20 DARK Stories Behind Children's Toys

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  • @WatchMojo
    @WatchMojo  Рік тому +50

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    • @geeshep4836
      @geeshep4836 Рік тому +3

      I LOVE YOU WATCHMOJO BUT THANKS FOR RUINING MY CHILDHOOD TOY FAVORITES WITH THIS VIDEO.

    • @Unknown83735
      @Unknown83735 Рік тому +4

      @@geeshep4836 dude clam down

    • @dominictrujillo3323
      @dominictrujillo3323 Рік тому +4

      No. My parents taught me to always play responsibly with my toys or else they'll take them away. 🧸🪀🎯

    • @manueltapia1859
      @manueltapia1859 Рік тому +2

      What about when Gilbert Company sold radiactive material as toy and glass making too???!!! Austin Magic Pistol from the 50s was a dangerous toy too

    • @mousemd
      @mousemd Рік тому +4

      I am too old for Cabbage Patch. So far, you haven't covered anything I played with. Wait a minute, Barbie. I grew up before 1980. There were dangerous toys then too. I never got hurt on any of them

  • @sarahweesemidnight
    @sarahweesemidnight Рік тому +605

    In Lisa Frank's defense. There is more to the situation then what was said. Lisa allowed her husband to run it while she was a stay at home mother for a while and he's the one along with his mistress that also worked there ran the company into the ground and mistreated the employees. Lisa gained control again but her ex still claims he created Lisa Frank.

    • @RVAdada
      @RVAdada Рік тому +24

      I’m guessing she divorced him?

    • @sarahweesemidnight
      @sarahweesemidnight Рік тому +64

      @RVAdad yeah and got back full ownership of the company. He still claims to this day that he invented the company but she started it in high school

    • @ZomBeeQueeen
      @ZomBeeQueeen Рік тому +24

      Yeh I just learned about that from Bailey Sarian, so crazy and sad for Lisa

    • @kattieSkyNinja13
      @kattieSkyNinja13 Рік тому +14

      Bailey Sarian did a deep dive into it.

    • @Richeshottest
      @Richeshottest Рік тому +9

      Wait 🤔 are you Lisa Frank?

  • @emmafranks9363
    @emmafranks9363 Рік тому +186

    The easy bake ovens are only supposed to be used under adult supervision. I've had a few at different points in my life and it said that on the box every time. Those children got hurt because of their parents

    • @byunniq9060
      @byunniq9060 Рік тому +17

      Right i was thinking that. Why a 5yr old playing with an oven anyways😂

    • @spfreak1991
      @spfreak1991 Рік тому +10

      I had one that caught on fire - my parents were watching but couldn't prevent that

    • @dakotashowalter5949
      @dakotashowalter5949 Рік тому +2

      ​@@spfreak1991 do I want to know how it caught fire

    • @dannymoneywell
      @dannymoneywell 4 місяці тому +1

      @@spfreak1991 a fire won't injure you directly and the supervising parents may very well put the fire out before it causes any meaningful damage, easy bake ovens with no supervision did way worse things...

    • @spfreak1991
      @spfreak1991 4 місяці тому

      @dakotashowalter5949 the light in it

  • @carrieonly5638
    @carrieonly5638 Рік тому +77

    I loved my Glow Worm soooo much. That old commercial brought back the warmest, fuzziest memories ❤

    • @evilstereofairy
      @evilstereofairy Рік тому +2

      I loved mine too! It was so cute

    • @C2L2F
      @C2L2F 3 місяці тому +3

      I still have a tiny pink one 🥹🥹 ❤❤❤❤

  • @scottbakanumba1heathen313
    @scottbakanumba1heathen313 Рік тому +83

    Sky Dancers are hilarious because they all seem to love spin-launching into the lit fireplace.

    • @DragonKazooie89
      @DragonKazooie89 Рік тому +5

      Or onto the roof of your house

    • @Curious.JenJen
      @Curious.JenJen Рік тому +1

      I got one for my birthday in 97 😂😂 we didn't have a fireplace tho. I loved that thing lol

    • @RoryandIzzyReact
      @RoryandIzzyReact 9 місяців тому +1

      The commercial was ok but the real one was banned

    • @Starplays44
      @Starplays44 3 місяці тому

      Lol I have one rn and I am so glad it hasn’t yet

    • @AzazelFulgora
      @AzazelFulgora 2 місяці тому

      I had a mini one as a kid. It never worked.

  • @rhondaflesher8313
    @rhondaflesher8313 Рік тому +106

    I am surprised Clackers didn't make the list. I remember when those things came out in the 70's and were a must have toy. Kids would carry them everywhere - clacking away. The problems arose due to use in crowded areas resulted in bystanders getting hit by the hard balls or worse the balls shattering, and people injured by the flying shrapnel.

    • @SgtJoeSmith
      @SgtJoeSmith Рік тому +7

      we had those as kids. plus slap bracelets. slap bracelets were discontinued over people getting cut as fabric wore off. never heard about nude women on metal. lawn darts just weeded out the slow from the heard. we would throw 1 up in the air and run.

    • @youtubereplier1
      @youtubereplier1 Рік тому +1

      Bad news, "Clackers" are re-invented but in the Philippines(most popular) but this time the balls are hard enough to give a lil child some bruises or marks due to the hard ball

    • @ms.krueger2660
      @ms.krueger2660 Рік тому +1

      Can’t tell you how many times I hit myself in the head with the clackers. Lol🤣. I still have them. They are at least 50 years old.
      I saw them for sale on the Temu app. 😱 They are not called clackers.

    • @libbybethuk
      @libbybethuk Рік тому +1

      Plus they fractured many wrists 10 girls in my class all had fractured wrist due to these when my mum found out that had fractured 3 wrists shectook mine off me lol

  • @ladyjustice1474
    @ladyjustice1474 Рік тому +75

    They neglected to mention the riot over cabbage patch doll the 1st year they were released around Christmas.
    The easy bake oven I had in 70's couldn't even warm bread. There were a lot of those easy bake ovens being returned to stores when parents realized it was a scam.

