These Toys Were So Dangerous They Had To Be Banned

[@NewMessage]

Growing up in the 70's was a cavalcade of dangerous toys... But I came out just fine. I mean, how many eyes did I really need?

[@ivareskesner2019]

Eyes are overrated anyway. All the good stuff is either touched or eaten.

[@AtillaGenghisHuyter]

Ok boomer!

[@SatanSquad]

​@@AtillaGenghisHuyterlol. Pot calling the kettle black from the looks of that pfp. You're definitely creeping up on Geezer status if not already there.

[@LisafromNOLA]

This reminds me of the SNL skit w Dan Akroid lol

[@NewMessage]

@@LisafromNOLA I only wish I had a bag of broken glass. I had to go collect my own behind the mall.

[@christophejergales7852]

"I miss the days when a toy could kill a kid." -Jerry Seinfeld

[@johnvanalstine9645]

I wonder if he said that before Grumpy Old Man on SNL said, "In my day, a child would open a toy and within seconds he'd either burst into flames or lose a limb"

[@D0NU75]

nothing can teach you the value of life like losing it to your favorite skydancer

[@jonw8694]

Back in the times when you actually had to apply some common sense in order to navigate through life.

[@kellychuang8373]

Really so true and also George Carlin I think complained about this as well.

[@SelflessHero]

I got hit in the head by a jart, fell into the pool, and got impaled. Only to be pulled out of the pool and get hit by a skydancer. At which point I died.

[@brj_han]

R.I.P. SelflessHero...

[@CADurden81]

Not the hero we deserve...

[@DLeadVox]

LOL😂

[@kaosj666]

And then had your corpse devoured by Furbys riding exploding Power Wheels.

[@comettamer]

Hello, ghost of SelflessHero

[@csebesta84]

Some of these I understand. But a lot of these sound like bad parents who don’t pay attention to their kids.

[@margaretwallace1578]

I totally concur!

[@btetschner]

Agreed!

[@kellychuang8373]

Yeah and in these times we can only wonder and worry.

[@chromicapop4595]

not if the toy recall impacts over 100 homes and lands in a huge lawsuit

[@Trundle0417]

How do you get a plastic stick stuck up your ass !?!?

[@mjcarden1]

The biggest danger from a Sky Dancer was getting your hair caught in them and wrapped up so tightly it had to be cut out. I know at least two girls who came back to school with bobs after the Christmas they came out.

[@victorialynnstruble]

😂

[@comettamer]

Yeesh

[@timprussell]

There was a Cabbage Patch doll that chewed and yeah hair you can guess the rest.

[@CastleBravo023]

“Furbys found their way into American homes”. Considering how they look, that actually sounds like how it went down….

[@crzyking6821]

Those damn things caused Riots in stores across the country. It was crzy. LOL

[@chromicapop4595]

there's been of reports of them picking up radio frequencies, other languages too in home!

[@Draxxdemsklounst]

I strongly suspect that most of the Sky Dancer-related injuries resulted from kids trying to shoot each other with the Sky Dancer toys.

[@Shilakamea]

This would be why mine suddenly disappeared. My mom claimed it ended up on the roof until recently when she admitted it was one of several toys my brother and I turned into weapons of war against each other that she had to throw out.

[@twillison8824]

A backyard game from my past was catalpa bean fights. You'd be surprised how bad it hurts when a 1.5 foot long catalpa bean whacks you in the face. Good times

[@No-sv6mu]

We still have our set of lawn jarts. I have no idea how we didnt kill ourselves with those in the 80's!. My brother used to throw them straight up and we would scatter hoping to not get impaled

[@lesliesteele3926]

We found a set in my grandparents garage while moving them out. Grandma wouldn't let us play. Not even as adults and a teenager. 😂

[@terriehumphries6028]

My brother almost killed me with a Jart. My parents had no idea and we kept it under wraps because we didnt want our game confiscated from us. 😂

[@matthewdrummond1340]

13:19 Who tf was bringing their Furby to work in a place like that anyway?

