New Zealand Family React to America's Most dangerous toys ever made! 

I'm 66. I had the chemistry set, lawn darts, ThingMaker, and clackers. We also had M-80's and quarter sticks... fireworks equal to 1/4 stick of dynamite. We had shotguns and .22 rifles as early as 10 years old. You could walk right into the hardware store as a kid and buy ammunition for them.

I'm 55 so we grew up playing lawn darts all the time - i never got hit but my cousin still has a hole in her foot - but that's what you get for not paying attention. She never made that mistake again. Fun reaction - thanks for posting it.

We Americans liked living on the edge as children......LOL. That's why we who survived to adulthood can take on anything.

My friends and I had several of these toys. My favorites were the Jarts. There's a funny story about those...once they were banned, the toy companies introduced a replacement toy that was supposed to be safer. This new game was called Posey Pitch...it replaced the lawn darts with five-pedal plastic flowers about the size of a frisbee that were about 1/8 of an inch thick, with a large circular hole in the middle of the "posey." Kids were meant to throw these things at wooden stakes that you drove into the ground, using a throwing motion like you use when throwing a frisbee. The problem was, kids figured out that if you gripped the poseys by one of the pedals and threw them sidearm, they would fly forever at a very high rate of speed similar to a boomerang (but without being able to return when thrown). We soon became very good at throwing them accurately and VERY HARD at each other. I once threw one at a fellow kid running down the sidewalk on the other side of the street...I hit him in the head and took him right off his feet Kids can make ANYTHING dangerous!!

Creepy Crawlers was so much fun! Those metal plates got HOT, but if you got burned once, you just figured out how to not get burned again. No need for a fuss. I loved that melty plastic smell. Thank you for this reaction - very fun!

The most dangerous toy I can remember having wasn't on the list, the wood burning kit. It was this pencil-type device that you plugged in and the metal tip got red hot so that you could burn designs on wood. Plus it had a very short power cord so you were always using it in dangerous places near the drapes and stuff. We also had the lawn darts, Jarts. It was actually really fun if played properly, but we were certainly no exception seeing how high we could throw them straight up and seeing how far we could get them to sink in the ground. I was most afraid of it landing on the roof and making a hole and getting in big trouble. We were never afraid of being hit. I actually had several of these, but never had and problems. But I was actually a little afraid of that wood burning kit. It seems they still have them, but it doesn't look like they are marketed as toys for kids anymore.

The girl next door could jump on her pogo stick for a super long time without falling, which made her kind of the neighborhood celebrity to us young ones. 😀

I'm surprised they didn't mention the wood burning set. That metal wand got HOT, hence the burning part of the toy. My brother had one. I burned myself once but the incident that caused my mom to take it away was when my brother went off and left it plugged in and the drapes began to smolder! He wasn't happy to see it gone but I sure was.😮

I inherited my uncle’s pre-safety chemistry set and my sister and I would randomly mix together different chemicals to see what would happen (we both lived thru it). We accidentally burned a hole in our back lawn - it was awesome.

I'm surprised that cap guns weren't mentioned. Part of the fun was, of course, setting off the paper ribbons which had gunpowder. But even better was waiting for the cylinder to fall off while trying to shoot the pistol. Very dangerous, very highly desired. My mother confiscated the one that we had, my dad broke it apart & threw it away. We were upset...until we realized that we could still set off the gunpowder ribbons by striking each dot with a rock.

A redesigned version of Clackers enjoyed a revival in the 1990s. The new design used modern plastics that would not shatter and two free-swinging, opposing triangles attached to a handle, with weighted balls at the ends. That is the one us 90s kids remember playing with.

Played with lawn darts in the 60's. My brother and 4 or five of our nephews had a game where we would throw the dart strait up and who ever moved was out if it landed close to you and you did not move you got a point.. Clackers and chemistry sets were also in the toy box.

I actually have a shirt that says, "Lawn Dart Survivor" . My parents still have their lawn darts.

