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I've never seen these baby floats, but the fact that they made it go around the neck, makes you wonder about the intelligence of the marketing, and manufacturing. Just knowing that it existed is anxiety inducing.
I had a wood-burning kit when I was a child. I loved that thing. No house fires, but I did get a blister or two. No permanent damage, but I learned many lessons in cause and effect.
Got it too. Not sure why I wanted it. Got bored within a month. I think I would have been happier with the rock polish machine. At least I had a small interest in geology.
@komikbookgeek Absolutely. That's what I just commented! Who was leaving their baby unattended in the bath?? Regardless, I would have never strapped a float ring around my baby's neck!
They looked like giant shooter marbles. They banned them from school because well you know ….. We were seriously hurting each other but they were so COOL.
The sky dancer dolls, that family video on xmas day of the little girl opening her present and seeing she had a sky dancer doll. Only to let it rip for her very first play with it, and it flew stright into the fire place causing it to be destroyed. Oh, I will never forget that, it still to this day has me in utter fits of laughter. The look not only on her face but also her families faces was priceless 😂😂😂
I'm reminded of the classic SNL sketch with Dan Ackroyd protesting that any toy can be dangerous. Some things are stupid and should never made it past the design phase, yes, but at some point you also need to hold parents responsible. If 10 million units have been sold and there have only been five reported incidents, I kinda feel like that's an issue with the user, not the product. Some of these toys just required better adult supervision.
The issue with those floaters is, even if they were super reliable (which they apparently weren't), it encourages the development of a bad habit; not minding babies/toddlers when they most need attention. In theory the devices could serve as a safety net, allowing the baby to have more independent fun as the guardian takes a more hands-off role of watching them just in case something goes wrong, it's a slippery slope, since the one watching them might develop a habit of looking away for longer and longer periods of time as the device keeps doing its job consistently. It only takes one failure to kill, however. I, unfortunately, could see someone getting used to it working as intended, getting distracted by some minor crisis (like another child crying, or a loud noise elsewhere, etc.) and just thinking 'the baby'll be fine, they've got their floatie thing, I"ll be back in less than a minute' and most likely that IS the sort of event that occurred on many occasions and they were apparently proven right, which just reinforces the bad thought process. When events like that happen normally, the guardian would either take the baby out of the water, bringing them with them, or laying them wrapped in a towel on the bathroom floor or somewhere they can't fall from, or some other idea. The fact that no deaths resulted from these devices is actually a little surprising. Most likely the times they failed were when the babies were being observed (which, again in theory, should have been 'at all times'). Honestly, the device doesn't even look comfortable. It just seems like a _bad idea_ to put so much potential strain on a baby's neck in the first place, even if in theory it should be fine (between the water buoyancy and the floaty's air cushion), it just seems like the babies are essentially being supported by the equivalent of a soft clamp around their neck.
I grew up in the 60's. My toy iron plugged in and heated up. My mother told me to never plug it in and I never did. I wasn't smarter than any other child, just more obedient!
in 2002 I was 13 an i found a full chemistry set and a partial one In one of my grandmas closets she had 10 kids, it was one of my uncles. I was excited and wanted to mess around with it and they all freaked out and threw it away then went through the entire house to see what else was still in there they found all kinds of crazy stuff. I never should have told anyone
A 4 year old died while swallowing the toy that is made for 12 and up. Even if the parent buys the older sibling the toy, the toy should be in the siblings bedroom if not played with. On top of that, some parents give these young kids those toys, regardless the warning.
"I'd simply instruct the 4 year old not to eat the toy." "When I have teenagers, they will always have their rooms clean and homework done. They also will never leave their shoes around and do the dishes without being asked."
@rayharvey1330 I literally just got hit by a kid on 1 yesterday in front of my house..... my girlfriend still loves them too and begs to try them with her and I like my ankles unsnapped thanks
Let's see...toys that hurt like hell to step on: jacks, leggos, Polly pockets, the list goes on. Nothing like getting up in the middle of the night and stepping on these landmines.
I owned 7 of these toys, never got hurt, never _swallowed_ anything and was an age old enough to not be stupid enough to do so. This doesn’t apply to all of these, but parents are often careless, don’t teach their kids common sense, leave them unsupervised and buy toys for kids WAY too young.
Kids don't swallow things because they're stupid. They do it because they're toddlers who don't know any better, or they swallow the stuff by accident.
@ nah, I never said that. I know why toddlers and babies put things in their mouths, we’re talking about kids who do things like launch skydancers in the house and get their eye taken out, stuff like that.
@SunBunz It's not like the kids were trying to hurt themselves. The way the Sky Dancers flew was unpredictable as the video mentions (I remember playing with one once and sometimes it flew across the room while others it flew diagonally and still others it didn't even make it off the bed I was sitting on), and their entire purpose was to be launched. They weren't really marketed as outdoor toys, either. So of course kids were going to play with them inside. Plus you could have things happen like a sibling walking into a room just in time to get a wing to the face. Accidents happen, plain and simple.
Some of these toys require a bit of intelligence to operate, like Creepy Crawlers. I had Creepy Crawlers. Sometimes, the mold grabber would get janky and the mold would come out crooked or the wrong way, and it would fall. You had to be smarter than the toy and just let it fall, knowing the hot mold could burn you. I had so much fun with Creepy Crawlers as a kid, especially with the glow-in-the-dark goo. Mixing and matching different colors. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the early 90s.
My brother had it too. And my sister and I had this one to make jewelry where you'd put a powder into the mold and heat it up on a little hot plate. LOL
I burned the shit out of myself a few times but learned to not be such a dummy with molten rubber. Always wonder if someday we'll get lung cancer from the fumes!
I loved cap guns as a kid, and still collect them (but don't carry them with me lol). I used to play "war" with my friends. It was always, "I got you!" - "No, I got you first!" ad infinitum... lol
It's a good thing no one in my family got pissy about me playing with "boy" toys because I loved playing with cap guns. My brother and I came up with all kinds of games. Damn I miss him.
I remember being little when they were popular. Their commercials were the first time I heard the melody from _Rockin' Robin_ before hearing the song itself a couple years later.
I had them too and they were never recalled. My mother in law got one for my 4 year old. I think she played with it for a few days and now I have no clue where it went.
@@creativelychandraTwo and three year olds don't put things in their mouth because they think they're food- they do it because that's how they explore things.
I saw the baby float product on Shark Tank and laughed right along with the sharks. Then I realized that, yes, it's a seriously disturbing and dangerous product.
For any of you that wanted Moon Shoes as a kid, let me put you on game to the better adult version. Kangoo Jumps are considered exercise equipment and you’ll look goofy af, but they’re so fun!!! We have a privacy fence so I put on some Jock Jams and bounce around the back patio😂
I loved Moon Shoes. My cousins had a pair. I had to be careful. My ankles were already messed up from rollerblading. But they were fun, if you weren't a moron. 😂
@@feraltaco4783 i myself had a pair of moon shoes as a kid! One of the most fun presents I had ever gotten! I remember I used them so much, the rubber bands that held it together wore out!