[@Katclem47]

Oh, come on! It's just a little asbestos. 😂 That sky dancer flying into the lit fireplace -- 🤣

[@kykutie686]

I've broken a couple sky dancers. One went too high and flew into a ceiling fan. The fan won 😂 but never had one attack me

[@Katclem47]

@@kykutie686 🤣 😂😆 That's hilarious! I was a bit too old for the sky dancers when they came out. But it sounds like fun, and funny, to see one be the victim of a ceiling fan. Lol

[@paigemalloy4276]

I had a power wheels jeep! Never got much traction on the driveway and could barely get the thing moving over the lawn, but damn it felt so cool to drive that thing as a six year old

[@ningayeti]

Jarts started in the 70s NOT the 80s

[@kellychuang8373]

Really good correction there.

[@creeperredfox2007]

​@@kellychuang8373 I agree with him too

[@ivareskesner2019]

The most dangerous toys we had back when I was a kid in USSR were unexploded mines and shells, toxic and chemical waste, guns, knives, grenades, and all the sharp stuff lying around at the high-rise building sites we used to play in. Fun times.

[@ShadowyDolphine]

👀

[@Stew-s5e]

Sounds like you were spoiled.

[@Rydonattelo]

Kinder Eggs with plastic case and toy inside are still extremely popular today in UK. I think because British kids are introduced to them so young there has never been a case where a child thought they could eat the whole egg.

[@turdl38]

you have to be trying to choke on it. that egg is big and doesn't open super easily. I find the ban in the usa to be utterly stupid.

[@origami83]

@@turdl38 Bans kinderegs but guns are fine. Make it make sense!

[@missyouwish88]

Or maybe it's just that British kids are smarter than us Americans.... 😆

[@Lebeauski]

All less dangerous than social media.🙈

[@kasenerrikkssonn7030]

I miss the old narrator.

[@portablepulpit]

YYYYYEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

[@brianholland2916]

Definitely!!!!

[@WastedTalent-]

Everyone seems to forget the Click Clacks from the 70's. They were two golf ball sized marbles on each end of a string with a ring in the middle. You swung them up and down to get the balls to clack each other. I know I hit myself in the head a few times with them. They could also become a mace if used correctly.

[@Stew-s5e]

We were poor on the farm, we used bull testicles , seemed like a good idea, until the bankruptcy the next calving season.

[@jeremyhouseholder9652]

What happened To the guy that used to do these videos. I miss his voice.

[@GabrielGonzalez-vw5ir]

"Are you dead now?" 😂😂

[@notthegoodgirl]

This narrator sounds like Badger from Breaking Bad.

[@zackwhite639]

What happened to the original narrator

[@visionop8]

More like what happened to the original everything? From what I can tell the original creators of this channel sold it to Ranker so it's really over. It looks like most may not mind the abrupt changes but I'm unsubscribing today after like 7 years. It's not going to go back to the way it was. It was nice while it lasted though.

[@cassieoz1702]

How many kids go to US hospitals each year as a consequence of inadequately stored firearms in homes? 2020 seems to be the most recent stats available - 11,000 ER visits for gunshot injuries in under 18s

[@ForsakenWar]

Exactly 👍

[@origami83]

I totally agree. When improperly used many toys can cause harm, go step on some legos for example. But something intended to do harm and does alot of harm is totally fine. imo unqualified civilians shouldn't be able to buy mass murder tools, its absolute insanity.

[@jetcat00]

@@origami83we should just educate people on firearms. The more people carry, the less crime

[@origami83]

@@jetcat00 I kindly disagree. In my country only trained law enforcement carries and our crime statistics are much better than that of the USA. More guns only means more people get shot, mass shootings are schools and accidentals shootings at homes.

[@matsug5704]

Also, a lot of kids put their fingers inside the Furbies mechanic opening and closing mouth....

[@BeckyNosferatu]

that's now you fed them. you'd have to press down their tongue.

[@D0NU75]

@@BeckyNosferatu spoons are overrated

[@jimarcher5255]

Thank goodness we didn’t have such dangerous toys growing up. We just had BB guns, slingshots, M80 explosives, Boy Scout knives, Rubberband guns, boxing gloves, and rock fights

[@jennifermccaughey-fz9gx]

“Rock fights” really is the cherry on top

[@IsaacTuduriLlabres]

You don't buy your kids a Justin Bieber CD... it could kill them... it's dangerous, it almost killed me, tbh... xD

[@beatlever89]

Sky Dancers were only dangerous to idiots. I played with mine all the time and never had a problem.

