Video, Most Dangerous Toys Ever Sold To The Public.

Robert59

Robert59

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Once upon a time, toy companies would seemingly sell anything they could think of to kids, regardless of whether it made any sense. After enough kids were maimed or outright killed by stupid toys, though, the government began regulating this stuff — but not before a number of insane products made it to market.

 

When I think about some of the toys I played with, I'm surprised I'm still here - and even more surprised I have 2 eyes & 10 fingers.
I had a rocket that was half filled with water, then attached to an air pump. When there was enough air pressure, a lever released the plastic rocket - which shot up 80-100 feet.
Then there was one of my favorites - a double-barreled cap pistol that held a whole roll of caps & advanced to the next cap with each trigger pull. I learned to fire the whole roll really fast, & the barrels didn't have a chance to cool off & they started to melt.
Then there were those metal cap bombs that were thrown up into the air & when they landed on the weighted nose, the stick-on cap would fire. I quickly learned it was much more exciting to stack 9 or 10 caps, except the big explosion caused the bomb to jump back up at high speed, narrowly missing my head.
 
My dolls weren't dangerous...but the wringer washing machine was a whole other story. Mom told me it could take my arm off 😱

And the there was the little fan with metal blades,
cloth cord, wire cage about 8” apart. That could slice my fingers straight off...according to Mom

The mangle used to iron sheets, table cloths etc.?
You guessed it...that thing could flatten me like
a pancake 😲. Mom again.

Pretty golly darn dangerous to live around our house when I was a kid...is it any wonder why I hate housework to this day??? 😁
 

I still have some cap guns and an antique, cast iron toy pistol that will fire a .22 caliber bullet (one of my father's toys).
I cut many fingers on the sharp metal edges of the cheap sheet metal (recycled japanese beer cans) toys, before plastic came into favor.
One of my favorites was a spring driven spinning helicopter pistol toy that would launch the plastic astronaut quite high or maybe 20 feet horizontally.
Mattel and probably others, made some toy guns that had spring loaded plastic bullets that I'm certain were responsible for injuries due to inhalation... my favorite was the derringer in a belt buckle that could spring open and shoot your friends.

Lead based paint was everywhere in those days... every school that I ever attended had asbestos covered pipes and, I'm sure, asbestos in the floor tiles.

Firecrackers were great (especially the cherry bombs and the M-80's (equivalent to roughly 1/4 stick of dynamite).

Enjoy!
 
win231 said:
When I think about some of the toys I played with, I'm surprised I'm still here - and even more surprised I have 2 eyes & 10 fingers.
I had a rocket that was half filled with water, then attached to an air pump. When there was enough air pressure, a lever released the plastic rocket - which shot up 80-100 feet.
Then there was one of my favorites - a double-barreled cap pistol that held a whole roll of caps & advanced to the next cap with each trigger pull. I learned to fire the whole roll really fast, & the barrels didn't have a chance to cool off & they started to melt.
Then there were those metal cap bombs that were thrown up into the air & when they landed on the weighted nose, the stick-on cap would fire. I quickly learned it was much more exciting to stack 9 or 10 caps, except the big explosion caused the bomb to jump back up at high speed, narrowly missing my head.
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Did your water rocket resemble something along the lines of this?

My baby brother and his friends used to play with one.

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Happy Joe said:
I still have some cap guns and an antique, cast iron toy pistol that will fire a .22 caliber bullet (one of my father's toys).
I cut many fingers on the sharp metal edges of the cheap sheet metal (recycled japanese beer cans) toys, before plastic came into favor.
One of my favorites was a spring driven spinning helicopter pistol toy that would launch the plastic astronaut quite high or maybe 20 feet horizontally.
Mattel and probably others, made some toy guns that had spring loaded plastic bullets that I'm certain were responsible for injuries due to inhalation... my favorite was the derringer in a belt buckle that could spring open and shoot your friends.

Lead based paint was everywhere in those days... every school that I ever attended had asbestos covered pipes and, I'm sure, asbestos in the floor tiles.

Firecrackers were great (especially the cherry bombs and the M-80's (equivalent to roughly 1/4 stick of dynamite).

Enjoy!
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I forgot about cherry bombs. In 3rd grade, a classmate brought one to school & showed it to me. I'd never seen one before & I laughed when he said it could blow up a toilet because I didn't believe that little thing could do anything. Besides, I thought the water would put out the fuse, anyway. He said, "Just wait until recess."