Even as someone who is an Eagle Scout, I had no idea that toy companies had sold wood burning kits like they had. For those not familiar with Scouting, our safety guide is called the Guide to Safe Scouting. There are many activities in Scouting that are reserved for older scouts and adults, such as the likes of the wood burning kits or other crafts like this. I am glad the kits were recalled!
Those 1st lawn darts you show were not the ones they sold. The second set you see are what was sold in stores. You got smart real quick. We werent dumb enough to walk in front of them.
More than likely they would’ve fine tuned them to add more power or use them as experiments on their UA-cam channel I could see How Ridiculous using some of these dangerous toys as their experiment when they throw them through panes of glass they have set up or seeing if they can crush the object with a giant homemade axe
😂 Omg, I really believe that if that was to happen people would not only have more common sense but also we’d have less idiots in this world. On second thought…. 90% of the population lacks common sense and basic intellect. So never mind that thought… 😅
@@oscarramos5681Though it did end up becoming the unofficial anthem to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. So one would regard May 1st, 2011 as indeed being "a party in the USA."
Some of these make sense to ban, like asbestos powder and uranium. A lot of them seem fine to me though. They just require more adult supervision than they were getting. We think a kid can't handle holding a hot stick without burning the house down when kids used to help hunt and farm and build. Kids do need protection but they'll never learn anything if they're not allowed to do anything
Clackers made a comeback in the 90s, we all had some, but they were designed differently and we called them knockers. 2 balls each on their own triangle connected to a longer handle...so u could knock the balls together without any whiplash or ricochet effects
It’s been years since I’ve even seen a Nerf commercial. It’s even been a couple months since I’ve seen a gaming commercial. Seriously why is it all drugs and lawyer offices?
LOVED this video! Klick Klacks ruled in the late 60s/early 70s! I had a red pair and a purple pair (they were glass then), and could keep them going simultaneously in each hand at the same time! Paddle ball experience helped, I was pretty good at the too!😁 One of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen online was a ‘Skydancer’ flying into a roaring fireplace!! Dad was sitting next to the hearth, but was too busy texting, mom was filming, the gift recipient’s reaction was priceless!😂 Looking back, I think the most dangerous toy I can remember was ‘Super Elastic Bubble Plastic’…where you blew up a blob from a squeeze tube with a straw. Wasn’t much point to the end result, but pretty sure I was gettin stoned on those chemicals in the 5th grade!!😆 Oh, and ‘Incredible Edibles.’ Lordy, how many toxic chemicals were in those spiders and other shapes we made and ate?!🤣
Kids today r to soft also we actually played with toys these kids now have tablets and phones smh.. My son plays with action figures and stuff so im good lol.
There are worse ways to go than playing with your favorite toy. As dangerous as the toys were, parents could still discipline their kids.. We didnt worry about darts and explosions. They would beat us with our toys lol
@@feraltaco4783 Yep. In college, 2010, IN COLLEGE, I had a professor that said... "I told my son not to put stuff in the power outlet. I warned him a second time. The third time, I let him find out. "He never tried it again!" DC Electricity Professor Lauren Bitikofer, Director of Flight Sciences Great guy!
@@feraltaco4783 I know right? And this was at a university. Most university is all about bleeding hearts and coddling people. I guess that's the difference between the school I went to and most others. They loved you at the school I went to, but they wanted you to be an intelligent, productive adult, that was mentally and physiologically mature.
I remember back when my neighbor friends and I were fans of sky dancers. We would put on 😎sunglasses, turn on fans with no cages, using the highest setting, then shoot off sky dancers, trying to get them whacked and mashed in the fans. Such great times. Danger and fun are like peanut butter and jelly. They go together so well and you must balance them. You must never have too much or too little of either. 😀👍
Anyone remember Footies( not sure if this is the original name)? It was a plastic ring with a rubber tube w/ a ball on the end and you put it on one leg and jump with the other leg.
Sometimes stuff can happen so fast that a parent can't stop it even if they are supervising. It's also impossible to watch a child every second of every day. You might have to turn your back for a split second, and sometimes that's all it takes.
Who ever did that are lucky to survive that. When it comes to it. It gains more speed going down. From what I hear about that, it will cause a pretty bad injury. For me personally, I never had them.
None of my favorite toys were on the list, but I remember Jeff Foxworthy talking about wood-burning kits ("A metal stick that heated up to 5,000 degrees, and a short cord that guaranteed you were always right next to the drapes when you played with it!") and lawn darts ("You catch one of THOSE with your head, you're gettin' coloring books for Christmas for the rest of your life!") on one of his comedy albums. 😂😂😂
Oh, give it a rest. Getting out of bed is dangerous. Some of these are stupid and should have been recalled, others . . . Pogo Sticks??? Chemistry sets??? Wood burning kits??? Water rockets?? Some of my favorite toys growing up, and I neither killed myself, injured myself, anyone else, nor did i burn down the house.
@@crimsonmoonrise9785I can totally see a ninja using clackers as a bola weapon or maybe a grapple weapon, as for a teddy bear that might take a bit of engineering to make a weapon ( unless beating your opponent with it would count)
@@jeanbean7183maybe they could hide some kind of weight inside and use it as a flailing weapon. I believe Michael in Disney’s Peter Pan did that with his teddy bear and a cannonball😆
@@JamesDavy2009 I certainly didn’t come up with the line , but I heard from a comedian back in the 80’s , years before South Park. I’m sure I was said before then.
My version of Darth Maul’s saber was one where you’d hold down a button on either side and swing it downward to ignite it. That was much safer than the battery-powered one, just so long as there was nothing or no one to hit while igniting or swinging.
I LOVED my Creepy Crawlers! My favorite was the mold for the skeleton kit... the bone parts snapped together after you made it. And I had the glow in the dark goop to make the bugs and such... it was great! I can still smell it today.
I'm surprised Skip-It wasn't on here. My friend sprained her ankle on one of those in the 90s, lol. It was like a ball attached to a long piece of plastic with a loop on the other end. You put your ankle through the loop and then have to jump over the long piece of plastic. The ball had a counter on it, too. Im bad at explaining things, but look it up. You'll see what i mean.
The question we really need to start asking: At what point is it not a safety issue, and more just parents getting their kids a toy they're not old enough (or smart enough) to handle?
When I was 6 we visited Chicago from Australia in the 1980s, my parents banned me from playing with my cap gun because it looked like a Mac-10 and they thought I'd be shot by police. That sort of thing just didn't happen in Australia.
And as a retired law enforcement officer here in New York, that whole claim is WAY overblown. Most times it does happen is because someone takes the fake gun, modifies it by removing the orange tip that is now by law on toy guns or painting it black which is a felony all by itself and then they use the toy / fake gun in a crime. It isn't "kids" doing that, it's adults.
The worst toys ever have to be the ones that in the 60s and 70s, were glow in the dark, but actually radio active. A notorious example in the UK was an Eagle transporter model made to promote Space: 1999 a Gerry Anderson science fiction series. I nearly brought one as an adult art student in the early 80s, but couldn't afford it. When I saw one secondhand some years later, at a Comic Mart, I didn't buy it, because I knew the paint on it was cancerous. Lucky miss.
