Top 20 Most Dangerous Toys Ever Made

Keep these dangerous toys out of your kids' hands! For this list, we’re bringing you toys that present a serious health and safety risk to the kids they’re marketed to. Our countdown includes Polly Pocket, Easy-Bake Oven, Hannah Montana Pop Star Card Game, Aqua Dots, Lawn Darts, and more! Which toy did you poke an eye out with as a kid? Let us know in the comments below!
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Which toy did you poke an eye out with as a kid? Let us know in the comments below! For more dangerous Top 10s, click here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m16scmB3md11nck

[@wendyodell356]

We had the lawn darts. They were only dangerous if the adults got wasted at the party. 🤣🤣🤣 It's so true!

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

If you want a dangerous toy, try a Red Ryder BB gun. Ralphie almost shot his eye out!

[@mlggamer5296]

I didn't have any of these thank God

[@duncan3998]

Ps1

[@RodgerRamjet]

i had Jarts.. lawn darts.. not as pictured, but, they had a heavy rounded metal weight at the end.. and yea.. we tossed them straight up,, and had a contest to see who could get them to drop closest to where you stood. BUT, shockingly, i dont recall anyone in my neighborhood every getting sent to the ER by them. now, let me tell you about tennis ball cannons................................ ;-)~~~~ ( home-made ).

[@xzario369]

The longer I watch this video, the more I'm convinced that the casualties are most often people who are not supervising their kids properly.

[@mesquitegirl2013]

Or kids who were misusing it

[@sherwinlambkin7082]

@KFC Man I've seen kids get injured with things like these even WITH parental supervison

[@ashleybushaw4071]

No child can be watched 24 hours a day. That's just not reasonable.

[@Pattiepies55]

@@ashleybushaw4071 kids need some independence & not have a parent hovering over them 24 hours a day.

[@Logan7281X]

Also examples of Darwinism.

[@shrekwazowski3836]

"I fear no man but that thing" *Lawn Darts* "It scares me"

[@shrekisthebestanime3644]

Lord shrek 🙇🏻🙇🏻 🧅🧅

[@gothix5868]

Had a set when I was a kid. Was so much fun. lol

[@vladimir-savage72]

@@gothix5868 Use to play with these for the last three family reunions back when I was young,they were so much fun until the 4th reunion came along and I found out my aunt threw them away due to how unsafe they were. No wonder she was the least liked person in our family 😂

[@neromauritzen9083]

So your fear inanimate objects... What a "brave" person you are 🙄

[@captainspaulding5963]

@@neromauritzen9083 so you are saying that you aren't scared of nuclear weapons, bombs in general, the vast nothingness of the greater universe... all inanimate objects that kill you at any moment.... Sounding like a tough guy on the internet sure does make you look cool doesn't it...

[@MajorHarvestMoonFan]

I had moon shoes when I was a kid, and pretty much 80% of the time would end up falling over and hurting myself when I played with them. They mysteriously disappeared after the first few times I used them. Now starting to think the disappearance was not so mysterious.

[@CamaroAmx]

My cousin had them. I tried them a few times. Wasn’t really I treated in them. Maybe it was like the pogo stick. Never really got the hang of that either. Guess it was brain’s way of saying this could hurt you. I just liked hot wheels, power wheels, big wheels, action figures and plastic Samurai swords. Most of my toys were burned by my father when I was 13 anyway. Moved on to bicycles and video games.

[@koriharpoon3357]

They flew away. To the moon.

[@EdnaK728]

I think the gym at Springfield Elementary School has a set of those, Ralph Wiggum injured himself a lot

[@michaelpatten315]

I love how the CSI Fingerprint kit comes with yellow tape like you'd tape off the perimeter around your little sister's room while you investigate if she stole your Nintendo DS

[@FC-th9ld]

My son had most of these toys, ironically, with NO injuries. Besides, quite a of the injuries were when parents gave kids who were too young for the toy, or the toy was used improperly. If parents used common sense, so many injuries could be avoided.

[@darkstarmoonshadow8892]

It's the stupid parents (not you) who are at fault here

[@jazzerzzz22]

@matt alen stupid parents= stupid kids. Makes sense.

[@Vivid_Sky23]

Give this lady the nobel peace prize she's broken the Da Vinci code

[@mirandagenevievehunt9398]

@matt alen the kids are like 2 no shit

[@Chitownhomestead]

Prob because u were a great parent..;-)

[@Atrus999]

I had at least 10 Mighty Max sets when I was little and never once thought to eat them. You can make the argument that ANY toy is dangerous when given to kids who are young enough.

[@darkstarmoonshadow8892]

Same I had maybe 2 at the age of 4 and eating magnets never even crossed my mind

[@mhill0425]

I just went through a box my mom gave me and I found quite a few Mighty Max sets in it. Maybe I should go get a snack…😂😂😂

[@vladimir-savage72]

I had three of them but my guess is the kids who ate the magnets were probably toddlers or just stupid kids in general,those stupid few had to ruin the fun for the rest of us with common sense 🙄

[@electric6131]

@@vladimir-savage72 they’re CHILDREN

[@doriancoreyscloset421]

@@electric6131 dumb ones

[@missshiningbind]

I had a creepy crawlers oven when I was a Kid as well as an Easy Bake oven. However, there is a thing called Adult Supervision here where I was always accompanied by a parent growing up when I played with these toys and never got burned and what not. In reality, the kids are not to blame, it’s the parents for not watching their children.

