As a kid, I got the trouble for sticking my Jarts in the side of the coal shed. In my 50s I nearly killed myself on a Slip n Slide. My chemistry set wasn't nuclear, but I still bear scars from flaming sulphur which also set the kitchen table on fire. Yes, these toys were educational . They taught me not to do stupid shit.
I found a complete set of Jarts, in the original box, at a yard sale a few years back for $5.00. There is actually a black market for the things, and last time I checked a complete original set was worth about $100. I keep mine as a nostalgic conversation piece. I love the fact the box has a label which warns they may cause serious or fatal injury.
I remember throwing a blue one at my grandparent's house back in the early 1980s. I found it in the yard with two others; nobody else was around. It was one of the ones with the plastic rod that the fin assembly could slide back and forth on; you would grab the round knob at the end of the rod and use that for a handle to toss it,and once you did the fins would slide to the back to stabilize it. I threw it a couple of times and thought "Yeah, that's dangerous; how long will it be before they get banned?"
You can still play with them. Just do like we used to do. Dont throw them at each other. And have the opposite team stand off to the side. Playing with stuff like this safely doesn't take a very high IQ level
We have a set, & love to play!! Even our dogs knew to get out of the way. I always found it ridiculous they were banned, when there are REAL DARTS, with sharper points. I also feel like they should bring them back, considering people are throwing axes for fun
My fave is still Dan Aykroyd's infamous Bag O'Glass (on SNL). It's essence as a dangerous toy was pure. Inexpensive and delivered the expected experience.
Kid - "I jammed my hand into a small oven that I knew was hot enough to cook stuff and burnt my hand" 1960's Parents - "Well that was stupid" 2000's Parents - "Let's get a bunch of lawyers"
Even if you required amputations? I do think that if the toy can easily permanently injure someone that way it maybe has some safety concerns that warrant to be adressed
I am Simon's age and totally had an easy bake oven, a slip'n'slide, and a trampoline with no pads covering the springs and frame (growing up in the 90's FTW😎). What's more, I drug the trampoline over by a tree house for extra oomph, and used my father's work truck boom for extra height drops. We'd drag sleds around the neighborhood with a four wheel drive truck when it snowed. I climbed a LOT of trees and spent a lot of time outside. It's amazing that the first bone I broke was only just last year.
I never had dangerous toys...we couldn't afford them.. I made my own... fireworks, cannons, gas balloons.. lots of things. managed not to damage myself too badly..... a few burns and cuts.... LOL
@@DrJohnAZoidberg BB Guns, 3 wheelers, mini bikes, go-karts, pulling wheelies and jumps with a lawn mower (to name a few). Yeah, we definitely lived in different times. Missouri born and raised here, but I think that same chillaxed mentality was national if not global back then.
90s kid here too the best was our crazy baby boomer parents would egg us on and help us in these crazy endeavors like my dad showing me how to rig the governor on my go kart.
A friends dad gave us a 'toy' he'd had from a long time ago. It was basically a self electrocution kit with two handles and a transformer. The old bit of kit was broken so we wired it through a modern variable resistor. When we turned it up it was impossible to let go of the handles, so you'd have to wait for someone to stop laughing and turn it off for you.
Man, I am glad to have been a kid back in the days of these toys. The toys in today's video were the least dangerous to us. We were too busy using our bicycles to jump ramps, as fast as we could, and on ramps built as high as possible - Evel Knievel had a big influence on us in the 70's. Also, we had lots of bottle rocket wars. Yes, we actually shot bottle rockets at each other. No trips to the emergency room. And no one took an eye out, or lost an eye.
I wasn't raised to live life in fear. We rode in the back of pickup trucks, cars had no seat belts, we played lawn darts, our parents smoked in the car and rolling the windows down was not an option. Back when motorcycles were dangerous ands sex was safe. Things were so much better back then.
Ever then use the ramps to kamikazee into each other? Then the (only once) downhill rolls in metal trash barrels... and ohjoy, the summer when the (Stoughton WI) fireworks malfunctioned, dropping hundreds of unexploded pieces in a big field to collect, jam into soda bottles.... one blew its bottom, shot up to explode against a treelimb and shower us shrapnel. Good days!
We used to go sledding on a nearby hill that had a berm and a pond beyond the berm. The trick, of course, was to see who get the closest to the water without falling through the ice. When (not if) somebody fell through the ice, we'd all laugh as they stripped down to their long johns and run like hell home to get dry and warm. Can't ban ponds or ice, so there's that.
@@RCAvhstape Damn. This IS a group of forgotten brothers and sisters! Had the sledding-ending-in-ice but was Yahara River in Stoughton, WI (can't believe those brain cells still active) which was always thin center current and thought of crashing thru terrified me. But we had a chain link fence at end; soon bent and then a ramp for those that DID end up on the ice. But none crashed thru. Lesse... same place my brother tried that fancy move of waterskiier letting go, sliding up to dock or ramp and stepping out, oh so cool. Had perfect view of him hitting the crushed-rock ramp at about 35mph (seemed). Skis instantly stopped, he flew out and damn if he maintained for a sec or two. That blurry, spinning-wheel effect in cartoons? Real thing!