[@chromicapop4595]

i had one too but saw the danger in ads

[@surrelljr]

My sister had one and it tried to make it inflict damage, you can if you’re deliberate, or just plain stupid.

[@CADurden81]

@beatlever89 I got into a car accident once, and I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. And I'm still alive. So you probably shouldn't wear your seat belt. One time I was trying to siphon gas from a pickup truck into a gas can for a boat. I got some gas in my mouth, and I'm still alive. So obviously, there's nothing wrong with drinking gas. And I used to smoke crack, until I didn't. And I'm still alive. So, obviously, there's nothing wrong with smoking crack. So don't wear your seatbelt, drink gas, and smoke crack kids. My personal diagnosis of myself is that I'm fine, so you'll be fine too. Have fun!

[@beatlever89]

@@CADurden81 Pretty sure there's a big difference between not wearing your seatbelt and playing with a child's toy.

[@MikeOrkid]

Ummmm. The narrator isn't the right one. This is painful.

[@masonk5874]

Excruciatingly awful

[@randomuch]

Nobody is forcing you to listen. Read the transcript 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@MikeOrkid]

@ Incorrect. 7 masked men held me at dart-point and made me listen.

[@randomuch]

@@MikeOrkid I know, I sent them. Listen to the voice. Listen to it!

[@MikeOrkid]

@@randomuch NEVERRRRR

[@OldieBugger]

My father bought me a .22 rifle when I was still a kid, but he neglected to give any training on gun handling and safety. I had to figure it all out myself. Luckily I had enough brains to not shoot anyone.

[@D-Fens_1632]

When I was maybe 9 or 10 and my cousin 13-14, he had a 22 he brought down to some acreage our family owned. We wandered off to do some target practice and he had these little boxes with targets on them that exploded when you hit them. He had the genius idea to put them on a giant hay bale. Obviously one caught fire but miraculously the humidity was just right that day, I think it had rained earlier, and he was able to tamp it out. Then of course later on he taught me how to wrap matches in tinfoil to make little rockets. That caught the yard on the side of the house on fire and started melting the siding. I ran inside for a puny cup of water but by the time I came out a man who looked like Kareem Abdul Jabar or something materialized out of nowhere and stomped it out with his size 15's then just walked off into the sunset. Cousin wouldn't let us leave before his dad got home from work, he thought he might at least not get killed in front of relatives. He even called his other aunt over as a prophylactic measure, he knew she knew how to calm his dad down.

[@TheNexusChan]

How do you impale yourself on a dive stick?! Nevermind. Forget i even asked

[@thehangmansdaughter1120]

We got 3 wheel electric motorbikes for our twins, which they loved, and never had a problem. At 3yo they were racing each other down the drive, across the lawn, up the side path and finished at the back step. When they out grew the bikes they were devastated.

[@D-Fens_1632]

That's such a sad image, the day the growth spurt is just enough to where the Power Wheels just doesn't have enough power anymore, I can imagine the frown of disappointment at that realization.

[@thehangmansdaughter1120]

@@D-Fens_1632 There were tears before bedtime. But, the kids passed the bikes on. They gave them to a new family on our block who also had twins a couple years younger than ours.

[@KeithTayler]

Is that Michael Swaim from Cracked narrating?

[@noneyabizz8337]

I'm sure a lot of the kids crashing powerwheels were kids who weren't ready for the toy being given free rein. One of my cousins drove herself rights at an elecric fence. I'm nearly 10 years older, grabbed onto the fake roll bar on the jeep and held the powerwheel in place. She had no real concept, kept her foot planted.

[@ShadowyDolphine]

Hope they’re alright.

[@aaronscrewface]

14:03 Yeah, i've been dead since last thursday but it's unrelated to this.

[@johncentamore1052]

One of my favorite toys was a water-filled rocket ship. Lock it onto the launcher, pump it up with air like a weed-killer spray tank, release the trigger, and see how high it would go. The water sprayed out the back like rocket flames. What could possibly go wrong? Haven't been able to find one in YEARS.

[@phillipsmall7674]

I thought for sure that clackers would be on here. Those things were dangerous enough to easily knockout Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali at the same time.🤣🤣🤣

[@sammerjay8128]

😂

[@Shilakamea]

I expected the skip-it. That thing was made to injure

[@weirdfoodcombos3249]

I was shoked to see the CSI kit on here and how dangerous it was. I had that kit and I remember putting my finger prints on EVERYTHING just to use it😂. I am alive and VERY well. God is good.

