The Most Dangerous Toys of All Time

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[@ShrimplyPibblesJr]

You are too handsome to be smart. Stop.

[@pinniped1073]

No mention of the infamous Lawn Darts?

[@Mikkyjaws]

Moon boots. All the broken ankles.

[@etherealicer]

Is there a brilliant course on damage caused by radioactivity? Chances are much higher that you loose an arm due to exposure than to grow another one 😜

[@andrescott4365]

lawn darts big darts you would toss into the ground with sharp metal points essentially ancient roman weapons called plumbata

[@blueturtle3623]

"Anything that can be used as a weapon, will be used as a weapon" I work at a daycare, and we had kids using a rubber band to affix toothpicks to popsicle sticks. This wasn't the craft they were supposed to be making, but these kids were 100% making shanks.

[@LadyOnikara]

Ah, good times. I did the same in kindergarten.

[@johnladuke6475]

So... you led by example, and showed them that simply breaking the popsicle stick gives a stronger, sharper point, right? And then naturally stabbed the largest one from behind to express dominance.

[@nvelsen1975]

As an accountant, I must agree. 😉

[@akehapkap6143]

What about the lego too? If you step on it, it can really disable a potential enemy.

[@Felixr2]

@@akehapkap6143 I think this only works if you get the enemy to step on it, not yourself...

[@chelsealynn9866]

“The police will shoot your kids anyway.” Damn, dude. No holds barred. I’m here for it.

[@KarlBunker]

That was totally an exaggeration. Cops will only shoot your kids if they're black.

[@rationallyruby]

This killed me😂😂😂

[@CursedLemon]

@@rationallyruby And the children

[@L0v3Purp13]

@@CursedLemon 🫢

[@tyrd1928]

looked so serious too

[@crazyclelia]

I still own the eating Cabbage Patch doll I had as a child. I chose not to return it when they got recalled. Usually the hair-eating happened with kids who slept with their doll, and luckily I was never one for having toys in bed. Also, it did technically have an off switch. The backpack could be unhooked from the doll's back and the eating function no longer worked. It was in the instructions, but no one reads those, I guess.

[@markcraven8386]

Instructions ? We don't need no stinking instructions ! LOL

[@MrTrollman5]

​@markcraven8386 "he said as he handles a helicopter with nuclear warheads "

[@itsprivate3061]

reading? what are you a nerd?

[@ElpSmith]

My mom called them “destructions”

[@christianweatherbroadcasti3491]

Repent and trust in Jesus. We all deserve Hell for our sins, such as lying lusting coveting and more. We can't save ourselves, but Jesus can save us. He died on the cross to save us for our sins and rose from the grave defeating death and Hell. You must put your faith in him only. He is the only way to Heaven. Repent and trust in Jesus. Romans 6:23 John 3:16❤😊❤❤

[@bethroth7623]

I remember owning Aqua Dots as a kid. Beads with a spray that would hold the beads into the shape you created. Later find out that the toy had a date rape drug as a part of the chemical make up that coated the beads when I was a teenager. GHB specifically. Complete recall + lawsuits, and terrified my mom when I shared the information with her.

[@ruthlesslistener]

Oh my god my sister had those, I remember loving making things out of them with her. Wild

[@normalhuman9878]

I always wondered what happened to those

[@ExtraThiccc]

The shit manufacturers put in their products for shits and giggles. Apparently a nascar driver has a like of energy drinks that have mercury in them

[@missipenix]

Sky Dancers were very effective weapons against annoying siblings. Every girl I knew who had one 100% deliberately launched it at someone at least once.

[@raininess]

I know I was hit in the face with a Sky Dancer at least once, but I fail to remember if my younger sister launched it at me or if I launched it at a very dumb angle and did it to myself.

[@neilclark2245]

and now we have drones....................

[@second0banana]

Accurate.

[@darkdjinniumbrage7798]

The original Beyblades

[@quinnzyker6521]

Anyone remember that video where the Sky Dancer threw itself into the fire

[@pascald67]

That police line was brutal :O

[@KianaWolf]

But also true.

[@Ahrpigi]

Literally; police brutality

[@Bacteriophagebs]

Ever seen the video of the cop shooting a kid in his own backyard even though the cop knew he only had a BB gun? The cop says into his radio that he hears a BB gun being shot. He looks through a gap in the wooden fence, sees a kid with said BB gun, shouts "Drop the weapon!" and opens fire. Someone used the footage to calculate the precise amount of time between the end of "weapon" and the first shot and it was 0.6 seconds. He shot the kid twice, cuffed him, dragged him out of his yard, and let him bleed on the sidewalk until paramedics arrived. He was responding to a burglary call at a different house.

[@davidmedlin8562]

Loved it though. Extremely sad and true...

[@dynomar11]

Yeah the whole time he was talking about the toy guns I was thinking about the 10-year-old kid in Ohio who got killed by a police officer because he was playing with a toy gun

[@laurarichter1780]

I just found your channel and “the police will shoot your children anyway” gets an immediate subscribe. That level of humor/reality/snark is exactly what my life needs. Sir, you’re a gem. I will now binge your channel for three days because I have adhd and I need the dopamine.

[@jamiestanley9234]

That same snark/humor also made me continue watching

[@_blank-_]

And he's easy on the eyes too 👀

[@FuckGoogle502]

I don't understand this trend of "I have adhd, so I'm going to sit here and do the same thing for three days." I have adhd myself and I got bored at around 9:00 and zoned out reading the comments. Don't get me wrong, I do like this guy and his content, but I gotta watch pretty much everything in bursts.

[@bendingdemon6483]

​@@FuckGoogle502 That's usually how ADHD works, people with ADHD actually have higher rates of depression because our brains don't keep making dopamine and we have to constantly be doing something we like in short bursts and switching around or all at once depending on how much you like the thing

[@icantgetridofthisusernamehelp]

​@@FuckGoogle502Not everyone with ADHD is the same. I am a binger. I need the dopamine. I watched all of Dr. Mike's channel in 4 days, and when I ran out of videos to watch I was scrambling to find a replacement.

[@Allegheny500]

Had a Gilbert chemistry set as a kid, was so interesting I expanded it to a real lab setup by high school. Only after a friend with similar interests blew the roof off his attic lab that I stopped and dismantled mine. The new (at the time) computer sciences seemed a safer pursuit. Curiously my high school chem book had the process for making LSD in it.

[@alyssa7867]

Hmm, so thats where the 60s and 70s came from.

[@pappanalab]

Breaking bad, the prequel

[@bellaknightR597]

Did you make the LSD?

[@Allegheny500]

@@bellaknightR597 You know I did

[@bellaknightR597]

@@Allegheny500 nice🤣

[@rexevans100]

I narrowly avoided winning one of those csi finger prints kits at a school fundraiser... I came in third place and won a book instead... glad I won that "dumb book" now.

[@imightbebiased9311]

Of course they gave the CSI kit to first place. It's As-BEST-os, not As-Third-Tos. :D

[@rexevans100]

@@imightbebiased9311 lol the Csi kit was second place actually, first prize was either a skateboard or scooter, I don't remember

[@imightbebiased9311]

@@rexevans100 *Removes Caruso sunglasses* NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[@kindred6453]

I'm sure the kid who won it is glady enjoying their asbestos poisoning .