    • @SgtJoeSmith
      @SgtJoeSmith Рік тому +6

      here i thought it was cause they got too hot and kids got burned

    • @PoesRaven73
      @PoesRaven73 Рік тому +7

      @@SgtJoeSmith It was! The first Easy Bake ovens cooked things via an installed 100 watt bulb! Touch THAT and see if you don’t get burned!

    • @SgtJoeSmith
      @SgtJoeSmith Рік тому +3

      @@PoesRaven73 that's what I thought I had heard. I was born in 78. Never seen 1 in person

    • @Mediocrearts92
      @Mediocrearts92 Рік тому +1

      I owned an easy bake back in the day. Even with supervision, I nearly burned a lot of stuff xDD
      Good times.

    • @ithacacomments4811
      @ithacacomments4811 Рік тому +1

      I refused to put my life in danger to purchase a Cabbage Patch doll that Christmas! She has never forgiven me....!

  • @bricklover2258
    @bricklover2258 Рік тому +87

    The only mishap I have ever had with Lego is forgetting I had a pile of Lego on the floor that I am sorting and accidentally stepped on it. I've been collecting for 13 years, and so I know to keep younger kids away from my collection.

    • @MarcyTrivette
      @MarcyTrivette Рік тому +9

      I think stepping on Legos with bare feet is also probably one of the most painful things ever!

    • @bricklover2258
      @bricklover2258 Рік тому +3

      @Marcy T It definitely hurts. I know that personally since I have done it on accident a few times. Even with socks, it hurts just not as much. Which I did that just the other day while sorting part of the bulk lego I got.

    • @freiflug83
      @freiflug83 Рік тому +2

      I stepped on them accidentally multiple times when I was a kid. Damn right it hurts like hell

    • @bricklover2258
      @bricklover2258 Рік тому +3

      @@freiflug83 I I am 22 been collecting for 13 years and I still accidentally step on LEGO from projects I am doing for my city.

    • @KawaiiKaabii1993
      @KawaiiKaabii1993 Рік тому

      my mother has peripheral neuropathy and she sometimes says that her feet feel as if she constantly stepped on legos a very bad feeling

  • @RockandRollsince1992
    @RockandRollsince1992 Рік тому +34

    Even as a child I often had a bad feeling about how some toys smelled heavily like chemicals.

  • @stephaniekern603
    @stephaniekern603 Рік тому +36

    Oh, god. The Beanie Baby craze. I still have my collection from the 90s. My poor parents searched high and low for Quackers the Duck and Princess Diana Bear. Found them too. You know I'm never letting them go.

    • @stephaniekern603
      @stephaniekern603 Рік тому +7

      @@MBG.426
      Oh, I couldn't agree more. I know there is no great value in them. It is mainly for sentimental reasons and just for the fact my parents worked so hard to find those particular two for me. Also, they're really cute.

    • @Snomqueengaming
      @Snomqueengaming Рік тому +1

      ⁠I collect Beene boos

    • @stephaniekern603
      @stephaniekern603 Рік тому +1

      @@SweetsWithoutDeath
      Are you serious right now?! I have the brown nosed halo bear too!

    • @dawnie79
      @dawnie79 Рік тому

      I have Mooch the Black monkey from the 90's my son took it from me in 2000. Now my daughter sleeps with him. Still in amazing condition for being 27yrs old through 1 child and on to the next!

    • @Terahnee
      @Terahnee 8 місяців тому +1

      Yup. I still have all mine and my mom's. She gave them to my youngest and we would up with a few doubles. The doubles we donated to a thrift store, but still have all the others. I have one or two mis-tags even.

  • @carmensandiego3691
    @carmensandiego3691 Рік тому +38

    As someone who own the Cabbage Patch doll I can say that there was no Cabbage Patch dolls in anyone's closet. We carried are Cabbage Patch dolls with us everywhere

    • @marianneaugenstein6381
      @marianneaugenstein6381 Рік тому

      Yup! So many of my childhood photos show me holding my favorite Cabbage Patch Kid! I still have them.

    • @jameelaworldwide
      @jameelaworldwide 8 місяців тому

      I was that weird kid who got a cabbage patch kid n thought it was ugly

    • @Yugyeom26
      @Yugyeom26 7 місяців тому

      I always wanted one those dolls but never got one glad I didn't 😅😊

  • @meatsuited
    @meatsuited Рік тому +25

    I'm super surprised that orbeez/water beads didn't make their way onto this list. They can be deadly when ingested, blocking intestines.

  • @loganstribling6441
    @loganstribling6441 Рік тому +45

    I really enjoyed playing with super soakers as a kid. The water shooting out could hurt but as long as kids are careful and supervised they are fun toys to play with in the summer time.

    • @amberlynnroberson1961
      @amberlynnroberson1961 Рік тому +1

      ....Supervised??

    • @SgtJoeSmith
      @SgtJoeSmith Рік тому +1

      @@amberlynnroberson1961 well white kids were back in the 80s. at least till they were old enough to work in 3rd grade.

    • @SgtJoeSmith
      @SgtJoeSmith Рік тому +1

      i had original 3 super soakers. loved them

    • @FlawlessImperfectionBeauty
      @FlawlessImperfectionBeauty Рік тому +1

      We had a town super soaker war in high school. We’d drive around spraying each through open car windows, we’d plan who had outdoor faucets for reload. Then the parents snuck out and bought even bigger super soakers and destroyed us at stoplights. Then the cops pulled up and told us it was a bad idea…. then both officers soaked us with their own water blasters. The town was chaos, it was epic. Of course some jerks ruined it by using bleach or something and we all had to stop, but it was the best summer.😂

    • @itsRudeGal
      @itsRudeGal 4 місяці тому

      Yea lol my cousin used to scare me

  • @weretheguilminos3147
    @weretheguilminos3147 Рік тому +55

    Lawn darts for sure! Who thought foot long darts that you toss in the air was a good idea?

  • @ThePirateprincess23
    @ThePirateprincess23 Рік тому +40

    I remember wanting a Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids doll as kid. It wasn't too long after the dolls' release that it was recalled due to the chewing mechanism causing hair scalping and finger injuries.

    • @neoswagtwigofthetwignation9778
    • @susannpatton2893
      @susannpatton2893 Рік тому

      Why would you put your fingers in its mouth anyways? Never understood that. Or hair. I get it if the doll was activated during the kids sleep

    • @ThePirateprincess23
      @ThePirateprincess23 Рік тому

      @@susannpatton2893 my guess is because kids back then (myself included) liked to put there fingers where they shouldn't go.