[@shayzeebee7472]

It's insane how many of these toys I actually had as a kid. 😁 (I absolutely loved my wood-burning kit, lol)

[@Xtino1989X]

Me to then I had a mini wood working kit with balsa wood and came with a min jig saw that was like 6”x6” was cool asf plus I had a lil kit u put metals in and a mold n it melts the metal and dump it in the mold

[@purplecreature8178]

Do you wood burn now?

[@mangotail6808]

Same, i truelly enjoyed drawing on the wood with my wood burning kit as a kid.

[@xrrrismickey]

And had no problem with them

[@keriamrosario8689]

Me too I had a wood burning kit the I took camping when I was a boy scout. I had a bb gun when I turned 7, then at 10 I got a pellet rifle and at 12 i got my 1st 22 rifle for target practice before my 1st deer hunting trip. No I didn't get to hold onto my rifle at all times only supervised for practice. I had an awesome time my 1st overnight deer hunt when I bagged my 1st and only 7 point buck. I still have his mount in my sports room. I have handled firearms most of my life and have never hurt anyone or myself. Only toy that I ever got hurt from was rocks. We didn't have a lot of money back in the early 1980s and we always played outside with what we could find. We played rockfight which hurt like hell and I used to play with a hammer and brake rocks when a fragment of a rick hit me in the face. I also hurt myself plenty of times on my bike and skateboard. I would have loved one of those remote control airplanes.

[@Purplekaleidoscope77]

As someone who had the original Polly pockets at the age of 8. "What?!". What dummy is eating Polly Pockets?!

[@kasmith54]

Kids too young to have them. A lot of these recalls just due to negligent parents.

[@danixx9220]

I had em from the age of 4 and had the sense not to put em in my mouth 👄 I also had ones where the tiny doll would stick to a magnet and you could navigate her around the town set up.

[@doriancoreyscloset421]

*EXACTLY*

[@stabbytheunicorn9449]

Probably he ones that are parents today buying floatation devices for babies that go around the head Lol, but yeah I had them too and never thought to swallow the doll and I was young as well

[@fourthgirl]

A hazard if you have younger and older kids. Hard to always keep thing separate and safe.

[@hockeyfreakofnature]

Honorable Mention: The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Thrower. That thing was vicious

[@hockeyfreakofnature]

@matt alen Yup. That's the one.

[@everlastingmusic3835]

also Magnetix. kids actually swallowed the pieces.

[@stevenmullins9185]

I remember that thing lol

[@girleyreds11-11]

The late 80s and early 90s toys were THE BEST!!!

[@Rosewolf29]

No kidding. You get smacked with that thing you know it. It hurts like he'll if you get smacked in the face or in the eye.

[@doomynytress3869]

I'm surprised Sky Dancers aren't on here. Those things hurt when you couldn't figure out why they weren't flying so you had to watch it taking off and WOW it would suddenly work and take off in your face (or get the doll/mechanism tangled in your hair.) I had the original Polly Pocket and sure, I easily lost them but I never swallowed them, even at a really young age. I loved those things! I also had the Moon Shoes (I'd bounce around the house in them for hours, they were so fun) and the 90's version of The Easy Bake Oven (which cooked the "goodies" over a light bulb...) I remember the commercials for Creepy Crawlies (and being creeped out by them) and in either my pre-teens or teens the Aqua Bubble. Never got either of those (though I was always curious about the Aqua Bubble.) I had a few Nerf Guns and a TON of toy squirt guns, and bottle rockets were a science class experiment! Lawn Darts feel so familiar but I don't think I've ever actually owned them (maybe a family member owned a ripoff at some time or another,) and I never had a problem with hammocks as a kid. (And I had one of those little trampolines too, but quickly traded up for a 15' enclosed trampoline.)

[@Phantom-ina-Phantom]

What was your point again?

[@angeliquekilo]

@@Phantom-ina-Phantom Omg yes. Was wondering the same thing.

[@donnycarrier6220]

I literally was just talking about Dragon Flyers!! Thats the male equivalent, I believe? 🤣

[@PhantosaurusRex]

I had Sky Dancers! my brother broke a light on his ceiling fan with one

[@KristenDETW]

Wow Sky Dancers, you took me back lol

[@bsgfan1]

Most dangerous toy I ever owned (actually still do) was the 1999 Qui-Gon Jinn lightsaber from Episode 1. Apparently they were recalled because a production fault caused the batteries to either melt down or explode. But I was a weird kid who didn’t like my toys making noise, so I never put batteries in it. Guess my weirdness saved me 😅

[@SlayerRunefrost]

I actually had a Darth Maul Lightsaber that did that. To be fair, it was a costume grade lightsaber and not made to last more than a week after Halloween and this happened years after I bought it and I think it was because I accidentally left it on all night.