[@Shannonbarnesdr1]

dive sticks helped people learn to swim and gave kids a game/ challenge to see how fast or how many they could grab under the stopwatch timer, as well as among friends . never saw or heard of anyone getting hurt on them.

[@600wheel]

I remember lawn darts and everybody had them, you would find them just laying around they were so popular when I was a kid and you could stick those things directly into trees with a good throw

[@Kat-tr2ig]

My dad got a Gilbert chemistry set as a gift during the 1950s. He loved it, despite the chemicals that it contained. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned here. We grew up with lawn darts, though, and it was one of our favorite games.

[@TheBollockz]

8:23 was that kid just about to take a sip of a margarita?

[@68fmj51]

OMG it sure looks like it! 😂

[@SamBroadway]

As a child of the 60s, I absolutely loved clackers😅...Jarts were the bomb! Kids today are puffballs 😅 What the heck are dive sticks? We were perfectly fine diving in the pool for rocks, or better yet a coin

[@bubzilla6137]

Furbies are evil! I had one as a kid. That thing started talking randomly one night AFTER I turned it off. So I removed the batteries and went back to bed. Then it started talking again. I think I was like 10 or so at the time. That freaked me out so bad I threw it in the trash can outside the house. Even to this day those things freak me out every time I see one and I'm 41! Lol! 😂🤣

[@terriwetz6077]

I got caught up in the Furby craze when they first came out and I was in my 40's at the time, LOL! Loved my little guy!

[@some_metalhead]

Aw, I really think OG narrator is stepping back for good. He may have recorded a bunch of videos and they release them every few videos now.

[@nazfan01]

There is this one toy I remember from late 1960s - early 1970s, it was called Click Clak. It was 2 large acrylic marbles ( slightly smaller than a tennis ball). The 2 acrylic marbles were attached to a long thick string with a ring in the center. The idea was to make the 2 marbles click and clack against each other up and down. While it was fun for kids I am sure it was annoying for adults and everyone around them due to the loud clicks. Even have said this, injuries were common from getting hit in the head, face, arms etc etc

[@btetschner]

We had one of those, it was really fun!

[@nazfan01]

@@btetschner - Believe it or not, I have one still in it's original unopen package .

[@btetschner]

@@nazfan01 I think the toy is fun.

[@nazfan01]

@@btetschner - I had fun with them. I might have hit myself a few times by accident but hey that is how you learn. I know my dad went crazy with the loud clicks. LOL -

[@SamIAm10262]

My mother has her original glass versions of this. They're so pretty. But they were changed from glass because they were shattering..

[@lloydie88]

What happened to the original voice? That guy who did all the other videos prior to this one. Hearing this in another voice sounds weird.

[@samuelmeasa9283]

Wait thats why they pulled Dive Sticks? For the last 25 years I was under the impression the reason they where pulled was the same as Jarts. Head Injury caused by horse play, Not impalement from a combo of shallow waters and "CANNONBALL!!!!!!!!".

[@Seventeen_Syllables]

I've heard of a couple and actually saw a Jarts set one time. I am still alive. But my family was poor so I didn't have popular toys. For example, I did not have Legos. Instead, I had concrete blocks left over from a barn project we had. I built a sort of castle with all of these leftover concrete blocks. One day, I dropped a concrete block on my foot and broke it. Unfortunately it was about a quarter mile home, and I had to walk it on a broken foot. To the best of my knowledge they have not banned concrete blocks, however I have never seen them sold in toy stores, so maybe my incident saved some other poor kid. Make no mistake, we were not poor in the sense that we were starving or anything. We were poor in the sense that we had too many horses so there wasn't money left over for cool toys like Legos. No, I did not have a horse nearby that I could ride back to the house either.

[@zacharywalker524]

summer of 99' was a good year

[@DustyTheDog]

It's amazing that Beyblades haven't been recalled or banned. I can very clearly remember the damages to feet, tubs, bowls, and anything else that came into contact with the whirling toe surgeons. Especially considering they had more than one series release with metal rings for added inertia.

[@Natasha-ew6qu]

5:14 we all have our opinions about the other Weird History narrators, but man, was that delivery golden!