    • @nexx1
      @nexx1 Рік тому

      @@susannpatton2893to see how it works

    • @ileana6652
      @ileana6652 Рік тому +1

      @@susannpatton2893if they were trying to hug the doll their hair could get stuck or if they were trying to see if it would still chew

  • @EightiesJames
    @EightiesJames Рік тому +12

    Slap braclets were not banned in my area because of metal cuts. We couldn't care less. What got them banned in my schools was the All-out *Slap* noise annoyance. It was deemed worse than snapping your gum!!

  • @tmzzer0469
    @tmzzer0469 Рік тому +48

    Never realized toys could be so horrifying

    • @alifuller1658
      @alifuller1658 Рік тому +2

      in this day and time anything Impossible. The way mankind is anything can go wrong 😑

    • @susanw2869
      @susanw2869 Рік тому +2

      Watch old "children's" cartoons for some real horrifying bits

    • @alifuller1658
      @alifuller1658 Рік тому

      hey silly ass I'm way older then some silly ass stupid movie call child play to hell with some chunky He isn't real😑

    • @alifuller1658
      @alifuller1658 Рік тому

      what the hell does childplay got to do with this video He just made ass doll 😛

    • @wokenlunatic2849
      @wokenlunatic2849 Рік тому +1

      Have you ever play Legos?🦶🏻(you pretty much walk on rocks bare foot)

  • @vanessahenry7238
    @vanessahenry7238 Рік тому +54

    I found it interesting that you mentioned the Easy Bake Oven. When a college friend and I were cleaning out her grandmother's house. we found the christmas gifts she hid but couldn't find (grandmother that is) and the early version was one of them. It worked great in the dorm! We also wondered how something that could get so warm would be made for kids - so not surprised that the revamp of it failed miserably.

    • @susannpatton2893
      @susannpatton2893 Рік тому +11

      The revamp failed because no one cooks anymore. They call and food magically appears at the door. Not so when it came out. Pizza was all that was delivered, if at all. Hard for you young ones to imagine, you actually had to cook food at home

    • @daisygirlmochi768
      @daisygirlmochi768 Рік тому +7

      @@susannpatton2893 Most people do still cook at home lmao

    • @susannpatton2893
      @susannpatton2893 Рік тому +1

      @daisygirlmochi768 not really or restaurants would not have any business

    • @gohawks3571
      @gohawks3571 Рік тому +3

      ​@@susannpatton2893????? I cook at home & have eaten out... Are you really saying most people eat at restaurants daily? I can't imagine that, nor have I met anyone who did that! Weekly, ok. Daily? Never heard of that...

    • @susannpatton2893
      @susannpatton2893 Рік тому +1

      @gohawks3571 oh yes there are those who do eat daily at restaurants

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc Рік тому +14

    #20, “Here’s your problem, this thing’s set to evil.”

  • @howlingdogsbarcebucity
    @howlingdogsbarcebucity Рік тому +8

    Love the guy that said if he had seen that warning he would have never brought lawn darts home lol . Bro like you needed a warning to tell you those were dangerous..

    • @lloydmckay3241
      @lloydmckay3241 Рік тому

      People drive cars and yah dangerous obviously

  • @elineff2791
    @elineff2791 Рік тому +13

    I had a glow worm when I was a kid, it lasted for many many years until it finally dimmed into nothing it was my buddy for a long time

  • @user-em6ie2be7x
    @user-em6ie2be7x Рік тому +75

    Everyone's Childhood just took a swift kick to the Family Jewels.

  • @phantomrequim
    @phantomrequim Рік тому +10

    It may be weird for Barbie and Ken to be named after the creators kids, but that's it. I mean what doll isn't named after someone else.

  • @Tysonator1000
    @Tysonator1000 Рік тому +24

    I remember lawn darts, slip 'n slides and crazy carpets. I don't know how any of us 80's kids managed to survive childhood.

    • @irisshalurhad7901
      @irisshalurhad7901 Рік тому +4

      We did survive, just with a lot of scars and trust issues 😂

    • @SgtJoeSmith
      @SgtJoeSmith Рік тому +1

      thats why kids, mellenials, gen z are such pu$$ies today. they never went through 80s kids basic training/survival coarse with toys and playgrounds.

    • @mcjade4813
      @mcjade4813 Рік тому +3

      Because we were intelligent and we didn't need warning labels because we used common sense

    • @SocialExperiment232
      @SocialExperiment232 Рік тому +1

      @@mcjade4813yes you were all so smart and so full of common sense that all these toys had to be adjusted or discontinued cause so any of y’all burned your butts off with them. The 80s… the smart decade 🙏

    • @mcjade4813
      @mcjade4813 Рік тому +2

      @@SocialExperiment232 thank you for recognizing greatness. 🙄, I was just saying we played lawn darts we didn't try to kill are siblings or cousins. We didn't run into the whipping plastic because it was a hot day and we wanted the water, now we might of burnt some Lego guys at the stake "pencil" but we never through a flaming wad of plastic at people's faces. But if you truly want to be condescending and obtuse, I'm sorry your parents didn't raise you write and teach you common sense.

  • @pandabytes4991
    @pandabytes4991 Рік тому +10

    In similarity to the easy bake ovens, I was surprised to not see Creepy Crawlers making their way onto the list

    • @teresapadgett8000
      @teresapadgett8000 Рік тому +2

      Is that the one where you assemble pieces of baked goo stuff to make dragons & monsters?

  • @MORONIC_official
    @MORONIC_official Рік тому +7

    Elmo has had enough!
    Elmo seems to want to exterminate me also.

  • @trading_card_universe
    @trading_card_universe Рік тому +12

    You missed one with Elmo. There was a talking book that sounded like it said "uh oh... who wants to die?" I sold my daughter's book for 500 dollars to a weird toy collector in Ohio. lol

    • @Vicky_iguess
      @Vicky_iguess 4 місяці тому

      NAHHHH THATS TERRIFYING

    • @thejman5683
      @thejman5683 4 місяці тому

      It’s always Ohio where the weird stuff is

  • @westtexastiger
    @westtexastiger Рік тому +138

    I remember at one point my brother bought a singing, vibrating Elmo chair, for my ex-wife's kids. When she was taking it over to the house, it apparently slid off the car seat, hit the floor, and continuously vibrated and talked for several minutes, until she got home. Then, sometimes the chair would just randomly start talking and vibrating. We all use to joke that the chair was possessed by a demon.

