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The easy bake oven debacle was 100% on lazy or neglectful parents. They either allowed a child that was too young to understand the dangers use a hot toy or they left the child unsupervised. I burned my hand as a toddler and it was absolutely my parents fault for not watching over me.
Right! Hey let's let a toddler play with a toy, that can bake a cake, all by themselves. Hopefully these same parents don't let their kids play with the big oven.
Exactly this! There are warnings on it for a reason and you would think a parent would put two and two together. But no, so many parents were neglectful and left their literal toddler with an object that heated up quickly.
I swear, Everytime someone mentions a Sky Dancer toy, I cant help but remember that one video about a little girl playing with a Sky Dancer which not even a minute later flies straight into a fireplace and it cracks me up everytime 😭
the fact that one the most dangerous toy had no electicity, no motor, no radioactiove shit, its just the fact that kids will put anything up their mouth and nose
I just ugh there is no way kids just do anything that eating doll just harmless until kids just start getting hair and fingers in the dolls mouths like how is the hair getting in the dolls mouths
Hell its known fact kids will do stuff like that put things in mouth up nose whatever that's why they say this age range for this kids have safety stuff like corners locks plugs
@@Lil_Crip543 yup, AND the fact these were ONLY in the meals for the 'Big kids" (meant for onlder kids and tweens), not 4 year olds and toddlers, who are the ones who got hurt, just makes it 10x worse. Bad parenting AND stupidity.
@@jessicahay9305 those were the best, but the one that had a measuring tape inside is terrifying thats like something out of saw. its fair it got banned
Slap bracelets are avaliable in SO many stores where I live. But they are made as reflectors. Not as kids jewelry. I have also found the inside metal to be a tape measure.. that one was given to me from the local PD 😂😂😂😂😂😂 But they are made & intended to be worn outside outerwear = thick winter clothing. Bcs here you need reflectors in fall & winter, it's the law & you can get fined or hurt bad if you dont use them properly. It gets that dark & lasts for mooonths.. At the worst point we are lucky to have 4h of daylight so.. They can also be slapped on your bike or similar. Reflectors are pointless unless they are visible, so to wear them under any clothing is completely pointless..
This whole video shows why we can't have good sh*t: any sort of "unique gimmick" a toy has will inevitably cause a kid to injure themselves or die. And don't forget the parents for buying questionable products for their kids (never buy copycats if the copycat can literally combust out of nowhere).
Kids injure themselves all the time.. I am curious what really makes a toy dangerous, considering the fact that a child can injure itself without supervision with almost anything.
Honestly, I'm more baffled by the fact that the company seriously thought putting an easily openable flap over the problem opening would literally do anything but make the child more curious.
So basically most of these it’s just parents not being responsible, reading the recommend age(s) on products or reading the manual/instructions I’ve had several of these toys,I think I’m still alive…
Parents need to teach their children not to play with their toys in a reckless way or just watch them to make sure they won’t hurt themselves with their toys.
unfortunately that would require parents to actually parent and nowadays parents buy things for their children with the express goal of not having to parent them
Honestly, that's just bad parenting. Like the easy bake oven is a good idea to teach your kid to NOT put your hands on something hot, like what. and the polly pocket dude IT HAS SMALL PARTS, if your kid puts shit in their mouth maybe don't get something that obviously would be a choking hazard like what the actual fuck. Ahhh, yes, I'm gonna sue because I'm not a responsible parenting, and I don't care about my child and know how they act like pay the fuck attention I don't understand how people get away with seeing companies like that, it's so bullshit it's the fucking parents fault
And as far as media covers US nothing has changed there. Bad parenting is out of the question all the time there like in the kids youtube videos on this channel. And about the toys, for example the darts. We had many variants of sharp darts in Europe since forever and I dont know anyone who would die from it because our parents / grandparents would teach us how to play around such toys. And yes when we were older we would throw it at each other but hey we threw rocks and other stuff too if we didnt have some fancy toys around. Surprise surprise we are all alive. If kid touches sharp knive is it problem of the manufacturer too? Like where the parents responsibility starts in the US?
I definitely hear you on the polly pocket one. They literally had an age range prominently visible on the box and repeated across internal packaging. I think it was even capitalized and underlined lol. I bet if American parents filled out a questionnaire about what is and isn't dangerous to children, we'd all be collectively horrified by the results. Common sense is uncommon. Ignorance is the norm.
@@mike_k.yeah I agree like these parents should pay attention to these children, to make sure that they don’t get hurt. that’s a part of their damn job.
i'd say i agree if nothing else over the oven. even when i was a kid (the 1980s/1990s) we had play kitchens and even easy bake ovens. all had HOT and WARNING written (easy bake) and the play kitchen burners would change color to red while play cooking to indicate they were HOT and not to touch them. I can't speak for others but by the time I was 5 i learned red = hot (i have the scars to prove it, LOL) in fact....in early development of emergency release locks in trunks (because kids kept being locked in them rather through play or kidnaping) they first designed the handles to glow red but no kid would touch them..red = hot. so they changed them to yellow and green glows
27:43 this especially, they put a warning that children shouldn't be using these, that's not the companies fault anymore but the parents for not watching their kids
@@capkacornthe parents should've been charged for that little girl injured. Letting your kids play with a "toy" designed after an ancient weapon? Even if they don't know it was related to a weapon it's still a giant dart.
@@ImpetuouslyInsanewell that one is totally fair, and was right to be removed, and i beleive most here would even agree, but the rest of these are just bad parenting.
I remember being carefully supervised during easy bake usage. I don't think I would have stuck my hand in it regardless, unless on the off chance I was trying to fix something. I didn't have blind curiosity like that where I just had to stick my hands everywhere. But I was prone (as a child) to overlooking danger if I was trying to resolve a problem. So probably still good to have supervision lol.
@paigerbrio my daughter had one but I was always with her when she played with it it broke within a month cause she would aim it at the wall or a tree 😆 🤣
They aren't generally banned. For example they exist for bycicle so you protect your pant legs from getting into the bike chain. Just ones with sharp metal egdes are problematic.
I am from asia, so ONLY knockoff slap bracelets 😂 the amount of times I've cut myself. I peeled the outside sticker and it was always metal measuring tape cut into those
I actually had a knockoff in my childhood. I realized it while watching this video. Cause mine also fell apart and there was a measuring tape inside. Did not manage cut myself on it, fortunately..
'It took 3 people over 30 minutes to dislodge the toy from the girl's hair' and NO ONE thought about grabbing a pair of scissors and cutting the hair in like... 5 seconds? It's hair... it will grow back. 🤦♀
My only version that toy was too close to girl's head to stick scissors between them But it probably should've taken a lot of time so yeah, it's still weird
the cabbage patch one was such an obvious overview, the intended use literally involved getting your fingers near an opening designed to pull in finger-shaped things
Wow, a toy that has a ball of plutonium wrapped in a beryllium shell with only a flat head screwdriver separating the two from going critical. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
You can't even have cool toys anymore because some people's kids are so stupid. Me or my sister had a lot of these toys back in the day we never got stuck or burned or crushed or swallowed anything because we were taught and not dumb.
I feel like with the whole Pokemon toy incident, it truly came down to negligence from parents once more. Like I'm sorry but all of it would have been okay if the company either just removed the ball and gave out toys at random, OR the parents put two and two together and threw it away (also who the hell left one of those things with an unsupervised baby?!).
If I'm gonna be real, they could've at least made the balls more metallic and a bit smaller like in the actual anime. Thank goodness they did in later years.
@@unromanoarecareanaveragero8275 Yeah, that too. Tho, you gotta admit... At the time, the Pokemon series just arrived to the U.S. a few months before the toys got promoted. It would take them about 2 years to make the balls look accurate.
Not just a 13 month old baby too, later he says a 18 month old almost passed from one of the pokeballs. It's complete and utter child neglect and in no way Burger Kings fault. If anything, they should've kept the promotion going and let parents figure out how not to neglect their children. I said this before, but Burger King's toy didn't hurt those children, the parents did.
oh no the parents buying a toy that should not be left alone with the child which is far to young and dumb, get angry at the company never heard that before...
