Top 10 Darkest Stories Behind 90s Children's Toys
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- If you owned any of these toys as a kid, consider yourself lucky you didn't suffer any injuries...or worse. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most horrific backstories associated with beloved ‘90s toys. Our countdown of the darkest stories behind 90s children's toys includes Creepy Crawlers, Tamagotchi, Beanie Babies, and more! Did you own any of these controversial ‘90s toys? Let us know in the comments!
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The most controversial one is Kinder Surprise, because its actually scary that US kids were the only ones to display such level of stupidity even at that age as to choke down a toy.
No other country required the banning of Kinder Surprise and it scary how poorly this reflects on US citizens intellectual level as a whole
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I had a Beanie Baby as a child.
This is how we toughened up as kids. Playing with toys that could harm or kill us.
I see Cabbage Patch dolls today with plastic bags over their plastic hands so the little ones won't put their eyes out . Man, we were tucked in at night with glo worm heads hard enough to bash ours in and we still woke up and survived, these new gen kids would never survive our rough and tough childhoods.
Enough said.
What's most horrifying is the speed of the bots 😂😂
Like how Kinder Eggs are banned in the US, but assault rifles..no problem!
And the fact that it said “the US government takes safety very seriously” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dangerous toys should always come with warning labels.
Kids don't read those and aren't expected to comprehend them anyways. In general, people are terrible at assessing risk and usually don't recognize a risk until they have a close call or injury.
A warning label doesn't absolve a company from its duty to provide a reasonably safe product with expected use, and expected use includes accidental and unintended use. An example of unintended use of a product would be a car collision - a car should be reasonably safe in a collision (airbags, seat belts, etc work as intended, car doesn't explode).
I'm surprised Teen Talk Barbie didn't make the list. Released in 1992, this doll said, "Math class is tough." which some educators felt would undermine young women from studying the subject. This was even more odd when you consider another phrase she said was, "I'm studying to be a doctor." Which isn't tough???
I remember someone also switched the voice box with a talking GI Joe doll's, also (which got parodied on The Simpsons with a Malibu Stacy doll that talked like Spider-Man)
Omg my grandma and I were both obsessed with beanie babies. I got her into it haha
Number one should be a terrifyingly terrorizing toy they recently sold, pass the 2000’s, called “evil wand” in dollar stores
I had a Slip and Slide in the 80s and I still feel the bruises.
Oh.
"Do you want to play a game? infront of you are 1000 sky dancers about to go off, if you can get to the door safely you win"
Lmao! 🤣😂🤣😂
“The US government takes health and safety very seriously.” 😂🙄
My then 9 year old cousin had two or three sky dancers and Furbies (they were both displayed on the middle shelf beside her bed in her room). I think I only got to play one sky dancer toy and it always flew and crash on the carpeted floor.
I also fondly remember my dad bought me a realistic [black] toy gun in my country, when I was maybe 6.
I'm familiar with scary sky dancers and snack time kids that snacked on kids. I had no idea about the other toys on this list. Some of these toys sure are dangerous. It's a good thing they're not made anymore. I've had kinder eggs, especially in the United States. But, they weren't kinder surprises.
The Sparks Fly thing also happened with a handful of Transformers in the late 80s. And with how realistic gun toys are mistaken for real ones, it's no surprise Hasbro decided to stop turning Megatron into a gun, although he was a transforming Nerf type gun in 2006.
I was a kid in the 90s and I did have a lot of Kinder surprise eggs. But given that I'm not from the USA, I was not stupid enough to choke on it and/or I had parents who cared enough to watch me while handling (eating & playing) with one. And so are hundreds of millions (probably billions) of kids around the world for the past couple of decades - except for the USA apparantly...
I used to love kinder eggs. Chocolate with a surprise toy. What else would a kid want. Then I got older and realised. The Chocolate wasn't that good and the toys were crap.
But I never choked on one. My parents warned me there was a toy inside and I listened.
@@WinsberryEntertainment Granted, the chocolate is not premium. But it's also not that bad. The toys are crap indeed. But both are sufficient/good enough for kids. Besides: In the past, there used to be collectibles (as per slogan: in every 7th egg), which were comparatively good.