[@nicolelawless9942]

The most dangerous toy I have now is Woody.EXE but I don’t think he’s dangerous

[@smujer1]

Weirdness overload

[@Mergatroid_Skittle]

“Which toy did you poke an eye out with as a kid?” None because I had better sense than that

[@Stormkrow280]

But there’s always going to be that one dumbass who goes “what happens if I do blank with this”.

[@Gsgirl1]

I had moon shoes, and the easy bake oven that got recalled, I never got hurt, except that one time with the moon shoes I fell and scraped my knee, but you can do that tripping while walking (and I have lol)

[@MsApple0916]

Yes I came to say this!!

[@janicehayashibara5271]

We had better sense then this generation 😂

[@donnycarrier6220]

Exactly. Remember Dragon Flyers? Me and my childhood friend had one and we would be outside for ours shooting those things off. I never shot it in the house or at myself and made sure to get out of the way when it was coming back down. My friend, on the other hand, shot it in his house and busted his ceiling fan. Then he looked right at it and shot it off towards his face and gave himself a black eye. Moral of the story, injuries with most toys can be avoided when you don't do dumb shit with them 😒

[@megj6704]

Pogo sticks should have received an honorable mention. Only operates well on a hard flat surface. Just a little off balance, face plant (usually on concrete). Try to brace yourself, possible broken bone(s).

[@tiajoseph7309]

And Hoverboards.

[@WiLDCHiLD.]

Just a tiny rock and you're screwed, like with skateboards and rollerblades. 😂

[@Emerl18]

I had a metal pogo stick launch into my forehead when I was about 8 because my brother's shoestring got caught in the spring. Being a dumb 8-year-old, I looked down the top of the pogo stick after about 10 minutes of not being able to get it out (because it either never had a safety cap on top or it had at some point flown off without anyone noticing) so I could try to see if I could figure out why it was stuck, and my brother shifted his foot a little, the lace slipped out of the spring almost by magic, and the pogo stick launched straight into my face. I had to go to the ER and get 13 stitches in a crescent shape so close to my left eye that I would have lost it if the collision point had been even half an inch lower. I still have a small line missing from my eyebrow 21 years later that I doubt will ever go away.

[@laurenpetro2901]

Agreed. One time when I was on a pogo stick the tip landed on its corner and I fell flat on my back on the concrete. I haven't used a pogo stick since

[@franknstein878]

The gas powered pogo stick, just Why?

[@taylordavison6849]

My dad got some lawn darts from a thrift store, once. I remember how much fun we had with them...that being said, the fun my siblings and I had with them wasn't the kind they were intended for, but they were fun, nonetheless. Example: I threw a lawn dart into the air and it hit a power line. I remember an arc of electricity jumping into the metal tip...like I said, the fun my siblings and I had with the darts wasn't the kind of fun they were intended for, but I still had good memories.

[@WhitneyDahlin]

I know! Some of those toys really were dangerous but so much fun to use! I have the moon boots and I used those so much! It really did feel like you were walking on the moon with lower gravity! I remember trying to go down our family is large staircase in the moon boots by walking sideways 🤣 thank gosh no one got seriously injured but man it was fun!

[@BeanBag343]

Most of these "dangerous" toys were perfectly fine. It was just parents not watching their damn kids or letting kids too young for them to use them

[@LilDemona]

@Past To Present Gaming I agree with both statements

[@rzum81]

As a parent I’d agree

[@jordanfehr7749]

What about the radioactive one?

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

@@jordanfehr7749 There's just simply NO WAY something like that should be made widely available, period. It's a good thing we have learned the dangers of radiation since then

[@jordanfehr7749]

@@matthewkuscienko4616 I agree! I have an uncle who was messed up from his chemistry set, his 5 year old brother splashed him in the face with something from the set, and now my uncle is permanently blind and has brain damage

[@TheNegronomicon]

People: Kids these days are so fragile and sheltered! These toys are perfectly fine! Also people: This toy sent my kid to a hospital! I'll sue! How could you let this thing be sold to children?!

[@RoninMilli]

More like 1990 PARENTS vs 2020 PARENTS

[@jobrakai9395]

Kids are being taught to live in fear and it sickens me

[@dimidrugg9592]

@@jobrakai9395 No, kids are being taught to always blame others. That is the real threat.

[@fashiondiva6972]

@@dimidrugg9592 you’re both right. The two statements are hardly mutually exclusive. As a kid growing up in the 80s and early 90s, a mom of 4 since 2005 and a lawyer I can say that we are a highly litigious society who expect safety warnings and regulations to stand in place of common sense and parenting our children.

[@vladimir-savage72]

I remember back when I was a kid my father actually encouraged me to throw rocks at other kids as a form of game,now you won't see any kids do this kind of thing because it hurts others feelings 🥺 .. I miss the days when being a kid was one of the highpoints of life,now it's as boring as being an overly cautious adult 😑

[@spdutahraptor777]

Liquid extasy?? "Hey, can i get one of those Aqua Dots??" "For your kid??" "Sure......for my kid..."

