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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2024
- The Wild World of a Gen X Childhood: Remember the death-defying toys we played with as kids? Trauma or Nostalgia? 😂 Maybe a little bit of both.
et's take a trip down memory lane to the fearless days of Gen X's playtime with our video, "Thrill of the Past: Gen X's Toybox Dangers." We're revisiting those iconic toys that were as thrilling as they were dangerous. Remember clackers? Those noisy toys could really pack a wallop. And lawn darts-wow, they weren't just a game, they were an adventure, and not always the safe kind. Then there was the light bright, sparking creativity with a hint of danger.
Now, get ready to feel that old excitement with the three-wheel de machine and the big wheel-speed demons of their day, delivering pure adrenaline. And who could forget those old playgrounds? The merry-go-rounds that sent us spinning and those scorching metal slides-they were all about risky, heart-pounding fun.
Join us for this nostalgic journey as we compare the wild, sometimes hazardous toys of the past to the super-safe playthings of today. It makes you wonder, do today's toys live up to the daring adventures we had? Let's find out.
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Most dangerous toy GenX played with as kids was our imagination when we got bored. The crap we thought up to have "fun" ...
Right?!? My motto is if ya don't get hurt you ain't playing hard enough
And let’s not forget the toy boxes with lids that could crush your head. Ahhh, the good old days…
Lmao😂
Oh yes!
Sadly, too, gen x is the reason why the doors of discarded refrigerators had to be removed ..
I thought this video was going to be about the box itself. Mine gave me 13 stitches on my forehead 😂
Taught ya a valuable lesson 😊
How about the bug factory, where you had to melt plastic and pour into molds? The fumes themselves were toxic AF, the molten plastic would fuse to your skin if you spilled it on yourself, and the melting pot was hotter than a campfire. Industrial fun for every girl and boy.
I'm 61yrs this year. So I thoroughly remember all of these!! My worst accident was I went down a VERY steep hill on my bike, was forced off the side, landed on top of my bike(after a sixty foot drop) broke my collar bone,my knee-cap, and my jaw, not to mention the skull fracture. I do occasionally wear a T-Shirt that says"But did you DIE!?!" just to f-ck with the newest generation!! Good Times!!😂
Remember the Sit-n-Spin? Or as my uncle called it, the Whirl and Hurl.. Oh and don't forget the Lemon Jump. You know the thing you attached to one ankle and then spun it around and jumped over it with your other leg, without tripping and falling on your face. Last but never least was tether ball. I was a vicious little b*tch when it came to playing that game, and intentionally aimed for my opponents face.. Good times! Good times!
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Yep had one!
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Yep, and the thing around your ankle had like a yellow ball or something you had to jump over.
Not to mention Chemistry Sets with real toxic chemicals and a spirit burner! Good times. 🤣🤣
Actually, thanks to Slim Sherry and all those that made a comment, brought back REALLY GOOD memories... Thank you all for helping brighten my day. Even if just a lil bit. 💖
As i remember it the Easy Bake Oven would show up as a heat bloom in images from space.
I would rig mine so the safety lock was disabled. Who wants a cold-ass brownie?! 😅
Aww the good old days I remember the devils playground doing Flip Flop Cherry Drop off those bars could broke your neck several girls got concussions 😅 Were definitely Survivors 👍
Ahhhh they even set some of us up for failure with candy cigarettes.
I loved those, The lil puff of powdered sugar. .. Somehow I avoided smoking, But still got COPD . Go figure..💙💦😅
Speak for yourself!! I Smoked 2 packs a day of the Candy and Bubble gum ones and I am a Big Success!!! I drive for UBER!!! lol Cheers
Who remembers Smoking Monkeys?
@Brittany463 Well Thank you!!! I needed that. My day is about to begin!!! I can Hear Vader's Imperial March Music beginning....I hope you have a Splendid Day And are safe as Well, Cheers🤔🤪
We loved those 😂😂😅
You forgot seesaws that lifted you eight feet in the air. Invariably the person on the other end thought it funny to jump off you while were up there. Dirty trick. Good lesson in gravity!