[@1999colebug]

I recall having that toy... :/ 🤔

[@otterpoet]

Yeah, _SlipNSlide_ nearly did me in as a kid. Camp councilors thought it'd be clever to put them on a steep hill. So, not only did I smash my head on the way down, got fired across the ground at the bottom. To add to the liability - and not making this up, the summer camp was on the training ground for the local prison. So the grass and dirt were saturated with expended tear gas. So, we were effectively sliding into a nice patch of chemical irritants. Thank you, childhood!

[@orioncooper1705]

As a kid, I slid all the way off the SlipNSlide and cut up my leg on a sharp rock that was hidden in the grass. Never touched it again after that, and I still have the scar on my leg some 30 years later.

[@aazhie]

Oh my god, that sounds more like they were trying to intentionally kill kids D:

[@johndododoe1411]

Shouldn't the label have a maximum age, not just a minimum age. Or more likely a maximum user height, weight and intoxication level.

[@bogwife7942]

your childhood sounds like a simpsons episode

[@lilythebassetpuppy]

But did you die?

[@hanako_0319]

Seeing the Skydancer dolls on this list makes me a little sad. I get that they were dangerous, but I know someone who said that she always wanted to be a Skydancer as a child. Nowadays, she's a Hairhanging artist at Cirque du Soleil, and she says she feels like she finally got to fulfill her dream of becoming a real life Skydancer. So, even though that was before my generation, those toys will always have a special place in my heart because I think they may have subconsciously inspired her career path and if she didn't have her duo Hairhanging act nowadays, I probably would've never seen her performance and I would've also never met her and her friend with who she's doing the performance. And exactly that friend and coworker of her is also a Contortionist and Aerial artist and she inspired me to start Contortion myself. So, long story short: No Skydancers = No Hairhanging for this person. No Hairhanging = no duo act with that other person. No duo performance of them = me, not getting into Contortion because I would've never met her and never actually considered doing Contortion. Conclusion: Even though they are a safety hazard, I still like the Skydancer toys. 😅 (I really can't keep my comments short, can I?)

[@daviddegeorge2667]

Hey, I still have fond memories of lawn darts and they didn't get me anywhere in life. Your story sounds awesome.

[@tiedyedowl8367]

Toys can inspire. Glad they were around for her. I loved my Sky Dancer. I feel like the danger on this one was overblown. I got hit in the head by mine a few times. I learned how to hold it-and aim it-away from me when I played. I got mine the first year they came out though and maybe after a few years they changed manufacturers that were less careful so they got more dangerous or something. I don’t know.

[@skellington8090]

How about the glassblowing and lead casting kits they released for kids way, way, waaaaay back in the day? Loved this video, great job Devin!

[@larryclemens1850]

Wow

[@NotTheStinkyCheese]

I think back then they thought parents would do their job and look after their own kids' safety instead of relying on others to do it for them ;) I do remember seeing a lead casting kit in a toy catalog (Prince August still makes similar kits). I think it was aimed at geeks in training as it were (ie : kids + parents smart enough to know this wasn't a toy).

[@JoeBorrello]

As a kid I had a “007 Spy Kit” which had a gun that shot plastic bullets and a briefcase with a built-in hidden gun that also shot plastic bullets. The briefcase could be rigged so that if it was opened with the wrong combination, it would set off a cap. The television ad showed a close-up of somebody opening the briefcase, the cap goes off, and his hands disappear, out of shot, implying that he was killed. Ah, the innocence of childhood.

[@bob_the_bomb4508]

I had one of those as a consolation present for not getting a Johnny 7… :(

[@censusgary]

Oh, yeah, my brothers and I had that spy set, too. I think we saved up cereal boxtops to get it.

[@robertstewart9658]

I had The Man from Uncle. Same concept but no briefcase.

[@JoeBorrello]

It also had a hidden rubber knife with the 007 logo on the handle.

[@censusgary]

@@JoeBorrello Yes! Yes, it did!

[@Rippertear]

Oh hey, I had one of those asbestos CSI kits growing up. I read the big warning sheet that came with it, and asked my parents what asbestos was. If I remember right, they just took it right then and returned it. Good times

[@thienbaongo7997]

I'm surprised that was even listed on the label, lmao

[@pixigirldust]

what is asbestos?

[@Rippertear]

@@pixigirldust Asbestos is a mineral that people used to really like using, but then we found out it caused some really terrible kinds of cancer. It's still in some walls' insulation, or some flooring tiles. Generally, it's reasonably safe there, because you have to inhale it for it to be dangerous- but if it's in a very fine powder which can easily get in the air, like in that fingerprinting kit, it is very very dangerous.

[@Rippertear]

@@thienbaongo7997 I imagine it was after they were already called out for using asbestos. People generally don't read those little warning label inserts, so they probably thought they could get away with not being liable by including a small warning but still selling a ton of kits to unsuspecting kids. I mean, it almost worked- my parents didn't read it, I only did because I was a weird kid.

[@aranavenger]

I did not read the warning. I still have the kit in my closet somewhere

[@bun04y]

I worked at a Hardee's in the late 80's. We had a kids' meal come out for the Ghost Buster's movie (I don't remember which movie) but the toy was a little ghost sound maker...looked about the size of your average key fob today. Had 3 or 4 buttons to make sounds. The problem was the battery compartment was very easy to open. When I handed out the toys to parents, I showed them the battery compartment so that they could remove the batteries when their kids had annoyed them too much. We didn't have those toys more than 2 weeks...apparently some kids were eating the batteries.

[@jamesburk8145]

Man the 60's were wild. There was a toy that literally became a shrapnel grenade after using it for long enough and it was just like on the market for years.

[@codasylphanthi2187]

The Skydancer one cracks me up because I had one or two of these as a kid. And I've looked back on them in the past and been like "wow, that was actually kind of dangerous" But I also remember intentionally launching them at my older brother as a 10ish year old, and somehow neither of us got injured.

[@ShelbyZealand]

Omg same! I loved them, and honestly, they didn't hurt that badly. lol. At least the ones I had. I always hope I'll come across one in a thrift shop.

[@Bacteriophagebs]

I remember how all the propellers on my flying toys had big rings around the props, rendering them much less effective. Those got cut off immediately.

[@brianmyers13]

Wait...did he said there was a report of a broken rib? 7:59 Seriously?

[@jessleigh4622]

Yeah they hurt a but but I don’t remember it being that bad 😂 they were my favorite toys back in the day

[@Aero_Yuki]

Oh, my sister had one of those growing up. Small world.

[@YasuTaniina]

I won't lie. I was half expecting my favorite childhood toy to be in here. It was called precious metals. You melted metal and poured it into a silicone mold to make your own charms and things. It was pretty awesome. Everything was bolted in for safety. I couldn't really see how anyone could hurt themselves without truly doing something absolutely idiotic and against the instructions, but it did get recalled so clearly someone managed it.

[@Ramsey276one]

Of course someone did!

[@elisabethheiman2104]

That’s such a weird but cool idea for a toy. I never seen or heard of this but sounds fairly interesting.