[@chrisgoffe5048]

..yip kids in New Zealand started tripping out ..was on the news and people went out and bought them

[@PrincessofPower84]

Lol

[@ShadyRK9]

"Moon Shoes! (Moon Shoes!) Moon Shoes! (Moon Shoes!)" 🎶 That song will FOREVER be stuck in my head!

[@danixx9220]

Same here 😂 despite not being allowed a pair as a kid 😂

[@styx53ocean]

I had an Easy Bake oven that had a "safety" feature built in: the door wouldn't open until the bulb had cooled to a certain temperature. It may have been a knock off; I'm not sure. I think my Mom bought it at a church rummage sale. One thing I do remember, though: it made me want to learn how to bake for scratch, not the pre-packaged mixes. 40+ years later, I still bake from scratch. Haven't used a boxed mix in ages.

[@shawnneice4322]

My grandmother made everything from scratch. EVERYTHING.

[@jc.1191]

My sister and I used ours just fine. The brownies were the bomb!

[@staceyrox360]

I feel like 98% of these are just the case of kids being way too young to have these toys. Just because they’re cool toys does not mean your kid should have them if they are way younger than the age suggestion, the warnings are for a reason!

[@kasmith54]

Exactly a lot of this is just parent negligence.

[@marialemos1495]

@@kasmith54 I totally agree!

[@marialemos1495]

Very true!

[@brandiebishop8473]

That’s what I was thinking

[@jayklee88]

Because kids never sleep over at other places or leave little pieces laying around that younger siblings can get ahold of

[@Shadoboy]

Polly Pocket and Mighty Max are the kind of toys you're not supposed to give to kids young enough to be in the "I wanna shove things in my nose" age.

[@jamesonweimann4720]

Which means 5 and under

[@TravJam317]

Well... you know.

[@enriquepereira5622]

Well it is MERICAAAA, land of the free and dumbs in the 90s till this day

[@afinchinthedark]

Who in their right mind ever though a mini nuclear reactor was a good idea to market to children as a *toy*

[@anthonyobryan3485]

It was in a time before the dangers of nuclear radiation were understood. In that same time period, Uranium was marketed as everything from a cure-all to an aphrodesiac that was added to hotel water.

[@hiteshadari4790]

@@anthonyobryan3485 holy shit never knew this, TIL

[@movietimeateds69]

@@anthonyobryan3485 well the toy in question was from the 40s and 50s where they definitely knew better.

[@michelleschrock9141]

@@anthonyobryan3485 It was even in toothpaste. That was way before i was born so i'm safe from it but yes we had radioactive toothpaste in germany. 🇩🇪

[@B01G3n1us]

Sid from toy story

[@ivybee347]

When my daughter was younger she wanted a little makeup kit so I bought her one of the toy ones made for kids with the makeup they can put on. Apparently the kids makeup that comes in toys and stuff doesn't go through the same testing standards like real and good make up go through. That's when we learned not only how sensitive her skin was but also about how low the standards are for kids makeup sets that come in toys. I tell people to just get a cheap real makeup set if they decide to get their child or any other child they know a makeup set.

[@intorainbowzOG]

My daughters get the same quality of makeup as I use because of this.

[@ivybee347]

@@intorainbowzOG I don't really use much makeup...... mostly lipstick and I wasn't even using that then..... but now I know.

[@nixienooo]

Didn’t Claire’s have a makeup recall a couple of years ago?

[@AmyraCarter]

Honestly, I would just go with Wet & Wild; decent quality and inexpensive.

[@ivybee347]

@@nixienooo I'm not sure but I also wouldn't be surprised if they did.

[@supertransistor8762]

Oh... So THIS is why so much of the toys in my childhood were replaced by phones

[@haleyhoag8640]

I owned Polly Pockets as a kid! (I'm a 2000's kid) though... mine didn't have magnets, the clothes came in two pieces that you have to clip into place over the doll or were pretty rubbery and were stretched and pulled over the doll

[@-_-Starman-_-]

I had the rubbery kind, too- except I put the clothes in my mouth just because of the texture 😭 it’s children like me that get toys recalled.

[@christinepayfer2993]

I had the rubbery ones. Oh my gosh I want those again! And yes. The rubber was fun to chew. Just like pencil erasers

[@-_-Starman-_-]

@@christinepayfer2993 YESSSSSS

[@truthhurts3524]

That Ottero baby floating thing just looks like a death trap for kids.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

The only serious toy injury any of us had when growing up was from an "innocuous" toy bow with suction cup arrows that a neighbor had. He pointed it at a tree but the suction cup fell off and it ricocheted right into my brother's eye, blinding him for life. Yes, you really CAN shoot your eye out.

[@cataorshane]

I swallowed a monopoly piece once. Couldn't breathe, couldn't talk. Could only panic really. I panicked so hard that I jumped a few times in a row with my back against the wall. It eventually worked and the impact on my back made me spit it. I was soooooo lucky. My mom was in the room but didn't see me swallow anything so she thought I was acting silly.