Only one person on a side? We invariably doubled up. But inevitably someone would unexpectedly decide to just up and leave with predictable results
I always hated those damn things.
English Gen X here. I have a scar on my leg that starts in the front just under my knee and carries on through to the back which was the exit. It took 34 stitches inside and 40 stitches in the front and 34 in the back to close it and all the lacerations caused by the gravel. We used to play the roundabout from hell. The game was to jump on and off while others spun it faster and the longer you stayed on without wanting to hurl you were declared the winner. This particular day I was doing the same as everyone else until my foot slipped and went under the planks of wood and as it was going round proceeded to spin me around with it I had 5 nails in my leg that were ripping it to shreds by the time they got it to stop I had passed out with the pain. Fire engines were called as well as the ambulance they had to cut me out from under the damn thing. I arrived at the hospital with the part of the wooden deck stuck to the front of my leg. My clothes had been shredded my trainers had been destroyed. Nails that had travelled right on through to the other side. The leg not trapped was broken. I had gravel rash from the middle of my back all the way past my butt and down my leg. I had 3 broken toes my elbows were dislocated two broken fingers. I was 8 years old. My poor mom and pops came to the hospital dad sitting there crying right along side me while mom was shouting and lecturing me. I was in the hospital a long time. Did it stop me doing it again did it hell. As soon as I was better again I was back jumping on and off the new one that had to be rebuilt and I had bragging rights right through the rest of my childhood. Kids today are to soft wrapped up in cotton wool and need safe spaces. No they don 't they need to challenge the status quo if not where do we get the next dare devils the race car drivers the bikers the military. As an old English saying you have to eat a ton of shit before you die. LIVE LIFE and arrive at the final destination knowing you had a damn good time been here.
Oh yes, playground gravel. No soft landings for us, they used gravel that was too sharp for driveways because it could puncture a tire, so it became the landing zones for kids.
All this time I thought it was just my parents hated kids, but now I see that it was pretty much all parents in the late 60’s and 70’s, doing everything possible to kill us and make us feel responsible for it.
I lovvvved my BigWheel! But HOW could you forget the Hoppity Hop?!? Those one handle, sit upon, rubber hopping balls -most kids had to use theirs on grass…I guess my parents didn’t love me enough!😉🤪
I see they make them for adults these days….who’s with me? We hop at dawn!!
I always wanted a Micky Mouse one where you held Mickey's ears. 😂 I'd be down for trying it as an adult. However after having kids I'm just not sure how safe that would be for my pants. 😆😀
only if they're super overfilled!
Oh and the slip n slide where you could break a few bones over summer
The merry go round was my personal favorite death defying toy, we would get that thing spinning and we were literally flying hanging on and sometimes we'd let go to see how far we flew off! LOL!🤣We were tough kids back in the day.
we had one where someone had attached a moped for more spinning power
@2xtreem4u LOL!🤣 OMG!🤣 We were death defying kids!🤣
@@lizard928 sadly older genx playground was made more secure for younger genx (there was a central pivot with an arm to a sledge that moved on a rail they removed that one)
@@2xtreem4u They made a lot of changes to our childhood playground, too bad.
@@lizard928 not as much as now where everything is padded and all sand is removed (we had the nails sticking out from the wood and the piano black metal slide)
See-saws taught us about who you should trust.
My childhood playground had 3 giant cement sewer pipes parts thrown together to climb in and on.
And the dome monkey bars no padding, hard packed dirt- packed from the previous climbers who failed.
We had those tube things to. Leftover construction supplies lol. We also had MASSIVE swing sets. You'd literally catch air bc you up higher than the bldg. I used to climb it .... Not ONE adult said a word the entire 5 yrs in elementary that i went to that school and climbed EVERY. DAY.
I remember 😅the jungle gym. When I was six, I got kicked right in the face, and from that point on, I got glasses because it caused a vision problem
You had dirt? All we had was cement with more cement.