[@MrAntiKnowledge]

My guess would be it included lead or other harmful metals, as was usual for low melting point metals. The other obvious reason would be that kids do stupid stuff and/or are easily distracted, which in combination with molten metals, isn't ideal.

[@LRM12o8]

Depending on the age recommendation/target group, I could imagine quite a bunch of kids pouring some molten metal on themselves out of curiosity how that feels... Also melting the metal in the first place implies literally playing with fire, I guess.

[@ivechang6720]

Magic words "against instructions" which assumes the instructions were read and understood. You lost about 17% to 30% population right there. 🤦🏽

[@MissBee13]

I love that they gave Detective Goren that weapon- particularly as his actor, Vincent D’Onforio, played “Gomer Pyle” in Full Metal Jacket. Who was… unfortunately, particularly great with weapons.

[@gregmark1688]

I remember taking my purple Clackers to elementary school ... for a little while. As kids, we didn't really understand why they were banned, but the general theory was that too many kids had broken fingers and /or noses. I very nearly broke several of those things myself.

[@benkoczur]

I used to consult on toy safety design, and you always had to assume the extreme scenarios - biggest strongest kids would try to destroy it, and smallest kids would try to wriggle their tiny fingers into somewhere they shouldn't. I know this list is meant to be the "fun, weird recall" toys, but one of the most truly dangerous were the old version Little People toys, the innocuous old wooden peg characters with round heads, which had a significant number of deaths. I also still have the M16 and Uzi Entertech water guns without the orange tips, somewhere in a closet.

[@iamjustkiwi]

Oh yeah, after having my two kids I was always astounded by the ways they'd manage to break and destroy things as well as injure themselves. I get it, its hard supervising your kid 24/7 but soon asyour eyes are off them their brains are searching for the next chaos they can cause

[@jaschabull2365]

Wait, how have Little People caused Normal-Sized People to die?

[@cericat]

@@nomadpurple6154 Yep original ones were a major choking hazard because yes kids put things in their mouths they shouldn't. Do a search for produce recall number 10-360 for just one of the related issues. Wheels would break off the vehicles, and other smaller parts as well so it's a bit of a list of "we done goofed".

[@joelwexler]

How could they have not tested the hair sucking device?

[@thedullohanvids]

​@@iamjustkiwiYeah. I used to make fun of parents that had their kids on a leash. Now that I have a 4 year old I understand. kids are fueled by unlimited chaos energy. lol

[@ouijacorn]

I was a toddler in 1995 when the Snack Time Kid -tastrophe happened, and hearing grown ups talking about a doll that ate children's hair at three years of age probably influenced my love of horror now.

[@arturoaguilar6002]

Doll: _Once I'm done with the hair, your head is next, kid!_

[@rabbitsrefuse]

I work at a not-for-profit that helps families in need to get toys for their kids for Christmas. We received one of these bad boys, mint, in the box, as a donation for the kids. I swear I had flashbacks when I looked at the box. It was promptly thrown in an office closet, to keep it away from the people picking toys for the families…

[@jy3n2]

Wouldn't cutting the caught hair have been easier than disassembling the toy?

[@KimdraStBiryukova]

@@jy3n2 Yes, but I'm going to assume that by the time the parent got to the kid, the toy had pulled the hair in all the way to the roots. Since you can't pull the hair out backwards and you wouldn't be able to squeeze scissors in between the scalp and the toy, it was easier for panicked parents to tear the toy apart than any other solution. I'm also going to assume the rollers/motor wasn't strong enough to uproot the hair, but strong enough to hold onto the hair once it reached the root (hair is *far* stronger than we give it credit for) and keep pulling in one direction. The manufacturer really did not think that one through at all.

[@marshallc6215]

A wise man once said: "anything can be a weapon if you're holding it right."

[@emsleywyatt3400]

One of my favorite toys when I was a kid was the Whammo Air Blaster, a "gun" which would fire a ball of compressed air. This effect was achieved by cocking a lever which would retract a rubber diaphragm, which was released when you pulled the trigger. Of course, kids put pencils in them. (Ad for Air Blaster is on KZbin.)

[@ArtemisKitty]

Man, until I heard about the cabbage patch doll, I thought the most dangerous toy I'd ever seen was a Super Soaker CPS3000 I had decades ago. It was taken away when I shot someone from about 5m away in the face (unintentionally, just spraying wildly) and my mate's eye was hit and started to bleed. Mom had that thing disappeared SO FAST.

[@sandmancase9]

There's a new version of the sky dancers that are battery powered drones basically. There's a small sensor at the bottom which my daughter accidentally plugged up with a small bead and when she turned on the device outside as to not break anything inside it shot straight into the sky. We followed it for several miles as it flew over the city before it got too high for us to see. Can't imagine the Pilot's face when a pixie knocks off his windshield at 25,000 ft.

[@ColdNorth0628]

Im shocked sky dancers are still made imo. They are more of a waste and hazard of mechanical bits i have ever seen. And yes im bias toward beyblades cause tops that fight are better than tops that fly.

[@brittanybecker170]

"There's a gremlin on the wing!" "No sir, that is obvious a fairy."

[@ronnieradkeswife]

My sister and I got the CSI kit for christmas one year and we fingerprinted EVERYTHING. that dust was everywhere and our parents hated it and i can’t wait to tell them it was full of asbestos 😂

[@M644theawesome]

Any updates of what happened?

[@federico339]

How funny

[@DiscipleGames]

Hope you get a bunch of money in your mesothelioma settlement

[@patrickd9551]

@@DiscipleGames It's all a numbers game. Can you get mesothelioma from a short exposure to asbestos? Yes. How probable? Not so much. There used to be an asbestos factory around here and kids would pretend the white stuff they found was makeup. Girls would smear their faces with the stuff. Most of them are still fine to this day, despite extremely high exposure. Men working in the factory had the highest chances of getting it, but those chances diminish quite quickly once open air is introduced. Basically every household up until the 90s had asbestos around, but the amount of actual cases is quite low. Still sucks if you get it, but the chances aren't so dire as some would have you believe. And yes, I know how much it sucks, because I lost my grandfather to mesothelioma.

[@danielbishop1863]

Back in 1952, Kent cigarettes introduced its (in)famous "micronite" filter, which would filter out harmful "tar" particles through fibers of...blue asbestos. Thus being the first filtered cigarette brand to give smokers a much *higher* rate of cancer than unfiltered cigarettes. A few years later, the company quietly switched the filter material to the less dangerous cellulose acetate.

[@simmerthreereturns221]

My parents bought a slip-and-slide for a summer bbq when I was younger, they cleaned the yard as well as they could but when the first cousin went to slip and slide a tiny piece of a toy car was still in the grass and pierced the slip and slide, it cut my cousin's chest to her lower stomach and she still has a scar from it. Scared me from ever using a slip and slide

[@roberthickerty390]

I had the One man Army gun, a chemistry set and a wood burner kit. My brother had a leather working set with lots of sharp awls and such. I also had a toy where you added coloured goop to metal molds and then baked in the oven. The 60’s were great!

[@greenhowie]

Props to the editor for just adding enough memes without being cringe. It's a delicate balance.

