I had the “Creepy Crawler -Thing Maker” as a kid and never had a problem playing with it. No burns or eating the plastic bugs it made. And mine was the original since I was about 8 in the ‘60’s.
Was expecting this to show up on the list. I've heard of a fair few of the others on the list too, so it was a bit surprising that lawn darts weren't mentioned.
Yeah, one of the lunch ladies at my high school took one to the head as child. She suffered permanent brain damage and remained mentally disabled ever since. I always thought she was just born like that, when I found out I felt so bad.
I was born in the 1960s in a family with six kids and very generous grandparents. We had pretty much every death toy released prior to 1980. And then, there were all the creative things we found ways to make, misuse, and destroy on our own. Most of us made it to adulthood, but we sure sustained a lot of injuries and mishaps that would not be tolerated today.
@@vectorthehop3945 In my family, we all survived to adulthood. Amongst my small circle of friends, 3 motor vehicle accident fatalities and one case of asphyxiation (not the creepy kind). Oh, and somebody burned the house down, but we're not sure exactly how that happened. I shot myself through the hand with a homemade dart gun, partially severed a couple of fingers but was able to recover, had more burns, scrapes, electric shocks, falls, and bruises than I can remember, had a couple of severe injuries from bicycle accidents, fell out of a few trees, etc, etc, etc. My sister nearly bled out after running into, and shattering, one of those sliding glass patio doors. She wound up with a few hundred stitches. I don't think we were very well supervised, but there was also just a lot more tolerance for this back then. When I look back on it, it's actually pretty horrific, but at the time, that's just the way it was. Anyway, we didn't need tattoos or piercings because we were covered head to toe in stitches, bruises, burns, and scars.
@@jaex9617 I think it’s really interesting too to compare it to things as well like corporal punishment in schools. Adults just eventually figured out that they couldn’t just let kids do anything they wanted unsupervised. My story is a bit different since mine is trauma related, but even in the 90s in my neighborhood it was common to just run out around the block and hang out with other kids. But nowadays we get helicopter parents and that’s damaging as well. Thankfully most of the safety changes from these toys has helped companies to make safer toys from the start.
Grew up in the 90's. Surprised how many of the toys we grew were actually hazards to us. My grandmother was oblivious to reality and lived in her own reality. She would often say "It's part of your upbrining."
I had the CSI kit, my grandparents gave it to me for christmas. The recall was announced before I ever used it. I still have it sealed in box to this day. My parents never told me what was wrong with it and I only learned today that I now have a bag of asbestos powder sitting around in my closet somewhere. Thank god I never opened it.
Honestly, my sister and I had quite a few of these also. But it goes to show the big difference a little bit of common sense and parental supervision can make. But regardless, I'm happy that no more kids got hurt than they did.
I've read a story about a toy that got recalled, not because it was dangerous, but because it was angering parents. It was a toy Harry Potter broomstick, that vibrated. The recall reason? Well....girls of all ages were enjoying this broom too much.
As a kid I learned you can also start a fire with a magnifying glass. "Safe for kids" is basically a meaningless phrase to a youngster determined to cause mischief.
When I was a 4 year old or so, I had (1) touched the car's hot exhaust pipe and found out why NOT to do that, and (2) stuck my finger in a VCR and ejected the tape when nobody was around. I pushed the tape back in. I also (3) lowered myself out the living room window, which had probably a 12 foot drop beneath, then pretended to be in trouble before pulling myself back up. *Why?* I don't know, I think I just got ideas in my head and went and did them. Some of it might have been trying to emulate parts in life, practicing things (as kids do, like the one I saw trying to write on a Debit Card Pad at the grocery store while not knowing why his Mom was doing that.) Besides, I somehow had a habit of not listening to my Mom. Not that she saw any of those 3 aforementioned events happening, nor did she see the time I obliterated the stove's glass door cover by accident. But Grandma saw that last one, and it wasn't intentional. The _tempered glass_ was hit on the edge, probably by a ceramic bowl... That'll do it. I didn't get yelled at for the last one at all.
I remember having one of the Sky Dancer dolls. I only used the flying feature a few times (outside lol) because I had one too many close calls with it almost landing on the roof. After that, she became Barbie’s fairy cousin visiting from out of town.
So many ceiling fans so broken behind parents back by that one cousin or that brother got ahold of it. Lol sometimes they just didn't know how to hold back. They always had to pull that Cords hard as they could. No joke though it always surprised me how fast they could fly up and how fast they would smack that wall once it met the ceiling fan.
@@williamthompson1455 Oh my mom made it very clear that it was over for us if we used any projectile toys inside. If it wasn’t clear who was responsible, everyone was in trouble so we kept each other and any visiting kids in line lol
Wow. The 1998 Power Wheels recall was one of the first news reports I remember hearing about. Also, I remember seeing commercials for a lot of these old toys.
I remember using a slip n slide when I was 9. My parents and I didn't realize that there were little plastic bits that were meant to be hammered into the ground and keep it in place. When I used it, one of the plastic bits lodged itself firmly in my knee. I'm 31 now and I still have that scar.
I gotta say, I am incredibly surprised that Lawn Darts didn't make this list. I too had the "Creepy Crawler - Thing Maker" and never had any problems with it.
I knew that the Easy Bake Oven would be on here. I actually owned slap bracelets. My daughters owned the Sky Fliers and never had any problems. All 3 of my kids had Power Wheels also. A lot of these toys I have never heard of so this was really informative. Thank you for another great video and I hope everyone has a wonderful day.
I loved playing with the Magnetix as a kid. Never thought they looked like candy though. I had Moon Shoes that I actually played with regularly, though I wound up using all but 3 elastic bands on them so I wouldn't bottom out on my jumps. There was a gas powered pogo stick that I'm surprised wasn't on here.
