25 Shockingly Dangerous Toys Made for Kids

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[@communistgemini]

You haven't heard of the JR-15?? please look it up

[@Scott.Newmaster]

Did you notice the constant reoccurring theme? 'Hundreds of thousands were sold and six kids were hurt' Ever put a bit of responsibility on the apparently 'challenged' kids and their parents? That stuff for the most part had a real short learning curve.

[@Eminems_woman_4_life]

Wow! I'm surprised about that coz here in Australia we have a kids' party fave called fairy bread which is made by buttering a slice of bread and sprinkle hundreds and thousands on top and no kid never got hurt with hundred and thousands

[@jessreuter8114]

I totally agree Scott... So many thousands sold and so few kids hurt but yet they had to recall them because of the stupid few who were not taught basic human functions and life lessons from their parents

[@laurabailey1054]

👏👏👏👏 parents are so overprotective now.

[@donaldmacewan6267]

Indeed. Where were the parents. Hammocks without the cross bars. I bought a hammock in Brazil in 1963 to travel up the Amazon. IT didn't have any bars, and in so many of these videos, I see adults (and bears) falling out because there are bars, and because they are drawn too tight. It's not a real hammock, it's a bad American idea of a hammock.

[@colinshard8665]

@@jessreuter8114 or by just using some common sense!!, i'm from 1968 and in the 70's and 80's we were running around with sticks pretending to be soldiers, and if we fell over or got injured we washed it ou, stuck a plaster on it and voila, didn't stop me from doing the same thing again and if we had a yoyo for instance and you got hurt by trying to do a trick or something with the yoyo that you hadn't yet mastered, then you found out the hard way, but no one ever complained

[@Etymon-jt3zw]

As a kid growing up in the 1960s & 1970s we had almost all these things. And my sisters had the easy bake ovens. And even real guns were not uncommon gifts for kids. We did not treat them as toys. I remember firing real muskets and black Powder rifles as a kid. As well as BB guns pellet guns and regular guns of all types in the boy scouts. And we usually went hunting and fishing all your round. It was a different time, Even as a child I was more mature than most adults are today.

[@jessreuter8114]

But you'll shoot your eye out kid! Hahaha 😂❤❤❤

[@victorwaddell6530]

​@jessreuter8114 I received a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas in 1972 when I was six years old . I wasn't an idiot kid and never shot it at anyone .

[@irishdabs598]

​@victorwaddell6530 i was 8 when i got my first .22 rifle .. a nice lil Remington semi ..got my cooey .22 repeater and 410 at 12... i lived ..lol they were gifts but we were taught they were tools ...not toys !

[@rba5567]

Forget about Easy-Bake ovens, as a kid growing up in the 60s and 70s there were no microwaves so we all cooked on the stove.

[@Grogers70426]

As a kid that grew up in the 80s and 90s, kids these days wouldn't survive. Most of my toys required me to use my imagination. This generation has no clue about using their imagination, even for writing a fiction story or poem, they will just ask ChatGPT to do it. I had the lawn darts as a kid and I knew that if I threw one at someone, I was gonna regret it big time. I noticed that with the hover board, he said kids riding them and playing on their phones caused accidents, well what did they expect. These same kids are going to be given a driver's license one day too, I pray for the citizens of the cities and towns they live in. Most of the problems with these products is that there's probably no parental supervision, kids thinking everything is edible, or kids not thinking about what could happen if did something. Granted, I've done some things with some toys, like the time I took two strong magnets and let them go near my earlobe, hurt like hell but definitely wouldn't have considered suing the company bc I was being a jackass. So many people nowadays want to get the quick buck, if that means taking someone especially a company to court then that's what they'll do.

[@AceMoonshot]

And our school playground equipment was set up on concrete, asphalt and gravel. Child safety back then was mostly an afterthought.

[@nancyskids5696]

😂😂😂

[@wmdkitty]

And we were FINE!

[@AceMoonshot]

@@wmdkitty Sure. Once I got the stitches out, I was fit as a fiddle.