@@WinsberryEntertainment I mentioned above, I don't know how someone could choke on one of the toys inside when it's in a capsule (at least, that's what it looked like from the Humpty Dumpty ad I saw online)
I appreciate the irony in you calling other people stupid and then misspelling “apparently”.
Sorry for having made a mistake. But given that English is not my first language... I don't care much.
Not to mention that wrong grammar and/or spelling is [at worst] a different kind of stupid than choking on something egg-sized.
And yes, "stupid" was a bit harsh. For YOUNGER kids (
Great list Watchmojo, some stories were really surprising
Bring back the watchmojo girl!
I never really got the fear of the supposed hazards of the Kinder Surprise eggs. The toy that came inside them was in a capsule inside it, not baked into it, so the kid would have to be REALLY determined to swallow one. Take a look at the Yowie candies that are around now, they're the exact same style as the Kinder Surprise eggs: chocolate covering a capsule with a toy inside (in the Yowie situation, a small toy of an animal). Kinder has the Joy eggs out in the US now (half chocolate half toy) and Bueno (hazelnut spread candy bar)
I forgot about creepy crawlers. Blast from the past.
I was highly allergic 😅😅😅
Every time I see kinder surprise eggs in lists such as this one I'm rolling my eyes. Sure, it is nothing new to me that USA banned them but it is absolutely ridiculous to me.
This thing usually gets misrepresented. Kinder Surprises aren't specifically banned, but they happen to fall afoul of the text of a law from the early 1900s. The law explicitly forbids any non-food item from being inside of food. Non-food can be packaged with food, like the prizes in Cracker Jack's, but they can't be mix inside or encased in the food.
The law came about when a businessman killed a bunch of people by sweetening soda with antifreeze and a candy company put small toys into chocolate bars that caused a bunch of choking deaths in children.
Especially when you consider that they sell knock-offs without a problem at the Walmart checkouts
@@jennifergomez6405 The Yowie candy? I've noticed they're exactly the same as the Kinder Surprises
A house in my town actually burned down thanks to one of those spark skate Barbie's. The sparks caught the carpet and I think the tree on fire.
Why they make him to say “number“ like that??
Thank you! Been looking to see if I'm the only one annoyed by that. Now for Number 5 he said it normally and it was fine.
Yung Deuces w/ anotha Mojo Vid! Gotta do a 2000's version
This guy is so cool
My neighbor had creepy crawlers. They were kinda cool you could buy glow in the dark and regular goo to make them.
Cool indeed! Creepy Crawlers were like the mad scientist's dream come true - creating glow-in-the-dark creatures was next-level awesome.
Creepy Crawlers, the plate was hot and you had to wait for the plate to cool down otherwise you burn your hand and fingers. Sky Dancers and Dragon Flyz were the reason hospitals were full.
You forgot Crossfire: the loser of the game gets banished to the depths of hell.
Marbles but 90s EXTREME!!!
So December 1996, that's when the world lost its mind.
I remember getting my older sister a Creepy Crawler machine when in the 90s. I was 5 or 6 at the time. We never had any problems with it since we were smart enough not to put our fingers in it, not to touch the metal molds when they came out of the machine, and not to inhale the fumes. 😆
Lmfgao... I've lived in Italy and the Kinder Egg was so cool!!! The fact that America has to ban the candy because....I mean SERIOUSLY, do you REALLY have to say "Don't eat the big yellow capsule!!!"
This was quite a trip through nostalgia land for me. I remember my sister had the flying barby things thing and as we often played together I got to play with them too. I can confirm these things fly to wherever the wind blows them. It was quite funny and innocent in our case, but that may be because we kept these things inside.
This dude and Chills should collab on a video LOL
We had some beanie babies but not collected for resale value, I loved stuffed animals and now my brothers and I have passed them down to our kids
Everyone of these videos mentions the "Creepy Crawlers" but passes over the fact that they also made an edible version that looked alot like the nonedible version.
Late eighties early nineties Beados !(spray water on them and they stick together)i miss them. The covering on them contained a chemical that basically changed them into extasy tabs when you sucked on them.
It took a few deaths of toddlers before it was recalled and changed the formula.