They sky dancing fairy, there is a video that floats around where a little girl got one for Christmas, launched it, and it went up, came down and went right into the very lit fireplace. I could only begin to imagine how that crushed her little heart. That could have even been on AFV if I remember correctly.

Imitating Evil Knievel on our bikes jumping homemade ramps we also made plastic Shrinky Dinks melt in a oven.

I grew up in the 60s and 70s, and I survived. :D Lawn darts were fun. I know not all kids could be trusted *not* to throw them at their friends or siblings, and not all kids could be trusted not to run in front of or behind the circle target while someone was throwing, but if everyone involved actually had a brain and used it, it was a really fun game to play. Clackers were a huge fad when I was in... fifth grade? Give or take a year, I forget. And again, if you used them as intended, they were a really good hand-eye coordination training tool. It took a lot of experimentation and frustration to get them working, but once you did it was fun. For a bit, then it got boring and we moved on to something else. But as with the lawn darts, when people got really hurt it was usually because someone was being an idiot, using them as bolos and throwing them *at* people, that kind of thing. I never knew nor heard of anyone who had their clackers actually break, though. That's weird, and I can definitely see that it'd be dangerous. One they didn't mention was cap guns. These were little metal guns and you loaded with strips of caps, basically little (like 5mm or so across) dots of actual gunpowder enclosed between two strips of paper, like a tiny explosive ravioli. :D The gun was a percussion mechanism, with a hammer sort of thing that snapped down and whacked one of the dots of gunpowder, which was sitting against a flat piece of metal. It went bang and you could smell the gunpowder. Of course, that wasn't good enough for us kids. We quickly ditched the guns and started putting caps down on the sidewalk and hitting them with hammers. Two or three caps stacked up made a better bang. Hitting a hole roll of caps with a really big and heavy hammer was the best. :) Again, I never knew nor heard of anyone who got hurt doing this, but I can see how it might happen, especially if you were banging your caps right on the edge of the sidewalk next to some dry grass or something. And speaking of fires, a kid with a really strong magnifying glass would of course spend some amount of time outside burning stuff in the sun. I never burned bugs or anything -- you have to be a reall glassbowl to do that -- but leaves and sticks were fun to burn with concentrated sunlight. And I'm sure any number of kids started serious fires that way, although I never did, nor anyone I knew. We also had the really *fun* slides on the playground -- tall and straight, not these low, bumpy or curly ones designed to slow you down. BORING! And parks with really tall swings, where you could get going fast and high, were kid magnets; only baby swings were low, much less had swing retarders on them. The merry-go-round at my elementary school was made all of bars, not just a solid, round plate. That meant there were open wedges in the middle, and if a 5th or 6th grader (10 or 11 years old) or two got in the middle wedges and pushed, the merry-go-round would go FAST. Wheee! When I was at that school, the little kids (up to 3rd grade) had a lunch period that overlapped with the big kids (4th and up) by like fifteen minutes, and those of us who were more responsible wouldn't let anyone push from the middle if there were little kids on the thing. It could get going fast enough that they'd have a hard time holding on, and they'd be scared and crying before that, so we'd yell at anyone who tried to push from the center when there were like 6- and 7-year-olds riding. Oh, and we had tall jungle gyms you could actually get hurt falling off of, which of course made them more fun to play on. I never fell off one, but I heard of it happening here and there. Basically, it was just a given back then that yes, you *would* hurt yourself periodically during childhood. It was normal, and it wasn't a problem unless broken bones, lost eyes, or actual death was involved. And it didn't get that bad very often at all. I never broke a bone until I was an adult, but I got a lot of bruises and scabs, and a few sprained ankles. And thinking about it, none of my injuries were because I was playing on or with anything that would be considered dangerous today. It was just kid stuff, and there are kids today getting the same kinds of injuries. It happens. And trying to protect kids from every possible injury or harm just stunts their development, their confidence and decision-making skills. Some things definitely needed to be banned, but sometimes today I think it's taken too far.