[@lnsanitymanatee]

They did the sunglasses thing a few too many times, and I would have used a different sunglasses image. But I'm also not an editor, so what do I know.

[@KasperPilsted]

Taran Van Hemert from linus tech tips did some videos for him, I wonder if he is behind this one :)

[@modcolocko]

​@@KasperPilsted He's known for tasteful memes in videos so I wouldn't be shocked

[@Metal_Maxine]

@@KasperPilsted Seconded - I've been watching old LTT videos and there's definitely a similar feel. Plus, those glasses show up more than a couple of times in the Linus stuff.

[@tayenbezaire]

"Just kidding, The police will shoot your kids anyway" great I've now spit coffee all over my phone lol

[@shinydewott]

File a lawsuit against Devin for it

[@janemarie150]

I had the cabbage patch doll. My mom took it away when she saw the accidents with the doll on the news. I remember telling her I had short hair and I would be "careful". She bought a new cabbage patch doll with no moving parts.

[@ravennevermore853]

Since I grew up with lawn darts that were actual heavy spiked darts, I didn't think twice about buying a roll of visqueen to set up a homemade slip and slide. No lawsuit juice was consumed while using.

[@thomasnaas2813]

They were designed after ancient battlefield weapons that were capable of piercing armor.

[@Jian13]

Fun fact, the sky dancer is based on an ancient Chinese toy called a Bamboo Dragonfly. They even operated with a similar mechanism, a cup with a string you pulled that that spins the toy causing it to fly. What makes the dragonfly better though, it's simpler design lets you spin it with your hands to achieve the same result. They're also way lighter so less likely to cause injury.

[@frigginresulrum]

I remember Sky Dancer had a brother product called Dragon Flyz where action figures wore the wings around their necks.

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

There's an ANCIENT anime cartoon (series, I think, but this was the first one of them) called "Robot Carnival" and they had something like the sky dancers... little ballerina dolls that were spinning as the big carnival machine sent them out on little balconies... at the end of the balcony they would take off flying... riding the wind all over the city as the machine slowly rumbled by... There were ALL KINDS of clockworks, toys, robots, automatons, too... BUT everything had fireworks and explosives involved... So when the spinning ballerina-bots landed they BLEW UP... When the little marching robots wound down, they blew up... AND rockets would fire out of the thing.. and THEY blew up... fire and shrapnel and burning debris and streamers and the confetti caught fire as it rained out of the sky... Townsfolk would run in all directions as the robots and flying ballerinas were blowing up... It was TOTAL CHAOS... This was the first skit of a set in the first "episode" of Robot Carnival... What the Japanese did was get a bunch of top animators together and tell them all to animate whatever they wanted about ROBOTS... and then collect the skits into a big compilation... It was a yearly thing for a while... Keep in mind, to us it sounds pretty mundane, but in the 1980's it was almost revolutionary... Anyway, that was the first thing to jump into my mind when he mentioned the Sky Dancers... haha... youth... childhood... I knew back then that somehow those things would end up being bad news... If I'd been any older I'd have been strapping fireworks on them, myself... I'd be surprised if it didn't happen on that thought alone. ;o)

[@Wiimeiser]

Of course corporations would prefer to use plastic, regardless of the cost...

[@EgnachHelton]

There's another design with a cylindrical rim around the blades which presumably make it less dangerous...

[@orlock20]

I'm questioning the report of the cracked rib.

[@sephondranzer]

“Who would have predicted that whipping your head back and forth with weighted balls would be bad for you?” Apparently not a friggin’ chiropractor 😂

[@Sorcerers_Apprentice]

Of course it would be a chiropractor, they're not real doctors. They're placebo soothsayers at best and quacks hawking harmful fake remedies at worst.

[@tomasxfranco]

Maybe he was trying to get more customers

[@chuckybang]

That's because chiropractors are quacks

[@acebaker3623]

He was "out of work" so obviously, trying to drum up business!

[@StarForceBelmont321]

Don't whip yo hair back and forth Miss Smith. It's dangerous

[@jenneryy]

Omg I got this exact CSI kit at a community center summer day class about being detectives and I used that dust fingerprinting all over my house! I had no idea! 😮

[@lunareclipse2553]

I too vividly remember the sting of getting whipped by the spinning blades of Sky Dancers. The fun from playing with them came from the adrenaline rush of knowing how much it hurt to get hit by them as your friends launched them at you in a vicious game of Dodge Blades.

[@Xil_Gon_Give_It_To_Ya]

That sick burn of Attorney Tom is definitely going on the subreddit XD

[@LeprechaunZombie]

I love how the suggested age for the Slip 'n Slide, after being proven to be dangerous for people over a certain age, is still just "Kids 12 and over". Way too easy to read that and think, "I'm over 12, so it should be fine, right?"

[@travis1240]

Yeah there should be a weight limit. Over 12 and under 120lbs.

[@electrowave114]

@@travis1240 Better to just include a height range and weight range, and leave out age entirely. I'm a grown adult and struggle to get my weight above 100 lbs. And teens often are adult size and weight long before they're actually eighteen. Being specific about the thing's actual size tolerances would be more effective than a generic 'be X old.'

[@shandrakor4686]

ah but are you a kid?

[@electrowave114]

​@@shandrakor4686 Considering that a popular phrase in some areas is "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional," some folks don't consider 'for kids' to be inherently a limiting factor to enjoying something.

[@kaspianepps7946]

@@shandrakor4686 A lot of games say something like "for kids aged 8 to 88" on the box to encourage adults to 'embrace their inner child' and play too. It's not unreasonable for "kids 12 and over" to be interpreted in the same way. It's not clear from the video what factors lead to the injuries, but it's obviously not age - if you used the slip & slide the day before your 18th birthday and the day after you would expect the risks to be basically the same. The issue is either height, weight or a combination of the two. I went to high school with a guy who was over six foot at the age of 12. Would it have been safe for hm to use a slip & slide? Giving specific information is helpful for everyone.

[@elisabethheiman2104]

1:23 Oh my God. My brother got this as a Christmas present many years ago. (I don’t ever remember my brother being into the show but then again, I was fairly young at the time and he’s quite a bit older than I am.) Luckily, it’s hardly been used and currently gathering dust in the backroom but even as a little girl, I thought that it was a weird and potentially dangerous gift but I didn’t know that it contained literal asbestos.

[@rieaweer7459]

I had an easy bake oven but it was the first design and you definitely couldnt stick your hands into the oven part. It also came with a lot more warnings.

[@babs3241]

"Anything that can be used as a weapon will be used as a weapon." Codicil: Everything can be a weapon. I used to have a doll named "Baby Dreams," which was a sleeping baby doll wearing bunting. You could grab the end of the bunting and get a really good swing on that sucker. Which my neighbor discovered when he cheated on Chutes and Ladders.

[@theexchipmunk]

Yeah, children WILL use anything they can get their hands on as a weapon. As one could have seen on the grounds of my elemntary school about 15-20 years ago. Juming ropes were knotted into flails, we had these wooden stilts that were used like halbeards, shovels as maces, we had barrels that should have been used to palance on that we filled with sand and rolled down the slide to hit other students, smulggled out pens and rubber bands to build little crossbows and so on. Nowdays I think back on it fondly but it was absolute mayham and its a wonder none of us got injured more than some scratches and the occassional broken bone.