Parents had the right to be upset the 2006 incarnation of the Easy Bake Oven had such a nasty design flaw and that Hasbro's initial solution was so half-hearted.
Same with the burger King toy, I am 100% sure the package said something like 6+ on it somewhere and even if it didn't, if you look you can see both victims were 18 months old. They aren't victims of burger King, these one year old babies were victims of neglect. The Only time you should leave a one year old unsupervised is when they are in a pack n play or crib with no hard plastic anyway. Why are you leaving your one year old child alone with a piece of hard plastic long enough to asphyxiate?????? Neglectful ass parents Also, Poly Pockets are ALREADY small parts, your kid who is young enough to eat magnets is young enough to eat th rubber clothes that originally came with them anyway. Some of these are just neglect on the parents part and it's irritating me so much
When I was a kid, and I saw those easy bake commercials; they always said “Adult Supervision required”. Like- YEAH- From my understanding that most of the incidents that happened was because the parents just left the kids alone!
It's an oven, still! Let's say, your eight year old already knows how to use an actual oven and learned how to prepare pancakes. No harm in them using a miniature version partially unsuperviced, meaning you don't have to sit next to the oven during the entire process. You already did that on the big one. But toddlers who never touched an oven before? Yeah, go for it, I'll take a bath for the next 30 or so minutes, you'll figure it out! ....
Nah the oven one is the parents fault. Like who tf just let's their kid use a oven with no supervision. It's like sueing a oven company for putting your child in the oven 😂
The most dangerous part was that uranium is a heavy metal, and thus toxic if ingested, not the radioactivity. Radiation is both common, and not very dangerous in low doses. Like the lady said, it was less radioactive than standing in the sun. Except solar rays are better at penetrating the skin.
“Alright, we need ideas for kid marketing, what do you guys have in mind” “How about something simple like stuffed animals?” “Nah we should definitely modernize weapons of mass destruction” “That’s an awesome idea! Jim, you’re fired”
Parents need to be watching their kids with such items like the easy bake oven. It was the kids fault for putting their hand in the oven not the toy or the company's fault.
@@hurstiwursti exactly, that’s the problem, children aren’t supervised enough. Heck, even me. MY-SELF wasn’t supervised on the internet…you won’t believe how many gross things I watched
What I've taken from this video, especially from the BK Pokeballs, is that a lot of parents simply don't care to supervise underage children. It pisses me off so much to know that what can only be described as an infant was allowed to play with a relatively small toys. That would be questionable when supervised but unsupervised I'd go ahead and call it child abuse.
I would kinda want one of those "sky dancer" dolls Tho I feel like majority of toys were banned only because parents failed at parenting Like seriously, not letting your kids stick their fingers into obviously dangerous place was their job (and so does swallowing obviously inedible things like magnets)
totally not happening today in amazing 2024.... with kids getting a phone before they are 8. and some shit happens. yup. parents definitely got smarter.
@@miciso666 where did I said that parents now are incredibly smart? 😐 Repeat after me: Saying that something specific from past was banned because it was used by stupid people and not actual danger =/= that never happens in today's life
OMG.. I remember seeing one like that.. was it the one where a bunch of family members released a flying fairy and it started flying towards the fireplace?
Some of these injuries could of been avoided if parents where monitoring their kids a bit more closely I mean who allows their child to play with an Oven without watching over them and putting the trays in for their kids instead of letting the kids do it themselves.
You know? Half of the reason they were banned cuz of the careless parents and guardians who were not supervising or even taking care of their kids properly. And the other half was the careless knockoff companies with no morality (We all wish them to suffer ngl). While there are cases where the company was careless... RADIOACTIVITY? SERIOUSLY??? HOW ABOUT HERE IS A FREAKING WEAPON!! while the parents be like: SURE! NOTHING WRONG WILL HAPPENED TO MY KIDS WHO I DONT CARE OR EVEN TAKE A LOOK PROPERLY! *Proceeds to sue em*
I don't understand why the Gilbert atomic energy lab gets included on lists like these. It was extremely expensive, marketed towards academically inclined teens (NOT children), and was never controversial, nor was it even particularly dangerous. It was also designed by several leading nuclear physicists at the time. Videos like these only serve to fearmonger.
The fact Nearly, No ALL OF THESE are because Kids were being idiots is genuinly shocking like When I was 7 I was…. eating chalk But PUTTING YOUR FINGERS IN A TOYS MOUTH THAT YOU KNOW CHEWS IS A NEW LEVEL OF STUPIDITY
As someone who lives somewhere in Asia, I remember playing with a slap bracelet (knockoff) until the fabric was ripped and there were some small holes at the edge of the bracelet. I peeled it open to see what's inside because I was curious. And yeah, it's a measuring tape. Luckily, I didn't play with it after that because I don't like playing with broken toys.
I went to school in NY and snap bracelets werent banned in any of the ones i went to. I also had that easy bake oven XD thankfully my parents actually watched me while i used it. Who the hell would let their kids stick their fingers in that?
same I Had a snap bracelt...the only thing that hurt was it snapping because I had small wrists and easy to bruise skin lolol still do and for the easy bake? well I had one, the older version actually. and my grandmother watched me while my mum was at work but she wouldn't let me eat any of it not trusting it saying we'd make REAL cookies and treats insteadd.....when she did that I got rid of the thing xD She taught me how not to kill myself near an oven lol
In fairness... A couple of these are down to parents, which just goes to show that parents weren't really any better then, than we are now... Just bad in different ways... The Easy Bake Oven, the Lawn Darts and arguably even the pokeball stuff... If your kid isn't old enough to know not to put the thing on their face and, even more importantly, not able to pull it off if they do, then perhaps they weren't old enough to have it in the first place. That seems like something only a small toddler would struggle to remove unless I'm missing something? The magnets as well, really bad idea so I get that... But how do you ACCIDENTALLY swallow a magnet? If your kid is young enough to put anything small enough in their mouth, then they shouldn't be left alone with it. And even in a worst case scenario, in what world would any poly pocket be suitable for a kid at the age where everything goes in the mouth? And for the lawn darts, what happened to that guy's daughter was absolutely tragic and he was in no way at fault... But the fact the kid managed to throw one over the fence, the OTHER parents were absolutely at fault...
Hi! So let me tell you about the Snacktime Kids since I sort of collect them. It's quite hard to get the mechanism inside the mouth to catch or grab hair or even fingers. It's set pretty far back in the head, further back than you would think by all the hysteria about the doll. A kid would need to really jam their fingers in the mouth to get hurt by them and the same goes for hair. Trust me. I tried and it takes being very very careless and purposely trying. Most times, the rollers will just stop because hair isn't the same thickness as the food its meant to be fed so what I'm guessing is there was hair wrapped around the food for it to keep munching. At the back of the rollers is a chute where the food is meant to drop into the backpack, it's a very short path because as I said - those rollers are set further back than people think they are. I do mean it when I say you need to shove your fingers in there. They don't "attack", the girl holding one by her hair in the commercial is perfectly safe. Honestly - it probably should have been a toy for older kids due to younger kids just not understanding shoving fingers and hair into motors isn't the best of ideas. An off switch could have helped a heck of a lot too. In any case, I collect them because so many returned theirs for the $40 reward and I find them interesting. It's hard to find ones that still work or have their backpacks and food. In fact, the moment they were banned, I ran to the local Kmart to snag one 🤣
They should’ve been for older kids definitely, little kids have a tendency to try and shove their little fingers as far as possible into whatever they can so it makes sense that some kids had their fingers munched on by the dolls, unsupervised kids can do things that don’t even cross the mind. Still interesting to learn that the rollers were super far back so it would take more than poking the mouth to get a finger stuck. Kinda confused about how kids stick their fingers that far back into a doll’s mouth that chews
I have a working one that I had bought my daughter when they came out. She was played with but still works and is great condition because my daughter played with her correctly. I agree it would hard to really push your fingers in there and get caught. No way she just had her hair next to doll lol!