As a kid, I played with Jarts in my backyard. They were a blast. Miss those.

Who remembers the plastic water rockets? You filled them with water…connected it to the hand-held launcher…pumped it to God knows how much pressure…and BOOM! That rocket could take your head off!

Atomic energy lab... first thing I thought was Sheldon from the TV show the Big Bang Therory... 😂

Never mind the toys, it was everyday life… I was born in the 60’s, youngest of 4 and we had a high-chair that could easily chop off a finger when you slid the stainless steel tray towards the child. Virtually everything in the house was constructed from or wrapped in asbestos… you went out to play at 7:30 AM, if you got hurt doing something stupid… you kept your mouth shut about how it happened when you got home because the whippin you might get was much worse than the initial injury….we were tough kids!! 🤣

I had several of these growing up in the 60's and like Brad Upton says "The dumb kids didn't make it".

We had a Gilbert section in our hometown hobby shop. It was the first place I always went to. My grandfather worked as a freelance an electrical engineer. One day while visiting with him, he took me along to work, it might have been at RCA or GE or maybe someplace else. While there I saw shelves full of brand-new Atomic Energy kits. I asked about them and a man said they were given to the company when they had to stop selling them. He told me I could have as many as I wanted so I took 6 of them. I played with them for two weeks and every day after my grandfather got home, he helped me to build a working nuclear reactor which I used for my 6th grade science fair project. I set it up on the gym floor with all the other kids projects and even used the power to help energize half a dozen other kids projects. I got first place with it. The ironic thing was that back in fourth grade I made a very realistic model volcano that made molten lava, steam, ash, everything. I said that we had to set it off outside, but my teacher said other students made these and was perfectly safe inside. Being only 9 years old, I didn't argue. The volcano ended up starting a fire in the school, the fire company had to come and everything. When 6th grade came around, I was warned not to do bring anything dangerous for the science project. About a month later some government people showed up at my house and confiscated everything.

Lawn darts were fun. And we played the expert version. That's where you had a team in the front yard and one in the back yard and we threw them over the house. What fun. 😂

@7:31 I remember lawn darts… yes I am older than ya’ll but never any incidents that I recall personally!

The CSI one didn't actually say "Asbestos Included" on the box. That was photo shopped on that image for comedic purposes. I loved the Jarts but they were super dangerous. There were a number of kids impaled in the head, eye, hand and foot with them. They were also quite heavy and could do some real damage. The jarts were ~12 inches in length with a 4+ ounce weight situated obviously at one end of the dart with the entire amount of the weight focused into a literal pointed dart tip. Ouch!

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I can’t recall any horror stories with these but I do remember playing with the lawn darts. As a kid, we just thought it was a fun game but thinking back on it now as an adult, it’s like, how did my parents not realize how dangerous they were? 😂

It was in the late 1960s when I was around 9 years old I turned my bicycle into a chopper and on the back fender my sister who was probably 13 years old painted Hells Angels with flames. I thought I was so cool 😂😂😂

The design of Lawn darts were actually used by ancient Roman soldiers the original was called the plumbata!

I was born in 68 so I’ll be 56 this year. My two older brothers had the lawn darts and we all the clackers. I have three daughters who are grown now but when they were younger my parents bought them the moon shoes for Christmas one year. You know the things you strapped to your feet that looked like little trampolines. Then about 5 years ago I bought one of my grandsons a pogo stick for his birthday but they do really good on designing those now.

10:55 and 11:35 - I remember my younger sister having both of these. And yes, the cabbage patch doll ate her finger once or twice.

We had Yard Darts (Jarts)

Some of them was fun To play. Loved lawn darts. 😂

When I was a kid... maybe 11 or 12 years old, I made my own blow darts out of sharpened construction nails with a paper cone taped on the end. I stood across the street from my house and blew one through a section of PVC pipe. It hit the garage door with enough force to penetrate half of the nail into the door! When My Dad saw the hole... The pipe and darts were destroyed and I was grounded for a couple of weeks.

