com/blobfest/
Yes! But in ‘Beware! The Blob’ from 1972, Chester goes to the North Pole and brings back a piece and it eats half a California town.
The last I heard, it was trapped in an ice skating rink. Unfortunately, a news crew set a hot light too close to it and a bit of it ate the local sheriff.