My mom got me lawn darts in the mid 80s around my 5-6th birthday. Some of the best fun I had as a child. No one ever got hurt and I had some pretty dumb friends back then.
Candle-making kit, which I got from my parents in the late 60s/early 70s when I was a kid. I remember not being able to use it unless one of my parents was with me to melt the wax. Never did use it due to lack of interest. My younger siblings got into it, messing everything up and the kit ended up it the garbage with no candles ever being made but my brother and sister got a lot of fun out of it!
Uranium isn't really all that dangerous. It is barely radioactive. They used to add it to paint on dishes called Fiestaware. Uranium is actually more common than silver in the Earth's crust. It is all over the place and in a lot of rocks.
Fun Facts: #30 is shown and was going to be used for interrogation in one of the infamous SpongeBob Episodes, and #15 was in fact used by an Earthbound character Jeff (Who is a kid.) as his Assist Trophy weapon in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, for 3DS, for Wii U, and Ultimate.
We played lawn darts. You leaned not to walk in front of them. Common sense dictates what you shouldn't do. Too bad there are tons of people without it
@@susannpatton2893I get the common sense argument with Jarts. But you're going to have deaths even if everyone were as safe as possible. Nobody ever bats 1.000 in baseball. The greatest HoF MLB stars don't get it right all the time. Besides, in this world you will find a-holes who WILL use them as weapons.
I had the less safe version of Creepy Crawlers and Gilbert Chemistry set, as well as BB and Cap guns. My sister had the old metal Easy Bake Oven. We both had the old lethal lawn darts. I still have a blow-gun around here somewhere. Also has this plastic welding-rod model kit "Spinwelder". It came with a little drill which accepted proprietary rods. The drill would spin the rod really fast, and when you used it on the model, that would melt the plastic together. The kit was meant for you to basically weld specific areas or on holes in the model sort of like a rivet, but I figured out that you could take the sprues off of regular model kits, and spin-weld them onto the special base that fit in that drill -- and use it to weld all sorts of plastic together. Burnt myself a few times, but learned fast. Actually still have the drill from that kit.
They're other toys that are not dangerous, like Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Tech Deck, Barbie, Bratz, Transformers, G.I Joe, He-Man, Air Hogs, Monster Jam, Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Wars, etc.
As a 15 year old in 1996, it really upset me. I had a paper route and had my own money, so I bought my own toys. One of the lines I bought was the various Star Trek lines. If you did the math, 1701 figures divided among just the USA amounted just over 34 figures per state! That wasn't even figuring in other countries. And Picard was already selling on the secondary market for $1000!!! I did eventually get the box set, but still it ruined my desire to keep collecting, knowing I'd never have them all. I still got as many of the figures as I could, but to this day there are several I don't have. And there are many others that were limited, such as the Next Gen crew in their movie uniforms that were Target Exclusives and three different 7 of 9s that were all limited in various ways. Playmates screwed up then and still has yet to figure out the collector market, as can be seen by their most recent failure to relaunch the line.
We used to play a game called stick wars where we would throw sticks at each other as hard as we could from a distance. Needless to say the sessions would end when someone got hit.
@@Caderic dude, it's a joke about the corporations in Fallout having no issue marketing radioactive products/beverages to consumers. Before this video, I had no idea that such a thing has ever existed IRL
@@Caderic I probably see more of the world on a weekly basis than you, but sure random dude on the Internet who thinks that it's common knowledge that we sold radioactive products to children
23:57 The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory... I never had one and I thought such toys would be pure fiction as in 1978s comdedy show "Weihnachten bei den Hoppenstedts" (Christmas at the Hoppenstedt family) where they bought their child a nuclear-power-plant-toy actually being able to work.
Ok I actually owned the C.S.I Kit but thank Heavens I never opened it as I only found out as an adult about the asbestos issue also I disagree with Lawn Darts being Number 1 for the simple reason Number 3 should've easily topped the list since it you know actually contained active uranium
Uranium isn't really all that dangerous. It is barely radioactive. They used to add it to paint on dishes called Fiestaware. Uranium is actually more common than silver in the Earth's crust. It is all over the place and in a lot of rocks. A heavy spike through your skull on the other hand. That could mean instant death and did for three children from what I've read.
In the mid to late 70's, here in Canada we had smooth, red plastic "boot covers" (not sure how else to describe them), that we strapped on over our boots and then slid down hills on our feet that were made into slick red death sliders. 😂😂 I can't believe none of us died, but lord, they were a blast! 😅
Literally anything can be dangerous... i had almost all these toys growing up and they made some of the most prominent memories for me. Im glad my parents let me be a wild rambunctious boy growing up and let me have fun.
@@princesstamika Balls on a string - Hit and hurt no deaths Water Rocket - Potential injuries No deaths Light Sabres - Injuries No Deaths Pew Pew Belt Buckle - Cap gun, Potential Injuries no death. Pogo sticks - Injuries no deaths Orbeez - POTENTIAL SAFETY HAZARD - no death Super Blast Balls - Possible Injuries No deaths Yoyo Balls - injuries no Death Glass Bowing Kit - Possibility of injuries, no death Spinning fiary barbie sky dancers..... My god... these were NOT as severe in the injury department as they made it seem... broken bones? REALLY? No deaths Polly Pocket - Not even a Swallowing hazard, magnetic part swallowing fears NO DEATHS Baby Floating thing - 50 cases of failure and fear of yada yada NOT A SINGLE DEATH Wood Burning Kit - Fear of fires, none reported and no deaths. Creepy Crawlers - Fear of burns No deaths Magic Pistol - Banned for fear of what might happen, no deaths. Bottle Rocket - It's baking soda and vinegar..... FEAR of what could happen, NO deaths. Easy Bake oven, see Creepy Crawlers... Trampoline - Risk of injury, no deaths. Hammock... PLEASE! No death. Aqua Dots - THESE were toxic, 3 comas and brain damage THIS ONE I'll give you. But odds are a kid that ate em would have eaten lead paint chips too. Hanna Montana Card game - Carrying Case NOT the toys. Possibility of lead eating no deaths. Cabbage patch snacktime dolls - Ignorant kids got their fingers stuck in the moving mouth.... LMFAO!!!!!!! Hurpa Durp! Radio Control Airplane - no deaths just injuries Zulu Blowing game - I hear they inhaled the darts because they couldn't obey instructions NO deaths though Launch station - Choking hazzard 1 death Fingerprint kit - Had Asbestos in it Moon shoes - Injuries no deaths Atomic Lab - I wish I had one of these growing up... More kids need things like this. No deaths. Toy pew pews - No deaths just injuries. Kids came out more normal with these around Lawn Darts - Potential injuries 1 Death K count - 2 Parents and kids need to be smarter, their toys do not need to be made safer.