As a 90s kid only thing I remember on here was the pogo stick and the cabbage patch kid that used to snap off fingers. And me and friends used to jump off trees unto trampolines too.

Back around 1980 when I was 12, a friend and I triple bounced his uncle (whom was a Green Beret stationed at Fort Bragg) on the trampoline at a bad angle. It sent him flying off the trampoline into a perfect dive-bomb 20ft out in the yard. It gave him a concussion, broke his jaw and broke his collar bone.

I had or used a friends version of just about every single one of these. My little cousin lived near a boy who was "hard to handle", probably today's ADHD, maybe a little Bi-Polar, in any case, the boy threw a "Lawn Dart at my little cousin and hit him in the eye. He was hospitalized for several days and has had to wear glasses ever since.

Most of the more serious child hood injuries in the late 50's and early 60's came from monkey bars and swing sets that were made of all metal, on the monkey bars you could climb up about ten feet off the ground, which almost always was asphalt so they would be level and not sink into the ground, I know I chipped a front tooth on them, as did several of my friends, but back then kids never wore any safety equipment like kids do today.

As an 80s kid, we did some of the craziest and gnarliest things as kids haha. We would jump off the roof with umbrellas to try and fly lol. That was a bad idea! We would jump off bridges. Another really dumb idea. We also climbed a massive radio tower and we were hundreds of feet in the air and we somehow never got caught.

Jarts are always mentioned in these videos. I remember my grandfather and I played with them. He was the fun grandfather type always carefree and up for an adventure but got super serious when we played with Jarts. It was not till years later when I learned just how dangerous they were and remembered how his whole attitude changed when we played a dangerous game. Very strict rules on where to stand while people were throwing, paying attention was critical, and the all clear was it own unique rule. Good times. To his credit no one got hurt while playing the game. My brother and I were shocked when we saw the lists. We could not figure out how people could get hurt. Then we realized his special rules were the reason why we were safe.

…..remember when Dan Ackroyd of SNL fame played the shifty, shyster where in a 60 MINUTE skit where 60 Minutes was investigating dangerous toys, and Ackroyd was selling Bag-O-Glass, a plastic bag full of shards of sharp broken glass for $19.99. Claiming it was safe for children from 5 years old to a hundred. It was hilarious…😂

Billy was a chemist's son, but Billy is no more. What he thought was H2O was H2SO4. 🤣

I had the PowerMite workbench with real working (miniature) saw and drill. I loved it because they actually worked. And it wasn't just battery powered, each one had to be plugged in with a miniature electrical plug. I never hurt myself with it though. Something else I had later that could be considered dangerous was a Mattel Strange Change toy. I got it used at a flea market. It had a red metal base, which plugged in, topped with a plastic chamber. On the side was a small compartment with built in vise. It came with several colored plastic blocks. You put one or more of the blocks in the chamber and turned it on. As it got hot, the block would soften and then unfold into a creature figure, at which point you would use a set of tongs to take it out (because it was HOT!). As it cooled, it would solidify into that shape. Later, you could put the creatures back into the chamber, heat them up, then stuff them into the compartment on the side and tighten the vise to compress them back into seamless plastic blocks. I had a lot of fun with it until the vise broken and I could no longer compress them back into the blocks. It kind of made the rest of it pointless.

I remember Creepy Crawlers. One of my favorite toys in the 60s along with my Easy Bake Oven. I also had green clackers. I never had one problem, nor did I know of anyone in person or on the news that had injuries. Must not have been massive casualties. Oh! Caps were so fun,as well. Get some caps and a rock and pop them for hrs.