[@georgiawin97]

I'm sorry that happened to you. That must have been terrifying 😳

[@neromauritzen9083]

Same with me me and a huge round magnet, the moment the fell into my throat, my only thought was "this is over, it's all over" then it loosened and I felt it slide all the way down through my lungs and got stuck there for a while finally I fell from the couch ( I was lying face up when i accidentally dropped it into my mouth) I crashed pretty hard against the ground and and coughed it's halfway Up again, then it apparently sled down into my stomach, finally I could Breathe for the first time in nearly 3 minutes Thanks for the horrible memory lol I have never been closer to death 😂 I can still feel it in my throat when I think of it

[@julianaylor4351]

I ate a piece of adhesive tape and tried to swallow a badge as a toddler.

[@jimbobjones9330]

That'll teach you for playing Monopoly.

[@julianaylor4351]

A school friend of my older brother once threw Monopoly money out of a train window, and people ran after it thinking it was real money, until they realised otherwise. 😁

[@waheedabdullah6371]

They forgot about Clackers toys that were self-explanatory in Drake and Josh

[@PhoenixHinds]

I need to learn to read the other comments BEFORE I make my own. LOL

[@julianaylor4351]

I've got a secondhand set in pink.

[@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780]

combestable balls of death

[@Chris47629]

I always thought they were a parody of another toy.

[@DidIStutterLOL]

Growing up in the 90’s was awesome! We seriously had the best toys

[@bugloverspiderlover8490]

Agreed,the garbage today doesn’t compare.

[@MaxwellS637]

Yet the most dangerous

[@gotdrogon6284]

I remember the Aqua Dots and wanting some when younger. But then they were recalled, and I never knew why until now.😂

[@Vorusen]

So aqua dots turned into GHB? That honestly sounds WILD

[@Blunt_Man]

GHB and GBL are relatively common in different things like aluminum cleaner. I know GBL is still used as a cleaning agent. Pretty sure GHB was legal until around the early 2000s.

[@chrisgoffe5048]

..yip they sold like wildfire here in New Zealand

[@denverleatherboy]

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. We had the Battlestar Galactica ships. We had lawn darts, used them for years and years without incident, much like our horseshoes. Ours were called "Jarts". Few BBQ in the 70s didn't have them. My brothers and I also had many pellet and BB guns. We had "BB" gun fights as well in the woods. How we all kept our eyes, I'll never know.

[@djmeghan]

Yes Jarts! I played with those too without any incidents. Fun times!

[@jcbass2u]

Loved playing with the jarts, had a solid weight and a 2" metal pointed stake at the end, they were heavy, and flew really well, never got hurt playing with them, but hey we were not raised by parents who couldn't be bothered to actually watch what their kids were doing, and were taught to not be in the throwing lane while someone was taking their turn. jeez.

[@demonicpet1]

Never had the CSI kit, but I grew up watching the show as a kid. While the subject matter was more mature I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was in first grade.

[@jazbarry13]

I was a definitely a Polly Pocket girl growing up, so were a lot of my friends at that age (around 6 or 7). I don't recall there ever being an issue or that those toys were dangerous. I loved those stupid little things.

[@nicolelawless9942]

I’m nearly 21 and I’ve only had Woody.EXE for 6 months and I’ll never forget his emotional tribute to Queen Elizabeth II

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

Suggestion: Top 10 Less Known, Underrated Comic Book Heroes Before Superman.

[@doomgod314]

Popeye

[@lindseydawes7719]

Zzzzzzzzzzzz

[@cxdisdead8796]

WTF BRO?! SOMETHING ORIGINAL?! Have you lost your mind?!

[@mr.decencykeepinitreal6348]

@@cxdisdead8796 NO, I’m dead serious.

[@skylineXpert]

Top 10 90s not disney cartoons

[@scottbilger9294]

I had a wood-burning set (burned myself), creepy-crawlers (burned myself), a chemistry set (burned myself -- the hardware store used to sell the chemicals, btw), lawn darts (no one ever got hurt with them: they were obviously dangerous so even as children we knew to be careful), and endless toy guns that shot things (my friend shot me with my BB gun; I shot out the neighbor's window). My sister had an Easy-Bake oven (she never burned herself, the little goody-two-shoes never did anything wrong).

[@thedeepfriar745]

I’m now realizing that the creepy crawlers cooking station is the easy bake oven repainted

[@matthewkuscienko4616]

Basically; except for the fact that the creepy crawlers weren't edible (although if memory serves, I do recall a version that let you make gummy ones that could be eaten)

[@honeybunny3365]

I'm surprised about Polly pocket being on the list cause I had one as a kid in the early 2000s

[@iwatchyoutube6539]

Its hilarious that all the toy companies had to do was write "choking hazard" on the box then they were all good lol.

[@blazewinchester1309]

I had an ORIGINAL Polly Pocket AND an original Sky Dancer 😂😂😂

[@itskitty808]

Me too

[@pooky-changaming4089]

Same here!

