Banned Toys! Pokémon, TMNT, POGS, Power Wheels, Tamagotchi, E.T. & more - TOY HISTORY #35 

Love these! Glad to see Narc made an appearance! 👍🏼

Oh, wow. Haven't thought about pogs in ages! Well-researched video.

I remember having to hide Pokémon and Yugioh cards until the teachers looked away.

Pretty much everything on this list was after or long before my time. Garbage Pail Kids would be traded at school, but that's about it. Of course, flash forward to this past year where stores had to limit or outright stop selling collectible card games because people got into all-out brawls over them!

I always called a pog a Pog. We never had to endure a ban on them however there was a firm rule that you had to give the face ups back at the end of the game.

Love it! I had a Power Wheels growing up, still probably in my parents garage. I wonder if it’s still a fire hazard? Lol. Also my brother had a massive case of Pogs, i never played the game but loved looking at all the art. Lmao the transition you did after the E.T. Toy had me dying laughing 🤣

My inner kid wants to find every teacher who ever took stuff away from kids over petty bs and idk kick them. Like a really petty ghost rider.

We played marbles, then pogs, after that pokemon cards. We played for keeps with them all. Then I brought these back to my next school: marbles and then pogs ( plastic and metal slammers) where we used slammers in stacks like pogs. Also used pogs. The collector factor back then and being able to play or trade for keeps was what got everyone hooked on them.

AWESOME stuff as always! 🤜💥🤛

8:11 was I thought of when POGS came up, “It’s ALF. He’s back, in POG form”.

Great content as always Ed! There's no ToyBiz figures for me to identify this time so I'll just add in my experiences. I didn't have a Power Wheels but I had a Spider-Man bicycle. Trading cards got banned in my school as all us boys were trading Return of the Jedi cards. When Pogs came out in the 90s I was fresh out of high school so I wasn't collecting them. However I did have a Pog Gun that was motorized and great for shooting discounted/clearanced Pogs at everyone and everything.

I had a tomachi. My mom took care of it when I was at school.

God I love your content!!! Especially banned stuff videos 😍

Early and ready for this amazing vid as usual!!!

Man how badass would a street sharks or tmnt or knight Rider and A team power Wheels would have been

Definitely remember TMNT, Pokemon cards, and pogs getting banner at school. Great episode Ed!

The cardbored ones where always pogs but the thick plastic and metal ones where slammers

Another excellent video sir- I always enjoy your videos sir! Thank you so much! Ican't help but wonder what really became of the confiscated toys- personal collection, trash, yard sales (who knows)?

Pogs were always Pogs for me I do remember one teacher banning those snap bracelets cause ppl would try to slap it on ppl lol Also I remember when pagers or beepers got banned from schools too.

Our teachers at primary school (1984ish) banned marbles because we just kept throwing them at each other 😂

Had my Garbage Pail Kids cards confiscated... and Transformers... and Howard the Duck. (Yes, they made a Howard set back in the day. And it was the only one I never got back. Teacher chucked them) Yeah, tell me to put the things away? Nah we're just going in for the pure shark mode YANK. Great vid as always.

Star Wars and Warner Bros. Tazos were huge when I was at school (UK in the 90's) as they came in crisp packets so everyone had them at break times!

Awesome series🙌 Watching it now👍👍👍

SMURFS were banned here in México because there were rumors about those toys killing the children that owned them. Mine ended up rotten up and melting on the roof. This was before Childs Play was even created. I cried a lot! Saludos!!!

Another great video for a great series bud!

Trolls. The Principal said it was "Made by The Devil, Lucifer's Vessel." her exact words. 😹🤦🏻‍♂️

I was actually on a local channels new for Pogs. The local sport's caster gad a segment called "I challenge Fred" He was at my school, I pitched the idea, and he was down for it. Needless to say he won. Lol

Fun story while at the topic. I was attending an all-girls school (middle and high) in the very late 90's and throughout the 00's. While we didn't have bans on toys (so I remember Tamagotchis where banned in elementary school), they had a rule against students bringing their knitting work with them. Like KNITTING was literally banend from my school, because it distracted the students. In the 2000's. I had a classmate who was like "F* this, I gonna call the school out on this stupid rule" and she started crocheting in class. The teachers tried to get her to stop, confiscating her wool and needles. So she went to the headmaster and he said, she was in the rights actually. Because the rules explicitly stated that knitting was forbidden but not related activitiex like crocheting. After that incident they changed the school rules and actually took out that passage about knitting alltogether.

Have some pogs for sale on my eBay lmao 😂, great vids dude!

My teacher took away my Nintendo Power #1. I was definitely NARC’D on 😏

I remember my school banning pogs then selling their own with the school logo on them like a week later.