I’ve got a story! 18:38 So I’m playing with friends and he showed me his hover board and when he asked me to get on I rejected and soon after the hover board caught on fire. R.I.P Dave😢 Like to respect 🫡
As a parent I will say most of the injuries from these toys are from negligent parenting. Parents ether giving the toys to kids that are too young to be playing with them or just not paying attention to their kids.
2:23 - 2:28 : I think it is important to mention that this statement is incorrect. This is because there is BIG difference between Uranium's radiation and the sun's radiation. Uranium gives off ionizing radiation, meanwhile, the sun gives off UV light, aka NON-ionizing radiation. While it is true that UV rays can also cause cancer, it is not true that they are as hazardous as uranium samples, and therefore a bad idea to compare the two. Basking in the sun for 5 hours is NOT the same as basking in front of uranium for 5 hours. One of the two is WAY more likely to cause cancer.
I think it's even more important to mention that the quantities contained within the set were tiny, maybe a few grams each, and probably emitted similar to background radiation. It was really not at all dangerous and caused no controversy during the brief period it was sold.
I was one of those kids who would dismantle, modify and weaponize any toys my parents bought me. They gave up on toys and started buying me guns instead. I learned to use and care for them safely as a kid and I still have them today among the rest of my arsenal. I still have my lawn darts too but I bought them as an adult in the 80's.
Lawn darts can still be sold today, they just can’t have a point. Today they have a large rounded end that is not only soft as to minimise injury but it’s also designed to pop off upon impact to decrease force applied
@@20NewJourney23 the points would stab the ground like a real dart. However nowadays they are rounded and they are intended to stand up when they land. If they have a hard impact the end will pop off and that’s where you mark the landing point.
If (just if) lawn darts were to come back to aim towards kids, it would utilize suction cups on the end of the darts like some modern toys to prevent injury.
My grandpa still has these and we've played it. The issue is they are extremely dangerous like a weapon, you can have fun with them as long as everyone involved is an adult and people respect them as if they were a gun.
We had lawn darts when I was a kid in the 70's. I had no idea that kids got hurt with them but when I think back it does seem likely. The part of the dart that was supposed to stick in the ground was made of some kind of metal. It was like giving a kid a mini missel to throw.
Lol, my Sky Dancer definitely walloped my best friend and me in the head several times. We kept this fact hidden from our parents. My Mum finally confiscated the launch pad after I gave myself a fat lip during Kindergarten show-and-tell.
A damn shame that most of these toys had knockoffs made when the original ones sold a lot. Not once did people think smartly and designed them correctly as to not hurt anyone, they were all just money hungry. Mind you though I met a family member with one of those flying spinners years later somehow, but it was a whole different brand and not a doll, so its a possibility some of these might comeback.
24:15 The pokeball killing kids make me speechless... I mean, to be fair, that's NOT toy malfunction but more like the kids commit SUICIDE. Yeah I know kids like to explore. But putting pokeball to their face??? What were they thinking??? Trying to do diver cosplay??? Astronaut cosplay??? >< Were kids in the past wired to commit suicide unknowingly??? Nowadays there are A LOT of similar toys: pokemon inside pokeball. I even do some video review on them. I haven't heard a single death report about them as to this second. Anywhere in this world.
The original Easy Bake used a light bulb to heat it if I remember correctly, my cousin had one, it was neat, I helped my Mother bake real cakes in a real oven, the Easy Bake was more fun.
Omg those sky dancers were A NIGHTMARE - flying into kids faces indoors was bananas My little brother launched my doll into my face winter 94/95 - I almost lost my eye!
I remember my brother and I had a pair of skydancers when we were little and we would set them off in our grandparents' house and watch the carnage as they knocked things off the shelves. Nobody expected that these innocent looking fairies would turn out to be weapons of mass destruction.
I had the flower one and he had the moon one, I always thought the moon themeing was way cooler. They were probably hand-me-downs from a cousin or something since we were born in the early 2000s so after the recal. Probably still have them in a box somewhere.
Except one or two worthy mentions here.....every single one is a fault on the parents who let their kids play with questionable rip-offs unsupervised and end up blaming the product and the company that sold them. What logic is this?
@@harumskarum3481 There are only two conterfeit products in the whole video and yep those two products are terrible. But then you got things like kids eating polly pocket clothes when there was a clear age rating on those toys, Skydancers: I had one as a kid, I knew to play with it outside and aim it away from me, Pokeball is kinder surprise all over again. On the other hand I don't know who thought it was a good idea to give a kid uranium or ovens though.
Oh no, a handful of kids for minor injuries, the horror! It’s not like they can get hurt far worse doing literally anything else. How many kids die from chocking on food each year? Ban food!
There were actually other Gilbert kits that were more popular with kids. They were the chemistry kits with flimsy test tubes of various chemicals and a burner. They came with no safety goggles or warnings on the more toxic or dangerous chemicals. They often had chemical reactions which is why they were so popular, children could see a purple flame by just using a chemical from the kit (Potassium permanganate) and glycerol which is a clear, odorless solution that would’ve been found in the medicine cabinet back then (though we still use it in some cough syrups.) Since there were no safety instructions, no mention of adult supervision, not even any diagrams or information on how much you could use, things could easily go wrong. However many chemists have said it was a chemistry set that got them into the science. Now the Gilbert atomic energy set and the Gilbert chemistry set are seen on eBay for a lot of money.
My sisters had an easy bake oven and polly pocket and never did any of those things. I also had creepy crawlers oven to make plastic bugs. Never hurt myself.
I remember having the Cabbage Patch doll that had the motorized mouth and would eat and chew down when you put the plastic food in her mouth. I was so mad and sad when my parents took it after the recall. Apparently the little girl got her hair caught in the mouth and it got caught in the motor.
Polly Pocket is still sold in the USA, I’ve bought my daughter about 10 sets over the years. The dolls now have a little suction cup type thing that makes them stand up. No magnets.
I remember vividly having the polly pockets when I was a little younger, they had the rubber clothes and the heads could pop off to put the clothes on, they are definitely still sold in the US
Did you know, in Indonesia we had a toy called a latto-latto which is basically 2 balls connected by the string. You basically just keep bouncing the 2 balls together really fast, it was so addicting to some kids, the feeling and sound it created was so satisfying and addicting, So kids bounced these balls a bit too close to their eyes, the balls were so fast they were uncontrollable. So thousand of parent reported that their kids went blind. And after that the toy was banned somewheren in late 2022 and early 2023
We had them in the US called Clackers (I think). Hard plastic balls. 1 on each end of a string. They were recalled here cause some of the balls exploded.
@@Red_Rascal90 You played with them by moving your hand holding the ends of the strings, each with a plastic ball on the other end, up and down really fast. The balls would hit each other making the clacking sound. Sometimes they exploded when they hit each other.
Cabbage Patch Kids are creepy af at the best of circumstances. Having one that can eat your finger if you weren’t careful is just nightmare fuel at this point.
also "polly pockets were discontinued in the us" is a lie. PP still exists in the US, they rebooted PP in 2012 and again in 2018 and just didn't use the magnet gimmick again.
I can imagine some meth out guy in the board meeting that just straight up tell everybody in there that a toy kit with radiation is ok to sell to the public and they just all like "mhmm, yeah this is great stuff im hearing! I would buy that for my children so that they become a scientist when they're older!"
@@WhytedebilBoth world wars were fought by soldiers on amphetamines. Amphetamines were a big thinh before they were banned. There was this wine amphetamine mixture on many high society events, but it was criticized for containing alcohol. So yeah meth was a thing even back then.
@@hurstiwursti No, methamphetamine was not a "thing back then". Soldiers who got addicted to amphetamine stimulants during the war, and homeless methheads in the 21st century are on completely different levels, not least because amphetamine and methamphetamine have largely different effects on the human body.