[@DashDaKid1]

“Are you dead now” is crazy

[@Thomas-qn5cl]

I also remember that the Furby toy had problems with catching fire. Something in side would malfunction and cause the batteries to overheat and ignite the toy.

[@masterbruce556]

Heard the voice and immediately closed the video.

[@SquatchStomper]

Where I come from corn hole has a way different meaning.

[@thegreencat9947]

Same here. It just kills me when people talk about the big corn hole competition.

[@SquatchStomper]

@@thegreencat9947 the first time I heard corn hole tournament, my mind went there.

[@misterhat5823]

That's because that's where they shove corn in the midwest.

[@thegreencat9947]

@@misterhat5823 😨

[@Michelle-zw6qt]

We want the other guys voice. It’s not weird history without him

[@JayQuickster]

Cmon get rid of this Narrator! Now he is physically TRYING TO HARD to sound different and/or like the O.G. dude and its just getting cringey.

[@senselessbabbledotcom]

No mention of the Battlestar Galactica missle launching toys that killed a kid in 1978? A swing and a miss!

[@68fmj51]

Yep, I remember that, and I still have mine. The little red missile that shot out the front was replaced with a missile that was fixed in place.

[@Wheelchairspeeder]

My dad grew up in the 1950s think of the toys they had the old fashioned chemistry sets and kid sized uranium testers just like the real ones ..lol...and who the hell is putting a furby in a govt office anyway..??

[@michaelryan2416]

Does anyone remember Click Clacks ? Two glass like balls attached by a string that would bounce off each other until they shattered!! LoL

[@faron1988]

I can still hear them and feel the pain of getting hit by one. 😂

[@michaelryan2416]

@@faron1988 I almost broke a wrist!! LoL. That’s when being a kid was perilous

[@morneau1038]

Omg! The lawn darts( Jarts) were big when I was a child. My brother chased me in a fit of anger with one and my grandfather saved me from a certain injury . My kids made me stand in line for Furby and my granddaughter had the pool sticks; power wheels corvette and Sky dancers! 😳😳😳😳😳😳 Holy shite!!!!!

[@origami83]

You and your family really dodged some bullets there!

[@Maddiebean570]

I loved my sky dancer!!! I hope my kids never get furbies. They are so creepy

[@BenAEMT]

80s and 90s, right off the bat, had or played with all of these. Still alive.

[@ArcherSuh4721]

The Burger King Pokemon Ball from 1999/2000. I was in college then so cheap fast food was part of the usual diet. My girlfriend at the time and I saw BK was offering a kids meal that included a softball-sized plastic Pokemon ball that contained a toy, so we decided to regularly get that because we thought the balls would look good on our Christmas tree and neither of us really had any decorations to use... Then there was a massive recall because the size of half of one after you opened it was unfortunately the same size as the lower half of a young kids face and could result in suffocation. I don't know if any children actually died but the tree looked nice and we ended up selling them to a mutual friend who was a huge anime fan and memorabilia collector for ten bucks a ball totalling $120... though there is that bizarre memory of when I decorated a Christmas tree with hazardous toys that could harm and possibly kill children.

[@timothywalker4563]

You still find lawn darts for sale at junk shops or antique type stores. I had to tell the owner of the store to (pull it from the shelf) she was younger than me and had no idea how dangerous they were.

[@TheKoolbraider]

Oh no, not the Furby!!! Our problem was that they would talk to each other since they reacted to light and sound. We kept a blanket over our daughter's Furby for that reason.

[@cindyjohnston3134]

our cell phones are more dangerous then these toys.

[@Openreality]

I played with lawn darts and I made sure I was in an open field with nobody around because it's an obvious hazard to those who pay attention.

[@carwashadamcooper1538]

Come on now. We all know that's not how the Dive Stick got there...

[@reggiefurlow1]

I used to love my centrefire waterguns they looked like exact gun replicas😮

[@Angryleftistwitch]

I'm sad the Cabbage Patch dolls that were designed to eat plastic snacks, but were discontinued for noming on some kid's hair, weren't mentioned. I've never recovered from having to take mine back to the toy store. Also, Sky Dancers were the best battle weapons when you had sisters. And we loved it.