I still have some of my pogs. This is a great vidieo!!

Flippo's!!! I have them all!! 2 maps full!! Thnx for An amazing video!!

One teacher took my MASK Condor and I had to wait the whole year to get it back.

POGS were super fun. I still have a weird knock off one that says Triker Rats with Scars.

I remember buying those chocolate cigarettes and sometimes even get them as "Sinterklaas" treats. Oh, the good old days. You have to eat like a pig not to notice eating a Flippo/Pog. Pokemon cards are still going strong. My nephew has a whole binder full of them and is collecting them frantically.

We used to have a substitute teacher who would sell pokemon cards and trade with kids 😂

I had a Bigfoot power wheel’s monster truck that thing was awesome until ur battery started acting up lol

If School Banned somthing it just became more popular. I mean in recent years things like Silly bands and Loom Bands have been banned in schools and there just Elastic Rubber Bands so it dont even have to look like a toy to be anymore.

Toys in the 80’s where the best they’d ever been. Even with all the controversies. I remember in the uk they tried to ban toy Nunchuks etc. kids nowadays ain’t got a clue.

I still have my Pogs, Pokemon and Magic the Gathering cards!

Of all the Power Wheels I've seen in my life, maybe two didn't have dead batteries. I've seen more just rotting in the backyard than actually being driven.

My parents owned a small grocery store. I remember my teenage years selling the the first pokemon trading cards to kids and parents. I wish I kept some of those cardboard boxes 😭.

Pogs were pogs slammers are the metal or plastic pucks you slammed down on the pogs

I always thought that the early lawsuits for Magic the Gathering had to do with the fact that the game originally contained gambling in the form of the ante. Each player would ante a card from their deck and the winner of the game would get both cards. This was a problem for wizards of the coast because as it could be legally defined as gambling the places events could be had would have been limited to places you were legally allowed to gamble. I think the last card to mention an ante was released in the homelands expansion in 1995, all cards mentioning an ante were banned from all legal play, and I think the last instance of cards being anted at a sanctioned event was in 2001 or 2002.

Ya know, I remember pogs, remember I had the full goosebumps collection as a kid. But it's kinda weird to me I pretty much never see pogs in the wild at secondhand stores.

They still sell candy cigarettes in my state, I just saw them at the gas station not too long ago

I played the original CCG of Pokémon and I still got mad at kids who stole from others.

4:49 I only tried that once in the second grade with a Transformers Armada mini comi and still got caught. The teacher said I would get it back at the end of the day, but I never did. That was almost 20 years ago now 😭

Here in Brazil the Pogs were called Tazos and we got them inside cheetos too.

Toy history ! 😁 great vid . I have loads off pogs in a pog case

I got a few PR figures taken away in my time... Holy crap... POGSSSSSS... Jeez I loved those things :( lol

Always look forward to seeing your episodes!

Nice episode! :D

Tmnt got banned at my primary school

Candy cigarettes are still around, I had some last year actually, and you can still find a 24 pack on Amazon today.

They banned Pokemon cards when I was younger, but I used to buy them from my friends anyway. I can't believe TMNT was banned, and for really dumb reasons, teddy bears can be fun but yeah not if it costs you your sweet figure collection!!!

Ed's Retro Geek 4life !!

I remember one teacher confiscated one of my bootleg nerf guns, never got it back :'3 and in south america we say tazos

I remember having my beyblade taken off me and having to get my mom to come in just so I could get it back 🤣

man I remember in middle school, pokemon and yu gi oh cards got banned cause ppl would steal them lmao

I called them POGs and whenever you say the word 'Fab' that is what I think about. And I'd hear that there was a special reason why Yu Gi Oh Cards are Banned not only at school but also at a few homes just because a lot of adults saw it as a some kind of Satanic Ritual in a Disguised in a Children's Card Game due to how the Core Games is played and with one Game Mechanic in particular called a Ritual Summon, and the Win Condition of you taking your Opponent's Life, Life Points that is. In fact I have heard this one story where this guy was caught bring his Yu Gi Oh Cards to school and his Teacher at the time took his Most Expensive Yu Gi Oh Cards Taken away his Blue Eyes White Dragon. And aside from that it is the usual Ty Guns, even the Role Playing ones.

Toys to 💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥🔥 have a blast but not really safe? No Way! 😁

Kool n thanks 4 this

pogs were Tazos in Mexico it came in the potato chips or similar products and in my elementary school were banned, damn I'm old XD

Sister Catherine Edward took away my metal shogun warriors figures in fourth grade. Shes dead now. good times.

You can still buy candy cigarettes, our local corner store still sells them.