[@nicfisher8266]

I still have gravel in my body I'm sure

[@mlafou]

Metal slides as well

[@kathleennagwak1761]

As a kid of the 50s and 60s, we knew the difference between toys and reality. Just like we never thought cartoons were real life.

[@DavittMcShane-ro6ck]

Perfect statement, im using these guys to teach my two youngest daughters, as they have no institutional education structure at all, and i do hope i am steering them in the right direction,. Im so scared for them..😟

[@djfrenzy69]

Nobody would ever think kids are that stupid... It only takes a few to ruin it for the rest.. Parents are to blame

[@competitionglen]

Especially those flotation rings. What parent would ever leave a baby/toddler unsupervised around water? Morons.

[@elaineb7065]

@@competitionglen The ones round the neck are asking for trouble!!! Under the arms is better, & for babies, ones with support for the rear are essential. And yep, if baby or toddler (I'd say anybody too young (or not ready) for swimming lessons) is in the water, parent or guardian is too

[@michaelmoore2591]

As a child of the 60s I had a lot of these toys! I was particularly proud of my woodburning kit but I was also smart enough to know what hot meant! I also had a leather tooling kit and slip and slide and lawn darts. We also had adult supervision and lots of fun.

[@worry2much]

I'm 74 years old was a kid in the 50s and 60s didn"t have any of the toys Mike described,but I/we survived merry go rounds,metal slides,jungle jims,riding bikes no helmets,rope swings and vsrious other "dangerous" devices and with a few exceptions where someone might break an arm we all managed to make it to adulthood. Now parents are terrified to let their kids out of their sight fearful there's a pedo/kidnapper behind every tree,bush or rock pile. We were kicked out of the house only to return for supper afterwards we went out to play till the streetlights came on.

[@nostalgiaprincess]

i have so much to say about these toys. but what it all boils down to is…WATCH YOUR FLIPPIN’ KIDS IF THEY USE QUESTIONABLE TOYS!!!!!!!

[@newshodgepodge6329]

@@nostalgiaprincess I think it's the kids that are "questionable," not the toys

[@marshaharris4268]

I bet you were questionable when you were a kid too​@@newshodgepodge6329

[@colinshard8665]

or just use plain old common sense

[@newshodgepodge6329]

@colinshard8665 Common sense is on life support.

[@MichelleP-t7o]

We had a merry-go-round in our local park until a few years ago. So much fun😅

[@cindytriffon4942]

We had most of these toys... 90% of us have all our fingers... 😁 Bring the toys back, survival of the fittest... 😄❤

[@victoriawilliams2786]

👍💯

[@cydnicaldwell1337]

I had the girls version of Creepy Crawlers and Ioved it. I didn't get burned, but I was between 8 and 10 at the time. 5he same for having my Easy Bake Oven - but didn't get that until 10. I had many sets of clackers as a teen. Loved playing with them. I have a toy, board game, you missed. It was called Hats Off and was recalled because of the metal ball bearing weighting down the plastic cone that was pitched onto the plastic board with a spring loaded launcher. Those little 'hats' could really go far. Look it up. Recall was because kids were prying out the ball bearing and 3at8ng them.

[@DocIdaho]

None of these are dangerous if the parents do their job and supervise. As a kid, I had chemistry sets with cyanide and arsenic as components. Parents these days think toys are babysitters.

[@victorwaddell6530]

In 6th grade school in the 1970s my teachers taught us about nuclear science with a Geiger counter and contained samples of radioactive materials .

[@austinchristian9978]

Idk man.... the flubber toy had 35 % rashes cases lol that one could have been on the company

[@julianaylor4351]

When I was a kid, my older brother and some of our neighbours, used to roll down a hill in our local park, jump on and off roundabouts in the playground, swing too high, jump off the witches hat roundabout and play on a 12 foot metal slide, that could burn your backside or freeze it depending on the weather. The 1960s...no one knew about health and safety. That started later in parks. Now the play ground equipment is tiny and has padded mats. There is also no way their parents would let them roll down a hill, even though, as then it was and is covered with grass. The world is so different...no wonder these toys were sold. Health and safety rules on toys and playground equipment started in the UK, in the early 1970s.