Where I from it was cement and rocks underneath all playground equipment.
@@Angel-rq3pioh yes I remember the kids who would climb those metal a frame swing sets at the park. Thought they were idiots, agile idiots, but we still would watch and egg them on because got to respect taking the risk to fall on the crumbling asphalt beneath the set. Impressive. I was more of a leap off the merry-go-round or off a swing at a run type of idiot myself as opposed to a climber.
I loved the bigwheel, could whip around real fast. But the devil's playground was my backyard. The monkey bars, flying off the marry go roud, good times
I used to ride the big wheel down a steep hill and would try to stop at the end (or go over an embankment)😅
@@heiditate6989 nice 👌
my best friend since age 3, who died in 2019 from a faulty heart valve would have loved your humor, he was a real sentimental guy > thanks for the laughs & memories
I learned how to drift on my big wheel 😂 best toy ever
mom didn't allow go carts or big wheels instead the boys got hold of the riding lawn mower and modified it.
@@garyw9164 Haha! That’s why our childhood was so awesome .
Loved the 70s and 80s. The good old days. Don't forget all the toys that could be choking hazards. Fun times. Now we got Tide Pods, milk crate and cinnamon challenge. This generation would have never survived.😂
Well I wasn't planning on going down memory lane but.....damn that was a great time to be a kid
In my time; the Thing Maker. An actual small hot plate with metal moulds for cooking up plastic bugs and stuff. Got hot enough to cause 3rd degree burns and maybe melt lead. It was for kids.
Am I the only one who remembers jacks? Step on one of those in the middle of the night. Ahhh memories.
I loved Jack's! Played for hours. And they were metal, not plastic like today.
HAHAHA! Bull's=Eye! This was so spot on, that I wish that I could hit the "thumbs up" again! Great job!
I actually miss those days 😂😂
We all do ❤
My personal favorite was the tire swing. The one hung horizontally so 3 friends could stand on it and swing as high as possible at the same time. Swing so high it jerked on the way down. Better hang on!
I loved my clackers. I hide them from my mother when she tried to take them back. But that was ok because me and my friends got back into nunchucks with helmets. Then we play fort wars with rocks. Oh my were we something else.
the boys in my neighborhood were deadly with the rock throwing!
We had no fear of Pandora's Box.
We lived through those days and we're not afraid to show our scars
There were adults injured by our toys. One time a teacher came in with an eye patch after a kid set off a firecracker, a mom broke her arm, etc.
I remember my moped😂, my favorite thing was to drive it around the house, and ramp myself up a little bank, always without incident, my father tried it once and tore off his pants 😂
There were no disclaimers back in the day. PLAY OR DIE
My Second (I've had 13) concussion was on a Merry-Go-Round. The school was storing construction materials for a remodel on the playground and I lost my grip on the Merry-Go-Round and flew headfirst into a pile a bricks. I stood up dripping blood, seeing double and promptly threw up. The school nurse wrapped a towel around my head and told me to take a nap. I woke up three days later in the hospital.
Oh shit, worse idea to tell u to nap after head trauma
@@sararao8429 ikr...I'm sure she was not properly qualified for the job.
@@priestessofkek2406 Congratulations you are one tough Hombre. 😂 Take a nap? Seriously? Oh my.
@@sararao8429back then...yes. Now. No. Protocols have changed
Same here. Hit a mailbox post at 30 mph downhill on my new bike woke up 5 min later, toted home, put in bed that afternoon woke up 3 days later. No dr. or hospital. 8 yrs old.
Dont forget the woodburning kits. They could literally melt through your skin. My parents would leave me alone with that thing for hours, with not checking on me once.