I had the 1990's moon shoes and loved them. Only problems I had with them was when I decided to use my teeth to switch out the rubber bands. I remember one of them snapping me on the lip and I had a fat lip for like a week straight. 😂 I was heart broken when my mom threw them away. She got tired of me wearing them in the house, such a bummer.
Gilbert also made a chemistry set with real chemicals that you could make stink bombs, light things on fire, and make ink (I stained my mom's antique rug with mine). They made a microscope too. I had a Water Wiggle, Slip and Slide, Clackers, and the Easy-Bake Oven. There was also a real iron that plugged into the wall and got hot that you could iron clothes with (just made small for kids). I had that too, weird. We didn't get really coddled in the 1960s growing up, you were expected to fall out of trees, wreck your bikes wearing shorts (and no helmets back then). Scrape your elbows and knees and your om would put Mercurochrome on it, which was also called Monkey Blood. Mercurochrome and another popular antiseptic of a generation or two ago, Merthiolate, contained mercury, and turned your skin red, which made it hard to see if you got infected. I had so many skinned knees and elbows, it was just normal. Oh, and Flubber was a movie in 1961 called "The Absent Minded Professor" with Fred McMurry. The professor invented Flubber in the movie. There was a sequel in 1963 called Son of Flubber, McMurry also starred in. I remember those.
Merthiolate and mercurochrome looked similar, but the former was an alcohol-based product which burned like crazy. Mercurochrome was water-based, and didn't hurt.
@samuelrodriguez9801 The reason there was less concern about safety is actually pretty macabre. Before antibiotics and vaccines child mortality was high. If you have 12 babies and end up with 4 teenagers you were doing well. once modern medicine made it an expectation that all your children would survive it became a much bigger deal to loose a child to an accident.
I had the roller blades for Barbie as a kid…I would hold them upside down and spark them on purpose. I once lit a candle with one on purpose. Thankfully, they were so rarely used on Barbie’s feet, they never started an accidental fire.
I was gifted the cabbage patch doll for my 6th birthday, but my parents took it away because of the recall. I was so upset even though they explained to me that the dolls were harmful. I remember telling my grandma I wasn’t a dumb kid sticking my hair or fingers in the doll’s mouth.
The last time I used a Slip-N-Slide was in the 80's. We were all in our 30's and we always used inflatable pool rings to cushion the landing. Worked fine with the right technique. (you didn't want to step on the slide as your last step) The false sense of security there is that since we didn't get hurt, I'd almost be willing to try it today...lol.
So much nostalgia. I had or played with many of these. As for slap bracelets, I think most kids got hurt as a result of hitting each other as hard as we could with them.
Yeah I remember me and my sister having a few of these. But I grew up with my friends using BB guns instead of airsoft. There's just something about seeing your friend in extreme pain because you're doing instead of laughing LOL
I had a Mattel® Creepy Crawlers set and it was one of the most educational toys I ever had- I learned to LET THE MOLD COOL DOWN prior to removing it from the hot plate. Got some nasty burns from it but it did teach me well.
One toy that missed this list was a plastic gun named "Suicide". we played with back in the early 70's. I remember it very well. This 5 or 6 barrel gun had to be loaded with a single "AA" Battery that was supposed to serve as a bullet. Once loaded you were supposed to spin the barrel , put the gun to your head and pull the trigger. If nothing happened you were supposed to pass it to the next person. Each person would do this until the battery lined up with the muzzle and once the trigger was pulled it would light up and make a loud Buzz sound. That meant the you were "dead" and out of the game. Each person would pass this gun around until there was only one person left. That person would be the winner.
9:10 one of those things almost strangled me as a child. My sister had to run in, grab a siscor and come Back out to cut it. By that time I almost passed out. Never touched that thing again I wonder how they even got released. Its obvious that this can wrap around your neck very easily
actually those clackers are actually popular in Indonesia in Indonesia they're called "Latto - latto" and made out of clay I just thought you might need to know this
Ok, who went into my parents’ basement to dig out my childhood? Seriously - all of the toys from the 90s/2000s I either had or wanted so badly as a kid.
The worst injury I had as a child was when I pulled a clock down on my head by the power cord. (I was a toddler.) Interesting that there has been no safety feature introduced addressing this.
I remember having a good number of these as a kid lol. Didn't have a kite tube but I remember seeing them on the lake. Some of them got up to like 30 feet of air. We also saw someone fall from that height in some pretty shallow water and ended up getting sent to the emergency room.
Some of these just needed warnings telling parents to supervise the kids, or simply marketed toward adults instead. It’s a shame that kids’ urge to eat random objects can ruin amazing toys.
I also had, and still have the Lionel electric train with metal tracks. if you happen to step on or touch the two metal tracks at the same time, it would shock the heck out of you.
0:36 ~ 375 °f - 191°C Fifty-two years, 11 models, and more than 40 million units later, the Easy-Bake Oven continues to inspire young chefs. First released with 25 different mixes that included cakes, pizzas, and pretzels, it used what were essentially really hot light bulbs (temperatures could reach up to 375 degrees) to bake.
Another dangerous toy was the 1984 Transformers Megatron toy, it’s alt-form was a realistic Walter P-38 with scope, stock and suppressor. It was dangerous because of how easily people would mistake it for a real gun.
Error Alert! Flubber goes back to a 1961 film produced by Walt Disney titled "The Absent Minded Professor" starring Fred MacMurray and written by Bill Walsh. I'm pretty certain that's where the substance's fame came from along with the inspiration for the 1997 reboot.
that clackers literally become BIG hits in my country every single kids and in every corner of this country, you can hear clackers played by those kids, even adult that force me to wear earphone anytime and everywhere very annoying
I was home schooled, I had creepy crawlers...we used it to make the bugs, and identify the different parts of an insect, or a spider. We were helped by parents, and were never burned, we used oven mits.