    • @WatchMojo
      @WatchMojo  Рік тому +23

    • @angelh6345
      @angelh6345 Рік тому +13

      My furby would say " me scared " whenever my brother was around.
      😂💯

    • @MaddoxEzman
      @MaddoxEzman Рік тому +13

      I’m a little suspicious at a vibrating feature on a chair made for kids honestly 😂

    • @tanyagarcia3721
      @tanyagarcia3721 Рік тому

      Maybe the Karen darts need to make a comeback? They would win the Darwin award five times over and some for just them being then

    • @NootandBoots
      @NootandBoots Рік тому +2

      ​@@angelh6345holy cow what did your brother do

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 Рік тому +9

    Toy Story: "WRITE IT DOWN! WRITE IT DOWN!"

  • @NerakGreen
    @NerakGreen Рік тому +13

    I remember the Cabbage Patch that ate food. All the kids had chunks of hair missing from that toy. The mouth hole was dime sized. It’s not like hair could accidentally go into it. U had to stick stuff in there to make it eat.
    Once something went in, it wouldn’t come back up for nothing. Lots of teens lost a skid of knuckle skin messing around just to find out with that toy.

  • @MarcyTrivette
    @MarcyTrivette Рік тому +55

    My grandparents had lawn darts back in the 80s. My cousin and I would play with them. We were just kids so we didn't think twice about throwing them straight up into the air and letting them plummet back down to the ground. Looking back on that, if one of us had of been in the path of those lawn darts as they were coming back down, we would have been seriously or even fatally injured!

    • @WatchMojo
      @WatchMojo  Рік тому +10

    • @kenrickkahn
      @kenrickkahn Рік тому

      Wow!! 😮

    • @XCodeHelpHub
      @XCodeHelpHub Рік тому +3

      The point is to throw them away from you and not in the vicinity of another person. I mean you may as well ban horseshoes because they can kill. That is how stupid people are especially the man saying if he saw the warning, he never would have brought them home.

    • @GeorgieB1965
      @GeorgieB1965 Рік тому

      ​@@XCodeHelpHubPersonally, I find his last statement a little suspect. Most parents do not pay attention to the warning that is often written in very tiny print buried at the bottom of the box after the instructions until they get the product home and start using it. I think he said it just to make himself look like he was an incredibly honest parent.

    • @FlawlessImperfectionBeauty
      @FlawlessImperfectionBeauty Рік тому

      Those things are so fun and dangerous. The problem is after people had them awhile, they’d forget about them. Many kids could find them forgotten in garages during play dates. We’d race outside to play, and my Grandparents didn’t even realize we had them. Those things were great, but dangerous, oiy!😂

  • @jvon3885
    @jvon3885 10 місяців тому +3

    Canadian mobile rushing for tickle me elmo sounds strange but makes sense.

  • @shannonvienneau
    @shannonvienneau 8 місяців тому +2

    As someone who grew up in Fredericton, New Brunswick I remember the tickle me Elmo escapade all too well!! Such a sad story!!

  • @luckdragongirl
    @luckdragongirl Рік тому +5

    Those Polly Pockets that were in the compacts were so fun! I loved mine. I still have them.

    • @doctorwyvern9992
      @doctorwyvern9992 4 місяці тому

      As were the version for boys called Mighty Max. Even Godzilla had a line of those toys.

  • @adamsmoberly
    @adamsmoberly Рік тому +71

    Barbie and Ken’s named after the creators children? I mean it’s a little odd, but they aren’t really modeled after them, just their names. But nobody ever talks about in a big discussion about how Barbie has never been original.
    The Bild Lilli doll, a German doll was basically the bases for Barbie and ended up being bought out by Mattel. The character was created first for a comic, and the thing Barbie used to be criticized for (unrealistic body proportions) was due to the fact Bild Lilli was basically a “a golddigger, exhibitionist, and floozy" and was shown without clothing and focused on her body; ironic how Bratz was called inappropriate for kids when Barbie was born from a gag gift for adults that I think children ended up liking.
    But after she came out, Barbie had ripped off Gem & The Holograms (to basically get out the door before they did) and the Bratz (because they made such a big noise in the 2000’s, which is why the lawsuit, which was dumb, became a thing). I like Barbie, I actually think Barbies now are a bit more original than they used to be, since they offer more diverse body types and definitely cater to different medical conditions (like hearing issues, wheelchair users, recently Down syndrome, vitiligo, and a think a few others).

    • @susannpatton2893
      @susannpatton2893 Рік тому

      Dear Lord, here comes the know it all with a history lesson. Part of your rambling is true. Part isnt

    • @adamsmoberly
      @adamsmoberly Рік тому +3

      @@susannpatton2893 Ok? And you care, why? And it’s Isn’t, not isnt.

    • @susannpatton2893
      @susannpatton2893 Рік тому

      @@adamsmoberly why did you care to write a book?

    • @adamsmoberly
      @adamsmoberly Рік тому +7

      @@susannpatton2893 Two paragraphs and two sentences are a book? All I did was write a comment. I may have gotten something wrong, which I didn’t know I did, but I just wanted to address Barbie’s past when it’s usually forgotten. That’s all. Don’t know why you’re so pressed though.

    • @susannpatton2893
      @susannpatton2893 Рік тому

      @@adamsmoberly yes

  • @seaturtles91
    @seaturtles91 Рік тому +15

    A slap bracelet took my arm out when I was in junior high. My friend was messing around and poked me with it, the metal slid through and sliced just below my elbow, all the way down to the bone. It was like a horror scene in English class.

    • @ludonymous526
      @ludonymous526 Рік тому

      Man. So gruesome.

    • @dawnie79
      @dawnie79 Рік тому

      Yikes!!! My daughter now 8yo has a handful. 😮

  • @TheExvangelicalCat
    @TheExvangelicalCat Рік тому +11

    My mom had a tickle me Elmo in layaway and put it back. She said she was kicking herself when they started selling for $500.