I don't understand why the Gilbert atomic energy lab gets included on lists like these. It was extremely expensive, marketed towards academically inclined teens (NOT children), and was never controversial, nor was it even particularly dangerous. It was also designed by several leading nuclear physicists at the time. Please, for your own sake, educate yourself.
@@numbersstationsarchive194 Im sure you cant read german source material, but methamphetamine was the driving force for the blitzkrieg. It was first synthesized by Nagayoshi Nagai in 1893. Germany mass produced it by 1938. It was very well a thing back then. And the effects aren't as different as you may think. Its more of a pharmacokinetics thing than a different mechanism of action thing. Like Heroin and Morphine. Would you also claim Heroin is affecting the body different than morphine? Its just that you will have higher concentrations in your brain at same dosage. At same effective dose they act very similiar. The difference between amphetamine abuse in war and the homeless methheads today has more to do with how we treat drug abuse as a problem and how we make it illegal to posess and consume drugs, resulting in high criminality for addicted people, high prices and as a result of that people lose everyting instead of getting help. If all the money spent on the war on drugs would be spent for prevention rehabilitation and education programs, and drug addicts would be forced to do a rehab program instead of prison, the world would look alot different. And yes amphetamines including methamphetamine were drugs sold in pharmacies and abused by socialites. There is still a large number of people abusing stimulants without beeing crazy methheads (not that i would say thats a good thing, but the amount of rich people using is probably rather large, they can afford it without any financial troubles. Just go to any exclusive rich people night club and check the toilets.)
Those toys taught kids not to be stupid. I bet no child that got burned by an easybake oven are no longer dumb enough to put their hand in a real oven!
My elementary school completely banned the slap bracelets. It all started in our class when my classmate hosted a birthday part, sending out party bags containing the slaps. It was a huge hit in our school, until reports of injuries came. One girl had a huge gash on her wrist. Glad I never got into them since I thought they were tacky.
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The easy bake oven debacle was 100% on lazy or neglectful parents.
They either allowed a child that was too young to understand the dangers use a hot toy or they left the child unsupervised.
I burned my hand as a toddler and it was absolutely my parents fault for not watching over me.
Right! Hey let's let a toddler play with a toy, that can bake a cake, all by themselves. Hopefully these same parents don't let their kids play with the big oven.
I have the 2006 model of the easy bake oven. My mom always watched me while I played with it. Its 2024 now and I still have it, it still works too.
Like do these parents realize that age ratings and warnings exsist for a reason?
Exactly this! There are warnings on it for a reason and you would think a parent would put two and two together. But no, so many parents were neglectful and left their literal toddler with an object that heated up quickly.
I got mine when I was nine and never burnt anything
I swear, Everytime someone mentions a Sky Dancer toy, I cant help but remember that one video about a little girl playing with a Sky Dancer which not even a minute later flies straight into a fireplace and it cracks me up everytime 😭
That's a flutterbye fairy, but close enough
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Same,
i think jontron did a video on that :D
the fact that one the most dangerous toy had no electicity, no motor, no radioactiove shit, its just the fact that kids will put anything up their mouth and nose
And the thing is...That one wasn't even intended for a literal infant either. ONE YEAR OLD?? That mother is freaking off her rocker!
I just ugh there is no way kids just do anything that eating doll just harmless until kids just start getting hair and fingers in the dolls mouths like how is the hair getting in the dolls mouths
@@MatthewWatts-t8q because some of the girls that played with the doll probably had long hair it probably got caught in the mouth
Yeah, the polly pocket one is just dumb
Hell its known fact kids will do stuff like that put things in mouth up nose whatever that's why they say this age range for this kids have safety stuff like corners locks plugs
The real danger here is ignorant parents folks
Flippin true
As a "Super dad" that has made his handful of mistakes, this is the dark side most parent's lack the bravery to admit
24:41 burger king had the right to be mad, these are completely safe and the only reason kids even had injuries is because of unsupervised children!!
Yeah I thought that was total bs that toy was very safe, kids are just idiots and the parents.
Poking air holes in the plastic on both ends wide enough for you to safely breathe through it would have solved the issue.
My water glass did the same thing.
@@niradtcat1062 Agreed, and that's what pretty much every Pokemon toy since then has done to prevent this happening again.
@@Lil_Crip543 yup, AND the fact these were ONLY in the meals for the 'Big kids" (meant for onlder kids and tweens), not 4 year olds and toddlers, who are the ones who got hurt, just makes it 10x worse. Bad parenting AND stupidity.
So many of these are just a lack of parental supervision.
It has to be at least half of them in the video.
There more parents who don't care about there kids than parents who do unfortunately 😞
yeah
exactly, if your kid has a knack for sticking stuff in their mouth and nose, why are you buying a toy that has something they can swallow
or kids without survival instinct...
A lot of these are definitely dangerous, but to get your product banned because of cheap knockoffs makes me feel bad for the company
yea like kawasaki hoverboards etc didn’t deserve to get banned this is the same as saying cars should be banned because a cheap chinese car spun out
For real, i loved slap bracelets. We didn't know the difference.
@@nhxgaming8350 This is why we need quality control laws.
@@jessicahay9305 those were the best, but the one that had a measuring tape inside is terrifying thats like something out of saw. its fair it got banned
Slap bracelets are avaliable in SO many stores where I live.
But they are made as reflectors. Not as kids jewelry. I have also found the inside metal to be a tape measure.. that one was given to me from the local PD 😂😂😂😂😂😂
But they are made & intended to be worn outside outerwear = thick winter clothing. Bcs here you need reflectors in fall & winter, it's the law & you can get fined or hurt bad if you dont use them properly.
It gets that dark & lasts for mooonths.. At the worst point we are lucky to have 4h of daylight so..
They can also be slapped on your bike or similar.
Reflectors are pointless unless they are visible, so to wear them under any clothing is completely pointless..
This whole video shows why we can't have good sh*t: any sort of "unique gimmick" a toy has will inevitably cause a kid to injure themselves or die.
And don't forget the parents for buying questionable products for their kids (never buy copycats if the copycat can literally combust out of nowhere).
Yeah the fact people were mad at the branded original toy and not the knockoffs pissed me off
Kids are just dumb
We're lucky they still let us use cars. Even though they kill 100,000 times more kids than these toys combined.
Those were some pretty dumb kids to be fair.
Kids injure themselves all the time.. I am curious what really makes a toy dangerous, considering the fact that a child can injure itself without supervision with almost anything.
why would you give a child a mini oven and then just leave them with it alone 😭
Parents who don't care about their child they never wanted. That's who.
I was having a easy baking toy oven when i was little but he was not smart or light up like a real oven
Honestly, I'm more baffled by the fact that the company seriously thought putting an easily openable flap over the problem opening would literally do anything but make the child more curious.
So basically most of these it’s just parents not being responsible, reading the recommend age(s) on products or reading the manual/instructions I’ve had several of these toys,I think I’m still alive…
Parents need to teach their children not to play with their toys in a reckless way or just watch them to make sure they won’t hurt themselves with their toys.
unfortunately that would require parents to actually parent and nowadays parents buy things for their children with the express goal of not having to parent them
You say that until your child is hurt, then you want to sue
Honestly, that's just bad parenting. Like the easy bake oven is a good idea to teach your kid to NOT put your hands on something hot, like what. and the polly pocket dude IT HAS SMALL PARTS, if your kid puts shit in their mouth maybe don't get something that obviously would be a choking hazard like what the actual fuck. Ahhh, yes, I'm gonna sue because I'm not a responsible parenting, and I don't care about my child and know how they act like pay the fuck attention I don't understand how people get away with seeing companies like that, it's so bullshit it's the fucking parents fault
Any toys with magnets have to be manufactured in a way that the magnets don't fall out.
And as far as media covers US nothing has changed there. Bad parenting is out of the question all the time there like in the kids youtube videos on this channel. And about the toys, for example the darts. We had many variants of sharp darts in Europe since forever and I dont know anyone who would die from it because our parents / grandparents would teach us how to play around such toys. And yes when we were older we would throw it at each other but hey we threw rocks and other stuff too if we didnt have some fancy toys around. Surprise surprise we are all alive. If kid touches sharp knive is it problem of the manufacturer too? Like where the parents responsibility starts in the US?