@@iminyourroom922 forgot the brand,it was around 15 years ago,and I’m pretty sure my parents did not read the instructions right. But I do have a scar on my arm from where a jagged piece of metal pierced it.
Quite interesting how a radioactive toy set was available to buy, and give to children. I am certain I would've bought that for myself, once I would see it
I think a lot of those deaths and injuries are the results of a lack of adult supervision. I'm a 90s kid and I had lots of "dangerous" toys. I only ever got hurt when I misused those toys. It's called "Watching your kids and following directions." Kids today are not dumb but are less taught by their parents and parents these days rarely pay attention to their kids. As a parent myself I always nurture a healthy paranoia.
Yeah, unfortunately you can’t trust parents to watch their children like they should when using things like easy bake ovens and science kits and parents prefer to blame to the toy makers instead of themselves for not supervising.
The fact that 1940s kids were competent enough to handle mini electric stoves whereas kids today are too dumb to handle a water filled yo-yo really shows how dumb youth has gotten over time. The reason so many of these company’s develop dangerous toys is because kids from the previous generation were intelligent enough to handle them safely.
@@asteria9963 Yes a few kids had accidents. But the vast majority had no problem with it. Kids today would end up killing themselves in large numbers from some of the old school toys that caused minor injuries to a few kids back then.
Used to use one of those kite tubes as a kid while out with my dad in his boat, even in very choppy water. Here they're called a 'biscuit' due to their shape. Myself and my siblings never personally had any problems, but we were also strong swimmers due to being raised close to the ocean. Looking back on it, I can easily see how someone without that asset could end up in a lot of trouble if they come off at a good speed and end up dazed and hurting under the water.
I didn't get injured from my Cabbage Patch doll, but I got the doll's hair stuck in its mouth. When playing with Barbie's skate, you could easily tell it was a lighter, minus the fluid used to keep a fire lit. I am surprised some of the toys were brought back. The "safer" versions don't seem much safer. I also expected lawn darts to be on the list.
I remember the hover boards that kids would plug them into the home's electric outlets. The flaw in the systems were that the electrical batteries would compost causing fires. The other flaws is that adults would fall attempting to ride them. The adults had many emergency room visits, more then children.
I saw a slip’n slide commercial as a kid and thought, that looks fun! Little I know that it was a really thin sheet of plastic and not only did you hit the ground pretty hard, rocks underneath it could scrape you up. I think I used it one time and that was enough. And yes as an adult I watch other “grown ups” use these to hilarious effect. 🤣🤣🤣
I had the creepy crawler, easy bake oven, snap bracelet, Polly pocket (both tiny and normal size), sky dancers, the rollblading barbie, the pokemon kids meal toys (mom's favorite was the screaming toy), and the feed me cabbage patch kid. Both my sister and I turned out fine when we played with our toys. Heck, my sister had a maker that was similar to the creepy crawler, but it created dolls.
Wham-O : Make supposedly harmless toy and even write warning on box Human Child : Somehow find how to harm adult with Wham-O's most harmless toy Wham-O : *WHY ?!* *WHY ?!*
I had the flubber toy, one day I was just rolling it around on the table and my mom comes in and immediately starts freaking out. I looked just like the example kid with red dots everywhere. Cleared up quickly after we threw the flubber away.
You fail to point out that flubber was created in the 1960's because of the original Flubber movie, "The Absent-Minded Professor." That's why flubber was on the market in the '60's, in case anyone was wondering. Flubber with Robin Williams was a remake.
I remember this little glow-in-the-dark bird that my dad had from his childhood (my dad is about 74 now, so this dates back to the late 1950's) and come to find out (later) the bird had to be stored carefully and only viewed sparingly, as it was found to be radioactive (as at the time, they had been using radioactive materials to make things glow in the dark). He still has this toy to this day, but it stays locked up and is only shown for brief periods of time once in a great while for this reason. Not just with toys, but this does remind me of all of things we now know to be dangerous to people, such as the radioactive materials used for glow-in-the-dark items from the mid 20th Century, to other things like Agent Orange which was used during wars, which was later found to cause cancer. I'm sure that in some 20-30 years or something, they will find that all the lithium ion batteries we are using today will have some long-term negative impact on our health.
If you want an interesting (but sad) 10ish min mini-documentary about radium in items, the you should watch the Radial Girls video by Fascinating Horror here on YT. I binged his whole channel just recently. Very interesting videos!
it's not just one person I don't know exactly how many people work one these videos but I'm sure they have full time researchers and writers and a couple different narrators
@@chadwillett619 I can definitely tell there's at least two narrator's... This guy here, his voice is 10x more calming to listen to.... I mean don't get me wrong, other guy is good too, but he's no this guy...lol
I remember when Aqua dots first came out, saw the commercials for them on Nickelodeon. I was like wow those look like fun! But after a personal experience I knew the toys were never as good as they were in the commercials. So I didn’t bother. I didn’t think kids would be poisoned by them.
I think a lot of theses toys(Except the guns and the lead/uranium toys) are only dangerous because no one supervises their kids. I played with darts as a kid, they had blunt ends and could still stick to the board but only played with them while my dad made sure I was safe.
My sister stared fires with an Easy Bake Oven and nearly burnt the house down on 4 separate occasions. The real question was why did my parents keep getting her new ones? I never had an issue with my Creepy Crawlers Oven.
