Yep!, Yep!, Yep!!! Those things can hurt "like-the-dickens" and cause you trip, stumble, fall, spill and drop just about anything your carrying and say a whole lot of "unkind" words at the top of your voice!!!
Played with lawn darts, nearly burned by EZ baked oven, face planted more than once off a skateboard (no helmet of course), pogo ball nearly broke my ankles... Ah, being a kid in the early 80's.
Old playground equipment, ahhh- I grew up with these, granted I came away with scuffs, bruises and 10 layers of skin ripped off from the hot slide, but at least I didn't come away being a Wuse.
Hell, I lost a fingernail on a backyard slide when I was 5 or 6, ripped it right off when it caught on one of the screws. Also fell on the school playground multiple times; got thrown off the merry-go-round, thrown off the "Witches Hat", and had to get 4 stitches in my forehead once when we were playing on a disassembled "horse on a ladder" that was left lying at the edge of the playground. It's true, what doesn't kill us, makes us stronger!
Same here. I loved the chocolate ones. My mother smoked and her breath almost made me throw up more than once. Smoking is the last thing I ever wanted to try.
cradlingbrokenglass I loved them too and I don’t smoke. I also have asthma and thank God that I had a Dad who told me that if he ever caught me smoking, he’d ram it down my throat lit. I’d hate to think of having asthma and smoking.
Wait! What about the little mini magnetic balls? If you swallow them (happened), the magnets stuck on either side of the intestinal tract causing an obstruction or a perforation. Yes, they were that strong
It’s called COMMON SENSE! I grew up with candy cigarettes...guess what...I DO NOT SMOKE! Kids will smoke by following their PARENTS OR PEERS! Stop being a WOOSE! Played with Jarts...no more harmful than HORSESHOES! WOOSE! BAN COINS, they can be swallowed! OMG, ban peas!!! My niece stuck one up her nose!!!
Same. I stopped watching after I posted the comment, because I didn't feel like GOOGLING the things he was talking about. Kind of ruins the flow of the video if I have to keep jumping out to find out What he's taking about.....
We had toys in the '70s that would be considered deathtraps today, and do you know how many kids got hurt then as compared to how many get hurt now? Quite a bit fewer, if any, because we were supervised while we played with any of these "dangerous" toys. And our parents were just as busy as today's parents are, if not more so. Not only did they work 40+ hours a week, they also didn't have conveniences like microwave ovens, computers, etc. It just makes me so mad to hear about all of these lawsuits against toy companies because a child got hurt playing with a toy incorrectly. The parents should step up and take responsibility for what happened because they weren't watching their kids, instead of throwing it all on someone else.
I was born in '62. My parents didn't supervise jack didly squat. Maybe you were, but I think to generalize that kids got more supervision those days I think is off base.
I had so many dangerous toys in the 80's. Lawn darts, toy car kit that melted wax in a smelting pot that you tipped into a cast, that stupid ball Pogo stick thing, and the underrated foot pain Legos bring. Lots more I can't remember.. I did get candy cigarettes but I've never smoked so...
The only "toy" I ever got hurt by was a bicycle. My mom said she held my bones together with Band-Aids. We didn't have helmets or pads back then. And gravel in the knee HURTS.
Hell yeahhhh it does !! Gravel hurts like shit...i remember a time when i was like 13 im 28 now anyway I was riding a razor scooter on a freshly paved street and my friend had one of those plastic skateboard/bike ramps an so i procceded to use the ramp....the problem wasnt the ramp or the scooter it was the issue of the road not being smooth at all it had the tecture of stucco roofing...you can imagine what happened nxt. I pulled off the ramp jump, but as i landed it lost control due to the road an i ended up tumbling into a charlie brown spin and then landed an slid like a foot an scrapped boths hands deep ..there was rocks an asphalt embedded deep in my hands like 2½ centimeters deep once they were pulled out my hands bled went to the er an they wrapped my hands sprayed alcohol on them an put cream an sent me home i had to change my dressings and stuff for like a month an a half...worse fall besides fracturing my finger and having my fingernail split from my bike as a year or so after tht.