At recess, we went into the restroom & made sure we were alone. He lit the fuse & said "Flush it when the water goes down."
I flushed it & when he dropped it into the toilet, nothing happened - for a few seconds. Then we heard a muffled noise like a burp.
The toilet bowl started to crack in big chunks & water started to flood the room. We ran out onto the playground.
No one ever knew we did it. 60 years later, I still laugh when I hear that "Burp."
 
win231 said:
I forgot about cherry bombs. In 3rd grade, a classmate brought one to school & showed it to me. I'd never seen one before & I laughed when he said it could blow up a toilet because I didn't believe that little thing could do anything. Besides, I thought the water would put out the fuse, anyway. He said, "Just wait until recess."

At recess, we went into the restroom & made sure we were alone. He lit the fuse & said "Flush it when the water goes down."
I flushed it & when he dropped it into the toilet, nothing happened - for a few seconds. Then we heard a muffled noise like a burp.
The toilet bowl started to crack in big chunks & water started to flood the room. We ran out onto the playground.
No one ever knew we did it. 60 years later, I still laugh when I hear that "Burp."
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😂. Oh my fear Lord!!!!! That is wY too funny!!!
 
Robert59 said:
Once upon a time, toy companies would seemingly sell anything they could think of to kids, regardless of whether it made any sense. After enough kids were maimed or outright killed by stupid toys, though, the government began regulating this stuff — but not before a number of insane products made it to market.

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That was funny. I remember the springy shoes 😂
 
Happy Joe said:
I still have some cap guns and an antique, cast iron toy pistol that will fire a .22 caliber bullet (one of my father's toys).
I cut many fingers on the sharp metal edges of the cheap sheet metal (recycled japanese beer cans) toys, before plastic came into favor.
One of my favorites was a spring driven spinning helicopter pistol toy that would launch the plastic astronaut quite high or maybe 20 feet horizontally.
Mattel and probably others, made some toy guns that had spring loaded plastic bullets that I'm certain were responsible for injuries due to inhalation... my favorite was the derringer in a belt buckle that could spring open and shoot your friends.

Lead based paint was everywhere in those days... every school that I ever attended had asbestos covered pipes and, I'm sure, asbestos in the floor tiles.

Firecrackers were great (especially the cherry bombs and the M-80's (equivalent to roughly 1/4 stick of dynamite).

Enjoy!
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And yet here we all are to write about it 😊
 
win231 said:
I forgot about cherry bombs. In 3rd grade, a classmate brought one to school & showed it to me. I'd never seen one before & I laughed when he said it could blow up a toilet because I didn't believe that little thing could do anything. Besides, I thought the water would put out the fuse, anyway. He said, "Just wait until recess."

At recess, we went into the restroom & made sure we were alone. He lit the fuse & said "Flush it when the water goes down."
I flushed it & when he dropped it into the toilet, nothing happened - for a few seconds. Then we heard a muffled noise like a burp.
The toilet bowl started to crack in big chunks & water started to flood the room. We ran out onto the playground.
No one ever knew we did it. 60 years later, I still laugh when I hear that "Burp."
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Yes sir, cherry bombs and M80s could certainly test a school building's plumbing, not to mention its other mechanicals.
 
I remember going to Woolworths department store once in awhile, my mom would let me pick out a little toy from the trays and trays of trinkets they sold. Many times I settled for a make your own balloons kit. It came on a card with a tube of gluey red stuff and a very thin straw. You put a glob on the end and blew into the straw and if you were lucky the glob of stuff would blow up into a balloon that lasted for a few hours and was like heavy rubber. The bad part was the kids got dizzy and high on the stuff. I think it was lased with either.

I also remember the little paper and metal piece you put on your tongue to make a sound like a bird. A lot of kids inhaled or swallowed them,
and disappearing knife blade that came in Cracker Jax boxes. I think one kid died because the blade didn't go into the handle when pressed against another person.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I remember going to Woolworths department store once in awhile, my mom would let me pick out a little toy from the trays and trays of trinkets they sold. Many times I settled for a make your own balloons kit. It came on a card with a tube of gluey red stuff and a very thin straw. You put a glob on the end and blew into the straw and if you were lucky the glob of stuff would blow up into a balloon that lasted for a few hours and was like heavy rubber. The bad part was the kids got dizzy and high on the stuff. I think it was lased with either.

I also remember the little paper and metal piece you put on your tongue to make a sound like a bird. A lot of kids inhaled or swallowed them,
and disappearing knife blade that came in Cracker Jax boxes. I think one kid died because the blade didn't go into the handle when pressed against another person.
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I remember it like yesterday!

Also remember the black goo that was in a tin where you blew balloons with it, and I still remember the gassy odour it emitted.

There was also this one!

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