I LOVED my "Thingmaker" creepy crawler set with the plugin hotplate. I even had the Creeple-People spinoff accessory. Oh, and I had the mini dragon version. Our whole house STANK when I fired this thing up. And every now and then, I would get some of the goop right on the plate, and it would smoke like the devil. Still, even today I've heard of kids playing with dangerous "toys". One that comes to mind are high power laser pointers. Some of these cost as little as 10 bucks, but are powerful enough to blind little eyes.
10:18 I actually remember little 4 year old me hopping into one of these with my friend in the driver seat, and my man actually tried to drive off into a street. His dad caught up to us and pulled the little plug In the trunk right before we were about to ride right into a vehicle going full speed.
I seriously wonder how one could get the genious idea to make Clackers out of glass. 'Let's make this thing that's meant to be smashed together out of a material that can shoot high velocity sharp edged fragments everywhere when shattered. What could possibly go wrong?'
"When I was kid we played outside, unsupervised, with just a bottle of bleach, some oily rags, and a pack of matches...and we liked it" -Everybody's Grandpa 🤣🤣🤣
Ah... I used to have one myself... well, the brother version of it, Dragon Flies. But we didn't use them mainly too afraid to use them inside and we can't fly them outside because the yard was too small and didn't want them to stuck on a house roof.
In fairness, the magentic ones were the result of what I call an "Idiot parent" problem. If it says "Contains small parts" DON'T BUY IT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN!
As a kid in the 60's and 70's, our family had several of these toys. We all survived into adulthood. We had a chemistry set that I am sure had several toxic substances that could have killed you. My parents just said, "be careful when playing with that and don't put anything in your mouth."
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I had the “Creepy Crawler -Thing Maker” as a kid and never had a problem playing with it. No burns or eating the plastic bugs it made. And mine was the original since I was about 8 in the ‘60’s.
Me too. One of my favorites.
I had those. Ate the creepy crawlers. Vomited profusely all night long, but didn't make the association. The second time I figured it out.
Me too but ghe safer 90s one
@@ProAlchemist lol probably would of taking me 10 times...I wasn't the smartest
@@NatronFatumallafalla That's how I learned nontoxic does NOT mean edible
I'm surprised lawn darts weren't mentioned. We had them in Cub Scouts, but some kids got lawn darts in their heads, so they're banned.
Was expecting this to show up on the list. I've heard of a fair few of the others on the list too, so it was a bit surprising that lawn darts weren't mentioned.
Yeah, one of the lunch ladies at my high school took one to the head as child. She suffered permanent brain damage and remained mentally disabled ever since. I always thought she was just born like that, when I found out I felt so bad.
the lawn darts aka jarts are what happen if you turn a romen weapon into a childs plaything
In 2020 they did re-release lawn darts with blunt ends
That's cruel. Bad enough these kids have darts in their heads, and now you're going to shun them, too? 😿
I was born in the 1960s in a family with six kids and very generous grandparents. We had pretty much every death toy released prior to 1980. And then, there were all the creative things we found ways to make, misuse, and destroy on our own.
Most of us made it to adulthood, but we sure sustained a lot of injuries and mishaps that would not be tolerated today.
> *most of us made it to adulthood*
who died and how
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@@vectorthehop3945 In my family, we all survived to adulthood. Amongst my small circle of friends, 3 motor vehicle accident fatalities and one case of asphyxiation (not the creepy kind). Oh, and somebody burned the house down, but we're not sure exactly how that happened. I shot myself through the hand with a homemade dart gun, partially severed a couple of fingers but was able to recover, had more burns, scrapes, electric shocks, falls, and bruises than I can remember, had a couple of severe injuries from bicycle accidents, fell out of a few trees, etc, etc, etc. My sister nearly bled out after running into, and shattering, one of those sliding glass patio doors. She wound up with a few hundred stitches. I don't think we were very well supervised, but there was also just a lot more tolerance for this back then. When I look back on it, it's actually pretty horrific, but at the time, that's just the way it was. Anyway, we didn't need tattoos or piercings because we were covered head to toe in stitches, bruises, burns, and scars.
*most of us*
@@kloverleavezisdeadlol The mortality rate was non-zero. But there were exceptions. 🤷🏼♂️
@@jaex9617 I think it’s really interesting too to compare it to things as well like corporal punishment in schools. Adults just eventually figured out that they couldn’t just let kids do anything they wanted unsupervised. My story is a bit different since mine is trauma related, but even in the 90s in my neighborhood it was common to just run out around the block and hang out with other kids. But nowadays we get helicopter parents and that’s damaging as well. Thankfully most of the safety changes from these toys has helped companies to make safer toys from the start.
Grew up in the 90's. Surprised how many of the toys we grew were actually hazards to us. My grandmother was oblivious to reality and lived in her own reality. She would often say "It's part of your upbrining."
I had the CSI kit, my grandparents gave it to me for christmas. The recall was announced before I ever used it. I still have it sealed in box to this day. My parents never told me what was wrong with it and I only learned today that I now have a bag of asbestos powder sitting around in my closet somewhere. Thank god I never opened it.
Honestly, my sister and I had quite a few of these also. But it goes to show the big difference a little bit of common sense and parental supervision can make. But regardless, I'm happy that no more kids got hurt than they did.
except from school shootings and political exposure.
I've read a story about a toy that got recalled, not because it was dangerous, but because it was angering parents. It was a toy Harry Potter broomstick, that vibrated. The recall reason? Well....girls of all ages were enjoying this broom too much.
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this is obviously a lie
@@theachiever117 no it isn't
@@theachiever117 oh it's definitely real, i saw it on other videos
As a kid I learned you can also start a fire with a magnifying glass. "Safe for kids" is basically a meaningless phrase to a youngster determined to cause mischief.