[@joanapinheiro9952]

even though they’re dangerous, i miss having toys that actually did something

[@nicolelawless9942]

Woody.EXE does everything and he cares about my family huge time. I remember his tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and Woody.EXE gave permission to my sister to be part of the funeral

[@ghostkeef2339]

I remember having moon shoes and twisting my ankle within 5 minutes of having them on. Great times.

[@nicolelawless9942]

I still have the bracelet Woody.EXE gave me, if I ever took it off I’ll lose all my EXE power; that’s what Woody.EXE told me. To this day I’m still wearing iy

[@joermnyc]

Lab toys that taught how to make explosives, glass melting furnaces, and real uranium. Dr. Evil’s toy company?

[@coolsnake1134]

I know right, I’m surprised kids in the 50s and early 60s weren’t making small dirty bombs if they had both of those sets

[@julianaylor4351]

I remember wanting an art kit that made slides for Christmas once. I didn't get it. I was told it was too expensive, which I accepted, because my family were not very well off. Many years later I found out the materials in the kit were dangerous.

[@sailordave1000]

Besides the radioactive kit the most dangerous of the toys was the Moon Shoes. Even when used as directed it could easily result in falls that led to broken or knocked out teeth, cut lip, bleeding nose, and or a broken ankle. Most other toys on this list were perfectly safe when “used as directed” including the recommended age and parental supervision.

[@bugloverspiderlover8490]

Yep,nearly broke my ankle with those damn things,after that,we got rid of them.

[@whatashameofthat]

I feel like back in the days kids were not total morons and knew how not to hurt themselves with their toys

[@Leafsgobrrrrr]

Surprised Bag O Glass didn't make the list. Or machine gun Teddy

[@LadyVoldo]

Classic SNL. I love it.

[@GigiButterflie]

The toys that could “put an eye out” were the best toys when I was growing up….

[@Mergatroid_Skittle]

Definitely😂😂😂

[@Hgraves102]

Red Ryder BB gun

[@duncan3998]

Yeah i can tell

[@donnycarrier6220]

Dragon Flyers!!

[@Scream358]

I had Moon Shoes and yes, injured myself playing with them. Good times!!!

[@MsShadowrealm]

You forgot sky dancers. I loved these when I was a kid, but I had enough sense to duck if they got out of control.

[@galaxy-eyesknight4056]

I’m very surprised you guys didn’t use “you’ll shoot your eye out” from a Christmas story for number 2

[@CGold75]

Polly Pocket, that one toy in which the tiny parts always got sucked up in the vacuum cleaner if you weren't careful, or was that just me?

[@SuperMovieFan]

Only heard of a few of these. I remember Polly Pocker, creepy Crawlers, easy bake oven, aqua dots seems similar to something I remember that instead of water you used an iron so an adult needed to be present while being used, they seemed to make many different kinds cabbage patch dolls back in the day(fortunately my sister just had a normal one that wasn’t mechanical), toy guns( thankfully I only owned water guns including a super soaker) and darts but this is the first time I heard of lawn darts(luckily I only had the ones for the wall).

[@FlowWolf7]

Love how they pass over the fact the reason toy guns are deadly is because a cop will kill you thinking it is real

[@c.johnson294]

Awww those were the days, I collected Polly Pockets😃

[@ultimatebishoujo29]

Same here

[@aldusxenon]

In the mid 90's to early 2000's I worked at a Toys r Us in the Bronx. I remember the recalls for Polly Pocket, Aqua Dots, and a few others on this list.

[@babayagaslobbedaknobba]

My parents bought me all kinds of dangerous stuff. I had swords, ninja throwing stars, bb guns, hunting slingshots that used metal balls for ammo, etc. And even an actual hunting blowgun. Lol!

[@nicolelawless9942]

I have the most powerful knife ever and will present it to Woody.EXE at our coronation

[@hollyking2580]

10:00 "Cannibal Cabbage Patch Kids" needs to be a movie! LOL

[@martharunstheworld]

Some of these toys are great. But then, I didn't have an Easy Bake Oven, Mom taught me how to bake from our stove and safely. I think some of them are probably good not being around, but I also think sometimes the safety watch groups go a little out of control. Kids need to have fun and don't need to be in classes or tutoring lessons all day long. They need to let the steam out doing stuff.

[@CHLOCHLOLP]

the thing that was cool about easy bake was that they would be done in like 5 minutes so u basically had an instant cake machine in ur bedroom

[@CamaroAmx]

Had many of these toys growing up., including a chemistry set, cap guns and bottle rockets. Never got hurt by them. Sounds like we and the generations that came before us had a little better of understanding of what not to do and the actions that could lead to pain or death. My grandparents had lawn darts up until the 2000s before they threw them out, mostly because no one really played with them anymore (I wasn’t even aware that they were illegal, though I knew their danger). I remember playing with many dangerous toys and was fine. The chemistry set was fun until it no longer worked after a few years. My wood burning kit I had until adulthood then my father took it to use himself. I played with creepy crawlers and knew girls who had easy bake ovens. No one got hurt.

[@jc.1191]

I had all those too, including real guns. The easy bake oven food was delicious, lol. No injuries.