[@elaineb7065]

In the 1970s & 80s we had safety adverts about playing safely in playparks, & not playing in construction sites & electricity grids. We climbed trees, swung on mad-swings (stout rope tied round a thick stick, preferably on a slope so it felt like you were flying), had climbing frames twice the height of our parents, swung on swings which were tractor tyres round a piece of wood which spun & whirled round to near make you sick. It was such fun & we knew how to be careful. But then some poor mummy's little 4yo got hurt on one when she had her head buried in her magazine & bye-bye fun play equipment

[@12HpyPws]

I remember yard darts in the 70s. There was also a Pizza Hut version of the Easy Bake Oven.

[@ace3312]

Yeah it weeded out the stupid I miss those days

[@houndawg3]

Jarts

[@therealdonglover]

You missed the Wham-o Air Blaster and Mattel Sonic Blaster ... two of my favorite toys of the era.

[@bartlester591]

I had some clakers when I was a kid drove my mother insane. And I believe you can make them out of acrylic.

[@paulsarnik8506]

Bring back The "Jarts!" We NEED to clean out The Gene Pool! 🤓😎✌🏼

[@jessreuter8114]

Oh yes not only did my cousin and I jump around on Moon shoes we also had Easy-Bake ovens creepy crawler kits and jarts... As well as fake guns like pellet BB guns yeah I guess drinking out of a hose is not heard of much these days Pretty sure my parents still probably have our jarts Moon shoes and easy bake ovens guns and search in our crawl space I want to get them out and play with them now LOL my kid is a civilized human being

[@victoriawilliams2786]

My bff's & me think all these "warning" labels need to be discontinued, for the same reason. 😂 In the 70's & early 80's we didn't have them. And not as near as many people bit the big one as would happen today if there wasn't warning labels on everything. I have an issue with everyone gets participation trophies too. There is a certain pride that comes with EARNING a trophy, ribbon etc...

[@jessreuter8114]

You'll shoot your eye out kid! Yep, well that was all part of growing up lol

[@donkeybrainwhoknew933]

As kids my friends and I had all these toys. And our school playground stuff too. Little swings, big swings, jungle gyms, monkey bars, uneven bars, steel rings, tether ball, see saws, dodge balls, soccer, baseballs, kick balls, jump rope. We rode in the middle of car tires as our friends pushed us along, played high jump, horse and riders (we got pretty rough). Not to mention as little kids we played leapfrog, hide and go seek (at night spread out over a couple of blocks). We drank water from hoses, swamp cooler hoses, went barefoot most of the time (stepped on broken glass a few times and bled). Climbed trees, scaled fences to get where we wanted to get. All that kind of stuff. Most of us boys and some of the girls that played with us always had cuts, scrapes and bruises most of the time. But because of the way we all were back in the day, our community had a strong herd immunity. This is back in the 50s and 60s. We did not grow up to be woke and wimps. Is it my imagination or are so many of today's kids and teens and college age kids less energetic, assertive and robust than we were? Just wondering, does anyone remember Bulljoes?

[@StephanieGuthrie-xu7qd]

My brothers and I had all of these a.d did everything you mentioned in the 70s and 80s. We grew up just fine. We knew not to touch hot things with our bare hands. We got scraped up and learned to do things with out getting hurt. We were resilient.

[@elaineb7065]

@@StephanieGuthrie-xu7qd Same era. We leant the hard way & never repeated the mistake. We found out actions have consequences. Call another child a bad name, that's a fistfight. Call a teacher a bad name, that's detention & lines. Swear in front of a parent, if you're not sore, you will be (my folks excused swearing if we were injured, which happened a few times - it was just par for the course. We'd get cleaned up, patched up, & sent right back out there, brandishing our war wounds)

[@donnysandley4649]

Now a days you can't play dodge ball, freeze tag or duck duck goose because its so dangerous 😅

[@peacewillow]

i get dodge ball, but no duck, duck, goose?!?!?! and what's wrong with freeze tag? is all that simply because you "hit" someone? if so, why don't we ban all contact sports as well? 🤬

[@jessreuter8114]

We can still play football and we can't play duck duck goose wow lol I'm goooooood❤❤

[@elultimo102]

A kid got charged with having a weapon at school, when he pointed his finger and said BANG. (Teachers are at the bottom of the SATs.)