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We had the JARTS, and I had the Creepy Crawlers as well. I remember they had that goop that came edible as well…😂

I had the mini jigsaw. Radio Shack used to sell electronic kits of radios, robots and other machines that you could build. You had to use a soldering gun to connect circuits. Hobby shops sold wood burners for craving. ✌️

Those of us that survived these toys are a tough and imaginative bunch. We learned many things that today's kids just seem to lack. Things like common sense, the ability to duck, first aid, generally the ability to survive. I had a lot of these toys and I'm still here!

I remember playing with the lawn darts every summer when camping with my grandparents. Knowing them it was probably one of the original sets. 😂

Holy cow! We had the lawn darts when I was a kid, they were still around when I was a young adult in the 70's.

my brother had a chemistry kit when he was young. Mom had gotten it for him for christmas. She told him not to play with it unless she was there to supervise. He didn't listen, mixed the wrong chemicals and it blew up and got in his eyes. Christmas morning she had to take him to the ER. Dont worry, he can see.

In the 1980s we had a friend that had lawn darts, he would grab all the darts and toss them into the air and scream incoming artillery. We would scramble for sturdy cover. It ended when he put one through his Mom's new mini van wind shield.

GOT into an argument with my little brother playing Jarts... Before it was over I threw one straight down through the top of his foot and stuck it to the ground... Didn't hit anything vital and he was limping around better than I was sitting for the first few days after... Those were the days, you had to be tough to survive...

I had Creepy Crawlers I absolutely loved it it was my favorite toy I was probably around 10 years old or so❤

Creepy Crawlers was still around in the 90s, I had one as a kid. The fumes were no longer a problem, but, well, you still were messing around with heated metal plates.

I almost forgot I had the early version of easy bake ovens. It looked like a regular oven, it heated with a 100 watt light bulb. You had to flip the oven door down to open it and reach over to take the still hot baked goods out of it.

still have my lawn dart puncture scar on my ankle!!!

Love when the kids participate in reaction videos, love hearing a generation younger than me and their thoughts and perspectives 😂👏🏻🩶

I actually still have the cabbage patch doll that "ate" the food. The doll has a backpack on and when you lift the flap, there's the hole that the toy food fell though into the bag.

I'm 61, clackers were all over the recess playground when I was in the 3rd grade circa 1970. Never quite caught the hang of getting them to hit at the top and bottom of the arc, but the kids who were good at it could make them blur like an airplane's propeller arc. 😮

Jarts, Creepy Crawlers, Moon Shoes, are some of the things I had. (Sky Dancers were just after my time but my SIL who was younger had some, we still have one of them unopened). But if a kid wants to purposely try fate, they will find a way. I know I tried 😂. Burning and melting legos on lamps, trying to use gasoline to burn a tree to make a camp fire (glad an adult stepped in before I poured gas in the tree and killed it).

I had an archery set that I would shoot the arrows up in the air, fly over my yard, my neighbors house and into the woods just beyond. Then I'd go get them, locating them imbedded in trees, the ground, etc.

I’m now 67. I absolutely loved my creepy crawler set!

My dad still has a set of lawn darts. We bring them out every year when we have BBQs. Nobody has gotten hurt yet 😁

I have some friends who were playing with Rollerblade Barbie. (Ages3-7ish) They were playing beauty shop with hairspray. A little while later, the little brother was laying on the floor and his older sister was playing rolling the Barbie across his back. His clothes caught fire. The Barbie was pulled after the company was notified. (If you look up the reason this Barbie was pulled on Google or RU-vid, it talks about this instance.)

My oldest sister begged my mother for a skateboard. Somewhere in the mid-1970's, mom finally capitulated and bought her one. On her literal first ride down the driveway, she fell and broke her arm. The skateboard was thrown out and my sister was in a cast all summer!