Great Video

Nice video, I have just discovered that the original name is Pog. Here in mexico the name was “Tazo”

Awsome video

We had pogs called tazos here and some were called fiddlers

We have Mortal Kombat pogs in potato chips right now in Dominican Republic. Who aproved that for the kids?!?!

I live in the Netherlands and here pog's were called Flippo's.

Another episode of 💚Toy History💜Actually, the best Time Machine you can find! 🕰️🚗 Many water pistols 🔫 💦 confiscated

We used to have one of those hammocks. I remember my younger sister getting stuck in that thing all the time. My mother finally made my dad take it down. I also had one of those E.T. fingers. LOL Also, where are the lawn darts?

Mr narc eds reading tmnt comics again

Okay, I've got three thing's to add here: a story, a memory, and an affirmation. 😏 1) In my area, there is a (mostly) second-hand store, that deal's in collectibles, called Vintage Stock. They are well known for hosting, or sponsoring events that are related to their merch. So, card shows, video game tournaments, Pokemon tournaments, etc. etc. In the Summer of 2006, they co-hosted a huge Magic: The Gathering tournament, renting a banquet center to do so. In the second day, of the three day event, I witnessed a 37 year old man lose his mind. This was due to a 14 yr old teen, having a ridiculously strong deck (he would go on to place 3rd, win money, some free pack's, name in the paper, etc), obliterating his prized deck and, as is custom, seizing some of his better (and more expensive) cards. The grown-ass "adult" screamed "BULL$H!T", while flipping the table in a tantrum. This startled many, many people, and made the teen begin to cry, out of fear- with the grown man pointing at him, exclaiming, "No WAY, no F**kin' WAY YOU HAVE THAT!!" He was swiftly tackled by security personnel, and arrested. I recall him having a tatoo of Spider-Man on his calf, and a tatoo of the NY Giants logo on one of his sleeveless biceps. Just goes to show how intense some of those game's could be. Also, a perfect example of someone that was a poor loser. 🙄 2) At least in The Ozarks (a section of the US, that is comprised of part's of 4 States. Named after the Ozark Plateau they are on), POGs were a flash-in-the-pan trend, lasting exactly 1 summer. I did not pay attention to them, as I was in high school and had begun to pay attention to other... um, people 😏 But, one of my younger brother's did. I remember coming back from Summer Camp, and he had hundreds and HUNDREDS of these lil round thing's. But, by the time the weather turned cold, no one cared about them in the slightest. 🤷🏼‍♂️ And, finally, 3) you pronounced manganate correctly. 😎

I also still collect pokemon cards.

I remember we had the barbie car lol

That ET Toy Looks Like The Worst Toy Ever Good Thing It Has Other Uses.

you forgot one thing about pokemon cards is when they came out. when you turn on the news you hear about some poor kid got punch in the face by some guy and robed of his pokemon cards.

I live in Lowell Mass in the 7-Eleven still sells candy cigarettes in 2021

Pokémon in 1996? Pokémon TCG came out in English in 1999 😆 that's when the worldwide Pokémania happend

i was like 6 when the first tmnt cartoon started so of course that was my jam, had toys watched the show all the time remember the turtle pies its dumb that people would ban toys that where not actually dangerous, i mean really

Pogs were dope, I had one of those pog makers.

The kid Nextdoor to me had the Bigfoot truck I always wished I had one but I was a fatkid

lol I am surprise about tmnt but pokemon was well promoted in my country and no complains about anything, mew was the craze tho.Pogs come and go.tamagochi took quite while but still come and go when digimon came into picture

i remember eating the Cigarettes candy and they taste good

Power wheels still kick ass. 😀👍

Pokemon is still cool today. 😀👍

Whe had Pokemon and Dragon Ball Z Pogs in chips packets called Tazos

I'd double check but as far as I'm aware of the batteries used in kids cars are AGM Lead Acid batteries not gel. Gel referes to a thicker gel electrolyte used in deep cycle batteries. AGM stands for absorbed glass mat which uses a standard acid electrolyte not gel.

One day pogs will return. 😀👍

grande!!!!

I remember wearing a Bart Simpson shirt to school in the 90s that showed his butt, then later in the 90s in highschool I wore an Eminem shirt that had him flipping the bird on both hands. I never gave a shit about censorship, even when the schools tried to fight me on it. I did go to a racist highschool for a bit in Wharton Texas that tried to force me to cut my dreads. I hate that town to this day. I still rock the ninja turtles. Almost 40 now. New humans just don't know

Cool

Sweet

I was just born n 84 lol

i still own the original Pokémon Red Version

They still do sell candy cigarettes in parts of the US.