Most dangerous toys of all time?What are they ?

[rhino47]

I vote for the yard darts.

[trof]

1. Yep, Jarts for sure.

Skateboards gotta be right up there too.

[Frank Cannon]

31. I LOVED Jarts. But they killed a couple of kids, as I recall.

I was working at a major retailer when they decided to pull all lawn darts off the shelves. That game had been a summer picnic staple for me for years, and I just couldn't believe that people would actually be stupid enough to stand in the path of a Jart that had been hurled with enough force to kill. But apparently, some people did. NEVER underestimate the stupidity of your average American.

I was on the verge of tears as I pulled all our lawn dart sets off the shelves. A pleasant summer memory ruined forever.

[Deja Q]

2. My ex...

:spray:

[Hugin]

3. Kiddie Bow and Arrow sets...

I almost had an eye put out with one once.

[HughBeaumont]

4. Not these guys:

[Maine-ah]

5. .

Irwin Mainway: Okay, Miss, I wanna correct you, alright. The full name of this product, as it appears in stores all over the county, is Johnny Switchblade: Adventure Punk. I mean, nothing goes wrong.. little girls buy 'em, you know, they play games, they make up stories, nobody gets hurt. I mean, so Barbie takes a knife once in a while, or Ken gets cut. You know, there's no harm in that. I mean, as far as I can see, you know?

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76jconsumerprobe.phtml :rofl: :rofl:

[Redbear]

6. Oh yeah

Well what about this product "Johnny Space Commander Mask" that is just a plastic bag that the child is instructed to pull over his head

and what is this one "Bag of Glass" ?

[LostinVA]

7. Superelasticbubbleplastic

A toxic waste hazard you put near your MOUTH, and then played with. It smelled like Dupont.

Although yard darts are pretty close.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

11. Oooo...I remember that crap.

It was oddly fun to play with.

Not as fun as bb guns and fireworks, but still fun.

[LostinVA]

12. Gawd, they still had it then?

It was awful.

[mcscajun]

8. The pre-1999 PEZ dispenser gets my vote.

Only because in the early 60s, being the intelligent, curious child I was with a bit of bent toward engineering, I liked to take things apart to see how they worked.

The PEZ dispenser's metal spring flew out with quite a bit of force and promptly embedded itself in my thumb, necessitating a trip to the ER. The spring was a lot, lot longer fully expanded, I can tell you that; it made it quite difficult to put on a winter coat without a good deal of screaming.

I'm surprised it took them so long to switch to plastic springs (and I don't really know if that made the toy any safer, as I'm not going to disassemble one now to find out.)

[fishnfla]

9. Skateboards eom

[Chowlie]

10. Yard darts made the top of the list

in this funny article I read recently: http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/12/toys.php

My friend and I used to totally ignore the rules of whatever the hell the actual game was supposed to be, and we'd throw them up in the air as high as we could and run like hell. Luckily, we never got hit.

[rhino47]

13. Check out the Atomic Energy play kit.

http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/2006/12/gilbert_u238_atomic_energy_lab.php

[deucemagnet]

17. That is so cool.

I want one!

[trof]

19. I'll take the Johnny Reb Cannon, please.

"You'll put your eye out, kid."

You have to see the commercial here:
http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/12/johnny_reb_cannon.php

[Vidar]

32. Interesting list.

[ironflange]

14. Cigarette lighters

I understand they're a little harder for five-year-olds to buy these days, thank goodness. I nearly burned the house down once.

edit: Razor blades were not a good toy choice, either.

[MorningGlow]

15. Absolutely Jarts

And hee hee we still have ours! I don't know how they've escaped my mother's many merciless purges over the years (also known as "yard sales"), but they did.

I had a boss offer me $50 for our set. Sssshhhyeahhhhright. :eyes:

[rhino47]

16. I still have our set .

It is complete except for one red ring

[montanto]

18. That's what the neighbor kid is for!! nt

[sakabatou]

20. I never really had eny dangerous toys

But stepping on them? OW!!

[zanne]

21. BB Guns, of course. nt

[momophile]

22. Slip 'N Slide

as a kid I decided to stop using it, that's how many times I saw kids get hurt on it.

[carly denise pt deux]

23. those click clacker things in the early 70's

The toy with 2 hard plastic balls attached with a string, with a ring to hold onto in the middle. Many a broken nose, broken arm bones, and my experience with one coming off the string when I was clacking them together at full force, like a meteor flying across the playground, good thing no one was in it's path.
Carly

[youthere]

24. I was a recipient of a split lip from those...

my brother got a chipped tooth.

[Little Wing]

25. Definitely the homemade ones

I made all sorts of things

Bolasses
Bombs
Shuriken
Throwing Knives
etc

[mikeargo]

26. George W Bush Action Figure nt

[Bzzzz]

27. Airplane glue...

The effects of sniffing glue include slurred speech, agitation, violent behavior, aggression, irritability, tremors, and a staggered gait.

I haven't been the same in 40 years! My mom told me building models was a great hobby! :crazy:

[Spirochete]

28. Yo-yo's were a hazard too.

Someone would sling them out laterally, and they'd hit someone in the teeth, or the string would break (happened to me twice).

And people would try those tricks, like whirling them around their heads, etc. Especially massive ones like butterfly yo-yo's. Broken lamps, holes in walls, black eyes...

[AlCzervik]

29. Bag-o-glass.

[Evoman]

30. Its happy! Its fun! Its happy, fun ball!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NERK2qZrY8

[applegrove]

33. Chemistry sets.