The really bizarre thing about the jarts, is that the kit included two colors of darts (three darts each with red fins and with blue fins), and two target hoops. If there's been only one target hoop, some kids might have all stood at one end of their yard and thrown toward the target at the other end, which would've been somewhat safer. But no, there were two target hoops, so *of course* everybody set the hoops up at opposite ends of the yard, and each kid or group of kids would stand by one of the hoops and throw their darts toward the other hoop. That way after you'd thrown all three, you didn't have to run to the other end of the yard to retrieve them. You could just pick up the ones your opponent had thrown, and throw those. This was so much more convenient, as long as you didn't mind standing right next to a target hoop while weighted spikes were being lobbed in its general direction. The uranium wasn't weapons-grade (enriched) uranium. It was just natural mined uranium, i.e., about 99% of it was the stable isotope. Granted, the remaining 1% is still sufficiently radioactive that it really really should not have been in a child's toy.

They showed the Slip and Slide in the ending montage, but it should have had its own entry. Lots of spinal injuries resulted from that one due to falls. Plus several people got large cuts from sliding off the tarp and hitting the stakes that held it in place.

Still have the lawn darts and the knockers. Hit myself many times with the knockers, but ti still like them.

I once owned the Erector set, lawn darts, and I still have my Cylon Raider in its original box. My Grandfather and grandmother had 3 Cabbage Patch dolls in the original boxes when my grandmother passed away in 2010.

I had Creepy Crawlers as a kid in the 1960’s. I loved it! Yes, I did burn the hell out of myself but I learned that aluminum mold gets hot.😅

We used to stand around and throw the lawn darts in the air above us and see who didn't get killed by said darts when they came down. Yes the 70s was an interesting time indeed.

The good old days.

We had Jarts and never had an issue! However, we were playing with regular darts at my aunt's and uncle's house when I was maybe 8 to 10 (1970-72)? My brother threw a dart, and it went in my arm! I just took it out and told him what a jerk he was. We never even *told* the adults! Kids these days are such wimps.

We made up our own game with lawn darts. You’d stand still and try to throw the dart straight up and not flinch, look up or move. Of course your friend would warn you if they thought you were going to get hit, but the point of the game was to see who could throw it closest to oneself and still stick to the rules. It was unnerving to stand still, not looking up, which was almost impossible and have one of those thump into the earth inches from your foot. Even we thought it was a bad idea after a while. Suburban, pre-teen, front yard, brave, Russian roulette! Childhood was very different in the late 60’s to early 70’s. We were like pirates on the loose with our bicycles, going everywhere. Our play and games always had to have an element of danger or it wasn’t worth doing. It was always competitive between us, who could outdo each other was King Kid status until the next winner was crowned. Bleeding and crying were always a part of having fun or you weren’t doing it hard enough. Like I said, we were pirates! 🏴‍☠️ (Everyone survived) It was a blast! We knew how to have fun.

I was born in 1958. I remember a lot of those toys. I loved playing with "CLACKERS." , and "CREEPY CRAWLERS." My mom always made sure to watch my big brother and I while we played with them.

We had fantastic toys in the 1960s and 70s. I remember getting a BB rifle and slingshots and smoke bombs and firecrackers and a mini bike just to name a few❤

I had Jarts and loved them. Never hit anyone with one. Very fun to play.

We had Jarts. My best friend and I vs 2 other friends from school were playing. One of the other friends threw one too hard while my friend and I were talking and not paying attention. The Jart went through my friend's foot. It stuck about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch into his foot. The hospital fixed it but he was limping around all summer long. Did we learn our lesson? Nah! We still played, but we payed attention from then on.

I have to say that my grandpa had a set of lawn darts. I played many times with family members. They were a blast. The danger was part of the fun. 😂😂😂

"I want one" in the thumb nail 😂

I'm 40. I played with lawn darts. I loved my creepy crawlers oven toy. I don't think there was so much harm in learning to respect ovens or heavy objects (the lawn darts were weighted). We also had a wood burning kit for making art on balsa wood with a searing hot pen. You mentioned trampolines. I cracked a rib wrestling on a trampoline and never told anyone until I was an adult.