[@ninjabearpress2574]

That used to be my party piece, name an object and I'll tell you how to kill with it. My brother's a Marine, I went with him to some interesting parties.

[@graham.crackers]

​@@ninjabearpress2574 I want to go to one of these parties

[@noesunyoutuber7680]

​@@ninjabearpress2574How often was the answer "two handed grip, overhead swing, repeat until their skull is more of a suggestion?"

[@ninjabearpress2574]

@@noesunyoutuber7680 Overhead swing is too easy to block.

[@BogeyTheBear]

The 80's was that magical nexus in time where toys were old enough to still be made with die-cast metal bodies, but new enough to contain electric motors and lighting circuitry.

[@Elish-a]

I ran across The Atomic Energy Lab kit in my high school’s chemistry closet. I was in charge of reorganizing and cataloguing what we had. Based on that and several other dodgy and dangerous old chemicals found, I firmly believe this closet hadn’t been gone through since the 1950s 😂. It was a fascinating time capsule that regularly gave the new science teacher panic moments.

[@Willow_Sky]

I had that exact CSI kit as a kid, because I liked Nancy Drew, so crime solving stuff seemed up my alley to my parents I guess. I vaguely remember them taking the dust from me a few months later Edit: I also had a Sky Dancer. I distincly remember my mom telling me never to launch it at anyone, taking that to heart, and then my dad launching it (this was on Christmas morning) accidentally into my very long hair. I still played with it (outside only) but was very sure to never launch it at another person or let anyone else do the same. Come to think of it I'm not sure I actually ever let anyone else play with it

[@caesarmedina8489]

Trust ME #2 had nothing on girls who had used rock hard ball band ties on their braided hair. I startled my cousin once. She turned around so fast that her braided hair(over 2 feet) swung around and the ball smacked me across the face. She accidently almost knocked me out.

[@kbo8029]

The sky dancer bit immediately reminded me of a video I saw from someones Xmas. The little girl is proudly showing off her new tinker bell sky dancer, launched it where it hovers for a second before bee lining it into the roaring fire place.

[@oiseaubleu3312]

Lmao I thought of that too

[@swankeepers]

Klackers were all the rage when I was in grade school (1963-1972). We had the original ones that would eventually shatter when you had used them long enough. My school eventually banned them, but I remember getting pretty good with them, including double-fisted.

[@CoconutGaming41806]

I remember having a church potluck at my house when I was younger. Long story short, there was a slip n slide and I cut my hand open on a stake that was holding it into the ground. I somehow didn’t need stitches.

[@alekseimonizmirov1395]

Ironically, the Gilbert kit was highlighted in the British documentary, "Hidden Killers of the Post-War Home," which talks about how all the chemistry kits of the 1950s were wildly dangerous, especially because most didn't come with instructions. The goal was experimentation, and uh, kids did exactly that. It's well worth a watch -- all the Hidden Killer documentaries are. It really is amazing what things were just accepted as commonplace hazards throughout history. I'm a big fan of Deadly Victorian Stairs, myself.

[@VintageTechFan]

That documentary series is, while interesting, full of inaccuracies, exaggerations and sometimes outright falsehoods. Especially the ones about early electricity. "The plugs could spark and if you had a gas leak .. " IF YOU HAVE A GAS LEAK LEADING TO AN EXPLOSIVE ATMOSPHERE YOU ARE IN BIG TROUBLE NO MATTER WHAT! Static sparks from removing your woolen clothes can ignite that. Or like .. striking a match for your pipe. Or whatever. The Gilbert kit wasn't that bad, the sources were very low activitiy and the "uranium" was some ore which is legal to own in most countries until today. It was never outlawed, just discontinued because it was too expensive. And of course those kits came with instructions, most vastly superior from an educational standpoint to todays. Most likely because the available space wasn't taken up by safety warnings educating you about the dangers of dissolving a pinch of salt in a bucket of water. They did feature some stinky, explosive and fiery experiments, because that was what is interesting to kids. I remember the demonstration they did on the show, which was igniting glycerin by dripping it onto potassium permanganete. This has it's dangers, of course, but is not nearly as bad as they made it out to be. And so on ..

[@dyamonde9555]

personally i prefer Arsenic Wallpaper

[@shroomyk]

I brought up the electric table cloth to my sister yesterday. 😂

[@ragabashmoon1551]

Oh yea hell in the 80's even I had a chemistry set for kids that had stuff like Sulfur and such in it. Luckily I never did anything dangerous with it, but I could have.

[@zachtwilightwindwaker596]

@@ragabashmoon1551 sulfur isn't too bad but it does smell.

[@nolson2804]

Great as usual. However, I was surprised "Yard Darts" missed the list. My friends and I had a blast nearly impaling each other.

[@thisismagacountry1318]

He mentioned Lawn Darts at 00:22

[@NoOne42]

He's gone over lawn darts in a previous episode as well (the main, if not entire, focus IIRC)

[@TaikoNoTetsujin]

I saw that Jarts (lawn darts) were pictured, but not mentioned...I seem to recall that the instructions stated that you were supposed to stand by a target ring and throw your Jarts at the other target ring, by which your opponent was standing. Brilliant. Also, a friend of mine put a hole in aluminum siding with a Jart and particularly horrendous aim.

[@queenbutterfly7519]

Awesome video 💜 love you sir. Happy holidays

[@mckenny.mccormick]

I got the CSI kit as a Christmas present as a child and never had any idea about the asbestos, just called my Mom to let her know that her Christmas present was the source of all my health problems growing up lol

[@thedullohanvids]

Lol I love it. Hope those health problems don't include mesothelioma.

[@sweaterweatherlady]

Our CSI kit was a Christmas present, too! I pray to God we didn't inhale anything dangerous. 😭

[@Sauere]

5:15 Holy crap! I about choked on my lunch. Such a great delivery.

[@deandupont5503]

In the early days of SNL, Dan Ackroyd had a character named Irwin Mainway, whose company seemed to specialize in selling patently dangerous products. His Halloween costumes were items like Johnny Action Soldier (it was a working M1 rifle), Johnny Human Torch (oily rags and a lighter), and Invisible Pedestrian (all black clothing). Mainway would be interviewed by an outraged Jane Curtain, and he would double down on defending his products... "The ammo's not included," "You can set fire to anything!" "See? There's a warning on the package, 'Not for blind kids'" respectively. No doubt in my mind some of these toys influenced Ackroyd's sketches.

[@Pippi-Longstocking]

We had clackers in solid marble. Omg. My mom read us the riot act about not hurting ourselves - but never took them away. Oh and the cord was leather (so easily snap-able).

[@bomafett]

I used to be a balloon artist, and one thing I didn't make was guns. One day I had a child who kept insisting on a gun. I kept telling him no. Eventually, he asked for a giraffe. When I handed him the giraffe, he gripped it by the body and turned it with the neck pointing out like the barrel of a gun and start making gun noises. And that's when I learned that anything that can be turned into a gun will be turned into a gun.

[@vincegamer]

I remember reading about a study done on children where they were only given access to Barbie dolls. The little boys would grab the top of the Barbie and bend his legs over and point it like a gun.