When I was a 4 year old or so, I had (1) touched the car's hot exhaust pipe and found out why NOT to do that, and (2) stuck my finger in a VCR and ejected the tape when nobody was around. I pushed the tape back in. I also (3) lowered myself out the living room window, which had probably a 12 foot drop beneath, then pretended to be in trouble before pulling myself back up.
*Why?* I don't know, I think I just got ideas in my head and went and did them. Some of it might have been trying to emulate parts in life, practicing things (as kids do, like the one I saw trying to write on a Debit Card Pad at the grocery store while not knowing why his Mom was doing that.)
Besides, I somehow had a habit of not listening to my Mom. Not that she saw any of those 3 aforementioned events happening, nor did she see the time I obliterated the stove's glass door cover by accident. But Grandma saw that last one, and it wasn't intentional. The _tempered glass_ was hit on the edge, probably by a ceramic bowl... That'll do it. I didn't get yelled at for the last one at all.
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Narrator: "When a four year old boy shot a missile into his mouth and choked to death."
Background music: "It's time to get *funky!"*
I remember having one of the Sky Dancer dolls. I only used the flying feature a few times (outside lol) because I had one too many close calls with it almost landing on the roof. After that, she became Barbie’s fairy cousin visiting from out of town.
So many ceiling fans so broken behind parents back by that one cousin or that brother got ahold of it. Lol sometimes they just didn't know how to hold back. They always had to pull that Cords hard as they could. No joke though it always surprised me how fast they could fly up and how fast they would smack that wall once it met the ceiling fan.
@@williamthompson1455 Oh my mom made it very clear that it was over for us if we used any projectile toys inside. If it wasn’t clear who was responsible, everyone was in trouble so we kept each other and any visiting kids in line lol
Wow. The 1998 Power Wheels recall was one of the first news reports I remember hearing about. Also, I remember seeing commercials for a lot of these old toys.
Slip and Slide: Not for use by adults
Adults: I see…immediately puts oil on it instead of water to slide faster
why would you cover yourself in oil 💀
Who covers themself in oil? 💀
@@lukeotero Trollge
Our teacher puts soap and water on itw
I remember using a slip n slide when I was 9. My parents and I didn't realize that there were little plastic bits that were meant to be hammered into the ground and keep it in place. When I used it, one of the plastic bits lodged itself firmly in my knee. I'm 31 now and I still have that scar.
I have never been able to slide head first,
Me too. My knee hasn't been right since it happened either 😕.
Ouch. I remember using a Slip n Slide as a kid and being really sore in the abdomen the day after.
I gotta say, I am incredibly surprised that Lawn Darts didn't make this list. I too had the "Creepy Crawler - Thing Maker" and never had any problems with it.
I love blades [just cuz they have a triangle at the end. i love triangles]
Polly Pockets have actually been revived in a different sense now.
Maybe I’m strange but I really love learning about banned toys 😆
Thousands of other people do like me bud your not strange
@@thedevourerofglue9162 thanks
Your no stranger than the 10,000 people who have already watched this including myself!
hehehe ha
@@azman6568 yeah we're no strangers to love
Major props to whoever does the research for Infographics videos
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There was a reddit post about 2 weeks ago about this topic. Reconsider your props
I knew that the Easy Bake Oven would be on here. I actually owned slap bracelets. My daughters owned the Sky Fliers and never had any problems. All 3 of my kids had Power Wheels also. A lot of these toys I have never heard of so this was really informative. Thank you for another great video and I hope everyone has a wonderful day.
I actually have and own about more than 3 slap bracelets
@Pandorra Randall Ye I know but they’re fun to use
I love seeing parents on UA-cam on they always treat it like a church dinner.
I took the decoration on one off and it was made of
A cuted tape measure
what is your opinions about that they banned them just like that?
I loved playing with the Magnetix as a kid. Never thought they looked like candy though. I had Moon Shoes that I actually played with regularly, though I wound up using all but 3 elastic bands on them so I wouldn't bottom out on my jumps. There was a gas powered pogo stick that I'm surprised wasn't on here.
I had the 1990's moon shoes and loved them. Only problems I had with them was when I decided to use my teeth to switch out the rubber bands. I remember one of them snapping me on the lip and I had a fat lip for like a week straight. 😂
I was heart broken when my mom threw them away. She got tired of me wearing them in the house, such a bummer.
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Gilbert also made a chemistry set with real chemicals that you could make stink bombs, light things on fire, and make ink (I stained my mom's antique rug with mine). They made a microscope too. I had a Water Wiggle, Slip and Slide, Clackers, and the Easy-Bake Oven. There was also a real iron that plugged into the wall and got hot that you could iron clothes with (just made small for kids). I had that too, weird.
We didn't get really coddled in the 1960s growing up, you were expected to fall out of trees, wreck your bikes wearing shorts (and no helmets back then). Scrape your elbows and knees and your om would put Mercurochrome on it, which was also called Monkey Blood. Mercurochrome and another popular antiseptic of a generation or two ago, Merthiolate, contained mercury, and turned your skin red, which made it hard to see if you got infected. I had so many skinned knees and elbows, it was just normal.
Oh, and Flubber was a movie in 1961 called "The Absent Minded Professor" with Fred McMurry. The professor invented Flubber in the movie. There was a sequel in 1963 called Son of Flubber, McMurry also starred in. I remember those.
Merthiolate and mercurochrome looked similar, but the former was an alcohol-based product which burned like crazy. Mercurochrome was water-based, and didn't hurt.
Wow, you treated children a lot more maturely back then.
I have a plastic clacker
So clackers came back in the pilipines
@samuelrodriguez9801
The reason there was less concern about safety is actually pretty macabre.
Before antibiotics and vaccines child mortality was high.