I still have the Cabbage Patch doll that eats food. I would watch when my child who is older play through with it. But it's packed away and someday maybe it'll be worth some money
Just bad parents being bad parents, make a video about those segway shoes you mentioned, would be more entertaining than helicopter parents screaming about how dangerous the world can be if they abandon their screaming little horrors in a toy store without supervision.
This just goes to show how incredibly hyper-sensitive we’ve become to the freedom of kids. And we wonder why so many grow up with anxiety and debilitating fears.
The law where I live about putting appliances out for the junkman, recycling, or just out in your yard, is you have to either chain it shut or completely remove the door.
I had a Skydancer when I was little. I was never injured by it, even though it did land on me several times. When they were recalled, my parents took it away, and I was very upset!
Playgrounds at my old elementary school after the playground handbook came out my old Elementary school removed all playground equipment leaving nothing but grass an open field nothing is left there for the kids play on
"Sky Dancers" has one of the saddest, but funniest meme video with the little girl that sets hers off and it flies right into the burning fireplace!! Sad for the little girl, but hopefully she got a quick replacement!
Old playgrounds reminded me of my playground injury. I was on the old school ride that swung you in a circle until you got dizzy. Well a friend decided to get it started and I fell backward got my head drug through gravel. I had to go to the nurses station because I had gravel embedded in the back of my head. I’m glad playgrounds are safer but still we had too much fun even with the injuries.
#8 Was the Bat Masterson Kit Derringer. It did not jam or cause fires. It used what was an innovative Cap at the time a Greenie Stickum Cap. It came with a Cane that fired the cap and a Derby Hat that could be thrown like a Frisbee and with Caps stuck to it Banged when hitting a hard surface.
Not sure if this is classified as a toy, but when I was very young I would play in a child walker. I was playing one day and it moved backwards and fell down the stairs to a concrete basement. I was in a coma for a few days and came out having epilepsy. I still take drugs and despite 3 brain surgeries still suffer from seizures. Thank goodness they are now banned in Canada, where I live, and many other countries.
Doing things that hurt ourselves is a BIG part of growing up. It's how we LEARN how to do things without hurting ourselves and to think about things before we do them.
We used to put 9 volt batteries on our tongues. Oh and our science teacher let us play with mercury as a experiment in handle a liquid metal so all of us took turns rolling it around in our hands, love the 80s
T W Well I get that you were trying to be funny but Miley wasn’t the one responsible if the factories used lead they don’t have to be honest with the amount if she ask, half the time toys made off people such as her aren’t checked on by the individual due to them just having other things to do ... I may have worded that weird hopefully it makes sense
The most dangerous toy my sister owned was a triple-threat. She had the Cabbage Patch Demon Eater, the Sky Murderers, and Easy-Burn Oven. As for me . . . LEGOs
I had a coworker who had to take her young son to the ER after he removed an eye from an action figure and stuck it up his nose. The doctor said it was the only time he looked up a kid's nose and it looked back at him!
I was given a sky dancer for Christmas. After a few twirls I got bored and never launched the doll again, her castle also transformed into a tea set which I loved and played with often
man lawn darts I remember playing that as a kid. lol you missed the original freddy Kruger glove with the metal blades... that was a big one back in the late 80's as well. great job Mike.
What about Erector sets?They had all of those bolts and nuts. Wasn't there a lot of chemical sets that had uranium and other hazardous chemicals in them?
The uranium was in the Atomic Chemistry Lab back in the 40's or 50's. The thing is, we have laws about putting the appropriate ages for the toys on the packaging now. A lot of the problems come from parents not paying attention to them. Like Erector sets, they aren't for kids still young enough to put things like nuts and bolts in their mouth.
As a kid my local playground was lethal. Besides the copious amount of dogshit in it, it was also concrete around the slide, roundabout etc. Broke my arm twice and cut my head open on a rusty bolt. 36 years later my elbow still aches in the cold weather. Great times.