[@rgutbrod]

I had one of those sets, burning kits. Clackers, Belt bucker gun! Glad I was born in the 50's!

[@Underland76]

FINALLY! someone that has the same view of "hoverboards" that i do... stupid name for it, give us actual hoverboards like the ones on BTTF, don't come out with this poorly made slop and call them hoverboards when they clearly don't hover! by the way, my sister still has the set of lawn darts that my father bought when they first came out, but she keeps them safely stored away in her closet

[@jessreuter8114]

My parents have way too many of these items still stored in closets LOL and the hoverboard my child still has sitting in his bedroom to this day... I'm fine with that lol

[@vogonpoet5860]

god forbid kids go outside and see trees, those long branch things could inflict injury, or they might see birds and get injured trying to fly ! but dont consider parental supervision or education, its about time kids were protected, ban trees and birds, outlaw bens and furniture more than an inch tall, make sharp paper illegal and prosecute anyone giving kids those stabby crayola.

[@jessreuter8114]

Truth !!! I was an 80's-90's kid and this still applies!!!😂❤🎉

[@jessicacanfield5058]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Eminems_woman_4_life]

Ikr?! The world is such a big cotton wool ball these days. I remember the things that we did as kids, like standing on the shopping carts when our mum's did the shopping and other things. But no, you can't do that now. It's pathetic

[@Kerikat75]

I agree. Bad, bad nature and fun. BAD! NO-NO!

[@EricBeeFpv]

Right. This just seems like a list of objects dumb kids used to learn lessons from. I miss when the dumb ones were allowed to learn lessons from dumb actions.

[@mikeburkhart8336]

Lawn Darts!!!! The dangerously pointy backyard game we had fun for hours playing back when I was a kid of the 70's! Back then parents didn't think twice about us using those things!

[@Brian_W.]

Yup, I was there. I'm sure bicycles injured more kids and they weren't outlawed.

[@klopez7080]

And the parents never thought about us using our playmates for target practice either. (I still have a set I found at garage sale. It's mounted on the wall but I have no young kids or grandkids)

[@mikeburkhart8336]

@Brian_W. I never even wore a bike helmet back then,and I scratched up my arms and legs riding that bike I had but never had a head injury.

[@donnatheroux841]

Amazing Thanks List 25 and Mike 👍❤️

[@rachelmckitterick]

Saving this to watch tonight but had to say how much I LOVE your tshirt 😍

[@aprilpotter3054]

I had an easy bake oven in the late 70s. I also had a clacker in the late 80s. The wood burning kits are still available to purchase at craft stores. I couldn't get enough slap bracelets in HS. If parents purchase these items for their children it requires prudent parenting. I didn't get hurt at all because my parents made sure I didn't use them when I was alone or to harm someone else. Prudent parenting. Don't get it if you cannot monitor your child using it. Toy companies only want to make money.

[@bartlester591]

Very few people know this, but the yo-yo the original intention of it was created in South America as an actual weapon it was designed for hunting birds and then somebody took it to war and found out it could be used is a war weapon so why are you surprised that a children’s toy can be destructive you know some of our best weapon designs came out of children toys

[@victorwaddell6530]

Clackers come from bolos used by South American cowboys to capture cattle . Lawn darts come from Roman plumbata dart missile weapons . As a kid, I used to fashion slings from scrap leather and string and toss stones with lethal potential . I learned how to do that in Bible school when I was taught about David vs. Goliath .

[@mikesteckler1952]

I loved these toys when I was a kid. They were only dangerous if you used them wrong. If you insisted on being stupid, you got what you deserved. Although parents should monitor, kids properly taught responsible use, these toys were no more dangerous than the world outside. Imagine if we banned bicycles? They caused much more harm than anything on this list!