If you have 12 babies and end up with 4 teenagers you were doing well.
once modern medicine made it an expectation that all your children would survive it became a much bigger deal to loose a child to an accident.
The fact that we get free documentaries on UA-cam by The Infographics Show is truly a gift 👍 👍 👍
I had the roller blades for Barbie as a kid…I would hold them upside down and spark them on purpose. I once lit a candle with one on purpose. Thankfully, they were so rarely used on Barbie’s feet, they never started an accidental fire.
I rarely got them sparking (didn't use enough force I guess) I also used to use them on my bed...yikes, right?
I was gifted the cabbage patch doll for my 6th birthday, but my parents took it away because of the recall. I was so upset even though they explained to me that the dolls were harmful. I remember telling my grandma I wasn’t a dumb kid sticking my hair or fingers in the doll’s mouth.
11:50 *there’s a reason oven gloves exist.*
The last time I used a Slip-N-Slide was in the 80's. We were all in our 30's and we always used inflatable pool rings to cushion the landing. Worked fine with the right technique. (you didn't want to step on the slide as your last step) The false sense of security there is that since we didn't get hurt, I'd almost be willing to try it today...lol.
So much nostalgia. I had or played with many of these. As for slap bracelets, I think most kids got hurt as a result of hitting each other as hard as we could with them.
I think those slap bracelets are still around today. Or at least where I live. they’re still allowed at my school.
Yea those injuries were definitely our faults 😂
@@lavinialadlass9432 yeah
My brother accidentally slapped the bracelet on my wrist too hard once. Mom was upset but only told him to be more careful
@@lavinialadlass9432 Atleast in my country, India you can buy them.
Yeah I remember me and my sister having a few of these. But I grew up with my friends using BB guns instead of airsoft. There's just something about seeing your friend in extreme pain because you're doing instead of laughing LOL
I had a Mattel® Creepy Crawlers set and it was one of the most educational toys I ever had- I learned to LET THE MOLD COOL DOWN prior to removing it from the hot plate. Got some nasty burns from it but it did teach me well.
I melted lead shotgun pellets and made a lead bat
Using the molds Wich were metal
Smort
One toy that missed this list was a plastic gun named "Suicide". we played with back in the early 70's. I remember it very well. This 5 or 6 barrel gun had to be loaded with a single "AA" Battery that was supposed to serve as a bullet. Once loaded you were supposed to spin the barrel , put the gun to your head and pull the trigger. If nothing happened you were supposed to pass it to the next person. Each person would do this until the battery lined up with the muzzle and once the trigger was pulled it would light up and make a loud Buzz sound. That meant the you were "dead" and out of the game. Each person would pass this gun around until there was only one person left. That person would be the winner.
I remember a pez dispenser gun .
Yeah, not the most thought out toy!
I think this is why the older generations are more careful, we learned of death at such a young age!
Wow, I had 5 of those toys. Gotta love being a kid in both the 80s AND the 90s!
Your parents tried hard to get rid of you obviously.
Right?!? I didn't get injured by any of toys I had that were mentioned here.
THE BEST TIMES! Creeee eeee eeepy CRAWLERS!
9:10 one of those things almost strangled me as a child. My sister had to run in, grab a siscor and come Back out to cut it. By that time I almost passed out. Never touched that thing again
I wonder how they even got released. Its obvious that this can wrap around your neck very easily
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13:39
People: Yeah this is a *good idea!*
Let’s make *toys* out of the stuff they use for *nuclear weapons!*
Go idea
this was two years ago but ok
WAIT
Great vid!😁
actually those clackers are actually popular in Indonesia in Indonesia they're called "Latto - latto" and made out of clay
I just thought you might need to know this
Ok, who went into my parents’ basement to dig out my childhood?
Seriously - all of the toys from the 90s/2000s I either had or wanted so badly as a kid.
The worst injury I had as a child was when I pulled a clock down on my head by the power cord. (I was a toddler.) Interesting that there has been no safety feature introduced addressing this.
Nah jit weird
I remember having a good number of these as a kid lol. Didn't have a kite tube but I remember seeing them on the lake. Some of them got up to like 30 feet of air. We also saw someone fall from that height in some pretty shallow water and ended up getting sent to the emergency room.
Some of these just needed warnings telling parents to supervise the kids, or simply marketed toward adults instead. It’s a shame that kids’ urge to eat random objects can ruin amazing toys.
I also had, and still have the Lionel electric train with metal tracks. if you happen to step on or touch the two metal tracks at the same time, it would shock the heck out of you.
One thing I love about the infographics show is that I can listen to it without having to watch the video and still understand what's going on
Ikr
7:24 that's absolutely horrifying. That no doubt left some kids with serious trauma lol
I remember weaponizing Sky Dancers 😂 god, that toy was awesome 😂
0:36 ~ 375 °f - 191°C
Fifty-two years, 11 models, and more than 40 million units later, the Easy-Bake Oven continues to inspire young chefs. First released with 25 different mixes that included cakes, pizzas, and pretzels, it used what were essentially really hot light bulbs (temperatures could reach up to 375 degrees) to bake.
I remember around 2005-7ish my brother got some moon boots for christmas, fun as heck
It's crazy how these companies take the heat for negligent parents. Obviously some are just not OK like the GHB beads lol
Another dangerous toy was the 1984 Transformers Megatron toy, it’s alt-form was a realistic Walter P-38 with scope, stock and suppressor. It was dangerous because of how easily people would mistake it for a real gun.
Error Alert! Flubber goes back to a 1961 film produced by Walt Disney titled "The Absent Minded Professor" starring Fred MacMurray and written by Bill Walsh. I'm pretty certain that's where the substance's fame came from along with the inspiration for the 1997 reboot.
that clackers literally become BIG hits in my country
every single kids and in every corner of this country, you can hear clackers played by those kids, even adult
that force me to wear earphone anytime and everywhere
very annoying
I was home schooled, I had creepy crawlers...we used it to make the bugs, and identify the different parts of an insect, or a spider. We were helped by parents, and were never burned, we used oven mits.