I definitely hear you on the polly pocket one. They literally had an age range prominently visible on the box and repeated across internal packaging.
I think it was even capitalized and underlined lol.
I bet if American parents filled out a questionnaire about what is and isn't dangerous to children, we'd all be collectively horrified by the results.
Common sense is uncommon. Ignorance is the norm.
@@mike_k.yeah I agree
like these parents should pay attention to these children, to make sure that they don’t get hurt.
that’s a part of their damn job.
i'd say i agree if nothing else over the oven. even when i was a kid (the 1980s/1990s) we had play kitchens and even easy bake ovens. all had HOT and WARNING written (easy bake) and the play kitchen burners would change color to red while play cooking to indicate they were HOT and not to touch them. I can't speak for others but by the time I was 5 i learned red = hot (i have the scars to prove it, LOL) in fact....in early development of emergency release locks in trunks (because kids kept being locked in them rather through play or kidnaping) they first designed the handles to glow red but no kid would touch them..red = hot. so they changed them to yellow and green glows
so many cool toys were removed because.... the parents didn't supervise their children? damn that's shit
27:43 this especially, they put a warning that children shouldn't be using these, that's not the companies fault anymore but the parents for not watching their kids
@@capkacorn BuT iT wAs ToO SmALl To rEaD.. :D
@@capkacornthe parents should've been charged for that little girl injured. Letting your kids play with a "toy" designed after an ancient weapon? Even if they don't know it was related to a weapon it's still a giant dart.
Dude, The first one on the list was pretty ill-considered. U-238 should have never hit civilian sector in general, let alone a kid's toy.
@@ImpetuouslyInsanewell that one is totally fair, and was right to be removed, and i beleive most here would even agree, but the rest of these are just bad parenting.
24:09
"and then you can't get any air and then you pass away"
I'M NOT SUPPOSE TO LAUGH BUT THE WAY THE KID SAID IT SO CAUSALLY XD
Kinda like a cup
Polly Pocket should've stuck with the rubbery clothes, much more satisfying chew than magnets.
Bruh! I’m dying right now from laughing so hard at your comment. 😂
@@Jolis_Parsecwhat is funny ?
I had both and they're both awesome but yeah the rubbery clothes, 10/10 chew
i remember de rubber PP my mom hated it
i had that easy bake oven and never once did i get my hands stuck, i wonder if it’s because i was SUPERVISED
also had skydancers, didn’t have issues either since we were told to pull the string and run lol
@@paigerbrioits the kids fault😭🤦🏼♂️ like who would wanna burn there hand🤦🏼♂️
I remember being carefully supervised during easy bake usage. I don't think I would have stuck my hand in it regardless, unless on the off chance I was trying to fix something. I didn't have blind curiosity like that where I just had to stick my hands everywhere. But I was prone (as a child) to overlooking danger if I was trying to resolve a problem.
So probably still good to have supervision lol.
I had the early 90s version of the ez bake oven and while supervised - I got burnt a few times, as did my parents 😮
@paigerbrio my daughter had one but I was always with her when she played with it it broke within a month cause she would aim it at the wall or a tree 😆 🤣
i loved slap bracelets. I didnt know they were banned. I can see why, i forgot about knockoffs
I got one last week for free
They aren't generally banned. For example they exist for bycicle so you protect your pant legs from getting into the bike chain. Just ones with sharp metal egdes are problematic.
I used to chew on mine
I am from asia, so ONLY knockoff slap bracelets 😂 the amount of times I've cut myself. I peeled the outside sticker and it was always metal measuring tape cut into those
I actually had a knockoff in my childhood. I realized it while watching this video. Cause mine also fell apart and there was a measuring tape inside. Did not manage cut myself on it, fortunately..
24:06 I’ve had those pokeballs from BK and I’ve never thought of putting it to my face and holding it there until I suffocated. Wtf
right like what the hell wrong with these kids 😭
😂😂😂
"big kids meal" toy kills literal infants. Probably a Jew in Canada that put it on his baby's face so he could sue someone.
That's what I'm saying
'It took 3 people over 30 minutes to dislodge the toy from the girl's hair' and NO ONE thought about grabbing a pair of scissors and cutting the hair in like... 5 seconds? It's hair... it will grow back. 🤦♀
My only version that toy was too close to girl's head to stick scissors between them
But it probably should've taken a lot of time so yeah, it's still weird
My thoughts exactly.
12:29 Polly Pockets aren’t discontinued, they’re being sold in Target. Granted, there’s no magnets, but they’re still popular.
Ah yes selling a toy kit with dangerous radiation is a good idea and no kids will get cancer
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Truly a miracle of all time.
Yes
Best idea in the universe.
Indeed 💯 %
the cabbage patch one was such an obvious overview, the intended use literally involved getting your fingers near an opening designed to pull in finger-shaped things
Wow selling a toy that is based on a ancient weapon...WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?!?
wow selling a toy with uranium in it what could go wrong
Wow selling a toy that slaps onto you and has sharp metal edges on it that can cut skin really bad, what could go wrong?
wow selling a toy making a oven that can actually get really hot what can go wrong
Wow, a toy that eats long, cylindrical items till it’s done eating it entirely, I wonder what could possibly go wrong
Wow, a toy that has a ball of plutonium wrapped in a beryllium shell with only a flat head screwdriver separating the two from going critical. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
Historians: this is a weapon used in ancient wars and causes immense damage to the human body
Toy companies: it’s a toy
You can't even have cool toys anymore because some people's kids are so stupid. Me or my sister had a lot of these toys back in the day we never got stuck or burned or crushed or swallowed anything because we were taught and not dumb.
Stupid parents create clueless children
I feel like with the whole Pokemon toy incident, it truly came down to negligence from parents once more. Like I'm sorry but all of it would have been okay if the company either just removed the ball and gave out toys at random, OR the parents put two and two together and threw it away (also who the hell left one of those things with an unsupervised baby?!).
This. Giving a random piece of plastic to an unsupervised 13 months old is sheer negligence and laziness.
If I'm gonna be real, they could've at least made the balls more metallic and a bit smaller like in the actual anime.
Thank goodness they did in later years.
@@kootunesscrewy Or they could’ve poked holes in the balls to allow kids to breathe.
@@unromanoarecareanaveragero8275 Yeah, that too.
Tho, you gotta admit... At the time, the Pokemon series just arrived to the U.S. a few months before the toys got promoted. It would take them about 2 years to make the balls look accurate.
Not just a 13 month old baby too, later he says a 18 month old almost passed from one of the pokeballs. It's complete and utter child neglect and in no way Burger Kings fault. If anything, they should've kept the promotion going and let parents figure out how not to neglect their children. I said this before, but Burger King's toy didn't hurt those children, the parents did.
oh no the parents buying a toy that should not be left alone with the child which is far to young and dumb, get angry at the company never heard that before...
Parents had the right to be upset the 2006 incarnation of the Easy Bake Oven had such a nasty design flaw and that Hasbro's initial solution was so half-hearted.
@tidepoolclipper8657 no, no they didn't. It was completely the parents fault and no one else's, 6 year olds shouldn't be around ovens
@@X61djdj indeed, they should be learning children
Same with the burger King toy, I am 100% sure the package said something like 6+ on it somewhere and even if it didn't, if you look you can see both victims were 18 months old. They aren't victims of burger King, these one year old babies were victims of neglect. The Only time you should leave a one year old unsupervised is when they are in a pack n play or crib with no hard plastic anyway. Why are you leaving your one year old child alone with a piece of hard plastic long enough to asphyxiate?????? Neglectful ass parents
Also, Poly Pockets are ALREADY small parts, your kid who is young enough to eat magnets is young enough to eat th rubber clothes that originally came with them anyway.
Some of these are just neglect on the parents part and it's irritating me so much
@@tidepoolclipper8657 That child in the clip who demonstrated the "lid fix" looked young enough to be HALF of the target audience's supposed age!