Those sky dancer toys are being re-made today! My child has one that is even more dangerous if you believe it, it’s the same concept except it’s more like a drone without any control, you turn it on and the wings spin and it’s starts to fly. In order to stop it you have to grab the feet of it while trying not to get wacked by the spins wings lol
Burned the hell out of my thumb on the Creepy Crawlers hot plate as a kid in the mid 1960s. It was still my favorite toy EVER! My thumb healed and I don’t seem to have any health issues from the fumes. My friend had the Easy Bake Oven. We never got hurt on the oven. But the Thing Maker (the name of the hot plate that cooked the plastic Goop to make the creatures cook into solid plastic) and Creepy Crawlers were fabulous to a creative kid with a passion for three-D art.
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Yes, all of them
These toys made ya tough. We survived these things. And all the better for it. Instant wisdom 🙌🏽
@@Jesusfreak79, your comments have nothing to do with the videos
I've never seen these baby floats, but the fact that they made it go around the neck, makes you wonder about the intelligence of the marketing, and manufacturing. Just knowing that it existed is anxiety inducing.
As a kid of the late 60’s/mid 70’s, every toy we owned had a dangerous element. That’s what made them fun
What is fun without the risk.😈😈😈😈😈😈
Rubber axes? Why not
Oh yeah, the vicious hula hoop, SIMON, rock em sockem robots, and the rubix cube. Your generation was wayyyy hardcore...lol. Stop boomin' out.
@@bernardoheusi6146Rubber? lol
I had a wood-burning kit when I was a child. I loved that thing. No house fires, but I did get a blister or two. No permanent damage, but I learned many lessons in cause and effect.
Same! I'm terrible at it but I loved it. I got one for Christmas when I was 14. Didn't burn myself once.
I'll never forget the '8 Is Enough!' episode where the unattended wood burning kit caught the bedroom on fire.
Same just a couple little burns it makes you stronger lol
Got it too. Not sure why I wanted it. Got bored within a month. I think I would have been happier with the rock polish machine. At least I had a small interest in geology.
@justanotherwhitegirla7093 always wanted one. Even as an adult however, there is only so much time in a day.
Reminds me of an Onion article with the headline “Fun Toy Banned Because of Three Stupid Dead Kids”
And it's not normally even stupid kids! It's the parents!
Life imitating art. 😂
Facts!
😂😂 I love The Onion!
@komikbookgeek Absolutely. That's what I just commented! Who was leaving their baby unattended in the bath?? Regardless, I would have never strapped a float ring around my baby's neck!
“Spaceballs: the flamethrower! The kids love this one.”
better than a zulu blow dart in throat i guess
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@@5610winstonwhat? 😂😂😂😂😂
@@DEATH-THE-GOAT Watch the drive-in scene from _Spaceballs_ or the Loony Tunes cartoon _One Froggy Evening._
The original clackers were made of glass - yep they hurt.
Holy Jesus. That's even worse!
In the UK they were tough plastic, but still able to bruise.
I never seen the glass clackers I guess Im to young 1995 I had a bunch of the plastic ones but now I want some glass ones for the shelf collection
They looked like giant shooter marbles. They banned them from school because well you know …..
We were seriously hurting each other but they were so COOL.
There has been a resurgence of that in the philippines last year. They're renamed as lato-lato. It really got annoying for a bit
The sky dancer dolls, that family video on xmas day of the little girl opening her present and seeing she had a sky dancer doll. Only to let it rip for her very first play with it, and it flew stright into the fire place causing it to be destroyed. Oh, I will never forget that, it still to this day has me in utter fits of laughter. The look not only on her face but also her families faces was priceless 😂😂😂
I had one too
Didn't they have a boys version,it was dragons.
@@crimsonmoonrise9785 yes
I thought of that video as soon as they mentioned them 😂
I saw something like that on "AFV" or "America's Funniest Home Videos".
We’ve nerfed everything so much the dummies never learned the hard lessons.
I'm reminded of the classic SNL sketch with Dan Ackroyd protesting that any toy can be dangerous. Some things are stupid and should never made it past the design phase, yes, but at some point you also need to hold parents responsible. If 10 million units have been sold and there have only been five reported incidents, I kinda feel like that's an issue with the user, not the product. Some of these toys just required better adult supervision.
I saw a kid get impaled with a pencil once, apparently according to the people who came up with this list, that should have been on here too.
Is that the skit where they have a new toy called 'bag of glass'. 😂
I love that skit. Akroyd plays such a scumbag. 😄
Perhaps we should give toymakers and parents mandatory IQ tests.
Accidents can happen even with adult supervision, though.
Any parent that leaves a small baby unattended in a tub that full probably shouldn't have a baby.
The issue with those floaters is, even if they were super reliable (which they apparently weren't), it encourages the development of a bad habit; not minding babies/toddlers when they most need attention. In theory the devices could serve as a safety net, allowing the baby to have more independent fun as the guardian takes a more hands-off role of watching them just in case something goes wrong, it's a slippery slope, since the one watching them might develop a habit of looking away for longer and longer periods of time as the device keeps doing its job consistently. It only takes one failure to kill, however. I, unfortunately, could see someone getting used to it working as intended, getting distracted by some minor crisis (like another child crying, or a loud noise elsewhere, etc.) and just thinking 'the baby'll be fine, they've got their floatie thing, I"ll be back in less than a minute' and most likely that IS the sort of event that occurred on many occasions and they were apparently proven right, which just reinforces the bad thought process. When events like that happen normally, the guardian would either take the baby out of the water, bringing them with them, or laying them wrapped in a towel on the bathroom floor or somewhere they can't fall from, or some other idea.
The fact that no deaths resulted from these devices is actually a little surprising. Most likely the times they failed were when the babies were being observed (which, again in theory, should have been 'at all times'). Honestly, the device doesn't even look comfortable. It just seems like a _bad idea_ to put so much potential strain on a baby's neck in the first place, even if in theory it should be fine (between the water buoyancy and the floaty's air cushion), it just seems like the babies are essentially being supported by the equivalent of a soft clamp around their neck.
This comment should have more likes than the f****** video
I grew up in the 60's. My toy iron plugged in and heated up. My mother told me to never plug it in and I never did. I wasn't smarter than any other child, just more obedient!
Mom said don't touch the hot thing. Okay, I'll find something else to do.
Ahh..those 1950's chemistry toy sets. Real fun lol
in 2002 I was 13 an i found a full chemistry set and a partial one In one of my grandmas closets she had 10 kids, it was one of my uncles. I was excited and wanted to mess around with it and they all freaked out and threw it away then went through the entire house to see what else was still in there they found all kinds of crazy stuff. I never should have told anyone
Remember sock em boppers? I broke my brothers nose with that
A 4 year old died while swallowing the toy that is made for 12 and up. Even if the parent buys the older sibling the toy, the toy should be in the siblings bedroom if not played with. On top of that, some parents give these young kids those toys, regardless the warning.
Sorry for your loss
"I'd simply instruct the 4 year old not to eat the toy." "When I have teenagers, they will always have their rooms clean and homework done. They also will never leave their shoes around and do the dishes without being asked."