  • @reichsfuhrer585
    @reichsfuhrer585 Рік тому +4

    Still have my original lawn darts from my childhood. Still play with them to this day.

  • @WhatWouldVillainsDo
    @WhatWouldVillainsDo Рік тому +6

    I think a easy bake oven is great gift for kids as long as it's used under adult supervision. Me and my sister aroun 8-11 made some killer sugar cookies. We really did not need supervision at that age tho. Outside of my mother me and my sister there was no one else who knew how to cook in our family and I have been cooking since I was 7, originally wanted to go to culinary school but end up becoming a butcher. I'm 43 but I grew up with Double Dare even my Mom and Dad were hooked on the show we never missed a new episode, good times.

  • @SimpleTricksNonsense
    @SimpleTricksNonsense Рік тому +6

    He-Man changed because Mattel didn't want him to resemble Conan not because he was originally too foreign looking. In fact Mattel originally tried to get the licensing for Conan and make Conan toys but didn't succeed. Instead they made He-Man, one of those occasions where the thing inspired from something else took on it's own life and became as popular as the property which inspired it. To add another twist to this tale, when Conan figures were finally going to be realized (not by Mattel), Mattel tried to sue the manufacturer that those toys would infringe on He-Man.
    The change isn't as deep or nefarious as you make it sound.

    • @kelleyk28
      @kelleyk28 10 місяців тому

      He-Man was cool. I never thought about Conan when I watched the show. You know how some people are.

  • @resolute_visit
    @resolute_visit Рік тому +3

    The cabbage patch kids are adorable, when I was a child the twinkle toes line got released and I loved them, lost mine during a move but I found some online and got me and my sister a matching pair for the memories

  • @shadegloom
    @shadegloom Рік тому +5

    Not the easy bake oven! My fave as a kid. I .iss having those little snacks haha
    I wish they had something similar!

  • @lady_mash23clark34
    @lady_mash23clark34 Рік тому +8

    I had one of those po dolls. My dad thought it was the funniest thing in the world. He's so mad we don't still have it after our house fire

    • @skell1408
      @skell1408 Рік тому +1

      I miss my Po doll! I made it talk so much that it started sounding demonic after awhile lol

  • @justacherry4406
    @justacherry4406 Рік тому +4

    Whoa... I owned that Hannah Montana Pop Stars card set as a kid! I remember going through a box and finding the case for it when I was maybe 10 or so and fiddling with it for a while before putting it away... never saw it again after that. Maybe it's for the best if it had that much lead in it!

  • @ShadyRK9
    @ShadyRK9 Рік тому +3

    Lawn Darts. Never trusted them. Especially with that 1000 Ways To Die Episode! (And Final Destination)

  • @EBThisThat
    @EBThisThat Рік тому +4

    That Mike Mozart video takes me back. Still a huge fan of his. Those toy reviews were the funniest things I had seen, but I don't even know if he has a UA-cam channel any longer.

    • @skittlemilks1614
      @skittlemilks1614 Рік тому

      I used to watch him all the time as a kid. He stopped making vids a long time ago unfortunately.

  • @badangil
    @badangil Рік тому +6

    What about Heelys? Every kid had them at one point but they were eventually banned at schools because of the danger.

    • @dawnie79
      @dawnie79 Рік тому

      I just found a pair at a store in Canada and bought them for $20 brand spanking new! Gave them to my neighbors boy as I remember how much my son loved them & the tricks he could do. We always had mall security telling him he couldn't wear them in the mall. 😒
      My friends son loves them!,

  • @PaintedDog
    @PaintedDog Рік тому +3

    I loved Beanie Babies. Especially the cats. I loved the ones that laid flat on their bellies.
    My 3 favorites were Sly, the fox , Prance, the grey tabby cat, and Zip, the black and white cat.
    I had the 2 dragons: Magic, the white one and Scorch, the brown one. I also was given the big Scorch from my sister after having my tonsils removed.
    We didn't keep the tags on them though. We played with them everyday. We would put on little plays with them for my niece (older sister's daughter) when she was 2 up until 4.
    We ended up giving my niece all of them except for the 6 I mentioned above.

  • @CGold75
    @CGold75 Рік тому +10

    "I told them those Cabbage Patch dolls would come to life and rebel against the human population! But nobody listened... NOBODY!" all jokes aside those dolls are creepy and ugly.

  • @jellymcmichaels4240
    @jellymcmichaels4240 Рік тому +4

    How did the Leapfrog Word Whammer not make it onto this list? You can make it swear!

  • @sazfretz1945
    @sazfretz1945 11 місяців тому +1

    I remember that Po doll. 😃 I always thought it was saying, "Pat it. Pat it."

  • @ms.krueger2660
    @ms.krueger2660 Рік тому +5

    It’s amazing how many toys from 50 years ago were really dangerous. I played with Jarts. My Mom would sit outside and watch us play. She knew better than to leave us. Had a set to make bugs. She would not let us do that alone either. It had to be plugged up. My Mom had sense. Lots of Moms did not. My cousin would bring her easy bake oven and tell my Mom that she does not need supervision. My Mom would say that you do in my house. My cousins Mom would give them the toys and leave. They were always burning themselves or getting cut or something. Just because it is for kids does not mean that it can be given to them without supervision!!

  • @movieforge01
    @movieforge01 Рік тому +24

    The father saying I wouldn't have bought them I I knew long metal spikes are dangerous. The lawn darts thing is a little weird. It's like letting your kids play in traffic and then getting mad when they get hit by a car. Clearly just by looking at the product your gonna know you gotta be careful. Even without the warning any clear headed person will know its dangerous. Yeah long sharp medal spikes and your children not a good combination.

    • @MegaPianoplayer1
      @MegaPianoplayer1 Рік тому +7

      I had the same thought. "That's on you. You didn't bother to actually look at the box or put any thought into this and then got upset when your kid got hurt."

    • @susannpatton2893
      @susannpatton2893 Рік тому +6

      We never got hurt with thoes things, people with common sense that is.