Congrats to all that survived after playing with these toys. That included me.
Which one was it.
I've been nearly killed by moon shoes, trampolines and lawn darts.
@@Gaia_Gaistar mine was a defective swingset it was taken off the shelves after multiple cases of the structure collapsing in on itself.
@@aharonmanes5675 which one was it (2)
@@iminyourroom922 forgot the brand,it was around 15 years ago,and I’m pretty sure my parents did not read the instructions right. But I do have a scar on my arm from where a jagged piece of metal pierced it.
Quite interesting how a radioactive toy set was available to buy, and give to children. I am certain I would've bought that for myself, once I would see it
I like slime
i wonder if the idiot who came up with the idea ever got arrested
I think a lot of those deaths and injuries are the results of a lack of adult supervision. I'm a 90s kid and I had lots of "dangerous" toys. I only ever got hurt when I misused those toys. It's called "Watching your kids and following directions." Kids today are not dumb but are less taught by their parents and parents these days rarely pay attention to their kids. As a parent myself I always nurture a healthy paranoia.
It’s why we can’t have nice things.
@@PsychologicalApparition Or fun things.
Yeah, unfortunately you can’t trust parents to watch their children like they should when using things like easy bake ovens and science kits and parents prefer to blame to the toy makers instead of themselves for not supervising.
3:57 I remember the moon shoes I used to have them I think I still do! I like them, because it made me tall! When I was little.
Polly Pocket is slowly coming back but with much more safer for 5+
Imagine a world where every toys is as dangerous as the ones here
Whatever kids survived would grow up smarter and stronger.
Gotta weed out the weak and gullible to get the strong and smart that's what I'd say
The fact that 1940s kids were competent enough to handle mini electric stoves whereas kids today are too dumb to handle a water filled yo-yo really shows how dumb youth has gotten over time.
The reason so many of these company’s develop dangerous toys is because kids from the previous generation were intelligent enough to handle them safely.
Exactly! Who TF shoots a missle into their mouth?!9:55
Okay, boomer, now please take the uranium and swallow it, before heating the led and swallowing it too.
Those kids WEREN'T competent enough to handle them. Did you miss the parts where they got hurt or killed?
@@asteria9963 Yes a few kids had accidents.
But the vast majority had no problem with it.
Kids today would end up killing themselves in large numbers from some of the old school toys that caused minor injuries to a few kids back then.
@@boyankovachev7982 At least I’m not eating Tide Pods.. Gen Z’er.
I Love how much effort and writing he puts on his videos 🙂☺🐶🐱
He? Like, it's not a big old company of employees!? You think one person does this!!? Then I have a bridge to sell you!
The freak is with that dog and cat emoji?
Used to use one of those kite tubes as a kid while out with my dad in his boat, even in very choppy water. Here they're called a 'biscuit' due to their shape. Myself and my siblings never personally had any problems, but we were also strong swimmers due to being raised close to the ocean. Looking back on it, I can easily see how someone without that asset could end up in a lot of trouble if they come off at a good speed and end up dazed and hurting under the water.
I didn't get injured from my Cabbage Patch doll, but I got the doll's hair stuck in its mouth. When playing with Barbie's skate, you could easily tell it was a lighter, minus the fluid used to keep a fire lit.
I am surprised some of the toys were brought back. The "safer" versions don't seem much safer. I also expected lawn darts to be on the list.
Actually I felt sorry for many company. It wasnt seems harmless but still getting banned. especially pokemon have experienced this a lot lol.
I had the creepy crawlers, loved those things, got burned a time or two but that never stopped me from playing with it.
This brings back a lot of nostalgia. I'm glad that a lot of these toys were removed from the market.
1940's: hey kids, here's a 🔫 for Christmas! 😬
The Infographics Show, awesome video keep up the amazing content
I remember the hover boards that kids would plug them into the home's electric outlets. The flaw in the systems were that the electrical batteries would compost causing fires. The other flaws is that adults would fall attempting to ride them. The adults had many emergency room visits, more then children.
It's funny how Adult still want to play, even after warning not for adult, then sued the company for their own fault ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
I can't believe this didn't include lawn darts. Because inebriated adults throwing metal javelins around the yard sounds really safe.
Well, considering that they're based on the ancient Roman plumbata weapon, the accidents aren't too surprising.
I saw a slip’n slide commercial as a kid and thought, that looks fun! Little I know that it was a really thin sheet of plastic and not only did you hit the ground pretty hard, rocks underneath it could scrape you up. I think I used it one time and that was enough. And yes as an adult I watch other “grown ups” use these to hilarious effect. 🤣🤣🤣
I had the creepy crawler, easy bake oven, snap bracelet, Polly pocket (both tiny and normal size), sky dancers, the rollblading barbie, the pokemon kids meal toys (mom's favorite was the screaming toy), and the feed me cabbage patch kid. Both my sister and I turned out fine when we played with our toys. Heck, my sister had a maker that was similar to the creepy crawler, but it created dolls.
Dude, sky dancers were my favorite projectiles ever 😂😂
Haha I remember Creepy Crawlers! TONS of fun in the 1990’s 😅🙌
I used to make creepy crawlers all of the time lol
@@Rachel2412able so fun eh?