[@fdabelstein]

@@vincegamer And then you could wonder if that qualifies as boys playing with dolls.

[@Z-Strike026]

This is why we need tighter giraffe-restriction laws.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

Most of our toy guns were sticks. Sticks and mouth noises. "Bang!" "P-shew!" "Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!"

[@davidrobinson4400]

"The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a giraffe is a good guy with a giraffe."

[@annalieff-saxby568]

When I was a girl (circa 1959), I had one of those little ball-bearing mazes, but instead of balls it had a big blob of mercury! I loved it and enjoyed getting the mercury to go round two corners at once, or splitting it into four and getting a blob in each corner. Absolutely lethal , but a lot of fun.

[@stoontechguy]

Mercury isn't that bad except as a continuous exposure over your lifetime thing. It's a heavy metal but not directly poisonous. Still yeah a kids toy full of it is probably too far the other way :D

[@Violexie-wb7op]

Idk isnt there a chubby emu video about a researcher who died from mercurio poisoning after one drop got on her gloved hand? 😅

[@SweetTuiRose]

Yes, there is, but that video was about a different form of mercury. Organic mercury I think. Normal metallic mercury is not as dangerous. I've had drops of metallic mercury on my bare skin without issue from breaking mercury thermometers at work and I'm still alive.

[@Violexie-wb7op]

@@SweetTuiRose oh OK thanks for the clarification.

[@annalieff-saxby568]

@@SweetTuiRose I've always understood that the potential problem with mercury is not that skin contact is toxic, but that it's poisonous when swallowed.

[@OR-hl5lc]

Friend of mine growing up had a house fire due to one of those flying dolls. They apparently also catch fire really nicely when flying near candles.

[@Cat2693]

I loved playing with the cabbagepatch doll and never had an issue. Sky dancers were great and the ones striking people were definitely launched that way on purpose.

[@weirdmindofesh]

I remember having one of the sky dancer things, they had a line aimed at boys. I think they had warnings to not launch the things indoors, but then kids don't really read those (neither did I). It tried to pick a fight with a ceiling fan. Flimsy plastic verses whirling wood, the fan won and the sky dancer came back down in pieces.

[@paulatredies]

Dragonflyz was the boy version. Still got the vhs of the 1st two episodes.

[@anasazidarkmoon]

My little brother and one of our cousins got a couple of those Dragonfly things. My little sister decided they were dating a couple of her Sky Dancers. Of course, that just meant we added them to our game where we shot them at each other in the back yard. 😂

[@Kefkaesque13]

@@paulatredies "Dragon Flyz, maximize!!" My family had that VHS too, and I honestly remember liking it a lot.

[@missmoxie9188]

Dragonflyz Long live Airlandis

[@Nerdnumberone]

Those were fun toys. I don't remember having problems with them, but I was on the smarter end of children and had especially long arms.

[@onbearfeet]

I really wish more people understood that adults can easily injure themselves on moves that are usually safe for kids. Our bodies are larger; we land with more force on our extremities and joints. The Slip'n'Slide story reminded me of an incident when I was about 12; a bunch of kids were doing flips in a bounce house at a church festival, and a 20yo man joined them and broke his neck. Adults don't want to believe that there's something kids can do that they can't.

[@syyneater]

Adults tend to be somewhat stupid at times. =}

[@renderproductions1032]

@@syyneatertoo true

[@Rippertear]

Yikes. Did he end up alright?

[@shaider1982]

Yup, cannot get past the square-cube law

[@Stephen-Fox]

Kids bounce. Adults don't.

[@Paul-ou1rx]

The CSI fingerprint kit sounds like a sneaky way to get rid of toxic waste from rehabbed buildings.

[@dangernugget4731]

I loooved Skydancers. I had like 4? I knew the flight was unpredictable, so as a child I would hold it away from my face and tilt it in the direction I wanted to launch it. I also played with them as normal Barbie dolls with “wings”. Sad to see they were recalled. My mom and dad didn’t teach me how to play with them, but common sense taught me to aim it at a safe place.

[@Uncle_Smidge]

As a nerdy tween who was obsessed with CSI, I would have gone nuts for that kit. Sadly. That said... Grissom made his own kit in the Jackpot episode from grocery store items so I tried to replicate it myself anyway. I reckon my pencil graphite was safer. 🤣

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Graphite is pretty much graphite, and it IS one of the primary materials used by Law Enforcement in the early years... You can also do pretty well with cornstarch and dye with some experimentation... AND yes, it was CONSIDERABLY safer than asbestos laden white powder... like that was somehow even a good idea in a toy... Hell, they could've ground up school-board chalk for better than that... ANYWAYS, there ARE still black leather bags on the market, not unlike the old "Country Doctor" bags or similar field kits in classic detective shows and movies... SO if or when you have to entertain kids with something "different"... Maybe there's some creativity you can throw at it... ;o)

[@kittyr6534]

Gold.

[@AMG93]

I was the kid that had this kit lol

[@naberz08]

There was a toy called Aquadots that were little colored beads you arranged into a pattern or picture in a mold and then sprayed them with water and they stuck together and you could remove it from the mold. The only problem was that they were coated in GHB and a bunch of kids got sent to the hospital after ingesting them. More disturbingly, I had a friend that worked at a toy store and had several creepy dudes come in and specifically ask if they had Aquadots after the product had made news for this issue.

[@gl15col]

I remember, they had to put a bitter tasting compound on them to get back on the market. Still a kind of iffy toy, that was so easy to swallow by little, little kids.

[@MarsCBG]

Damn, I remember really wanting those, glad my parents never got us any now.

[@richardarriaga6271]

@@gl15col That doesn't deter creeps.

[@syyneater]

@@richardarriaga6271 Sadly very few things do.

[@xXcyanidesprinklesXx]

my best friend got some of those when we were kids!! we made a bunch of stuff with them, then the news about the gbh on them came out... and her mom let us keep playing with them, but she told us why we shouldn't eat them and we were jsut like "?? we weren't gonna anyway but ok guess we have poison now"

[@bennyrlucas]

8:37 Jeeeeez, Legal Eagle has NO chill 😂

[@gabrielfraser2109]

I know an old man who told me that as a child, he had a toy kit for melting lead into little moulds, and making lead soldiers. Handling lead briefly isn't exactly disastrous, but melting it is... A pretty bad idea.

[@DoggyHateFire]

I had a 'Crocodile Mile' which was basically a Slip n Slide with a bump at the end followed by a very small shallow pool. The idea was you'd slide down it, hit the bump and fly into the pool. Well, if we put it on a steep enough hill we'd hit the bump and overshoot the pool which usually resulted in us getting scratched up and muddy from hitting the grass. Good times

[@thedullohanvids]

I remember a roller skating barbie from when I was a kid being recalled because her skates were supposed to make sparks when she rolled. Kind of like a Bic lighter wheel, and similar to the lighter, she started fires, because obviously she would! who could have ever foreseen that happening? 😂

[@SteenaSteenerson]

I remember that. My biggest fear in the world is and has been fire my entire life so as a kid I remember being terrified by this. I didn't have one but it scared me still because I had friends who had it. Still terrified of fire though not as much now

[@captsparrowslady]

I'm pretty sure I had that doll! lol

[@thegrimharvest]

Oh man, brought back a memory there. I had a transformer that had one of those bic lighter flint wheels on it's belly. Was some sort of monster, so when you rolled it ok the wheel it shot sparks out it's mouth. Never occurred to me that I could've started a fire with it. Wild.