I remember my chemistry set box. Which had zinc and sulfer that I set ablaze to get blue and green fire. And the playground deathtraps. Chipped a few teeth, got bloodied up more times than I can remember, bruised and even broke my wrist, but that's how we did it back then. Being a kid in the 70s and a teen in the 80s was a true experience. 😅
I got a chemistry set at age 5 that had a real frog in formaldehyde and a real scalpel in addition to the chemicals. 😮
OMG I cant stop laughing of the memories and the realization how wicked we lived back then 😂😂😂
Also lost my first nail from the monkey bars. They took them apart to paint them and still left them sitting in the playground at school. we used them like see-saws and I crushed my right hand between the ground and the bar when it was my turn to go to the ground.
Will be 49 in less than 2 weeks and I still have my awesome cabbage patch doll from when I was like 8. Best times
The merry-go-round in the metal slide you talk of when I was growing up was on a playground that was blacktopped and the top of the slide. It didn’t have any side rails so if you fell off, you fell off headfirst.
From one Gen X Sheri to another Sherri…. PREACH!
Well said Sherri. Amazing that we survived in some cases. I remember a bunch of us boys had tournaments of who could launch themselves furthest from the swings at school. I never won 1st place but it sure was great times! Anyone remember the game “Smear the @#$%&”? It’s sad that I have to make those adjustments these days.💡Censorship. Can you do one on Gen X’s take on censorship? That might prove interesting.
What a beautiful trip down memory lane! My kids will never know the joy/terror that we lived through… I get Misty eyed!
Loved all those toys; we had a great childhood, and our boundaries were endless until we were in the ER…I signed so many casts in elementary school. 🤙🏻
Sledding down steep streets, blowing past stop signs....hell, the cars will stop for us right?! Parents inside, drinking bloody mary's on a snowy morning....they weren't concerned.
I was the kid that made a potato cannon out of pvc pipe and ended up in the hospital because I put WAY too much fuel in it and ended blowing it up giving me 2nd degree burns and over 40 stitches. As soon as I healed up I set to work on version 2. Moral of the Story. No matter how dangerous the toys were, we could make much much worse.
Your creative
My family loved playing lawn darts
We used to play Battleship with Lawn Darts. We'd YEET that sumbich over the house and then yell back, MISS! This went on until something, or someone, got a hit. We only did this once because PJ broke a window.
I required ten stitches to reattach my pinky toe from a sharp piece of metal sticking out of one of those torturous slides. It was at the drive-in playground, right before the movie started. I was wearing flip-flops and didn't realize that I was even bleeding until my brother noticed. Mom was so p*ssed. My parents really should have sued.
Running through jumping fences in backyards on my block, corner to corner, running from dogs in the yards jumping from garage to garage.
And with all that we went thru as kids..... this is why we are the second greatest generation!!!!!😎😎
Second??!!!!😊
@jackromero7324 the ultimate first, and the greatest ,being the W.W.2 generation!!!! 😁👍
I can still hear those horrific clacks my sister would intentionally attack me with nonetheless those slides swings climbing equip musta been 20 feet up 😂
lmao at being assaulted with clackers
Wooden rattles and metal hot wheel cars covered in lead paint, cribs with wide bar railings that collapsed, booster seat with side handrails and no back, no seatbelts in cars, and when you had to stand in the corner licking that sweet lead paint passed the time. Yea, those were the days.
Don’t forget the steal monkey bars that were built over solid concrete or asphalt. None of sand or shredded tire crap to land on. You caught steal pipe, steal pipe CONCRETE as you fell.
lol the deliverys the killer
For a brief moment in the 80s the fry your legs off slide was replaced by something even more painful the roller slide. It could pinch your fingers off. Any danger trap was given the warning of "If you break your arm, leg, neck, DO NOT come crying to me. I will give you something to cry about."
I loved lawn darts. It was like bocce ball with real life consequences.
Hoppity horse. Had one. Bailed down my grandmothers long staircase backwards on that thing. Shook it off, Got right back on . Banana board. Had that . Sit and spin. Didn’t have it but I did want it. Easy bake oven. Those things exploded like a Tesla in the desert. Pogo stick . Loved mine! Yep the dangerous toys were the best! I don’t think that warning labels existed. And jump ropes were usually used to tie up your friends to trees and leave them there for a short period of time.
Lots of good memories. Those were the days.