Born in 77. 42 now and body hurts like hell. My lower back, knees and shoulders. Thanks to 80s playgrounds and little league baseball. Those were the days!
So glad I grew up in a time when playgrounds were still metallic and fun! And we had something akin to lawn darts in the late 50s/60s! One spring in elem school we were all so excited because something called “the new playground” would be finished when we returned in fall. It was made on concrete 😆and had different holes to run through. Some of the tunnels were very nice and shady on a hot day!!
I got a set of Jarts for my 10th birthday. They were a lot of fun. I wasn't stupid enough to throw them straight up, in the air, or at any animate objects. The only potential hazard they posed was, if you didn't keep the cap nut, (at the back), tight, they could come apart while being thrown. You'd be left holding the black plastic cover for the allthread rod.
I had metal-tipped Jarts.....picked up for about $5 at a yard sale in the late 80s....yeah I can see them being really dangerous but no one was ever hurt. Mom and Dad made sure I knew "treat this like a loaded gun. Nobody can be down range when you throw this."
Also... born in the 80's grew up in the 90's survived clackers, Barbie roller skates that sparked and set some kids clothes on fire, sky dancers, slip and slides, etc... that said we did almost break my sister's filing fan light when we let the sky dancer fly in her room...
About the only toy I can remember hurting myself with was a minor (1st degree) burn from Mattel's Thingmaker. It was fun, I was careful, and I miss the days when you had to be accountable for your own stupidity. My brother and I had little slingshots and when we were having a battle with them, my mother took them away. She watched her kids, what a novel idea...
I had an EZ Bake oven that used two 100 watt bulbs to cook with. My brother had a Creepy Crawler kit that melted some kind of polymer mix in metal molds that were partially submerged in a small square double boiler. Fun times.
First time I gave my daughter the exploding candy she was just 3 yrs old. I placed a few larger pieces (they varied from small to extremely small) she was startled at first, a bit of panic. But she started giggling and wanted more.
my sister and I played with Jarts for several years, and never had an issue. parental supervision, and proper safety instruction actually works. but the parents have to be 1) willing to do it and 2) smarter than the 5 year old they are telling how to be safe
Funny thing about Number 21 is that its a literally recycled idea used in another toy line (called "Dragon Flyz" and it was the exact same company, basically Sky Dancers but replace Fairies with Dragons). Even better? This was brought back in 2005, same exact gimmick only now produced by Play along Toys and slightly new packaging. Still amazes me that someone said "Hey, lets bring back that dangerous toy that got recalled" Also: While Cigerette sticks do still exist, the only people buying them are literally the people old enough to remember them and the sales aren't that great.
Born 1958. Have had a ton of these toys. Not always mine but played with them.not all though. Still here all 10 toes and fingers along with ears and eyes(everyone tells me I'm old because I wear glasses now).
I'm surprised the original Polly Pockets aren't on this list! Those things posed a serious choking hazard and were marketed to children 5 and up I think.
I loved candy cigarettes and they never cause me to start smoking. I'd probably still be eating them if they didn't have something in them I'm allergic to, and it isn't sugar.
On playgrounds that also requires that they properly maintain them too. Back in primary school I remember a kid that climbed a fence in a little basketball court he impaled a apoc 1.something cm steel wire through his palm and had to get the fire brigade to cut him free. Never saw him return to that school. thing that most worried me there was the wire was rusty. Since other than that he had been remarkably lucky in avoiding any other injuries when he fell.
Lawn darts, by far. I’m only 24, I’ll be 25 in a couple of weeks; but my dad and I found some lawn darts in the closet at my great grandparents house that he lived in after they passed. We got a couple of the hoops set up as the goal, and played quite a few rounds. But, we both stood on the same side and made sure to be far back while the other was throwing, so we did it as safely as something like that could be done
A "real ramjet engine kit" from a comic book. Consisted of a modified Co2 cartridge with a wick attached to a screw on nozzle, a pan that hung underneath it, and a tube that went around the nozzle and extended back with air vents in the front. You hung this up so it could move, and filled the cartridge and pan underneath with gasoline. You lit the gas in the pan, which heated the cartridge making gas squirt out the back where it ignited from the flames. It produced a few ounces of thrust but tended to spill gasoline all over the place while it was moving. And the spilled gas was on fire....