[@vn6084]

That barbie is worth $300 now

[@SomeRPGFan]

I had that Barbie! I didn't start any fires with it though. 😂

[@Saltience]

Jurisdiction in rem comes with the most hilarious mental images. I'm imagining some well dressed lawyer reading off his arguments to the court as a 1958 Plymouth Sedan revs its engine in contempt of court and gets impounded for 90 days.

[@SayMagnaFeek]

The choice of your tie was great! Very Christmas-y!

[@The_Jedi_Teacher]

OBJECTION: You have literally created a video completing an assignment for my high school law course that covers torts and dangerous products and using the same products I use in that assignment.

[@DarkPsychoMessiah]

It's suing time

[@pugaleto9578]

@@wayausofbounds9255 nonsense, ducks clearly can make elgrige horror quacks... assuming the weird creature in the back is a duck

[@jy3n2]

Add lawn darts to yours.

[@The_Jedi_Teacher]

@@jy3n2 Oh they're on there. Along with easy bake ovens/creepy crawlers and missile firing toys (specifically Battlestar Galactica toys)

[@eriksteffe]

Hmm brain must be failing read that as only so many ways for quacks to duck

[@stevesether]

The fact that some fully grown adult successfully sued after being injured while diving head first, drunk, onto a piece of plastic really says something about our crazed expectations of safety, and nutty litigious society. My family isn't any better. In the early 80s my own 40+ year old mother stuck her hand under a running lawnmower in an attempt to "clean up the grass debris in the chute" and chopped off the tips of two fingers. (Most lawnmowers at the time didn't have that safety feature that killed the engine when you weren't holding into the grip). She was fine, but typing was a little harder because of the missing finger tips. My parents were all prepared to sue, kept the "defective" lawnmower, and consulted lawyers. They thought the lawnmower manufacturer was at fault... not my idiot mother for sticking her hand under a clearly running lawnmower. Something her 9 year old son knew was a really stupid thing to do, but not, apparently the 40+ year old college educated adult. They eventually realized they'd never win, and dropped the whole thing. But it's long given me a perspective on (some) peoples strange expectations about fault and liability.

[@MinMaxerGaming]

That is a certified entitled boomer moment.

[@nicholai1008]

@@MinMaxerGaming Someone born in the early 40s isn’t a Boomer, they’re a member of the Silent Generation. Obnoxious entitlement transcends generational boundaries.

[@MinMaxerGaming]

@@nicholai1008 Entirely correct analysis, however... calling anyone above your age a boomer is fun.

[@RHW42Archangel]

while i agree that a lot of people have a warped sense of liability, i disagree that the slip and slide guy is equal in liability to your mother putting their hand inside a running lawnmower. putting your hand in a running lawnmower is not only clearly dangerous but also not the correct utilization of the product. since the slip and slide did not have a maximum age, weight limit or warnings about ensuring a clear space lacking hazards like small rocks in the grass, an adult getting hurt on one is clearly within the proper use of the product. you could argue there are obvious problems, like not sliding over rocks, ensuring a clean space behind in case you go beyond the slide end etc, to which i would agree and would apply prob 20% liability on the user especially since he was drunk. the company is clearly liable though as even if it limited it to children only which they didn't, above a certain weight limit and the potential injuries are the same as even if you have a clear runway at the end, the danger is the sudden tumble when you stop sliding. i knew one kid who broke a finger on a slip and slide from tumbling at the end, it was just a dangerous product in general your mother by the way would likely be given minimum 90% liability

[@stevesether]

@@RHW42Archangel You might be right, maybe that's how juries have awarded cases, and somehow... the slip and slide people are responsible for a kids broken thumb. But it's a really weird idea that products are all supposed to be inherently safe in the US even from the drunk and the incredibly stupid and reckless people who put slip and slides on rocky terrain, then... surprise surprise hurt themselves. I just think that's crazy. Life has risks. You can't eliminate some risks. Some people seem to hate this idea, and hire lawyers to ensure they're right.

[@alexlohrke488]

I actually had a Sky Dancer like thing as a kid, but I think it was some kind of newer version because I remember the wings being made of foam. It was probably to make sure the complaints from the original wouldn't come up.

[@mipsan]

I also had a foam-winged one. I think my baby sister chewed on one of them and it didn't fly much anymore.

[@strayiggytv]

That skydancer video where it goes straight into the fireplace is legendary

[@blakedurrant9399]

We had a version of the Sky Dancer death 'copters growing up through the height of their popularity. I'm sure it comes as a surprise to no one that it didn't take long for a group of young boys to start launching them at each other. As stated, if it can be used as a weapon, it will be used as a weapon.

[@8stormy5]

My dad fondly recalls the days of "magic fights" where you'd split into groups and fire roman candles and bottle rockets at each other. Fun as that sounds, I like having eyes

[@flawlix]

We totally had Sky Dancers. I even remember the commercials for them. My sister and I got ours stuck in our hair a couple times.

[@Yuzral]

...and if it can't be used as a weapon, you aren't trying hard enough.

[@bigdaddyrv16]

"Im just kidding, the police will shoot your children anyway." Had me holding my sides 🤣💀

[@erictaylor5462]

10:40 A friend of mine split her head open on a rock we were using to hold the Slip & Slide down' She was knocked out and we thought she was dead, but by the time some got her mother she had come to. But she was badly concussed. She also split her forehead open and was bleeding badly. The size of the lump was alarming and she ended up with two black eyes. But she was okay after an overnight hospital stay.

[@KoopaKontroller]

When I got a Sky Dancer for christmas once, it almost immediately flew into the open and had a fire fireplace.

[@CyborgCharlotte]

“Let’s make a toy out of glass! What could possibly go wrong?!” Klackers honestly sounds like a curse word you’d hear in a working class English neighbourhood I speak from experience 😅

[@HairyHariyama]

Well we do have the word "knackers" as slang for testicles, so ...

[@CyborgCharlotte]

@@HairyHariyama You know, I’ve never actually heard that one before 😅 Knackered, yes. Knackers yard, yes. Knackers, no

[@lauriemtaylor]

@@HairyHariyama knackers is used to slur gypsies In some parts, like Norfolk ways

[@chiken4065]

I have klackers, had them for 8 years and still use them. As he said in the video, they're a pretty good weapon. (don't ask how I know 🤫)

[@simontemplar3359]

Remember the old SNL bit with Dan Ackroyd and the "Bag of Glass?" hilarious and eerily prescient!

[@georgemetcalf8763]

Safer than Nerf balls and play-phones.