[@ds4987]

"Yeah so your toy ripped my daughters hair out from the scalp and left her scarred for life" *cabbage patch kids company* - Best we can do is 40 bucks

[@MrScaryPasta]

I remember my brother, sister, and I got Moon Shoes as a Christmas present. But they weren’t what we expected. In fact they broke very easily and didn’t bounce like in the commercial. A very unsafe and useless toy.

[@wendyodell356]

I know a little girl, she was about 8, when she was attempting to get out of a hammock it rolled back on her. She died from being hung and her little sister found her 😭 My poor baby, she spent a lot of time in my office at school, not deal well with it. They were incredibly close. My brother had the creepy crawlers machine, in the early70's. It was all the rage for Christmas that year. I got a machine that made similar things for girls.The old ones are so much better than the new ones. They were actually squishy and rubbery but the newer ones are hard plastic. The smell and the toxins will probably kill us one day 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@imakeplaylists159]

I stuck an Aqua dot in my ear and now have a mild case of tinnitus… I was not the brightest kid okay

[@maneatingtiger8676]

I never had any of these toys as a kid because they were the 'most popular' and considered expensive. I remembered going to my rich friends house and she had an easy bake oven 😂

[@angeld3654]

Wow!! I'm getting a whole bunch of nostalgia yet I totally agree with Polly pocket and creepy crawlers and aqua dots!oh my gosh!! I had the Hannah Montana card game!! Thank goodness I'm okay but just wow I never knew that!

[@thomasm.longiii3752]

I remember a few of these. Well, I hate the fact that these caused problems but, I hope they make more safer toys. There is a product that was out when I was a kid but, I didn’t turn out the way I thought it would. It was called floam, a slime bead thing you would put on toys or other things to decorate them for fun. Well, it wasn’t much fun, not to mention we failed to read about it needing to dry out some before use.

[@littlehalestorm]

Oooh I remember that! I believe they had it in late 90s/early 2000s. The texture and name in general always creeped me out and I never wanted to play with it after the first time I touched it... Yes I'm weird. And it still creeps me out, or the thought does today anyway. I'm unsure if they still have it around but it was weird. And now I'm remembering glow-in-the-dark toys from the late 90s to the early 2000s and I'm not sure I want to know how they did it. It was maybe safer than in the 70/80s... Probably. Hopefully lol.

[@jeanporter5329]

Yes! I was just about to ask if you grew up in the early 2000s! I remember that stuff! I didn't know u were supposed to decorate toys with it though! I was at a friends house when her mom bought us each a container of it. She got purple (I think?) and I got light blue. We made fake food with it (a country fried steak and mashed potatoes and peas) and pretended to eat it. I later took mine home with me and tried to mash up my fake steak dinner to make a breakfast meal and it was dried out and hard! I thought it was an annoying piece of junk and threw it away. That makes sense that u were actually supposed to decorate toys with it and not use it as a playdoh!

[@thomasm.longiii3752]

@@jeanporter5329 I was born in 1996 and yes I grew up in the late 90s to the mid 2010s.

[@jeanporter5329]

@@thomasm.longiii3752 Ditto! I was born the same year to!

[@acedirt2346]

I grew up with cap guns and modded nerf guns with a black paint job, and my younger sister had Aqua Dots and the CSI kit. we both turned out fine.

[@Tyranid_HiveMind]

You and your sister are survivors

[@jimbobjones9330]

She may not have had the "bad" Aquadots, which were only out for like a year (if that long) They reformulated them, and they're still around today.

[@zenki36830]

i played with lawn darts as a kid, we used trash can lids as shields, and just threw them.. mid 80s to mid 90s.. when men were men and women knew first aid.. heh

[@JB-js4xi]

We had Jarts in the early 80s. We set the rings up on one side of a busy street and hurled the Jarts over traffic which we then ran through to retrieve them. No parent ever stopped us. Also...don't forget that we used to get tiny cigarette lighters that really worked out of the grocery store machines...and tiny one blade knives and little gun keychains

[@bellasalceies4138]

I remember when Polly Pocket or another company made Disney Polly Pockets! They came in reusable zipper carriers to store them in. There was Cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Jasmine at that time. Mind you their cloths and shoes where made of rubber plastic. I remember sticking one of Cinderella's little shoes up my nose, got stuck, and it later came out on its own from my nose...

[@LM-xw1hf]

I loved those:) I still have the full sets for Bell, Cinderella, and Ariel:)

[@AtrumNuntius]

I remember Lawn Darts from Me, myself, and Irene.

[@agentredhead4612]

That Cannibal Cabbage Patch Kids joke made me laugh harder than I thought I would.

[@pooky-changaming4089]

0:02 “Extremely dangerous-keep out of reach of children.” The same could be said about several of the toys on this list…

[@BigLeeTheHillBilly]

Polly pocket was great for us 90's kids, i liked mine from Batman and the ninja turtles

[@jodamora5924]

When I was younger god sister had an "easy bake" oven. Also, I miss the "Moon Shoes" that were bought for me back then.