This singed my genx soul. The horrors we lived through! 😂
The generation that learned how not to catch a friction burn going down a 15ft metal slide in August and that you had one chance to fall off the monkey bars to the hot asphalt below!
And the metal dome climbing thingy at the parks as well....I loved that thing. You all know what I am talking about common....LOL
Oh yeah I remember “Light Bright!” 😮but it was fun to play because you would use your own time imagining about what picture you wanted to make, but there was other stuff that you had as well and some dangerous stuff as well!
It's why the "Bag o'Glass" skit was so accurate!
I loved the stamped sheet metal toys. Very colorful paint jobs, and edges that were really sharp as razors.
Yes!!!! Thank you! Those clackers were the worst.😂
Back in 84
I used to hang with friends a few years older then me and introduced to me, Punk Rock! and I loved it!
I remember my friend and his name wad Nick. He was 6' 3" and weight was 220 and he kept stage diving on the same part of the crowd and finally got sick of catching him and moved out of the way and Nick broke his arm in two places that day and never forget that.
The reason why we had so much fun on all those playground death traps, we didnt have parents that sued the city or company for every little boo boo we got. As Sherri would say, rub some dirt on it. As my dad would say, walk it off.
We used to have one of those all metal Devil's playgrounds too at my old elementary. I also remember when they stopped letting us play on it. The boys used to play king of the hill up at the very top of the all metal jungle Gym. I remember watching as one kid lost their balance and fell head first bonking bars all the way down. I also remember teachers scrambling to get the rest of the students away from the area while an ambulance was called. No notes home either to explain anything, just ok kids time for math let's just pretend that never happened. Next thing we knew we were banned from the metal playground from Hell and the next year or so a newer wooden one was constructed.😂
Can't forget the lead painted and asbestos filled hand me downs or donated toys of generations past we played with and sucked on.
Oh, and to accompany the lite brite (which I still have) was the Easy Bake ovens. Ahhh the miraculous things you could do with a light bulb.
I'm born 71. Stop your posts! I'm falling in love with you. Even with your blue hair. My God......!!..!!...
Not only that but often gen x was like... that toy isn't dangerous enough... im going to build me a flame thrower.... roll down this hill in a barrel.. and other craziness.
My school had parallel bars that were about 7 feet tall. Nothing beneath them, just grass. I used to climb those like a monkey and sit and watch the kids play on recess. It's amazing I didn't fall off them and break something.
My jr high school had them. We'd try to be gymnasts to impress the boys.
Every word is so TRUE!🤣🤣 I got concussion twice from the metal spinning wheel of pain.
Winter fun waiting for a car to go by so we could grab onto the bumper.... lets skeeetch!
We had a pump style merri go round.In the middle were big metal gears..the seats were wood with splinters..There were metal areas were kids could sit in the middle.WE ALSO HOT THE big tall hot slides and maypole.The town park was in my front yard so literally lived there.
I didn't know that contraption we had was called a maypole until I saw your comment and looked it up! Haha! That thing would drag you and slam you into the center pole if you didn't stop yourself in time! I saw that happen to my cousin!
Don't forget the see saw! Lots of American Ninja Warrior moments on that contraption 😂😂
My husband was given a saw for Christmas at the age of 7. By the time his parents got up and out of bed on Christmas morning, he'd sawed the bedposts off his bed.
full lol with tears here 😂😂
The Easy Bake Oven was dangerous!! HAHA It was like the Lite Brite because it would get so hot and give you serious burns! Best part was you could make brownies in your bedroom!!
The Merry go round is where I learned how to fly but not voluntarily & those slides were great for us girl’s since we weren’t allowed to were pants when I was in grade school. 👍🤣🤣🛝
We even dealt with lead paint and are still here to confirm it didn't kill us. I also don't remember anyone picking it off the walls to eat either or fooling around with asbestos. We had better things to do. And all the glass jars. We could balance really well. These tiny wooden steps that were painted...frisbee was an awesome slide down those. And all the trees we climbed. We sure got pretty high. And a broken arm was the ultimate trophy. We did go outside during ice storms. These downed power lines didn't stop us. We had races to attend to to see who could survive sledding down the hill and not hitting the downed power lines. Remember playing in your parents car and releasing the brake.. good times!!