The part about the US gov taking product safety seriously made me laugh
The gift shop at the hospital where I work still sells Beanie Babies. No idea how many of them they move. But obviously not as much as would have been the case 25 years ago.
there's a lot of places that still sell them. but yeah i dont think they are as big as they were in the 90s
Young deuces is my absolute favorite! We need more of him
@3:50 "The US government takes safety VERY seriously." LMAO
If that was true things like 9/11, the Coronavirus pandemic or any of the other crazy shit that happened in our country's history would've never happened!
I’ve been collecting Beanie Babies since I was 9 years old I’m not ready to outgrow them yet I’m now 36 and I wanna pass them on to my kids eventually one day
Creeper Crawler tray came out reaching the temperature of the Sun. ☀️ 🔥 🔥.. you used a small plastic tool to get it out of the oven. Then you had a small thin plastic piece that you put water in. Place tray in water and 5 mins later... You were getting ice for all your blisters and burns. But After that you had a sweet as$ scorpion
Literally eating a kinder surprise right now. Haha
I remember having three Tamagotchis on a lanyard when I was 12 xD
Why we can't have funny thing, becouse parents does not learn they kidz what to do and what NOT to do 🙄🤦♀
It’s do not teach their kids, LEARN TO WRITE!
It's Just a Toy! Fastest way to piss off toy collectors 😂
Creepy crawlers and dr madness (or whatever it was called) was great. I use to make the food in my room.
Young Deuces has such fun energy in his videos
I still have roller blade barbie and the skates still make sparks it was always one of my fave
Kinder Surpise Eggs aren't banned in particular. They are banned under the laws that ban tainted food or food that has been otherwise altered by bad actors.
That tickle me elmo walmart trample was in my city. Funny enough one was donated to ourblocal hospital and, since they could not accept plush toys, it was given to my mother for my sister. I tried to convince my mother to sell it instead, but it was there for my little sis Christmas morning, which she promptly ignored as she had no interest in it.
I didn't own any of these, i preferred riding around on bikes with my cousins, playing street football, playing little league baseball, and SNES
And to think I had quite a few of those toys growing up.🤣🤣🤣
I had one of those popper guns, also I think I had a couple of beanie babies but they got lost in the shuffle when I same with my Pokemon cards Yu-Gi-Oh cards and my go play the Pokemon card that people used to get
i remember having had a white Tamagotchi, but not whatever happened to it....
Had creepy crawlers and rings and things. I remember the smell ❤ ha ha ha, how was that non-toxic ? 😊
I don't understand why the people who developed the cabbage patch dolls that ate didn't think to put a reverse in just for the sake of the mechanism conking out at some point on its own.
Had em all!!
If you ask me, Tamagotchi, Digimon, and Giga Pets were all nothing but trouble. Not just because of the reaction after death part, but also because they were an annoying distraction that got you in trouble at school. This is what happens when you want too much of a good thing, it turns out bad. Good thing they don't make much of them anymore.
They brought back Tamagotchi and the Digimon toys.
@@sidhe3303 Then let's just hope they don't cause trouble for kids, especially during school.
When i was little i didnt have any of those toys except for the easy bake oven that me and my sisters shared and we always followed the instructions and also had our mom help us with operationing it so that we didn't get hurt.
What was your go-to masterpiece from the Easy Bake Oven era?
I gave myself 3rd degree burns with the Thingmaker. Vacuform was just as hazardous.
How about the easy bake oven?
A friend of mine had some purple Beanie Baby bear that supposedly had some affiliation with Princess Diana and his mother was crazy about not letting people touch it. Hahaha. The 90s.
Haha, the Beanie Baby craze was real. A purple bear with royal connections and a 'Do Not Touch' policy? That's like having a small, plush fortune at home! The 90s truly knew how to turn collectibles into family legends. Any other Beanie Baby sagas from the good ol' days?
We NEVER USED THEM BEFORE in the 90's.
Season 2 should be epic! I have read the book so I hope they stick to some of the main story lines.
You know this is a video about dangerous toys, right?
@@ramirezproductions0826 oops, commented on the wrong one lol
@@tracidavis3565 It’s okay. I once did the same thing myself. I made a comment praising my favorite UA-camr’s new video, only to discover that I commented on the wrong video. So I understand the mistake. 😊
@@ramirezproductions0826 ive done that a few times
Yea i remember getting smacked in the eye with those flyers
Those flying Barbie’s fing hurt
I remember having the dragon flyz toys back in 1996 I forget how dangerous it was how many times I nearly hurt myself from it back then lucky I lost interest in it and started to get into the big bad beetleborgs toys around same year 😂
Dodging danger with those Dragon Flyz sounds like an extreme sport in itself!