[@GayLostNerevar]

I always got stuck on slip and slides because I wasn't brave enough to run towards them xD Running and on purpose falling on something slippy apparently seems too dangerous for my brain which fair enough I do have a disability that already makes non slippery stuff difficult

[@jillbecker9535]

I had a Skydancer as a kid and I was just playing with it and it hit my brother in the eye!!! I remember my parents yelling at me thinking I did it on purpose, but it just fell on him and of course he looked up because it was falling on him !! Thankfully, it was the soft wind that hit him in the eye, so he was OK but those things were sharp in a lot of places and really hard plastic I’m pretty sure my parents took it away from me after that because I don’t remember finding it the next morning My parents would often do that toys will disappear in the middle of the night I also had the Cabbage Patch doll that ate hair and I insisted on getting it because my neighbor had one. that toy also disappeared in the middle of the night the day after my friend got her sleeve stuck in it, and my friend’s mom called my mom 😅

[@xliquidflames]

The toy I remember being dangerous in the late 80s was slap bracelets. _The original slap bracelets were marketed as "Slap Wraps," and they consisted of a long piece of steel - similar to a steel tape measure, or Venetian blind material - covered in fabric. The steel then curved into a bracelet shape when it was slapped over an unsuspecting wrist._ The metal inside wasn't even really that sharp but when the outer coating wore thin, they could easily break the skin. Also, if your aim was a little off, it would bounce off your wrist, fly up and hit you in the face or something, and _then_ it would curl up. A friend of mine in middle school got a bad cut on his chin when his bounced off his wrist and hit him in the face. It was bad enough to need 8 stitches. Another kid in our class cut his eyelid with one. It didn't take long for our school to ban them and then I think the government banned them altogether. I also had a trampoline as a kid in the late 80s so it was before they had all the padding and nets and other safety features they have today. I landed straight down on my head trying to do a flip which badly hurt my neck. My sister did a front flip, over rotated, and came straight down on her throat on the bar. I also sprained my ankle on a Pogo Ball bad enough to need crutches for 3 weeks.

[@nicotti]

They still make slap bracelets. I got one in a swag bag for something or other last year, and was like, "they still make these?!" Or maybe they found a box of em in the attic and needed to get rid of em.

[@xliquidflames]

@@nicotti Wow. That is surprising. I don't think I've seen one since the early 90s. They must have modified them to be safer because they were like flying razor blades back then. lol

[@cbpd89]

Slap bracelets these days are made of plastic instead. I do have an hairigami that is basically metal slap bracelets inside a fabric cover to make an easy bun, but I had to duct tape the thing because it sliced my hand open when the metal broke through the cloth.

[@SunnyMorningPancakes]

@@xliquidflames they're the same type of thing usually encased in silicone or plastic. But all the rage.

[@angc214]

I had those trampolines too. How did we survive childhood?

[@peterklein8355]

Always loved the SNL skit with Dan Akroyd being grilled by Candice Bergen on his companies toys- Bag of Broken Glass, Bag of Nails and my favorite- Teddy Chainsaw Bear

[@abasdarhon]

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

[@bun04y]

I guess the Bass-o-matic wasn't a toy.

[@kaylasolomon9578]

my brother broke his finger on a slip n slide a couple years ago (he was like 15 at the time so hes fine) and considering my family has a habit of making HUGE slip n slides and using them for hours on end with absolutely no regard for personal safety (and barely any regard for the safety of anyone around us, as long as they're over the age of like. 8.), I'm genuinely surprised it took that long for anyone to get seriously injured (or at least emergency room-worthy injured)

[@frankgulla2335]

Devin, what a great video. I love that you saved the best for last with the Gilbert Atomic Lab Kit. What was he thinking?

[@anasazidarkmoon]

Man, I remember Sky Dancers! My sister got a bunch for her birthday one year, and she, our brother, and I stood around in the backyard and shot them directly AT each other on purpose. Most dangerous "toy" we ever got, though, was something similar to lawn darts, only instead of a sharp metal spike, the head of the dart was a round piece of plastic filled with concrete. Seriously, you could've given a bull a concussion with one of those things!

[@QUEERVEEART]

MEMORIES !!! me and my sister did the exact same. sky dancers were so fun

[@anasazidarkmoon]

@@QUEERVEEART Right?! Sky Dancer Tag was fun as hell! 😀

[@octoberspirit]

I've definitely been hit with a few Sky Dancers. XD The worst was when those suckers would accidentally get stuck on a roof or in a tree.

[@anasazidarkmoon]

@@octoberspirit we never actually lost one on the roof, but one DID end up in the back of the neighbor's truck as they passed by. 😅

[@MyRegardsToTheDodo]

If I remember correctly those things even became a McD Happy Meal toy once.

[@Azaul]

There was a 90s G.I. Joe with a helicopter launcher that got recalled because of face injuries. I knew a collector who bought one in package as an adult. He opened it, set it up, and accidentally shot himself in the face immediately.

[@rcknbob1]

And cut the value of the thing in half -- by opening the package, of course.

[@wraithshark]

The editing in this is amazing

[@raelogan]

I remember wanting that CSI kit so badly, but my mom got me trading cards and a board game from the series instead. Clearly the better choice in the end. I've seen the Cabbage Patch doll at an antique shop in two sealed packages, with additional stickers on the boxes that said "CAUTION: WILL EAT YOUR FINGERS"

[@ariadnavigo]

The way you described gauchos' use of "boleadoras" was so mild, tying up the legs of animals on the run... There was another way more lethal technique they used with them even to kill people, which I can totally see happening with Knackers....

[@FujiSkunk]

Anyone who's seen Romancing the Stone will have a good idea of how they can be used on humans. Owie.

[@AndrewVelonis]

Eskimos use bolos to catch birds.

[@empressmarowynn]

My friends and I got hit by our skydancers so many times. It was great. Also instead of a slip n slide my dad would just put an old plastic tarp on the hillside and lay the hose down at the top. For extra speed we would sometimes add soap. The hill was pretty big so after a few uses the grass would become flattened enough to essentially double the length we could slide. We had to get good at dodging trees when that happened.

[@jonadams8841]

On the erzatz slip-n-slide, my dad too used a roll of plastic for ours, held down with, of all things, 20p nails. I have scars on my left knee from those nails... I also had the Gilbert chemistry set, an Erector set, and an insatiable need to take things apart, then get bored before attempting to rebuild them. 😂

[@josepherhardt164]

@@jonadams8841 OMG! Why are you still alive??? Side note: I too had an Erector Set. THAT was a great toy.

[@louiegarcia2500]

That "Better Call Saul" joke (complete with music) was brilliant. 😆

[@ArtemisKitty]

FYI Clackers were brought back in the 1970s, just made out of acrylic rather than glass.

[@digitalcalibrator9740]

I had a neighbor as a kid get horribly injured on a slip n slide, but not because of the slide itself. See, when their house was built, apparently the builders liked to have drinks on the job, and just threw their bottles into the yard. Years later, slip n slide gets put out, ground gets soft from the water, and Jared rips his knee open on a piece of broken glass and has to have surgery.

[@pierrecurie]

That's really rough. Did they manage to sue the builders?

[@deadcard13]

I remember the year me and my little brother got Dragon Fly toys. It took us no time at all to realize their greatest potential was that of offensive projectiles. My parents "put them in the attic" soon after.

[@notjebbush]

I had a Sky Dancer and whatever the Gargoyles version of it was, and I loved them SO MUCH lol