My brother and I had the Thing Maker. We loved it. When we ran out of the liquid stuff that came with it we just used whatever we had laying around, lead, plastic,etc. I took a bunch of the little plastic bugs we made to school and sold them to my classmates. I had a pretty good bug business going until a teacher caught me and confiscated my inventory.

When I turned 12 yrs old I was able to get my own hobby trap line up in northern Manitoba, Canada. I had all different sizes of leg hold traps and conibears, my own .22 cal rifle and my own snowmobile. My area was about 100 square miles. Dad came out with me and my friend the first couple of times to show us areas to avoid and how to set the traps, then we were on our own the rest of the winter. Toys ......pfft.

I had a geology kit in the 60s. It had sulfuric acid to test certain types of rock. I had lawn darts too. You have to be really stupid to get hurt. Basically you had to actually throw one at someone. I had clackers too. It shattered a couple of weeks after I got one.

I’ve played with yard darts, really had to watch out for when they went errant

I had a wood-burning art kit that came with basically a handheld Electric soldering iron. I put a blister on my thumb half the size of the pad. It only happened once though, I am 66 years old and I can still hear the skin sizzle. I immediately stuck my thumb in my iced tea and did not tell my parents because I knew they would probably take the toy away from me. LOL😅

I was seriously injured on a trampolene. I shattered my sternum and broke several ribs on both sides of my ribcage. It probably should have killed me and I was an adult when it happened.

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I'm 37 an had that exact same Creepy Crawlers set around 1993. I reminisce about those things on occasion. I remember the smell vividly.

Blew my mind when I saw the Creepy Crawler plastic mold set. I had completely forgot I had that as a kid and that brought back some long-lost memories lol. Crazy...

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I was born in Battle Creek: I had never even heard of the blow gun until this video. Wow!! Battle Creek is better known for cereal making (Kellogg's world headquarters). We had Jarts when I was very young. My parents still pull the game out sometimes. We just have a strict rule of no one going in front of the person throwing.

I still have lawn darts from when I was a kid. Nobody ever got injured, but looking back at it now, it was a horrible idea. fortunately, my dad was smart, and dint allow us to throw from on ring to the other side with the other team around. We had to stand on one side and then all of us needed to pick our darts and throw them back together to the next ring with nobody on the other side.

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I had Clackers (I'm an 80's kid), a pogo stick, Jarts, woodburning kit. I'm sure there were a few other things my older brother and I had that weren't on here, that we had. LOL

We still have a set of jarts... Most of us who grew up in the 80s and even 90s played with jarts. And at least the dumb groups of friends would toss them high into the air and then dodge them as they came back down; it was a fun game and I only remember one of my group getting slightly injured. LOL. Jarts were very popular. Even today I know many people who have kept their sets and still play.

I remember those Yard Jarts. We found out fast they were a bad idea. I was 21 and alone. Nobody around one day so before throwing the jarts away, I got the bench grinder out and put a shart point on them. I could stick them into the back yard fence or the old garage, telephone pole, ect. Was cool but I got rid of them before anybody got any ideas to use them. I am 69 now and was exposed to about all these toys but survided. No radiation kits or detective. We could not afford some of these either, like the chemistry one. You sure could tell the inventors of these things did not use any forward thinking at all. Just assumed a lot too. Since we had little money and I had a old bb gun, I would take "strike anywhere" matches and drop one into end of barrel. Using just the air, no bb, the match stick would come out at high speed and strike a hard object like garage or telephone pole and explode from compression then ignition. Or I would hold a flat rock at end of barrel, slightly tilted inward so the match would strike the stone on its way into the air. It would ignite and look like a flare into the sky. Cheap fireworks. 750 matches for $3. This is a small amount of stuff I tried when young. I still can count to ten (Have all my fingers) and have never needed glasses yet..lol

I'm 50, and when I was a kid in the '70s, we had the Lawn Jarts and the Clackers. Our family enjoyed the Jarts on a regular basis.