Why is he saying "number" like that 😆😆😆
Unfortunately, it is hard to tell between a toy gun and real gun as they look very much alike. Police officers have to make a quick decision if they belive their life is in jeopardy
The WWF Al Snow action figure, because of the mannequin head issue.
What I wouldn’t do to have my sky dancer back!!
If a kid is shot because they’re holding a bright colored tube, then maybe it isn’t the toy’s fault.
I couldn’t be on a slip n slide after seeing that one episode of 1000 ways to die
😱 Can't believe we played with these dangerous toys! 🧸
And oddly enough kinder back and sold in pretty much every store
Now we need a 2000s version
Absolutely!
"Creepy Crawlers" = people strung out on fentanyl.
Wasn't the first Mario Party game discontinued because of kid's declining grades?
Okay now was there a gummy creepy crawlers thing or was I a freak child eating rubber bugs?
No I remember that! It was a Dr. Dreadful Food Lab
@@SnuSnuDungeonI think I remember having that. I thought they all were like that.
What, no lawn darts?
This video was specifically for 1990's toys.
Lawn Darts were the 80s
Young Deuces is about to make me unsubscribe, with his fake enthusiasm.
I miss my Tickle Me Elmo more than I do my Tamagotchi.
Tickle Me Elmo and Tamagotchi - a blast from the past! It's like choosing between the giggles and the digital responsibility.
No Moon Shoes aka the ankle breakers?
I always wondered why my mom won’t let me have that as a kid.
@@Blazdragon34 it was like having mini trampolines strapped to the bottom of your shoes 😂
@@SnuSnuDungeon remember Sock Em Boppers?
the problem with banning anything is not just the danger factor, but how people react to it, people who get too overprotective and take it out on the rest of the world
I had a sky dancer 😂 I loved it
Me too I had one of a mermaid and another of a princess
@@kelseyhaight1698 that’s the one I had too 😂 oh man memories
When I was a kid I had one but I never gotten to have it fly. Even if I tried multiple times, maybe I didn’t pull the string hard enough?
@@Blazdragon34 oh wow or probably had a defective product. But I always almost got hot in the eye
I would consider "Horrific back stories" to be things that happened BEFORE the toy went on the market. a dark story about the lead up to its invention. THIS is yet another list just like the ones we saw before and before and before of the same stale old predictable entries that you call "Dark" because children got hurt because they lacked the logic not to touch pointy things. that's not a "Back story" that's "!0 toys that were unintentionally dangerous"
A Dark Back story would be a character who was invented after a child was traumatized from seeing a rotting dead body on display at an amusement park's house of horrors or a toy invented after a weapon of war was dismantled and its its parts reused , or toy that was made from toxic chemicals that killed the inventor. A toy that was invented to teach coroners about anatomy but got turned in to a kid friendly game, a Sport that was originally played by kicking human heads around a field. Those are Dar Back stories.
these stories are AFFTER the toy was invented so they aren't "Back" story there just "Story"
Tickle me Elmo saying "Kill me" might've been a mistake. Remove "Ti" and leave "ckle". It might be a sign that the toy battery is dying.
Haha, that would definitely turn Tickle Me Elmo into a horror movie! Maybe it's time for a battery change or an exorcism - you know, just to be on the safe side!
Kinda egg are more dangerous than guns? Really America?
I love toys
I remember having the Dragon fly toy.
They're electronic now. My wife bought one for our daughter... I bought her safety glasses.
@@sonicpsycho13 smart dad
“The US takes safety very seriously.”
(Unless it’s mass deaths from gun violence.)
Furbys werent on the list they should have been
Now a days cellphones are more fun than fucking toys. Because toys are lame as hell😂
We had lawn darts
Particularily isn’t a word
I still have a beanie baby because it has my name.
Try like 2012. When a little black kid playing in a public gazebo was shot dead with a toy gun
Was that Tamir Rice?
I own tamagotchi's and beanie babies
Is this the dude that used to be on TYT Network?
Australia still has Kinder Surprise with toys inside.
Overreact much America???
every country has different import/export laws