@@joet3935 thats a joke if iv ever seen one teens cleaning their rooms yea right we wait until its at its very worse to clean
Yeah this is part of the fun
@@Tremaine27what do you mean his loss he said nothing about his kid
Ever want to twist your ankle? MOON SHOES!!!
My rollerblades were responsible for more of my ankle injuries than my cousins Moon Shoes. 🤣 🤣 🤣
@@feraltaco4783 I used my moon shoes like 5 times as a child and was like... I don't get it.
What about in-line skates...I don't see those things anymore.
@rayharvey1330 I literally just got hit by a kid on 1 yesterday in front of my house..... my girlfriend still loves them too and begs to try them with her and I like my ankles unsnapped thanks
@@rayharvey1330 I really miss my rollerblades.
The small burns we got as kids, probably saved us from much worse injuries later. You can't survive if you don't know danger.
Just give kids cotton wool balls to play with.
Not everyone needs to do the dumb stuff before realizing it's dumb. Even as a child. Some learn from words and warning labels.
@@sissichu You must be fun at parties.🤣
@@sissichu yea the boring ones
What « small burns »????
Let's see...toys that hurt like hell to step on: jacks, leggos, Polly pockets, the list goes on. Nothing like getting up in the middle of the night and stepping on these landmines.
What about the lite brite pegs being a choking hazard?
Reading your comment makes me feet hurt bad... real bad, omgoodness jacks
Good thing Legos haven't caused problems, right? RIGHT? (nope)
I owned 7 of these toys, never got hurt, never _swallowed_ anything and was an age old enough to not be stupid enough to do so. This doesn’t apply to all of these, but parents are often careless, don’t teach their kids common sense, leave them unsupervised and buy toys for kids WAY too young.
Kids don't swallow things because they're stupid. They do it because they're toddlers who don't know any better, or they swallow the stuff by accident.
@ nah, I never said that. I know why toddlers and babies put things in their mouths, we’re talking about kids who do things like launch skydancers in the house and get their eye taken out, stuff like that.
@SunBunz It's not like the kids were trying to hurt themselves. The way the Sky Dancers flew was unpredictable as the video mentions (I remember playing with one once and sometimes it flew across the room while others it flew diagonally and still others it didn't even make it off the bed I was sitting on), and their entire purpose was to be launched. They weren't really marketed as outdoor toys, either. So of course kids were going to play with them inside.
Plus you could have things happen like a sibling walking into a room just in time to get a wing to the face. Accidents happen, plain and simple.
@ another “well actually” keyboard warrior. I don’t need a lecture honey, you’re missing my point.
Some of these toys require a bit of intelligence to operate, like Creepy Crawlers. I had Creepy Crawlers. Sometimes, the mold grabber would get janky and the mold would come out crooked or the wrong way, and it would fall. You had to be smarter than the toy and just let it fall, knowing the hot mold could burn you. I had so much fun with Creepy Crawlers as a kid, especially with the glow-in-the-dark goo. Mixing and matching different colors. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the early 90s.
My brother had it too. And my sister and I had this one to make jewelry where you'd put a powder into the mold and heat it up on a little hot plate. LOL
I burned the shit out of myself a few times but learned to not be such a dummy with molten rubber. Always wonder if someday we'll get lung cancer from the fumes!
Let me get this right, a toy Lightsaber was a burn hazard? You can't make this up XD
Sounds like an Onion headline. 🤣
This entire video was sooo bad
Yeah, I think the battery compartment could overheat or something. It does happen.
@@SuperSimmerGal I know. It was just that a toy Lightsaber was ACTUALLY burning people. Kinda ironic.
Instant wisdom. Why did everyone look so old back then? You played with these and learned valuable things about life.
I loved cap guns as a kid, and still collect them (but don't carry them with me lol). I used to play "war" with my friends. It was always, "I got you!" - "No, I got you first!" ad infinitum... lol
It's a good thing no one in my family got pissy about me playing with "boy" toys because I loved playing with cap guns. My brother and I came up with all kinds of games. Damn I miss him.
I never got hurt by a cap gun, or if i did it was so trivial i dont remember it today. The bang, the smell i remembered loving it.
As a kid I used to fire the cap pistol next to my ear because I liked the "ringing". I no longer need a cap pistol.
I had Polly Pocket when I was like 2 or 3. I don’t think I ever put them in my mouth. They were just super cute and fun.
I remember being little when they were popular. Their commercials were the first time I heard the melody from _Rockin' Robin_ before hearing the song itself a couple years later.
Same here. I knew it wasn't food, it was a toy.
I had them too and they were never recalled. My mother in law got one for my 4 year old. I think she played with it for a few days and now I have no clue where it went.
@@creativelychandraTwo and three year olds don't put things in their mouth because they think they're food- they do it because that's how they explore things.
I saw the baby float product on Shark Tank and laughed right along with the sharks. Then I realized that, yes, it's a seriously disturbing and dangerous product.
Man I grew up in the eighties, and We had some crazy toys and I don't remember ever really hurting myself with any of them.
For any of you that wanted Moon Shoes as a kid, let me put you on game to the better adult version. Kangoo Jumps are considered exercise equipment and you’ll look goofy af, but they’re so fun!!!
We have a privacy fence so I put on some Jock Jams and bounce around the back patio😂
I loved Moon Shoes. My cousins had a pair. I had to be careful. My ankles were already messed up from rollerblading. But they were fun, if you weren't a moron. 😂
@@feraltaco4783 i myself had a pair of moon shoes as a kid! One of the most fun presents I had ever gotten! I remember I used them so much, the rubber bands that held it together wore out!
My sister had a pair. They're so fun!
I still have a pair from the '90s. 😂
Even as someone who is an Eagle Scout, I had no idea that toy companies had sold wood burning kits like they had. For those not familiar with Scouting, our safety guide is called the Guide to Safe Scouting. There are many activities in Scouting that are reserved for older scouts and adults, such as the likes of the wood burning kits or other crafts like this. I am glad the kits were recalled!
You were showing two entirely different products for the "Yo-Yo Ball."
I had the hard plastic one
Yeah...good ol' Mojo. Almost great and almost suck at the same time!!!
Mojo is kind of lazy with its video clips.
They do this silly crap all the time. So bad... 🤦🏻♂️
!!! I knew adults that got their finger stuck in the eating cabbage patch doll! Still makes me laugh today.
#27 "the toy will blow your "Area" off, we have a word for people like that it's called "Stupid!""-A quote from Danger Dolan
Nah Star, Red Foreman
Dumba$$
I remember that video
I remember that UA-camr.
I remember that vid (and channel), too. So much nostalgia.
Damn. I forgot about Dolan. 🤣
Those 1st lawn darts you show were not the ones they sold. The second set you see are what was sold in stores.
You got smart real quick. We werent dumb enough to walk in front of them.
Judging by the quality of many adults today, these toys should have been left on the market! You've heard of "natural selection?" 😊
More than likely they would’ve fine tuned them to add more power or use them as experiments on their UA-cam channel
I could see How Ridiculous using some of these dangerous toys as their experiment when they throw them through panes of glass they have set up or seeing if they can crush the object with a giant homemade axe
Agree!