  • @Tomsonic41
    @Tomsonic41 Рік тому +6

    When I was a kid in the late 80s I was riding my bike up and down the street, and another kid started shooting at me with his Super Soaker. This wasn't in itself harmful, but did cause me to fall off the bike and bend the wheel, as well as suffering cuts and bruises. I also had a Glo Worm toy, but thankfully I wasn't in the habit of biting and sucking toys like other kids!

  • @ByteTheMacintosh
    @ByteTheMacintosh 9 місяців тому +1

    Some toys are just like “this had a choking hazard” or “this had too much lead paint” but there’s so many reasons why a toy can get banned.

  • @angelawildman122
    @angelawildman122 Рік тому +3

    I remember the Elmo Goes To The Potty toy saying “Uh oh, who wants to die?”

  • @KCKingdomCreateGreatTrekAgain
    @KCKingdomCreateGreatTrekAgain Рік тому +2

    Following instructions could prevent a lot of injuries and product bans.

  • @PoesRaven73
    @PoesRaven73 Рік тому +21

    Cabbage Patch dolls were NOT “literally in every closet”. I wouldn’t buy those pucker-faced monstrosities for my girls, and I’m certain I’m not the only parent who felt the same way. The word “literally” is literally very often misused.

    • @MoonshineTheDragThing
      @MoonshineTheDragThing Рік тому +4

      I was upset when my mom expected me to play with Cabbage Patch dolls. Something about them always made me feel uneasy.

    • @nexx1
      @nexx1 Рік тому +3

      My mom would not buy the because she thought they were ugly and expensive

    • @cooperminion825
      @cooperminion825 10 місяців тому

      I remember one of my best friends told me that he'd heard rumors that some jerks were buying up all the CPKs so they could sell them for a ton of money

  • @ChristyTina22
    @ChristyTina22 Рік тому +6

    I was a cashier during the black friday they released Tickle Me Elmo. No one in my store got hurt, but it was a nightmare.

    • @Tinkerbelle26
      @Tinkerbelle26 Рік тому +1

      My husband worked at the Disney Store during the Beanie Baby’s. He said there was a set day when a new shipment of them came in. All of the employees dreaded that day just because of all the madness that followed.

  • @brandoncolis3841
    @brandoncolis3841 Рік тому +3

    You want to talk about a scary toy? Alright, remember Madballs? I recall being around nine years old and visiting a store called Buffalo Bills near my local grocery store downtown. I saw two toys that resembled Madballs, they probably were, one was green. I think it was the weekend, but definitely during daytime. I was in clear mind, and I pushed squeezed one of the two toy balls, and I swear, I heard this audio that sounded like a child screaming for his mother while possibly being haunted by a boogeyman and the mother was screaming (not at him, but because she could not find him), think of the doll scene from Poltergeist (the classic one). I know two others heard it, because two guys who looked only a few years older than I was found it hilarious, I recall one of them saying, "oh my god" and laughing. I was not ever able to identify it, but wow, it crept me out.

  • @johnarnold6623
    @johnarnold6623 Рік тому +4

    One of the funniest Simpsons episodes was when Homer installed an East Bake Oven into his car

  • @T0Gth3Mighty_369
    @T0Gth3Mighty_369 Рік тому +6

    If your kid likes to eat the faces of their dolls, you got bigger issues to worry about. 😅

  • @samanthawright2796
    @samanthawright2796 Рік тому +4

    Once again, love the video and all of the content. I will keep watching as long as you keep posting

  • @MegaPianoplayer1
    @MegaPianoplayer1 Рік тому +6

    I have a feeling some of the Elmo stuff was taken out of context and blown way out of proportion by parents and media and then people started hearing what they were told they should hear.

    • @brandoncolis3841
      @brandoncolis3841 Рік тому +2

      Yeah I don't buy the "kill James" bit in the slightest

    • @MegaPianoplayer1
      @MegaPianoplayer1 Рік тому +1

      @@brandoncolis3841 Definitely some parent half heard something from a toy that was low on battery power or something and blew it all out of proportion.

    • @kelleyk28
      @kelleyk28 10 місяців тому

      Yeah, if some parents can't bitch about something, they'll make something up. ​@@MegaPianoplayer1

  • @DawnAYoung-vk4on
    @DawnAYoung-vk4on Рік тому +7

    When I was a child the original Barbie styling head first came out and I had one. One night my 15 year old aunt was babysitting me and decided to use the plastic curling iron on my hair. She clicked and clicked and my hair twirled and twirled into the iron and she couldn’t get it out so she pulled it out and partially scalped me. My parents came home and it was chaos. Me and my aunt wound up at the hospital that night. Let’s just say my mom lost it. Yes I have forgiven and I’m not really sure it was the Mattel company’s fault. I do know they changed the curling iron style afterwards but it wasn’t because this incident. I did have issues with trauma to the scalp and the fact my hair would just pull out in clumps but after cortisone shots to the scalp I really don’t have anymore issues.

    • @lwine397
      @lwine397 Рік тому

      @DawnAYoung-vk4on That's horrible. If at 15 she didn't know to get scissors and cut the strands of hair that were stuck rather than rip the curling iron out, then she probably shouldn't have been babysitting.

  • @BigFella117
    @BigFella117 Рік тому +9

    I’m glad I didn’t know any of these dark stories about these toys when I was a kid

    • @alifuller1658
      @alifuller1658 Рік тому +1

      and now as adult you know don't you just love updates stuff it Educate you About this evil world that we live in. I just love the future Is so d*** insterresting 🔮 😆

  • @isaiahach
    @isaiahach Рік тому +3

    how did something so innocent become so messy? adults, the answer is adults. they're like that with cartoons FOR KIDS as well. they think they're the targeted demographic and start demanding changes. they start harassing it's actors and creators if their demands aren't met.

  • @kevinkunkel9444
    @kevinkunkel9444 Рік тому +12

    Barbie and Ken: Don't confuse fiction with reality. While they may have been named after siblings, that's reality. Them being a couple, they're dolls. That makes it fiction.
    When it comes to Kirby, you say something to the toy and it has the potential to repeat it. Do you really want something like that where military secrets are being discussed?

    • @bigmad6454
      @bigmad6454 Рік тому +1

      Kirby? You mean the same pink puffball who says "poyo?"