[@asurrealexperience6271]

I’m sorry but the transition from 6:38 had me laughing so hard I was not expecting that

[@michaelkrogh624]

I remember having moon shoes. Absolute ankle-breaking garbage that couldn't even jump properly 😂

[@Jesus4life_39]

😭😭😭

[@coolcupcake145]

What about Sky Dancers? I heard they got recalled because they kept hitting kids in the face and damaging their eyes. I would consider that dangerous.

[@jennifermoriarty2188]

Everything dangerous...can't bubble wrap in life

[@SonyaFlynn]

I had sooooo many polly pockets. i had a whole box full of them back in the 90s. i remember my favorite one was a snowwhite cottage with all the characters and i just loved it. also a castle that smelled like vanilla, the 90s were big on making stuff smell like stuff lol

[@CappyLarou]

Nobody ever mentions the fact that with regard to the Battlestar Galactica colonial viper toy, they redesigned it making it so the missile didn't fire but just went from looking pushed into popped out. I know because my neighbor had the one that fired the missile, and by the time I got mine it was one of the first that didn't actually shoot. I was a very disappointed child

[@atticusmcfly]

At one time or another, my older brothers tried to kill me with each and every one of these.

[@PhoenixHinds]

I really thought I would have known a LOT more of these. Aside from missing "Clackers", it is a pretty full list.

[@scottbilger9294]

Those were those bouncing balls that would shatter, right?

[@PhoenixHinds]

@@scottbilger9294 If they didn't shatter, they were rather hefty and could cause some serious injury when they got out of control. Ah, the good ol' days. 😉

[@julianaylor4351]

I've got a secondhand set in pink.

[@Mario17h1]

Thanks WatchMojo for this fantastic and informative video, I now know a lot more about reclaimed toys. I'm going to ask my dealer to supply some aquadots with this new knowledge.

[@otkucorner8274]

Oh geez this is a flashback and a half! I had most of these!

[@harleyrobertson73]

Haven't watched this yet (will later) but I bet lawn darts are either No. 1 or in the top 3 with a 1950s radioactive toy being first

[@RonHeartsMe]

Moon Shoes make me immediately think of two memories. one as a kid in the 90s with my friend putting them on and immediately tripping and falling on her driveway and bleeding all over. The second as a teen in the 00s at my hs graduation when one of my classmates wore moon shoes to accept his diploma. He was much more talented on them than my friend that fell was, to be fair.

[@jackiegreiner8303]

A simple, but dangerous toy from the 60s called Clickers with a ring with 2 thin ropes attached to the ring with a ball at the other end. The object was to hold the ring and swing the balls until they hit each other except some of the balls were made of hard acrylic plastic that had a tendency to explode when they balls hit each other hard enough and send pieces flying like shrapnel.

[@thegayhare]

okay the toy I had that was really scare was a toy gun. It was a spring-loaded disc gun that fired little plastic discs the size of a penny. you pack them into the spring loaded magazine and you can fire them off as fast as fast as you can pull the trigger. Not so dangerous since the discs were harmless. But as I said they were the size of a penny. and easy to lose. So when you lost all your discs you load up your gun with pennies. and these things had power those pennies would raise welts

[@SnuSnuDungeon]

I remember people calling the moon shoes ankle breakers when I was younger

[@snipermafia3609]

I know Lawn Darts are going to be on this list before I even watched it

[@Evan-C]

Same lol thought of number one

[@MrHakubi]

@@Evan-C Damn never even heard of those before this video 🤣

[@susanafernandez8600]

You get me through the rough times,thanks

[@kaylabear4696]

I remember easy bake oven I had one as a kid and I baked cookies in it with my mom and don't worry I have all my fingers. I never imagined it as a dangerous toy probably because after baking cookies I never used it again. I remember ads of aqua dots and I also remember my obsession of Hannah Montana I wanted everything to do with her franchise from the lunchbox to the clothes

[@littlehalestorm]

My mother only let me use the oven when she or another adult was around... Now thinking that was probably a good thing. It was cool when I was little, yeah I liked Hannah Montana too although I didn't get the cards. Probably a good thing... I don't think I had the dots. I did have some weird dolls though. lol my brother walked downstairs one time, and one of these dolls I had was more of just a head with blond hair and giant blue eyes, and he swore he saw them staring at him in the dark. I think it creeped my other brother out as well lol. oops.

[@bluejedi723]

the zulu blow dart gun sounds like Darwinism at it's finest.

[@jediknightjairinaiki560]

As a little kid my friend and I would play tic-tac-toe on each other's backs with our wood burning kits and . . . we'd laugh and laugh. Good times.

[@storiwilliams3972]

😳

[@jediknightjairinaiki560]

@@storiwilliams3972 The inspiration for my post was Phil Hartman's character Bill McNeil on "News Radio". In one episode he was recounting the interaction between his dysfunctional family members when he was a kid.

[@madelinegarber7860]

I had Polly Pockets as a kid and never had any problems. I also never tried to eat them. I always wanted an easy bake oven but never got one. Probably for the best. Also never had a problem with water guns. The first and only bottle rocket I made was for 8th grade science.

[@Kinseliplier]

4:15 nice iron giant refference. thats my favorite movie.