[@aniseeubanks9686]

Lol. I still have that easy bake oven. New in box.

[@BrandonW35]

Growing up in 80’s and 90’s I remember a lot of these toys, lawn darts and slap bracelets especially, I don’t recall anyone getting injured but it doesn’t surprise me, even social media hurts kids nowadays

[@donnysandley4649]

Those guns were so much fun 😂

[@paulsarnik8506]

Sure!🙄It's ALL fun until the gun backfires on You

[@sounddude177]

I probably had half of these. Plus chemistry sets, plastics chemistry sets, and an electronics set complete with vacuum tubes and substantial voltages. No injuries, but left me with a lifetime love of science.

[@JenniferMyers-ym2yn]

I had a word burning kit! It was awesome!

[@Nyperold018]

23. I had the redesign in the '90s. Those were made of modern plastics, and the balls were attached to handles by rods rather than string.

[@leemonical]

I received a wood burning kit for Christmas at 12 years old in the late 70’s. I might have burned myself once but then I didn’t do it again. Because our generation wasn’t stupid. 😏

[@julianaylor4351]

My older brother burned himself with a soldering iron several times, as a young teenager, as in 13/14.

[@wmdkitty]

I had one and was always SUPERVISED.

[@mikebamvakais1888]

How many people are killed or injured riding bike There not recalled

[@D_Parks]

But they did come up with chain guards, hand brakes and bike helmets.

[@julianaylor4351]

My older brother broke a tooth when he was twelve. Went over his handle bars. Too true.

[@stevenA44]

The first version of the Easy Bake oven, didn't look like a microwave and the opening was just big enough to slide the small pans through. I know this because my sister had one when we were kids and I used it as well. They should have stuck with that design!! The calcium carbide, if I'm not mistaken, was also used as a heat source for some other stuff back then. I mining lamp comes to mind I think. I had clackers. I had a wood burning kit when I was a kid but wasn't allowed to use it much. Coincidently, I did get a soldering iron to use since I was into repairing things. I left it plugged up next to the window and forgot about it for hours, then seen it glowing red!! LOL Wood burning iron, soldering iron, both the same thing. Never had the creepy crawler thing, but I did have a machine with metal plates where you can make cowboys, Indians and horses. It used these weird cylindrical pieces of plastic with a slot in them. You put it in the top and slide the molds under it and pressed the lever down and it filled the molds. I was never allowed to make anything with it, although I did sneak and make a few with it. No idea whatever happened to it. Used to have lawn darts. They just gave them to us and never supervised us. We threw them up in the air and watched them come down, but stayed far away from them when they were coming down.

[@christinacarr8971]

"I won't swallow my shape shifting friend!" As a Nana of 8 grandchildren, I spit my drink laughing. My youngest grandchild and the only boy in the bunch embraced that whole vibe. He will eat ANYTHING! 😂

[@newshodgepodge6329]

Bells hanging on a string... Seems like I've heard that somewhere before. "For those of you that will not sing..." Oh yeah, I went there.

[@wmdkitty]

...and now it's in my head. Thank you.

[@lisachiappetti6092]

10/10 song. Also proof that humanity will never change as far as that's concerned 🥹 it's like the one unifying thing in humanity and it's BEAUTIFUL

[@newshodgepodge6329]

@wmdkitty Glad I could help. 😁

[@Nanner823]

I still have my clackers ❤

[@christinacarr8971]

So do I! ❤️

[@Nanner823]

@christinacarr8971 well at least ours didn't shatter 🤣 my children played with them. My youngest son was just playing with them recently and hit his own hand and wants nothing to do with them. What a softy 😂😂

[@christinacarr8971]

@@Nanner823 😆 🤣

[@barrylindeman6902]

Like most Boomers, I grew up with Lawn Darts, Easy Bake Ovens, Vacuforms, chemistry sets, and hard plastic water-filled rockets launched by pumping them full of air. That’s one reason we laugh at “trigger warnings” like foul language and smoking. Please!