When I was a kid, and I saw those easy bake commercials; they always said “Adult Supervision required”.
Like- YEAH- From my understanding that most of the incidents that happened was because the parents just left the kids alone!
It's an oven, still! Let's say, your eight year old already knows how to use an actual oven and learned how to prepare pancakes. No harm in them using a miniature version partially unsuperviced, meaning you don't have to sit next to the oven during the entire process. You already did that on the big one.
But toddlers who never touched an oven before? Yeah, go for it, I'll take a bath for the next 30 or so minutes, you'll figure it out!
....
So its mostly, BASICALLY, was just the parent's fault. But they're far too prideful to admit they're in the wrong and blame someone else for it.
Nah the oven one is the parents fault. Like who tf just let's their kid use a oven with no supervision. It's like sueing a oven company for putting your child in the oven 😂
I will never forgive them for naming those things "Hoverboards".
They are called swegways
Tbh, I don't want the hoverboards from that movie anyway. I want that guy's spiky ass boots. I'd kill for a pair like that.
@@OverlordZeroULTIMA samee there so cool
It did not even hover
@@OverlordZeroULTIMAwhat is "tbh" please ? I try to guess. Heu..."the bullshit here" ?
Not english native so...😅 but I would like to know please
Hmmmmm, a radioactive kit with real radioactive material for kids to play?
Don't let the door hit ya!
Fallout for babies)
The most dangerous part was that uranium is a heavy metal, and thus toxic if ingested, not the radioactivity. Radiation is both common, and not very dangerous in low doses. Like the lady said, it was less radioactive than standing in the sun. Except solar rays are better at penetrating the skin.
It wasn't marketed to kids though?
Describing how everyone kept getting their hand burnt and stuck in the easy bake oven in one word: idiots.
This is a joke do not harass me in the replies
You're right 👍
The idiots are the parents for not keeping their children away from the ovens while they were turned on.
@@HungeroftheworldI call it natural selection
This was a horrible joke please don’t sue me
yeah, lmfao. most of these toys boiled down to just dumbass kids/lazyass parents.
maybe it's just me but half of these are more so neglect on the part of lazy parents than the actual toy.
2:53 It says that only 5000 kids were produced at that time. How many fathers were there?
I always wanted a miniature nuclear reactor toy ☢️☠️
Jesus loves you.
Nuclear Bombs: Children Edition
me to!
@@stevee3 we dont care
I cannot wait to get a third eye, an extra pair of arms, and spider legs from this radioactive toy!
“Alright, we need ideas for kid marketing, what do you guys have in mind”
“How about something simple like stuffed animals?”
“Nah we should definitely modernize weapons of mass destruction”
“That’s an awesome idea! Jim, you’re fired”
Is good idea hahaha 😂
What? Lawn darts?
Timestamp?
26:03
Long story short: just check the design and function of the toy before buying it for your kid
Parents need to be watching their kids with such items like the easy bake oven. It was the kids fault for putting their hand in the oven not the toy or the company's fault.
@@ashleyr6809 what do you think? Design issue or parent issue?
Supervise your kids. That's just it. Put effort into tge lives you created instead of sitting them in front of toys, tv or a tablet.
@@hurstiwursti exactly, that’s the problem, children aren’t supervised enough. Heck, even me. MY-SELF wasn’t supervised on the internet…you won’t believe how many gross things I watched
And parents should watch their kids with ovens and moving toys ..
What I've taken from this video, especially from the BK Pokeballs, is that a lot of parents simply don't care to supervise underage children. It pisses me off so much to know that what can only be described as an infant was allowed to play with a relatively small toys. That would be questionable when supervised but unsupervised I'd go ahead and call it child abuse.
I would kinda want one of those "sky dancer" dolls
Tho I feel like majority of toys were banned only because parents failed at parenting
Like seriously, not letting your kids stick their fingers into obviously dangerous place was their job (and so does swallowing obviously inedible things like magnets)
totally not happening today in amazing 2024....
with kids getting a phone before they are 8. and some shit happens. yup. parents definitely got smarter.
@@miciso666 where did I said that parents now are incredibly smart? 😐
Repeat after me: Saying that something specific from past was banned because it was used by stupid people and not actual danger =/= that never happens in today's life
I bet there is going to be a bunch of toys that I have never heard of and probably been around before I was born.
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Every time I see those sky dancer things all I can think about is that vine of that kid who shot one towards the fireplace and it’s just too funny lol
I laughed out my chair remembers this
OMG.. I remember seeing one like that.. was it the one where a bunch of family members released a flying fairy and it started flying towards the fireplace?
@@haumenic I think so… it flew in the fireplace and then a kid started screaming lmao
@@raleighamelia7895 I remember there were Christmas presents too..
I took my fair share of head trauma from my sister with those things
Some of these injuries could of been avoided if parents where monitoring their kids a bit more closely I mean who allows their child to play with an Oven without watching over them and putting the trays in for their kids instead of letting the kids do it themselves.
Former child here. We didn't accidently stuck our fingers in. We wanted to do that
I thought he was going to say that three people swallowed the polly pocket magnets and they stuck together. Lmao.
4:39
I did not expect to see Vector here
Lol
Here before this blows up lol
LMFAO-
I still have my lawn dart scar on my leg 30 years later.
Crazy..
It means, it was a quality product!😂
(It's a joke)
Darn
Glad you survived that monstrosity at least 😭
damn bro :(
You know? Half of the reason they were banned cuz of the careless parents and guardians who were not supervising or even taking care of their kids properly. And the other half was the careless knockoff companies with no morality (We all wish them to suffer ngl). While there are cases where the company was careless... RADIOACTIVITY? SERIOUSLY??? HOW ABOUT HERE IS A FREAKING WEAPON!! while the parents be like: SURE! NOTHING WRONG WILL HAPPENED TO MY KIDS WHO I DONT CARE OR EVEN TAKE A LOOK PROPERLY! *Proceeds to sue em*
I don't understand why the Gilbert atomic energy lab gets included on lists like these. It was extremely expensive, marketed towards academically inclined teens (NOT children), and was never controversial, nor was it even particularly dangerous. It was also designed by several leading nuclear physicists at the time. Videos like these only serve to fearmonger.
@@numbersstationsarchive194 I agree with you. That is true, But mainly is the fault of idiotic parents who don't understand their children that much.
The fact Nearly, No ALL OF THESE are because Kids were being idiots is genuinly shocking like When I was 7 I was…. eating chalk But PUTTING YOUR FINGERS IN A TOYS MOUTH THAT YOU KNOW CHEWS IS A NEW LEVEL OF STUPIDITY
As someone who lives somewhere in Asia, I remember playing with a slap bracelet (knockoff) until the fabric was ripped and there were some small holes at the edge of the bracelet. I peeled it open to see what's inside because I was curious. And yeah, it's a measuring tape. Luckily, I didn't play with it after that because I don't like playing with broken toys.
I went to school in NY and snap bracelets werent banned in any of the ones i went to.
I also had that easy bake oven XD thankfully my parents actually watched me while i used it. Who the hell would let their kids stick their fingers in that?
idiots that don't know how to be a parent, that's who.
same I Had a snap bracelt...the only thing that hurt was it snapping because I had small wrists and easy to bruise skin lolol still do
and for the easy bake? well I had one, the older version actually. and my grandmother watched me while my mum was at work but she wouldn't let me eat any of it not trusting it saying we'd make REAL cookies and treats insteadd.....when she did that I got rid of the thing xD
She taught me how not to kill myself near an oven lol
In fairness... A couple of these are down to parents, which just goes to show that parents weren't really any better then, than we are now... Just bad in different ways...
The Easy Bake Oven, the Lawn Darts and arguably even the pokeball stuff... If your kid isn't old enough to know not to put the thing on their face and, even more importantly, not able to pull it off if they do, then perhaps they weren't old enough to have it in the first place. That seems like something only a small toddler would struggle to remove unless I'm missing something?