Amen!!!
Been saying that for years. We gotta stop interfering with Darwinism.
😂 Omg, I really believe that if that was to happen people would not only have more common sense but also we’d have less idiots in this world.
On second thought….
90% of the population lacks common sense and basic intellect.
So never mind that thought… 😅
I just attended a funeral for a 3 year old who drowned
Always, always stay within arms reach of a young child in water
"Hanna Montana poisoning children?'
Music in the background...."There's a party in the USAAAAA"🥳🥳🥳
🤣😖🥴😬
Party in the USA was a crappy ass song.
@@oscarramos5681Though it did end up becoming the unofficial anthem to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011. So one would regard May 1st, 2011 as indeed being "a party in the USA."
@@MichaelLovely-e6d and that's terrible.
"Come on, we need toy ideas!" "How about literal bombs?" "Jensen, you're a genius!"
Some of these make sense to ban, like asbestos powder and uranium. A lot of them seem fine to me though. They just require more adult supervision than they were getting. We think a kid can't handle holding a hot stick without burning the house down when kids used to help hunt and farm and build. Kids do need protection but they'll never learn anything if they're not allowed to do anything
As the video said, glass blowing is dangerous even for adults. It should not be done by children, period.
I can't stop thinking about Happy Fun Ball.
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
IYKYK
Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture,should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Only $14.95 at participating stores.
As the old saying goes, "sometimes life's best lessons are learned through pain."
"Pain is the ultimate teacher." -Bowser
@@JamesDavy2009 Bowser has a point, he's not wrong lol.
@@PegfoxxJack Black is a legend, man!
@@jorgezaldivar3113 A classic dude. Jack Black as Bowser was just perfect lol.
Violence has its place in education. Pain is a powerful educator. Sometimes you gotta get injured to learn.
Never bring a knife to a skydancer battle
Clackers made a comeback in the 90s, we all had some, but they were designed differently and we called them knockers. 2 balls each on their own triangle connected to a longer handle...so u could knock the balls together without any whiplash or ricochet effects
It’s been years since I’ve even seen a Nerf commercial. It’s even been a couple months since I’ve seen a gaming commercial.
Seriously why is it all drugs and lawyer offices?
Hope that's a rhetorical question.
You see a lot of toy commercials on kids channels.
yep. wrong channel/time.
you are watching old people shows... hence old people commercials.
Old ........ People.....
LOVED this video!
Klick Klacks ruled in the late 60s/early 70s! I had a red pair and a purple pair (they were glass then), and could keep them going simultaneously in each hand at the same time! Paddle ball experience helped, I was pretty good at the too!😁
One of the funniest videos I’ve ever seen online was a ‘Skydancer’ flying into a roaring fireplace!! Dad was sitting next to the hearth, but was too busy texting, mom was filming, the gift recipient’s reaction was priceless!😂
Looking back, I think the most dangerous toy I can remember was ‘Super Elastic Bubble Plastic’…where you blew up a blob from a squeeze tube with a straw. Wasn’t much point to the end result, but pretty sure I was gettin stoned on those chemicals in the 5th grade!!😆 Oh, and ‘Incredible Edibles.’ Lordy, how many toxic chemicals were in those spiders and other shapes we made and ate?!🤣
I know, right me and my siblings used to take turns sometimes for an hour or more we would see who could keep them going the longest.
We played with all of these and survived- these toys made ya tough. You learned lessons to help you later in life. Tough and resilient
We had real toys. None of that plastic nonsense. Metal all the way baby. 😂
"You got hurt by your toy? Well, what did you learn?"
Kids today r to soft also we actually played with toys these kids now have tablets and phones smh.. My son plays with action figures and stuff so im good lol.
Survivorship bias spotted.
And yet you are whining here lol
@@BladeValant546 who's whining?
There are worse ways to go than playing with your favorite toy.
As dangerous as the toys were, parents could still discipline their kids..
We didnt worry about darts and explosions.
They would beat us with our toys lol
Oh, you decided to be stupid with your toy after you were warned. We'll, hope you learned something. 🤣 🤣 🤣
@@feraltaco4783 Yep. In college, 2010, IN COLLEGE, I had a professor that said...
"I told my son not to put stuff in the power outlet. I warned him a second time. The third time, I let him find out.
"He never tried it again!"
DC Electricity
Professor Lauren Bitikofer, Director of Flight Sciences
Great guy!
@@Caderic sometimes you gotta just learn the hard way. 😂
@@feraltaco4783 I know right? And this was at a university. Most university is all about bleeding hearts and coddling people.
I guess that's the difference between the school I went to and most others. They loved you at the school I went to, but they wanted you to be an intelligent, productive adult, that was mentally and physiologically mature.
@@Caderic all I know is that, were it not for my mother teaching me to not be a stupid pussy, I wouldn't be here.
I remember back when my neighbor friends and I were fans of sky dancers. We would put on 😎sunglasses, turn on fans with no cages, using the highest setting, then shoot off sky dancers, trying to get them whacked and mashed in the fans. Such great times. Danger and fun are like peanut butter and jelly. They go together so well and you must balance them. You must never have too much or too little of either. 😀👍
Anyone remember Footies( not sure if this is the original name)? It was a plastic ring with a rubber tube w/ a ball on the end and you put it on one leg and jump with the other leg.
Oh I remember those from school
Omg I loved those, its name was Skip It if I remember correctly
Yeah I remember those, it was called Skip It in my area also
My daughter has on she was just playing with yesterday.
Skip-It
What's so funny to me is a lot of the items on this list wouldn't necessarily hurt anyone if parents just supervised their kids like they should lol
Sometimes stuff can happen so fast that a parent can't stop it even if they are supervising. It's also impossible to watch a child every second of every day. You might have to turn your back for a split second, and sometimes that's all it takes.
Proud to say I survived Lawn Dart shenanigans. Somehow.
Who ever did that are lucky to survive that. When it comes to it. It gains more speed going down. From what I hear about that, it will cause a pretty bad injury. For me personally, I never had them.
None of my favorite toys were on the list, but I remember Jeff Foxworthy talking about wood-burning kits ("A metal stick that heated up to 5,000 degrees, and a short cord that guaranteed you were always right next to the drapes when you played with it!") and lawn darts ("You catch one of THOSE with your head, you're gettin' coloring books for Christmas for the rest of your life!") on one of his comedy albums. 😂😂😂
Oh, give it a rest. Getting out of bed is dangerous. Some of these are stupid and should have been recalled, others . . . Pogo Sticks??? Chemistry sets??? Wood burning kits??? Water rockets?? Some of my favorite toys growing up, and I neither killed myself, injured myself, anyone else, nor did i burn down the house.
Amen
@sianne79 Apparently, you survived.
The chemistry set contained literal asbestos, though.
I’m convinced there was a mixup at the shipping docks. Clackers got sent to toy stores and stuffed animals were sent to a ninja training school
To a ninja,anything can be a weapon.