    • @ChicagoMel23
      @ChicagoMel23 Рік тому +1

      *furby

  • @Jaysin412
    @Jaysin412 Рік тому +9

    I had a cabbage patch kid named Elroy Athel, and a green glow worm back in the 80s, and also about a thousand jewel tummy troll dolls in the 90s. Hahaha. They had so many colors and clothes on the originals. I hated the knock offs everyone had at the time of the fad

    • @MarcyTrivette
      @MarcyTrivette Рік тому +2

      I had 2 Cabbage Patch dolls and a Glowworm back in the 80s too. I got the Glowworm when I was 5. I remember removing the light stick that was inside of my Glowworm and going into the bathroom, shutting the door and turning off the lights and sticking that light stick into my mouth and looking in the mirror. I thought it was so cool!🤣

    • @Jaysin412
      @Jaysin412 Рік тому +1

      @@MarcyTrivette lmfao! I'm sure people have done worse with those lights...

    • @Tinkerbelle26
      @Tinkerbelle26 Рік тому +3

      My little brother had a Cabbage Patch kid named Elroy, but I can’t remember what the middle name was. I have 6 Cabagge Patch kids. My mom saved them all.

    • @Jaysin412
      @Jaysin412 Рік тому +1

      @@Tinkerbelle26 my mom still has cabbage patch kid and my glow worm

    • @laurabeane8862
      @laurabeane8862 Рік тому

      They have a Halloween Spoof called "Adopt a Ghost" they come in a package about the size of a ring box and they have their own name and adoption certificate as well.

  • @GoatAmv
    @GoatAmv Рік тому +17

    #3: Super Soaker Attacks
    In hot summer months, super soakers can be a great way for children to cool down and get some physical activity. There’s nothing like the threat of being hit by a stream of cold water to get a group of kids laughing, screaming and running around. The thing is, super soakers should only be used with adult supervision to make sure that they’re being played with appropriately, safely and in a way that is fun for everyone involved. Sure, it’s just water, but at high enough pressures, it can still hurt and become a tool for bullying. Worse, the contents can be switched for another liquid. There have been several cases of people filling super soakers with bleach or other chemical irritants, resulting in severe burns.
    #2: The Dangers of Lego
    There are few toys that have enjoyed more enduring popularity or inspired more children than Lego. Unfortunately, these little interconnecting plastic blocks enjoy such universal popularity that, sadly, they often find their way into the hands of children who don’t meet the minimum age requirement for safe play. And as little hands always do, they put those lego blocks into their mouths where they pose a serious choking hazard - especially the smaller pieces. Choking is among the leading causes of injury and death in small children, which is why it’s so important to supervise infants and toddlers at play - and respect age recommendations. Over the years, there have been a number of reported cases of children of choking on Lego blocks - some sadly fatal.
    #1: The Banning of Lawn Darts
    In theory, lawn darts sound like a wholesome, harmless outdoor target game for the whole family. Unfortunately, when thrown, these seemingly innocuous pieces of sporting equipment can become lethal projectiles. The metal tips, designed to pierce and stick into soft ground on contact, have proven to devastating when they make contact with a person. Countless injuries and numerous deaths resulting from lawn darts have resulted in them being banned in the United States multiple times over. First they were made illegal across the board, only for the ban to be lifted under the condition that they not be marketed as toys. Following the tragic death of child however, they were once again banned outright in 1988.

  • @georgeh6856
    @georgeh6856 Рік тому +2

    Trample Me Elmo. (Sorry, I know it must have been horrible for that employee who got seriously injured over a stupid toy.)

  • @Kim-je5cw
    @Kim-je5cw Рік тому +3

    Either we "had a poor choice" in toys or our parents had it out for us 🤣🤷 between me and my brothers we had every toy on this list. Must of been our taste in toys though. I remember my mom having collections of trolls and furbys

  • @TsovoaLevone
    @TsovoaLevone Рік тому +2

    Imagine being at Walmart and someone screaming “there’s the elmos” and you get trampled, lmfao

  • @MORONIC_official
    @MORONIC_official Рік тому +6

    Crazy. Im surprised how i did not dangerous hurt myself badly as a child.

    • @LilDemona
      @LilDemona Рік тому +4

      Most likely due to actual adult supervision and common sense, I had a version of the Easy Bake Oven back when I was a kid, and whenever I used it my mom would supervise me so I wouldn't get hurt.

    • @MORONIC_official
      @MORONIC_official Рік тому +2

      @@LilDemona yeah true.

    • @susannpatton2893
      @susannpatton2893 Рік тому +4

      We were smarter than kids today. We didn't stick our hands into an easybake oven, we knew better

    • @seanryan3020
      @seanryan3020 Рік тому +4

      If you never went down a metal slide that had been sitting in the sun all day in shorts, you've never lived!

    • @MORONIC_official
      @MORONIC_official Рік тому +2

      @@seanryan3020 I did and I remember!

  • @riffdagg6701
    @riffdagg6701 Рік тому +2

    I still have my old set of lawn darts and love them

  • @danielsantiagourtado3430
    @danielsantiagourtado3430 Рік тому +5

    Love your lists!😊😊😊

  • @JennNofficial
    @JennNofficial Рік тому +2

    Omg 😱 I was obsessed with my glow worm!!!

  • @pdmullgirl
    @pdmullgirl Рік тому +3

    Anybody remember those clicker clackers? They were acrylic balls on a string. The goal was to click clack them together and get it going so fast that they click clacked below and above your hand that is swinging or holding the string. Like over and under. Anyway, they found out that they would basically explode or crack open and pieces could potentially get in your eyes, maybe down your throat etc. So they redesigned them and they were made with a plastic handle and the balls were smaller and plastic. Not nearly as fun or challenging.
    ❤️💜💚

    • @jenlfpotter3870
      @jenlfpotter3870 Рік тому +1

      I had two sets of the redesigned safer plastic clackers. I'd clack both of them at the same time, one in each hand. They are brilliant but noisy fidget toys of their time. I wish I'd had some of the original clackers though.