The magnets as well, really bad idea so I get that... But how do you ACCIDENTALLY swallow a magnet? If your kid is young enough to put anything small enough in their mouth, then they shouldn't be left alone with it. And even in a worst case scenario, in what world would any poly pocket be suitable for a kid at the age where everything goes in the mouth?
And for the lawn darts, what happened to that guy's daughter was absolutely tragic and he was in no way at fault... But the fact the kid managed to throw one over the fence, the OTHER parents were absolutely at fault...
Amen my dude
Hi! So let me tell you about the Snacktime Kids since I sort of collect them. It's quite hard to get the mechanism inside the mouth to catch or grab hair or even fingers. It's set pretty far back in the head, further back than you would think by all the hysteria about the doll. A kid would need to really jam their fingers in the mouth to get hurt by them and the same goes for hair. Trust me. I tried and it takes being very very careless and purposely trying. Most times, the rollers will just stop because hair isn't the same thickness as the food its meant to be fed so what I'm guessing is there was hair wrapped around the food for it to keep munching. At the back of the rollers is a chute where the food is meant to drop into the backpack, it's a very short path because as I said - those rollers are set further back than people think they are. I do mean it when I say you need to shove your fingers in there. They don't "attack", the girl holding one by her hair in the commercial is perfectly safe. Honestly - it probably should have been a toy for older kids due to younger kids just not understanding shoving fingers and hair into motors isn't the best of ideas. An off switch could have helped a heck of a lot too.
In any case, I collect them because so many returned theirs for the $40 reward and I find them interesting. It's hard to find ones that still work or have their backpacks and food. In fact, the moment they were banned, I ran to the local Kmart to snag one 🤣
Thanks for sharing
They should’ve been for older kids definitely, little kids have a tendency to try and shove their little fingers as far as possible into whatever they can so it makes sense that some kids had their fingers munched on by the dolls, unsupervised kids can do things that don’t even cross the mind. Still interesting to learn that the rollers were super far back so it would take more than poking the mouth to get a finger stuck. Kinda confused about how kids stick their fingers that far back into a doll’s mouth that chews
I have a working one that I had bought my daughter when they came out. She was played with but still works and is great condition because my daughter played with her correctly. I agree it would hard to really push your fingers in there and get caught. No way she just had her hair next to doll lol!
I’ve got a story! 18:38
So I’m playing with friends and he showed me his hover board and when he asked me to get on I rejected and soon after the hover board caught on fire.
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15:36 and then it goes into the fireplace 😂
As a parent I will say most of the injuries from these toys are from negligent parenting. Parents ether giving the toys to kids that are too young to be playing with them or just not paying attention to their kids.
2:23 - 2:28 : I think it is important to mention that this statement is incorrect. This is because there is BIG difference between Uranium's radiation and the sun's radiation. Uranium gives off ionizing radiation, meanwhile, the sun gives off UV light, aka NON-ionizing radiation. While it is true that UV rays can also cause cancer, it is not true that they are as hazardous as uranium samples, and therefore a bad idea to compare the two. Basking in the sun for 5 hours is NOT the same as basking in front of uranium for 5 hours. One of the two is WAY more likely to cause cancer.
I think it's even more important to mention that the quantities contained within the set were tiny, maybe a few grams each, and probably emitted similar to background radiation. It was really not at all dangerous and caused no controversy during the brief period it was sold.
"It had one huge difference -- it hungered for human flesh."
Chucky's sister! : )
I was one of those kids who would dismantle, modify and weaponize any toys my parents bought me. They gave up on toys and started buying me guns instead. I learned to use and care for them safely as a kid and I still have them today among the rest of my arsenal. I still have my lawn darts too but I bought them as an adult in the 80's.
Lawn darts can still be sold today, they just can’t have a point. Today they have a large rounded end that is not only soft as to minimise injury but it’s also designed to pop off upon impact to decrease force applied
But if it's not pointed, how does it work? Doesn't the point allow it to stick into the ground? I've never had them or played with them before.
@@20NewJourney23 the points would stab the ground like a real dart. However nowadays they are rounded and they are intended to stand up when they land. If they have a hard impact the end will pop off and that’s where you mark the landing point.
These toy producers trynna make them kids into ghouls with that radiation
Why 😭💀
There trying make fallout irl
plot of Fallout 5 💀
what kind of toy has real uranium and think it will be a good idea for kids to play with that😭
NAWW💀💀
Who the fuck thought making darts that literally look like spears would be a good toy to make
They don't just look like spears, they ARE spears. Like c'mon man don't they think kids are gonna be using it like undyne
@@mr.gameplay1781I would.
Back then, they didn't care about safety i guess.
If (just if) lawn darts were to come back to aim towards kids, it would utilize suction cups on the end of the darts like some modern toys to prevent injury.
My grandpa still has these and we've played it. The issue is they are extremely dangerous like a weapon, you can have fun with them as long as everyone involved is an adult and people respect them as if they were a gun.
"Suffered serious burns" "Luckily no one was seriously hurt" bruh
We had lawn darts when I was a kid in the 70's. I had no idea that kids got hurt with them but when I think back it does seem likely. The part of the dart that was supposed to stick in the ground was made of some kind of metal. It was like giving a kid a mini missel to throw.
I've been bingeing your videos for the past 2 days. Good stuff, man. Keep it up!
whenever i watch one of ur vids it always has the serial killer documentary vibes
The fact that everytime a company like mattel buys the toys and makes and improvement something goes wrong 😭
The doll ad is creepy ngl
9:00 the dolls from hell, also cause their faces haunt me!
Lol, my Sky Dancer definitely walloped my best friend and me in the head several times. We kept this fact hidden from our parents. My Mum finally confiscated the launch pad after I gave myself a fat lip during Kindergarten show-and-tell.
I had one but I never got hurt? I would fly it outside....only thing was she flew her last dance when she flew into the woods x'D
Ok but the pokeball story is wild💀🙏
A damn shame that most of these toys had knockoffs made when the original ones sold a lot. Not once did people think smartly and designed them correctly as to not hurt anyone, they were all just money hungry. Mind you though I met a family member with one of those flying spinners years later somehow, but it was a whole different brand and not a doll, so its a possibility some of these might comeback.
I remember half of these toys and wanting them so bad as a kid, now I'm happy my parents never bought me those toys
Technically most things are radioactive/irradiated but not to the extreme of uranium or plutonium
24:15 The pokeball killing kids make me speechless... I mean, to be fair, that's NOT toy malfunction but more like the kids commit SUICIDE. Yeah I know kids like to explore. But putting pokeball to their face??? What were they thinking??? Trying to do diver cosplay??? Astronaut cosplay??? >< Were kids in the past wired to commit suicide unknowingly??? Nowadays there are A LOT of similar toys: pokemon inside pokeball. I even do some video review on them. I haven't heard a single death report about them as to this second. Anywhere in this world.
Aint no way one of those flying dolls broke someones ribs lol
Im pretty sure that is possible because toy is hard plastic, and combine it with little tiny body of toddler. Its actually possible.
You underestimate the strength of children.
The kid probably fell over after being hit by the flying doll, and the fall broke his/her rib.
Did someone purposely jump on it while it's flying 💀
"Wow, what a cool toy!"
*Mattel: I'm about to end this man's whole career.*
Mattel should start making weapons 👍
The original Easy Bake used a light bulb to heat it if I remember correctly, my cousin had one, it was neat, I helped my Mother bake real cakes in a real oven, the Easy Bake was more fun.
Omg those sky dancers were A NIGHTMARE - flying into kids faces indoors was bananas
My little brother launched my doll into my face winter 94/95 - I almost lost my eye!
I remember my brother and I had a pair of skydancers when we were little and we would set them off in our grandparents' house and watch the carnage as they knocked things off the shelves. Nobody expected that these innocent looking fairies would turn out to be weapons of mass destruction.
I had the flower one and he had the moon one, I always thought the moon themeing was way cooler. They were probably hand-me-downs from a cousin or something since we were born in the early 2000s so after the recal. Probably still have them in a box somewhere.