[@andrewhoman9177]

Boomers are the worst generation ever; and don’t understand the ridiculousness of laughing at the way a generation was raised when they are the ones that raised them to be like that.

[@garrytemchuk7408]

I had a Wood Burning Kit in the early 70's. It was awesome and as someone who was creative, I loved it.

[@klausheinrich1791]

While I’m sure that lasers damage the cornea, the most dangerous issue is burning the retina…permanent blindness isn’t too fun, so says my right eye…

[@joanna4289]

In the UK we have really high standards in everything.

[@peacewillow]

you're being funny, right? 'cause that's how i took it. 🤣

[@Daveweasel-o1s]

Leading to the Reliant Robin, eh?

[@charlene5222]

Glad i grew up in the 60s , so much fun, we had common sense ans still had fun. Loved clackers

[@nostalgiaprincess]

9:36 well the government is gonna have to MAKE ME! i can 95% guarantee there is still a set floating around my family somewhere.

[@jorynickila7760]

I still have every single mighty max action set ever released on the market!

[@tessabiggs2917]

Oh God I remember my daughter getting her trapped in the eating cabbage patch doll 😮

[@MamaCat956]

3:16 dragonflyz (skydancers for boys) skydancers and dragonflyz also had their own cartoon series

[@nancyskids5696]

And could get caught in a kids hair too.

[@thomashoying3102]

You know, I remember these toys, they had caution warnings with them. I don't ever remember any kids in the neighborhood getting hurt by them, and I grew up in a suburb of Washington D.C.

[@paulsarnik8506]

№ 24. Don't forget "You'll shoot your EYE out KID! 🤓😎✌🏼

[@aimeelouvier-sutton]

19:20 I love how u held back ur laugh🤣🤣

[@OfCorse76]

I have a laser pointer well north of 10mW. I bought it on Amazon before the ban went into effect. It's around 3500mW.

[@Joneb57]

I can see if something has asbestos or toxic chemicals in them but geez, how coddled are kids and why aren’t the parents going over the hazards with them. I’m 67 and we had pogo sticks, BB guns, would climb the tallest tree with the weakest branches and play games on pavement. I can see making things as safe as possible for kids, but that doesn’t mean you totally eliminate them.

[@karenheyou9946]

Chernobyl used Uranium 235, not 238.

[@Allantitan]

Kids and maturity are 2 words that don’t always go together especially if the kids are in a group

[@AlaskanRockstar]

🤘Great show!

[@velandraa5072]

Love it!!! ❤❤❤

[@vibestriker4277]

For most of these toys that are sooo dangerous where were the parents? Aren't they supposed to supervise their kids

[@wmdkitty]

Most of these would have been absolutely FINE if parents would do their job and PARENT. But no, no, it's somehow the manufacturers' fault that Mommy didn't supervise Janey using that EZ-Bake, or whatever other "dangerous" toys you want to list.

[@dandutre]

Did you know that you can buy an AK made out of Legos and it shoots rubber bands! 1:1 scale! Only about $50! Hello from Idaho USA! 🤠

[@josephnofil3780]

Between my kids and I we had 11 of these. I missed out on the chemistry set with Uranium, but I do remember getting a chemistry set around 1972 with arsenic and the chemicals needed to make gun powder.

[@adamdavids8202]

I remember creepy crawlers!!

[@TravelingBibliophile]

I remember slap bracelets I used to get them a lot in loot bags as a kid when I went to birthday parties.🎉

[@peacewillow]

just another example of how kids grew dumber after gen x........ how DID we survive? 😱 there's nothing wrong with any of these toys, it's the children and their parents that need to be recalled. (well, lithium batteries are an issue, but they're not toys!)

[@scrossen778]

I remember playing with Clackers and Jarts in the 70's. I was not skillful enough to keep them going up and down. If your head got in the way it could give you a hell of a whack. I had no idea Jarts caused any deaths and that many injuries, but what can you expect from a metal spike hurling at you, especially coming down from above and into your head.