    • @pdmullgirl
      @pdmullgirl Рік тому

      @@jenlfpotter3870 Me too! Even though they were dangerous. It would just be neat to own an old original one.
      ❤️💜💚

  • @cooperminion825
    @cooperminion825 10 місяців тому +1

    7:14 there was actually a study done that showed Furbies were incapable of recording human speech patterns

  • @freakyneil
    @freakyneil Рік тому +3

    USA: Lawn Darts bad, guns good
    Rest of the world: …

  • @kitamik6080
    @kitamik6080 Рік тому

    "He man got his skin lightened" He man proceeds to yell "I have the POWER!"

  • @Gamerplayz-1u
    @Gamerplayz-1u 6 місяців тому +4

    more like canible pach kids

  • @Alina-fox
    @Alina-fox Рік тому +2

    I remember having the glow worm as a kid

  • @Raidenshogun9234
    @Raidenshogun9234 Рік тому +3

    I'm not going to lie when I heard about stories of Elmo that I'm scared of him
    (And holy cow I'm the first person to comment that's a first)

  • @billjeffers2273
    @billjeffers2273 Рік тому +1

    Silly string was a tragedy as well. 😢

  • @Zyuemperoryoutubecreators.
    @Zyuemperoryoutubecreators. Рік тому +4

    Play time now dark

  • @itsRudeGal
    @itsRudeGal 4 місяці тому +1

    Does anybody remember those baby dolls that were supposed to be sick? (In the late 90s.. early 2000s?) the dolls checks turned red and they cried.. you had to give it medicine and they’d stop crying.. they were in a purple suit.

  • @CartoonPhreak
    @CartoonPhreak Рік тому +7

    Barbie, Lisa Frank, Easy Bake, Be Inspired, Hannah Montana, Make It Real, Girl Tech, American Girl, Pokémon (the trading card game) and Polly Pocket are collectible toys
    One episode of Dexter’s Lab (Cartoon Network) had a Cabbage Patch Kids reference which Dee Dee sees Mr. Chewy Bitems who is biting her hair much to Dexter’s dismay but she literally threw him onto the ground and kicked him with her foot

  • @Foxfire-xq5ij
    @Foxfire-xq5ij Рік тому

    Hmm, sounds like those adult slap bracelet’s deteriorating was just a bonus feature. LOL

  • @darpanpatel3303
    @darpanpatel3303 Рік тому +3

    What about Hello Kitty? In Hong Kong 1999, a young woman named Fan Man Yee was a young mother and prostitute trying to make a living as she was struggling financially. One day, she stole some money from Chan Man Lok who was Fan's regular client and Chan demanded the money back. However, Fan returned the stolen money but was given an additional fee, which she couldn't pay over time, Chan was angry. One day, Chan abducted Fan along with some friends and his underage girlfriend to a hotel where they beat, raped and starved her on the daily basis, this repeat for more than 30 days. One day, the gang had just returned from dinner at a restaurant when they found that Fan had passed away from her injuries and was in the bathtub.
    You thought they could leave her alone, but NO! Those demons did not! After they found her, they dismembered her body and boiled some pieces with the same kitchen utensils with the food they were eating. Some internal organs were kept in the freezer and some other parts were fed to the dogs, (Those poor dogs being used as decomposers :( ) Then they placed her decapitated head into an oversized Hello kitty mermaid doll.
    Soon, the girlfriend began to have nightmares of Fan and reported it to the police. At first they did not believe her because she had a history of drugs, but soon, they did after she spilled the beans about the murder. The only things they found were a tooth, her skull and organs. Soon, Chan and his "merry, wicked men" were arrested and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole and the girlfriend was let go because she was the one who told the police what happened.
    P.S. I'm sorry about how traumatizing this case is

  • @macmcintyre6153
    @macmcintyre6153 Рік тому +1

    There's some interesting toys that I remember learning about and they're very creepy things that happened with them. For whatever reason they'll be stories always interest me.

  • @trexadvent4726
    @trexadvent4726 Рік тому +3

    Is this video suppose to scare away children from their toys? What would happen if these stories weren't true?

  • @lmoore3567
    @lmoore3567 Рік тому

    Toxic chemicals, choking hazards, malfunctions... but He Man's skin tone beats almost all of these issues. Way to prioritize, Mojo.

  • @Dragontamer135
    @Dragontamer135 Рік тому +2

    Watching this video while laying in bed as my glow worm plays music and emits a soft glow. I'm currently in my 20s and live with my mom still. Yeah I'm too old for a glow worm but I'm mentally ill and the toy helps me sleep since I have tendency to have nightmares. But I have medication that helps keep them away most nights. Anyway enough negative stuff. I really enjoyed lisa frank in the early 2000s I liked getting a notebook while school supplies shopping. The notebook or folder usually had a dolphin or leopard on it.

  • @kathymichelle1978
    @kathymichelle1978 Рік тому +3

    I'm glad my Barbie dated GI Joe

  • @cellocat-sm8lx
    @cellocat-sm8lx 10 місяців тому +1

    I absolutely loved my glow worm as a little girl 😭💖

  • @Kairii-Kylie
    @Kairii-Kylie Рік тому +3

    My friend had a furbie back in the day. When she eventually got bored of it she took out the batteries when they ran out but didn't bother to replace them. Years later she hears talking. It was the furbie that still 'lived' on the drawers in the base of her bed....

  • @williepearl278
    @williepearl278 Рік тому +1

    I still have the dipsy teletubbie talking doll that my mom gave me for Christmas back in 2001 and his voice box still works 😂

  • @brianduncan5165
    @brianduncan5165 Рік тому +3

    When my son was little we bought him a furby buffet mistake, Christmas day we were out with the furby, it was finally asleep well instead of waking up and yawning saying a cheerful good morning in the dark it opened its eyes and said I'm bored then it started speaking computer jargon and taught it to other furbys I'm convinced it was going to take over the world....plus no sky dancers those sent kids to the hospital too

    • @neoswagtwigofthetwignation9778
      @neoswagtwigofthetwignation9778 Рік тому

      What did you do with all the creepy AI Furbys?

    • @beckigreen
      @beckigreen Рік тому

      My daughters had Sky Dancers and they were fine.
      A bunch of hoopla about nothing.
      Only an idiot could get hurt playing with a Sky Dancer.

  • @SputDobt
    @SputDobt Рік тому +1

    i had the snack time cabbage patch thing! very epic.