You could remarket them as “fairies of mass destruction.” Kids would love that.
Except one or two worthy mentions here.....every single one is a fault on the parents who let their kids play with questionable rip-offs unsupervised and end up blaming the product and the company that sold them. What logic is this?
my brother in christ watch the whole bloody video
Maybe the blame should be placed on the counterfeit products and not the parents. No that's too logical.
@@harumskarum3481 There are only two conterfeit products in the whole video and yep those two products are terrible. But then you got things like kids eating polly pocket clothes when there was a clear age rating on those toys, Skydancers: I had one as a kid, I knew to play with it outside and aim it away from me, Pokeball is kinder surprise all over again.
On the other hand I don't know who thought it was a good idea to give a kid uranium or ovens though.
i feel bad for the kid that got headshotted with a lawn dart
ULTRASHOT
DISRESPECT+
PAINFUL FATE+
HEADSHOT+
ALMOST LETHAL RICOSHOT+
@@Usualrocketjumpingmaniac lol
throws dart over fence
+100 exp
wait what?
o shit.
@@Usualrocketjumpingmaniacwow bro your so funny😐
@@TheBBBTrio 🙁
1_ an awesome toy is made
2_ china makes a copy of it
3_ disaster...
also
1_an awesome toy is made
2_people start buying it in masses
3_disaster
@@Nelvinkumar to summarize this across pretty much anything throughout the whole history of the universe
1. people exist
2. disaster
@@app0the or just
1. Disaster
1. 𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕨𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕠𝕪 𝕚𝕤 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖
2.𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣
"Made in china"
"Insert Computer burning"
Oh no, a handful of kids for minor injuries, the horror! It’s not like they can get hurt far worse doing literally anything else. How many kids die from chocking on food each year? Ban food!
There were actually other Gilbert kits that were more popular with kids. They were the chemistry kits with flimsy test tubes of various chemicals and a burner. They came with no safety goggles or warnings on the more toxic or dangerous chemicals. They often had chemical reactions which is why they were so popular, children could see a purple flame by just using a chemical from the kit (Potassium permanganate) and glycerol which is a clear, odorless solution that would’ve been found in the medicine cabinet back then (though we still use it in some cough syrups.)
Since there were no safety instructions, no mention of adult supervision, not even any diagrams or information on how much you could use, things could easily go wrong. However many chemists have said it was a chemistry set that got them into the science. Now the Gilbert atomic energy set and the Gilbert chemistry set are seen on eBay for a lot of money.
also guns with literal fireballs
As a French motion graphic designer, I want to say that I devour all of your videos. The work, research, visuals, everything is on point!
I love your documentaries, Visual Venture!!
My sisters had an easy bake oven and polly pocket and never did any of those things.
I also had creepy crawlers oven to make plastic bugs. Never hurt myself.
I remember creepy crawler oven! 💕
Sky Dancers according to the video: Bodily harm
Sky Dancer in my head: *Sky Dancer flies in the fireplace*
I remember having the Cabbage Patch doll that had the motorized mouth and would eat and chew down when you put the plastic food in her mouth. I was so mad and sad when my parents took it after the recall. Apparently the little girl got her hair caught in the mouth and it got caught in the motor.
Polly Pocket is still sold in the USA, I’ve bought my daughter about 10 sets over the years. The dolls now have a little suction cup type thing that makes them stand up. No magnets.
those are also the teeny tiny ones I believe, not ones with stretchy clothes
I remember vividly having the polly pockets when I was a little younger, they had the rubber clothes and the heads could pop off to put the clothes on, they are definitely still sold in the US
Ah yes, flammable stoves, good idea
Bad idea for kids
That item should be used for 16 to 20 years old
@@Usualrocketjumpingmaniac that item should be used when you stop being an idiot
@@6luh4uk619 Well idk how can people learn how to bake I guess
Did you know, in Indonesia we had a toy called a latto-latto which is basically 2 balls connected by the string. You basically just keep bouncing the 2 balls together really fast, it was so addicting to some kids, the feeling and sound it created was so satisfying and addicting,
So kids bounced these balls a bit too close to their eyes, the balls were so fast they were uncontrollable. So thousand of parent reported that their kids went blind. And after that the toy was banned somewheren in late 2022 and early 2023
We also have lato lato here in the Philippines!
@@huroncyclist did the same incident happen?
We had them in the US called Clackers (I think). Hard plastic balls. 1 on each end of a string.
They were recalled here cause some of the balls exploded.
@@hulynchow8505 whoa, exploded? How?
@@Red_Rascal90 You played with them by moving your hand holding the ends of the strings, each with a plastic ball on the other end, up and down really fast. The balls would hit each other making the clacking sound. Sometimes they exploded when they hit each other.
Cabbage Patch Kids are creepy af at the best of circumstances. Having one that can eat your finger if you weren’t careful is just nightmare fuel at this point.
I had multiple pokeballs from BK. I bought the golden cards.
No one thought to put the pokeball on their face until they suffocate.
It was a one off.
I remember 1st gen polly pockets! My sister had like 20 sets!
I had so many!! now I'm 35 and a mom myself, my two little girls have Polly pockets but they're nowhere near as cool!
also "polly pockets were discontinued in the us" is a lie. PP still exists in the US, they rebooted PP in 2012 and again in 2018 and just didn't use the magnet gimmick again.
I can imagine some meth out guy in the board meeting that just straight up tell everybody in there that a toy kit with radiation is ok to sell to the public and they just all like "mhmm, yeah this is great stuff im hearing! I would buy that for my children so that they become a scientist when they're older!"
Yeah meth was such a huge problem in 1950 I’m sure thats exactly how it went down. 😂
@@WhytedebilBoth world wars were fought by soldiers on amphetamines. Amphetamines were a big thinh before they were banned. There was this wine amphetamine mixture on many high society events, but it was criticized for containing alcohol.
So yeah meth was a thing even back then.
@@hurstiwursti No, methamphetamine was not a "thing back then". Soldiers who got addicted to amphetamine stimulants during the war, and homeless methheads in the 21st century are on completely different levels, not least because amphetamine and methamphetamine have largely different effects on the human body.
I don't understand why the Gilbert atomic energy lab gets included on lists like these. It was extremely expensive, marketed towards academically inclined teens (NOT children), and was never controversial, nor was it even particularly dangerous. It was also designed by several leading nuclear physicists at the time. Please, for your own sake, educate yourself.
@@numbersstationsarchive194 Im sure you cant read german source material, but methamphetamine was the driving force for the blitzkrieg. It was first synthesized by Nagayoshi Nagai in 1893. Germany mass produced it by 1938. It was very well a thing back then. And the effects aren't as different as you may think. Its more of a pharmacokinetics thing than a different mechanism of action thing. Like Heroin and Morphine. Would you also claim Heroin is affecting the body different than morphine? Its just that you will have higher concentrations in your brain at same dosage. At same effective dose they act very similiar.
The difference between amphetamine abuse in war and the homeless methheads today has more to do with how we treat drug abuse as a problem and how we make it illegal to posess and consume drugs, resulting in high criminality for addicted people, high prices and as a result of that people lose everyting instead of getting help. If all the money spent on the war on drugs would be spent for prevention rehabilitation and education programs, and drug addicts would be forced to do a rehab program instead of prison, the world would look alot different.
And yes amphetamines including methamphetamine were drugs sold in pharmacies and abused by socialites. There is still a large number of people abusing stimulants without beeing crazy methheads (not that i would say thats a good thing, but the amount of rich people using is probably rather large, they can afford it without any financial troubles. Just go to any exclusive rich people night club and check the toilets.)
Those toys taught kids not to be stupid. I bet no child that got burned by an easybake oven are no longer dumb enough to put their hand in a real oven!
My elementary school completely banned the slap bracelets. It all started in our class when my classmate hosted a birthday part, sending out party bags containing the slaps. It was a huge hit in our school, until reports of injuries came. One girl had a huge gash on her wrist. Glad I never got into them since I thought they were tacky.