[@preacherF-15]

"child safety", when I was a kid, consisted of Dad saying "Son, don't do anything stupid." And me answering "I'll try, Dad", and Mom keeping a well stocked first aid kit. Back then moms were required to know basic first aid, how to use a tourniquet, and how to stitch small wounds closed.

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

Loved playing Lawn Darts when I was younger.

[@Donnahodgins]

These kind of toys made life fun. Now we pad everything

[@BaphometsWrath]

I forgot I got hurt from one of those slap bracelets as a kid. Damn Slim Jim advertising at six flags lol

[@julianaylor4351]

Laser pointer of the kind you're showing are banned from sale in the UK. It is a criminal offence to use one to shine at vehicles, in particular planes in flight. People have been prosecuted and found guilty of using them to attack drivers and pilots.

[@tamararamsey7054]

Broken ribs from a foam skydancer🤔

[@julianaylor4351]

The speed of the projectile versus a child's not yet fully hardened bones.

[@jessreuter8114]

Yeah that's the parents problem...

[@fuzzywolf63]

You left out one, the Water Wiggle. I had one and it wrapped around me and a lamp post in our yard. when it had me totally pinned the water jet was spraying me in the face. Luckily my mom saw it and turned the water off. If she and my dad were not paying attention to me I could have easily drowned.

[@jenelleprins5306]

I was a kid in the 1960s and 1970s. I remember a lot of these.

[@skinsnation4404]

I was a kid in the the early 90s my favorite toys were skateboards a pogo stick and a daisy red rider that destroyed many of my grandfathers beer cans. I was stacking beermids in 92😂

[@preacherF-15]

I grew up on our family cattle ranch, 240,000 acres of West Texas, running roughly 12,000 head of cattle. Kids were taught to handle guns as soon as they were physically and mentally capable of grasping the firearm and the concept. My father gave me my first rifle when I was six, a pump action Remington .22. Today, over 50 years later, I still have the gun. It shoots as straight as ever. That .22 was soon followed by more guns, a lever action 30.30 for horseback a scoped 30.06 for hunting deer and elk ( we hunted elk on our land in Colorado) a 12 ga shotgun for dove, quail, duck, (and deer in scrub country), a Ruger single six revolver for carrying on my belt, for the occasional sneaky diamondback or to mercy kill a wounded animal or just for some fun plinking. This was my "arsenal" by the time I was nine years old. Every kid I knew had essentially the same collection, we were all ranch kids facing the same challenges every day. Good Lord, we were expected to behave ourselves and to take our responsibilities seriously. I can't even imagine my parents reaction if we had acted the way kids do today...but I guarantee you we would spend the next week or so standing. I lived in an area in extreme West Texas (find Lajitas on a map) ranch country, there were a lot of kids, from ranch kids to the children of ranch hands. Yet I can't remember, nor can I find in any search, ANY TIME that any kid shot himself or another, accidentally or otherwise. I searched from 15 years before my birth to 15 years after, a 30 random year spread, and not one incident. Kids were raised to a standard and held to that standard. Excuses were not accepted, by the child or parent. So I'm not quite as shocked by the ping pong gun as you are. When I was 6 or 7, we were making them ourselves, but we used PVC pipe, bbq igniter buttons, a can of moms hairspray, and some of dads GOLF BALLS, lol. True story.

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

I remember having a wood-burning kit. I forget if it was bought at the store or a garage sale.

[@tribalismsucks7784]

I find these videos interesting. We had many of these toys and we all survived. When you hear the types of injuries it makes you wonder how skateboards have survived, considering the number of people actually killed on skateboards.

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

Creepy Crawlers, yep remember them fondly. Yet again, forget whether got at the store or at a garage sale.

[@cynthiamull129]

If parents are doing their job and paying attention to their children most of the toys would be fine. But parents have their heads buried in their phones, and not on their children. I didn’t need an easy bake oven because my mom made us all start cooking when we were about five. Making breakfast for the family ie all 7 of us.

[@joeydepalmer4457]

The biggest problem with the clackers was not that they crack and fly apart, it was getting on the nerves of mom and dads, and specially our teachers, who would take them away and you did not seem them again untill the last day of school - in 1 case, the last day of high school 5 years later.