Anthony yes so much fun
@@Rachel2412able 😅😊🙌
Did you let the mold cool of? I hope ur like safe
Wham-O : Make supposedly harmless toy and even write warning on box
Human Child : Somehow find how to harm adult with Wham-O's most harmless toy
Wham-O : *WHY ?!* *WHY ?!*
I had the flubber toy, one day I was just rolling it around on the table and my mom comes in and immediately starts freaking out. I looked just like the example kid with red dots everywhere. Cleared up quickly after we threw the flubber away.
You fail to point out that flubber was created in the 1960's because of the original Flubber movie, "The Absent-Minded Professor." That's why flubber was on the market in the '60's, in case anyone was wondering. Flubber with Robin Williams was a remake.
I remember this little glow-in-the-dark bird that my dad had from his childhood (my dad is about 74 now, so this dates back to the late 1950's) and come to find out (later) the bird had to be stored carefully and only viewed sparingly, as it was found to be radioactive (as at the time, they had been using radioactive materials to make things glow in the dark). He still has this toy to this day, but it stays locked up and is only shown for brief periods of time once in a great while for this reason. Not just with toys, but this does remind me of all of things we now know to be dangerous to people, such as the radioactive materials used for glow-in-the-dark items from the mid 20th Century, to other things like Agent Orange which was used during wars, which was later found to cause cancer. I'm sure that in some 20-30 years or something, they will find that all the lithium ion batteries we are using today will have some long-term negative impact on our health.
If you want an interesting (but sad) 10ish min mini-documentary about radium in items, the you should watch the Radial Girls video by Fascinating Horror here on YT. I binged his whole channel just recently. Very interesting videos!
I think the company knew about the health hazards of Agent Orange, it made too much from the government, so they kept quiet about it for years.
Anything: *Exists*
Kids: I Must Consume It
When i was a baby,i had not consumed a single thing (unless it's edible lol) i think in my babyhood i was very smart or i just have only PLUSHIESSSSS
Great work on the video I still don't know how you have time for all this research keep it up
Agreement 100percect
They have a big team of people doing this.
it's not just one person I don't know exactly how many people work one these videos but I'm sure they have full time researchers and writers and a couple different narrators
@@chadwillett619 I can definitely tell there's at least two narrator's... This guy here, his voice is 10x more calming to listen to.... I mean don't get me wrong, other guy is good too, but he's no this guy...lol
@@chadwillett619 It's an entire company.
13:50 “With less than 5000 kids being sold”
Is this a mistake?
No they sold 5000 kids
“I hate this song!”😭🙏🙏🙏💀 0:12
This reminds me of the classic SNL skit with Dan Aykroyd: "Big bag of broken glass"
I remember Moon Shoes.
Also I never had an official slip and slide. My family simply used a nylon tarp covered in soap.
I remember when Aqua dots first came out, saw the commercials for them on Nickelodeon. I was like wow those look like fun! But after a personal experience I knew the toys were never as good as they were in the commercials. So I didn’t bother. I didn’t think kids would be poisoned by them.
3:55 god, that's a blast from the past... i had them for like 10 minutes before my mom took them away, because i was trying to use them on a sidewalk
This video makes me feel old. Thanks. lol
I think a lot of theses toys(Except the guns and the lead/uranium toys) are only dangerous because no one supervises their kids. I played with darts as a kid, they had blunt ends and could still stick to the board but only played with them while my dad made sure I was safe.
A lot of these toys I grew up with. I'm suddenly so glad I was the cautious play type as a little kid😨
My sister stared fires with an Easy Bake Oven and nearly burnt the house down on 4 separate occasions. The real question was why did my parents keep getting her new ones? I never had an issue with my Creepy Crawlers Oven.
The creepy crawlers oven of the 90s was way safer being heated only by a light bulb
Literally every single one of these would be so fun. I'd be willing to bet, most only had problems because people couldn't follow instructions.
I LOVED my "Thingmaker" creepy crawler set with the plugin hotplate. I even had the Creeple-People spinoff accessory. Oh, and I had the mini dragon version. Our whole house STANK when I fired this thing up. And every now and then, I would get some of the goop right on the plate, and it would smoke like the devil. Still, even today I've heard of kids playing with dangerous "toys". One that comes to mind are high power laser pointers. Some of these cost as little as 10 bucks, but are powerful enough to blind little eyes.
10:18 I actually remember little 4 year old me hopping into one of these with my friend in the driver seat, and my man actually tried to drive off into a street. His dad caught up to us and pulled the little plug In the trunk right before we were about to ride right into a vehicle going full speed.
0:23 hey I had one of those! But I was too scared to take it back out. Had my mom do it. Made some good brownies
I seriously wonder how one could get the genious idea to make Clackers out of glass.
'Let's make this thing that's meant to be smashed together out of a material that can shoot high velocity sharp edged fragments everywhere when shattered.
What could possibly go wrong?'
"When I was kid we played outside, unsupervised, with just a bottle of bleach, some oily rags, and a pack of matches...and we liked it" -Everybody's Grandpa 🤣🤣🤣
17:06 I used to love those magnet things when I was little! I still have them!
I remember having one of those flying fairy toys when I was younger I lost it tho thankfully without getting hurt anytime while using it
Ah... I used to have one myself... well, the brother version of it, Dragon Flies. But we didn't use them mainly too afraid to use them inside and we can't fly them outside because the yard was too small and didn't want them to stuck on a house roof.
2:00 our school sells those bands during some holidays
In fairness, the magentic ones were the result of what I call an "Idiot parent" problem.
If it says "Contains small parts" DON'T BUY IT FOR YOUNG CHILDREN!
Banned but you can still get it huh.
As a kid in the 60's and 70's, our family had several of these toys. We all survived into adulthood. We had a chemistry set that I am sure had several toxic substances that could have killed you. My parents just said, "be careful when playing with that and don't put anything in your mouth."
I had some skydancers! I didn't know about the cartoon until years later.