@@crimsonmoonrise9785I can totally see a ninja using clackers as a bola weapon or maybe a grapple weapon, as for a teddy bear that might take a bit of engineering to make a weapon ( unless beating your opponent with it would count)
@@jeanbean7183maybe they could hide some kind of weight inside and use it as a flailing weapon. I believe Michael in Disney’s Peter Pan did that with his teddy bear and a cannonball😆
_(quoting Principal Victoria)_ "The Clackers were meant to go to the ninja training school and the stuffed animals were meant to come here."
@@JamesDavy2009 I certainly didn’t come up with the line , but I heard from a comedian back in the 80’s , years before South Park. I’m sure I was said before then.
My version of Darth Maul’s saber was one where you’d hold down a button on either side and swing it downward to ignite it. That was much safer than the battery-powered one, just so long as there was nothing or no one to hit while igniting or swinging.
Oh thank goodness.
I LOVED my Creepy Crawlers! My favorite was the mold for the skeleton kit... the bone parts snapped together after you made it. And I had the glow in the dark goop to make the bugs and such... it was great! I can still smell it today.
I'm surprised Skip-It wasn't on here. My friend sprained her ankle on one of those in the 90s, lol. It was like a ball attached to a long piece of plastic with a loop on the other end. You put your ankle through the loop and then have to jump over the long piece of plastic. The ball had a counter on it, too. Im bad at explaining things, but look it up. You'll see what i mean.
I remember having aqua dots when I was younger, but even as a kid, I smart enough not to eat them
well luckily you didn't eat them cause this video got it wrong GHB isnt ecstacy its roofies
We LOVED our CSI kits.
of course, women now only consume content related to makeup tutorials or serial killers lmao
Rebecca always does the most legendary commentary.
The clips? Also legendary.
Watch MOJO? Addictive
Definitely had the original Creepy Crawlers oven. Got burned a few times with that... Lol
And, unlike the girls version, you couldn't even eat them
The smells of burning flesh and toxic plastics are a fond memory I’ll always cherish
I had one and I never got burned.
It should be flat out illegal to sell a hammock without a spreader bar.
Growing up in the 80s 90s was the best time to be a kid
The question we really need to start asking: At what point is it not a safety issue, and more just parents getting their kids a toy they're not old enough (or smart enough) to handle?
When I was 6 we visited Chicago from Australia in the 1980s, my parents banned me from playing with my cap gun because it looked like a Mac-10 and they thought I'd be shot by police.
That sort of thing just didn't happen in Australia.
And as a retired law enforcement officer here in New York, that whole claim is WAY overblown. Most times it does happen is because someone takes the fake gun, modifies it by removing the orange tip that is now by law on toy guns or painting it black which is a felony all by itself and then they use the toy / fake gun in a crime. It isn't "kids" doing that, it's adults.
@@Bayan1905Tamir rice
@@princesstamika That is very tragic. I hate that it happened, but it is not common. It is by far the very very extreme exception to the rule.
It didn't happen in Australia, but your government needlessly made gun control so far worse that even toy guns (airsoft) are not allowed now.
Whoever made the cuts to random clips of shows and what not deserves a raise 😂
The worst toys ever have to be the ones that in the 60s and 70s, were glow in the dark, but actually radio active. A notorious example in the UK was an Eagle transporter model made to promote Space: 1999 a Gerry Anderson science fiction series. I nearly brought one as an adult art student in the early 80s, but couldn't afford it. When I saw one secondhand some years later, at a Comic Mart, I didn't buy it, because I knew the paint on it was cancerous. Lucky miss.
Are you familiar with the radium girls? That was tragic.
My mom got me lawn darts in the mid 80s around my 5-6th birthday. Some of the best fun I had as a child. No one ever got hurt and I had some pretty dumb friends back then.
Candle-making kit, which I got from my parents in the late 60s/early 70s when I was a kid. I remember not being able to use it unless one of my parents was with me to melt the wax. Never did use it due to lack of interest. My younger siblings got into it, messing everything up and the kit ended up it the garbage with no candles ever being made but my brother and sister got a lot of fun out of it!
this episode had me in tears 😂😂😂😂😂
How is #1 not the nuclear set? It came with uranium! There's nothing more scary and dangerous than playing with uranium.
Uranium isn't really all that dangerous. It is barely radioactive. They used to add it to paint on dishes called Fiestaware. Uranium is actually more common than silver in the Earth's crust. It is all over the place and in a lot of rocks.
You guys forgot Alabama Man and Wild Whacky Action Bike. 😂😂😂
Fun Facts: #30 is shown and was going to be used for interrogation in one of the infamous SpongeBob Episodes, and #15 was in fact used by an Earthbound character Jeff (Who is a kid.) as his Assist Trophy weapon in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, for 3DS, for Wii U, and Ultimate.
Jeff uses bottle rockets as his go-to weapon.
I clearly remember walking past lawn darts when I went to K-Mart back in the day.
We played lawn darts. You leaned not to walk in front of them.
Common sense dictates what you shouldn't do. Too bad there are tons of people without it
Weren't the lawn darts domilar to Jarts ?
My sister has a copy of this dangerous toy
@@susannpatton2893I get the common sense argument with Jarts. But you're going to have deaths even if everyone were as safe as possible. Nobody ever bats 1.000 in baseball. The greatest HoF MLB stars don't get it right all the time. Besides, in this world you will find a-holes who WILL use them as weapons.
@@TabithaReminiec3399they weren't just similar... Jarts I believe was a brand name of lawn darts.
What about “Johnny Switchblade: Adventure Punk?” 😁
I had the less safe version of Creepy Crawlers and Gilbert Chemistry set, as well as BB and Cap guns. My sister had the old metal Easy Bake Oven. We both had the old lethal lawn darts.
I still have a blow-gun around here somewhere. Also has this plastic welding-rod model kit "Spinwelder". It came with a little drill which accepted proprietary rods. The drill would spin the rod really fast, and when you used it on the model, that would melt the plastic together. The kit was meant for you to basically weld specific areas or on holes in the model sort of like a rivet, but I figured out that you could take the sprues off of regular model kits, and spin-weld them onto the special base that fit in that drill -- and use it to weld all sorts of plastic together. Burnt myself a few times, but learned fast. Actually still have the drill from that kit.
They're other toys that are not dangerous, like Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Tech Deck, Barbie, Bratz, Transformers, G.I Joe, He-Man, Air Hogs, Monster Jam, Power Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Wars, etc.
THIS GUY gets it.
I threw a Hot Wheel at my brother when I was younger and he got a cut on his head. Any toy can be dangerous or safe, depending on how you use it. 😂
As a 15 year old in 1996, it really upset me. I had a paper route and had my own money, so I bought my own toys. One of the lines I bought was the various Star Trek lines. If you did the math, 1701 figures divided among just the USA amounted just over 34 figures per state! That wasn't even figuring in other countries. And Picard was already selling on the secondary market for $1000!!! I did eventually get the box set, but still it ruined my desire to keep collecting, knowing I'd never have them all. I still got as many of the figures as I could, but to this day there are several I don't have. And there are many others that were limited, such as the Next Gen crew in their movie uniforms that were Target Exclusives and three different 7 of 9s that were all limited in various ways. Playmates screwed up then and still has yet to figure out the collector market, as can be seen by their most recent failure to relaunch the line.