I live in Canada and my grandparents had lawn darts. In the 1990’s sometime my brother put a dart into a cousins foot who was visitin from California. We was all likely teenagers of the 90’s when that happened.
I finally got really good at Clackers, though I remember holding padding on my arm before I did. The danger of those BEFORE they chipped was bruising your arm. And I had a small scar for a couple of years from a Yard Dart hitting just below my ankle.
Why aren't the actual products being shown? It's very frustrating. I've been looking the products up online, but it's kind of a waste of time to do this. Please show the products.
Bucky balls. The little magnetic balls that were easily swallowed, luckily they were high powered magnets and could be easily retrieved by placing one on the outside of the stomach and working it back up.
I knew lawn darts would be on the list. Lawn darts were the Bomb. Kids old and smart enough to play with them as intended had no issues. My dad would have taken them away if he heard or saw someone do something unsafe.
Barbie had a doll that had rollerskates that had a spark to it. It literally was just the flint from a fucking lighter. It was so great. Our toys were so dangerous God I wish I still had those toys.
Most dangerous toy? Well, pre 9-11, in many rural farm supply stores, antone whe could pass for 18 could purchase blasting caps and dynamite. When I was 12, one of my older cousins drove to a store and returned with a case of dynamite and 50 blasting caps. We had a real "blast" that summer. This was in 1962...
Is the pogo trick board anything like the pogo ball? I loved my pogo ball and skipit. And what gen X kid didn't burn themselves with the car cigarette lighter or burn themselves on the metal slide and let's not forget the spinning death trap on playgrounds...the merry go round...lol. still have a scar on my knee from getting sucked under.
We couldn’t afford the type of walkie kit thing so my dad and it was his infinite wisdom decided to go to the orchard hardware store and get rope and some hooks and set up about 6 feet off the ground my tight rope walking thing I fucking sprained my ankle so many times falling off that thing fractured my arm but he never took it down and he never told me to stop 90s children we’re just more resilient and these kids today we weren’t as resilient as our 80s and 70s counterparts but we know how to take a tumble and get back up dust off and not cry and go right back to playing shit. It was a day and a half before we took me to the ER for my broken arm after I fell off that thinks, my dad told me just get up dust off and try again.
Seeds aren't the deciding factor for fruit. Pumpkins have seeds, as do other squash and gords. So do peppers. The deciding factor is how they reproduce and grow. IDK the specifics though.
we have candy cigarettes in Scotland but they're just called candy sticks and are smaller than actual cigarettes. My friends and I would pretend to smoke and we did it especially in winter cause the condensation from our breath looked like smoke. Yes, I unfortunately did take up smoking real cigarettes :(
Thankfully for me the most dangerous toys I even had was the Slinky, Lite Brite, my wooden blocks, and my most favorite the slap bracelets. I just so loved the slap bracelets. I had a whole bunch of them back then. I still laugh at the reports of just how dangerous they were. Well I never gotten injured with my slap bracelets. And I was always constantly playing with them. My older brother had candy cigarettes. But it never got us to smoke the real ones. Just the opposite it got us to be against them even more. But I am very surprise that some of the toys from the 40s, 50s, and 60s wasn't mention. Especially so called toys from the Gilbert Toy Company. Like the glass blowing kit market towards children. As well the Atomic Energy Lab that comes with 4 free samples of real uranium. And then there is the Austin Magic Pistol and Mattel's creepy crawlers. Makes me very glad that I was a child of the 80s and not the, 40s, 50s, or 60s. At least with the 80s toys they were more safer. Well most of them were.