[@MWEric]

had a smaller version of Jart imbedded in my upper leg in the early 70's didn't feel it until it was pointed out to me I look down saw it pulled it out looked at it dropped it on the ground and continued on playing was hardly any blood before or after I removed it.

[@danam0228]

I love how Jarts always makes the list

[@davidfuertes1973]

Lawn Darts were awesome and just because you didn’t include it on your list I would. ATC a three wheel motorcycle 1970 - 1987 I love this thing until they outlawed it in 1987 .

[@68fmj51]

I damn near got killed on a Honda 110 once. Of course, I was riding in the street which was illegal and stupid in the first place.

[@davidstrother496]

It's a good thing that rocks were never banned, or chunks of caliche. They made great artillery rounds and hand grenades.

[@Darkflowerchyld718]

Absolutely astonishing that it only took one kid dying from a lawn dart for the US to do the right thing. Imagine -_-

[@kasiecastleberry]

Fuckin liberal.

[@michaelturner2806]

When I was a kid I played with scrap wood and a hammer and all the nails I could want. I also got to play with pocket knives. Being yelled at to keep putting pressure on the wounds so I wouldn't stain the car seats on the way to the doctor's was all the reinforcement I needed to play carefully. So of course when me and neighborhood kids were playing Throw Rocks At Each Others' Heads we made sure the bleeding stopped before going home and making sure not to tell our parents.

[@trippinsciko]

i love that you included the clip of the skydancer sky dancing into the fire, it's my favorite clip

[@CappyLarou]

I'm still pissed at the idiot kid who choked on the little red missile from the Battlestar Galactica toy, it ruined that toy and caused us to not get a boba Fett doll with the firing rocket

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

That is an inhuman thing to say.

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

Wait. Did you just mimic that Retroblasting brat?!

[@CappyLarou]

@@DCMarvelMultiverse what is a Retroblasting brat?

[@Jerseyboy777]

I know, that inconsiderate brat 🤣

[@gantulgaganhuyag717]

Airgun was the one my parents explicitly banned from playing with 😢

[@muppetsretrofan8873]

Surprised the infamous Hasbro Flubber wasn't in this video. Caused rashes and illness. Urban legend has it that they buried it under the parking lot after they tried everything to destroy it and failed.

[@auntvesuvi3872]

Thanks for this! 🚧

[@thescatologistcopromancer3936]

I absolutely love that you cut in a clip of Tod from Tod's Workshop and Tod Cutler

[@davidgerow]

Had a lot of fun playing lawn darts. Never had any issues. Even had few beers play lawn darts.

[@rozzie101]

I am old enough, that I got to try and play with lawn darts. I don't know how I am still alive... 😅

[@masjuggalo]

Remember not all battery powered ride on toys are power Wheels? They fixed the connector I went to a single 12 volt battery as opposed to the two 6 volt batteries. And I have one that does right around 14.3

[@NASCARFAN93100]

Hard to believe some of these toys were banned

[@howardasternfan]

What is weird is the narrator's voice.

[@Vejitatheouji]

"Are you dead now?" I mean, I'm dead inside if that's what you're asking...

[@BigTimeRushFan2112]

I grew up with a Rupp Roadster mini bike, a pogo stick and lawn Jarts. And I made it to adulthood....

[@MomotheToothless]

The US had banned Kinder already, so what was Nestlé thinking would happen???

[@VGI4NI]

What happened to the original good narrator and why did they replace him with Ross Mathews or his vocal twin?

[@UniTheClown]

It's crazy learning a toy you played with is now banned. I played with that csi test kit.

[@turdl38]

the ban on kinder eggs is still stupid and always will be.

[@Olds_Pwr]

I am surprised automobiles were not banned a hundred years ago.

[@Andrew_Haase]

…1 part toys…purchased by parents…= 2 parts parents…leaving the toys in charge

[@DCMarvelMultiverse]

I remember first hearing about the Battlestar Galactica missile death during a DragonCon panel with Retroblasting. The RB panelist griped that Star Wars fans never got a rocket-firing Boba Fett because a dead kid was dumb (or stupid or a moron - I forget the exact insult). That panel was a toybox of deplorables to say that about an accident that killed a child.

[@wmdkitty]

The problem was never the toys, it was the lack of supervision and lack of personal accountability on the part of the idiots who misused (or allowed their kids to misuse) the products.