Lol, it reminds me of the old SNL skit. Box of glass for the kids
Was it SNL or MadTV that had Litter Critters?
Bag o’ glass. Dan Akroyd and Candace Bergen I still get uncontrolable giggles watching that skit.
@@crimsonmoonrise9785SNL for sure.
We used to play a game called stick wars where we would throw sticks at each other as hard as we could from a distance.
Needless to say the sessions would end when someone got hit.
1:40
so, not just water, but also some nice plastic shrapnel shattering in your face or so? xD niiiice idea
26:01 you guys should’ve put the clip from 1000 Ways To Die about the lawn darts, that would’ve beennfunny 😆
5:42 Bruh, I got those one Fourth of July and I LOVED them! Kept the pair for years until I lost the red side. I still wish I had a set with me now.
25:17 or the vibrations or the thrusting?
What about "Skip It" and "Razor Scooters" 😂😂😂
Growing up I never and I mean NEVER used a RC plane that has worked. My childhood brain won’t accept it. 😂 has anyone ever actually played with one?
Those Sky Dancer toys were pretty cool.
I see lists like this and just think that we've grown so soft 😭
And then you see that there were toys that included radioactive pieces, only to realize that we were that close to living in the Fallout universe
@@greatbrandini3967 "...we were that close to living in the Fallout universe" Don't be so dramatic.
@@Caderic dude, it's a joke about the corporations in Fallout having no issue marketing radioactive products/beverages to consumers. Before this video, I had no idea that such a thing has ever existed IRL
@@greatbrandini3967 Maybe spent less time on video games and get out and see the world.
@@Caderic I probably see more of the world on a weekly basis than you, but sure random dude on the Internet who thinks that it's common knowledge that we sold radioactive products to children
I enjoyed this slightly longer form list it was good
WatchMojo- Taking hard plastic to the face doesn't sound like a good time.
All of OF models : is this shots at us.
Literally!
23:57 The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory... I never had one and I thought such toys would be pure fiction as in 1978s comdedy show "Weihnachten bei den Hoppenstedts" (Christmas at the Hoppenstedt family) where they bought their child a nuclear-power-plant-toy actually being able to work.
Ok I actually owned the C.S.I Kit but thank Heavens I never opened it as I only found out as an adult about the asbestos issue also I disagree with Lawn Darts being Number 1 for the simple reason Number 3 should've easily topped the list since it you know actually contained active uranium
Uranium isn't really all that dangerous. It is barely radioactive. They used to add it to paint on dishes called Fiestaware. Uranium is actually more common than silver in the Earth's crust. It is all over the place and in a lot of rocks. A heavy spike through your skull on the other hand. That could mean instant death and did for three children from what I've read.
In the mid to late 70's, here in Canada we had smooth, red plastic "boot covers" (not sure how else to describe them), that we strapped on over our boots and then slid down hills on our feet that were made into slick red death sliders. 😂😂 I can't believe none of us died, but lord, they were a blast! 😅
Thank god lawn darts have been modified to be safe.
arent they plastic tipped now?
Literally anything can be dangerous... i had almost all these toys growing up and they made some of the most prominent memories for me. Im glad my parents let me be a wild rambunctious boy growing up and let me have fun.
God... most of these toys were only a danger because over protective people can't live outside a bubble without freaking out.
Did you watch the video?! Kids died sometimes.
@@princesstamika
Balls on a string - Hit and hurt no deaths
Water Rocket - Potential injuries No deaths
Light Sabres - Injuries No Deaths
Pew Pew Belt Buckle - Cap gun, Potential Injuries no death.
Pogo sticks - Injuries no deaths
Orbeez - POTENTIAL SAFETY HAZARD - no death
Super Blast Balls - Possible Injuries No deaths
Yoyo Balls - injuries no Death
Glass Bowing Kit - Possibility of injuries, no death
Spinning fiary barbie sky dancers..... My god... these were NOT as severe in the injury department as they made it seem... broken bones? REALLY? No deaths
Polly Pocket - Not even a Swallowing hazard, magnetic part swallowing fears NO DEATHS
Baby Floating thing - 50 cases of failure and fear of yada yada NOT A SINGLE DEATH
Wood Burning Kit - Fear of fires, none reported and no deaths.
Creepy Crawlers - Fear of burns No deaths
Magic Pistol - Banned for fear of what might happen, no deaths.
Bottle Rocket - It's baking soda and vinegar..... FEAR of what could happen, NO deaths.
Easy Bake oven, see Creepy Crawlers...
Trampoline - Risk of injury, no deaths.
Hammock... PLEASE! No death.
Aqua Dots - THESE were toxic, 3 comas and brain damage THIS ONE I'll give you. But odds are a kid that ate em would have eaten lead paint chips too.
Hanna Montana Card game - Carrying Case NOT the toys. Possibility of lead eating no deaths.
Cabbage patch snacktime dolls - Ignorant kids got their fingers stuck in the moving mouth.... LMFAO!!!!!!! Hurpa Durp!
Radio Control Airplane - no deaths just injuries
Zulu Blowing game - I hear they inhaled the darts because they couldn't obey instructions NO deaths though
Launch station - Choking hazzard 1 death
Fingerprint kit - Had Asbestos in it
Moon shoes - Injuries no deaths
Atomic Lab - I wish I had one of these growing up... More kids need things like this.
No deaths.
Toy pew pews - No deaths just injuries. Kids came out more normal with these around
Lawn Darts - Potential injuries 1 Death
K count - 2
Parents and kids need to be smarter, their toys do not need to be made safer.
Didn't grow up in US, but close calls were the best and most memorable moments of my childhood.
Some toys shouldn't be near children. 🎉
That’s why they’re called adult toys. 😉
Those sky dancer toys are being re-made today! My child has one that is even more dangerous if you believe it, it’s the same concept except it’s more like a drone without any control, you turn it on and the wings spin and it’s starts to fly. In order to stop it you have to grab the feet of it while trying not to get wacked by the spins wings lol
Is anyone else concerned that products aren't tested enough before hitting the selves after watching this?
No, I'm much more convinced that kids must be getting stupider. Or parents lazier. Most likely both.
Omg I loved creepy crawlers-the original version sounds actually dangerous. Loved those magnetic Polly pockets too
I'm so glad I grew before the era of the snowflakes
Ah the good old days when there was lead in the gas, cigarettes in restaurants, acid in the rain and the rivers burst into flame. It was paradise.
Burned the hell out of my thumb on the Creepy Crawlers hot plate as a kid in the mid 1960s. It was still my favorite toy EVER! My thumb healed and I don’t seem to have any health issues from the fumes. My friend had the Easy Bake Oven. We never got hurt on the oven. But the Thing Maker (the name of the hot plate that cooked the plastic Goop to make the creatures cook into solid plastic) and Creepy Crawlers were fabulous to a creative kid with a passion for three-D
art.