[@DavidKehley]

Yay early to the show got excited when I saw a new episode

[@chichiboypumpi]

I got a clacker in the 80s but instead of strings it had plastic frames on a wooden handle.

[@TheChickadeeCrafts]

If I remember correctly, we had almost all of these, but our favorite toy was our neighbor’s pointy horned bull, Pete.

[@Kathy-x1k]

A little adult supervision goes a long way!

[@crimsondynasty6884]

My youngest daughter received a second degree burn on her leg from her sister's easy bake oven. Her foot caught the cord and sent the "cake pan" flying out of the oven when it was super hot . She still has a scar to this day. I never would have got one for her sister if it was that easy to get second degree burns.

[@TRUTH-r7q]

Any toy can be dangerous if played with the wrong way

[@johntrimpe2032]

especially sex toys😉

[@nancyskids5696]

This made me google Super Elastic Bubble Plastic that I played with in the 70’s 😂 I knew back then that the chemical smell emitting from it couldn’t be healthy and sure enough they stopped making it sometime in the 80’s that stuff was probably cancerous, it contained a chemical in nail polish remover 😂

[@Sillybillyilly]

Wow I remember those roller blades ... should've put it in the movie lol

[@janusatthegate6201]

And blinding air pilots.

[@williamzastawnik6579]

You might want to double check when creepy crawlers came out because I seen the commercials on TV when I was a child and I was born in 1982

[@KarlAbroad21]

They first came out in '64, and were pulled from shelves in '73. They got discontinued altogether in '78, but then came back in '92

[@wmdkitty]

You mean you SAW.

[@johntrimpe2032]

and here I thought one could only get creepy crawlers from eating poorly prepared/undercooked food.

[@MrCinpro]

My dad had a kid sized side by side double barrel shotgun that you stuffed corks in the end of the barrels. when you cocked the hammers it moved a plunger back, there were 2 triggers just like the real deal. when pulled the corks flew at an alarming rate. I got to play with it a few times. It was a lot of fun for a boy for sure. it was more than 40 years ago that I got to play with it, and I can still see it in my minds eye.

[@drmusic3641]

Lawn Darts were never promoted as a childs toy as I remember it being for adults. It was big at picnics and backyards in the 1970's Around the same time as "Creepy Crawlers" was "The Time Machine" by Mattel. Small 2" plastic squares would be put into a clear plastic chamber which heated up and made it open and reveal a bug or dinosaur. That sucker got hot!, I had one. There was also "Shrinky Dinks" which were plastic figures you needed to put in the oven to shrink!

[@navyreviewer]

Had lawn darts as a kid, and model rockets. Still have all my fingers and toes. No skull fractures. Figure it out kids.

[@laurabailey1054]

I played lawn darts as a kid , it was a fun game if you play it as you are supposed to no one got hurt. You just don’t go in the area where the darts are landing.

[@ritacook6214]

Its called survival of the fitest.

[@kimhohlmayer7018]

I’m 66. I got my creepy crawler set when I was six or seven and I loved it! I did get a nasty burn on the tip of my thumb. I learned to be more careful. It was the best thing ever for a creative kid who didn’t have enough outlets for said creativity. I work as a 3-D artist today. I’m a potter and work with 2300 degree Fahrenheit firings in a kiln and pit fires. I’m still damn careful and still, on very rare occasions, get burned.

[@ardellolnes5663]

Lawn darts! No matter how hard you tried to land on your siblings and cousins... somehow it missed every time!

[@Legion972]

Kids today are too sheltered. We had most of the items on this list between my friends and I and we did fine. I mean, clearly there shouldn't be kids toys with Uranium or asbestos, but if it's just something they could potentially get hurt using, so what? There's millions of ways kids can get hurt and you can't get rid of all of them no matter how many fun things you take away. The reason many of these items were recalled were probably not because they were bad toys, but because some parents made a mistake when deciding whether their child would be able to use the item responsibly.