But it was so fun, especially trying to climb up the slide backwards 😊
Let's not forget the metal monkey bars!! That were over 100 degrees in the summer. We would either have our arms/ankles sprained or cracked. The best part was the rubber mats that were supposed to be our cushions, but instead, we would end up with burnt skin, bleeding knees, cut elbos, and chin. It all depended on how we freaking landed!! Boy, those were the good old days. And guess what? We survived and turned out to be okay. We learned in the playground how to take it and keep on going. We only complained that we didn't want to go home. We also had icees, and we ate with dirty hands as we were not allowed to go inside until the lightpost light turned on.. 😊
That's one of the many things that made us so tough. We always say we don't have feelings cause we drained that well dry before we were even teens. Our toys made us practically impervious to pain. Seriously every Gen-X kid died at least once and we still had to walk it off.🤣🤣🤣
as a Gen-Xer I remember those slides, and I grew up in the only state with it's own super hero. Florida so those slides were insanely hot.
Oh, the good ole days❤.
I would LOVE to see you do something on parent teacher conversation on Gen X kids to kids now. You will kill it.
Monkey Bars, no safety mats or supervision. Scramble nets 15" high. Climbing towers 20 ft. Obviously wasnt dangerous enough so we played blind-man's-bluff or Tag on them.
God i miss that freedom.
Ahhh the memories ❤
My brother tried to run me over with his Big Wheels sooo many times. He still drove it when those plastic (yes plastic) tires had rips into in from tearing it up and down the gravel roads. 😂
We still have our lawndarts and the box they came. Wish I still had my pogo stick. 😂
I loved that Big Wheel!
And there was also the aerobie- it, or maybe one of the knockoffs, had a sharp metal ring under the plastic . Sharp enough to cut fingers - and to cut apples in half 😊😂😅
And those examples were the safest ones we had.
And of course all the monkey bars and swing sets were built over asphalt. You ever get road rash from your swing dismount?
Ouija boards, you would one for Christmas. Our parents were nuts…lol…
The witches hat, if you spun it right you could sever someone's fingers ir your own...😂
Don't forget cap guns. So fun. Lol😮😮😮😮
Do you remember the lemon twist? You swung it around your keg while hopping over it with the other leg. If you didn't time it right, the lemon smacked you in the ankle. Good times!
But the best thing was all the concrete and hard edges around the playground equipment. And the hard plastic or wooden seats on the swings. I'm kind of surprised any of us managed to survive childhood
I jumped out of a wooden swing in 3rd grade and thought I cleared it, but it came back and cracked me in the head. Bled like crazy. My teacher kept me calm on the way back to school. First stitches I ever had. No CT scans back then. Stitched you up and sent you home.
Don't forget the monkey bars with no mats underneath.
They still make Lite Brite but it's all plastic now instead of metal.
I nearly floated out to sea once after learning to float on my back when I was about 10... let's just say that I did the dog paddle better than most dogs as I frantically swam to shore... currents are deadly offshore in CB NS 😳 and no parental supervision... you knew it was suppertime by the smell wafting down the beach mingled with seaweed and salt spray! Best and scariest decade of my life... circa '67
❤ ✌️ fr CB NS 🇨🇦 🍁
By clacker we called them the knowledge knotters cuz their were more then once it was used up side the head
I dislocated my hip on a slip n slide. Still played on it that day. After about 2 weeks, my parents noticed i was walking weird and that 1 leg was shorter 😂 i fixed it when i jumped over Hale creek and landed on that hip. Fun times 😂😂
We used old mattresses we found in a barn and jumped off roofs onto them! We had a fort in the rafters of the barn. We were all over it until we finally got caught.
Snowballs with rocks inside were pretty fun. Or just the rocks.