We had a big hill in the neighborhood. You ride down, cut into a yard, hit the ditch and jump your bicycle all the way across a road and into a church parking lot. One kid went home for something, came down his hill and out in front of a car. He would have made it but the car swerved the same way he was going. I watched him fly through the air, legs still going like he was pedaling, probably a good 40 feet and landed in a yard. He was pretty damn sore for a few weeks. Yep, Bottle rocket wars, roman candles. One guy broke his arm playing kickball of all things. "Big Eddie" went for a big kick. Rolled his foot across the top of the ball instead and went straight up in the air horizontal. Awesome hang time. Tried to catch himself with that arm and ended up with an extra "elbow". He jumped up, held up his arm, half of it flopped back down like a noodle and he just made a "Uh" sound and ran in the house. 30 seconds later his mom was dragging him to the car by his good arm. Good times.
Man I remember lawn darts. Was one of my favourite games to play with family in the 80s. There was one rule that when broken would stop the game for everyone though: We all had to stand at the same end, the end the current throw was happening from. If any of us failed to do that, we were grounded from playing.
Anybody remember a toy from the mid 70's -- they may have been called Clackers -- that consisted of two good sized acrylic balls connected by a piece of rope? You held on to the middle of the rope and bounced the balls against each other by moving your hand up and down. As you moved your hand faster and faster, the rebounding force became great enough that the balls collided with each other both below and above your hand. Inevitably, the force involved would cause one of the balls to become detached from the rope, and fly off into space with sometimes harmful results. I don't think they stayed on the market very long.
The Clackers I remember weren't acrylic, they were glass. It took a lot to break them but they would regularly loose chunks from one or both balls. They weren't intended to be slammed into each other with great force but, when kids are involved, that's often what happened. This would have been around 1970-1974 when I would have played with them.
@@renaissanceman7145 I never actually owned a set, and it was a long time ago, so they may have been glass. That makes them even more dangerous. Thanks for the reply.
I was in junior high-it was about 1972-73. They were made of glass, very cool if you had the coordination to make them clack, but weren’t around for very long.
Well I’m 62 and I survived these toys and drinking from a garden hose. We had lawn darts, knives, BB and real guns, etc. We also had a mother that would wear our butts out when we got stupid. THAT is why we are still here. We had parents that were involved and would tune us up when necessary. My father was a Drill Sgt. in the Army (whole lot of stories on that) and he taught me the responsibility of firearms. The only “time out” we got was your mom resting to catch her breath when whooping your butt. My sister had an easy bake oven the the deserts were pretty good. I had the lawn darts and when sharpened on concrete they would stick into a tree. Our slip and slide was a muddy hill after a good rain. God I’d give anything to relive those days again.
But at that same time, black people also couldn’t drink from the same water fountains as white people, Europe and Asia were recovering from the attrition of World War 2, and tens of millions of people died every year from famine up until the early 2000s. Those days were awful if you weren’t a white American. But that doesn’t fit the “1950s were a better time” narrative now does it. 🤫
Still have 2 sets of lawn darts in the original boxes LOVED playing with them.... How about the shoes with springs under them? Instant leg breakers. My sis had the original Easy Bake oven - LOVED that thing.....
I remember the bow and arrow sets where the arrow had red suction cups stuck on the end. It was easy to pop those off and into a pencil sharpener they went.
i put a kids eye out with the similar style dart gun...i took off the tip and told him to put his hand up...he didnt i fired....i swear i was aiming for his chest...but regretfully he lost his left eye...and more regretfully i got my ass beat so bad i really couldnt sit or stand or walk for a month....we had to move
The primary reasonings for most of these "Dangerous Toys" sounds to be less actual danger, and more lack of parenting or operator error. I grew up playing with home made lawn darts and was never dumb enough to stand near the target zone, even as a 10 year old in the early oughts.
Yeah, nobody stands next to the pipe sticking out of the ground while others are tossing horseshoes at it! How hard is it to realize you need to be standing _next_ to the person doing the tossing/throwing, not near the target?
I don’t know if it was lead but I remember setting the carpet on fire with a casting kit like that in the 90s. I also remember this thing that melted crayons so you could make….. bigger crayons.
In the 1970's we had a steam powered "donkey engine" that was run by lighting a small reservoir of methylated spirits. Somehow that progressed to my older brothers pouring the methylated spirits onto the dining table and lighting it, quickly putting the flames out with a fire extinguisher before the burning liquid damaged the table. We also dipped our finger into the spirits and lit the finger on fire, quickly blowing it out before it started to burn the skin. Obviously our mum and dad were at work when all this insane behaviour took place, they would have killed us.
Before you killed yourselves?? OMG I had a chemistry set one of those old ones before they made them more safe for kids. It had some pretty caustic stuff that I just mixed together. We never read any instructions for anything! We'd just start pouring stuff together looking for an explosion. Nothing happened but we ruined some fabrics and made some awful smells. Those mixtures could have been toxic and poisoned us.
You where lucky, my mother put a big splash of iodine on it. it did hurt more than the injury itself and i spontaneously spoke 9 different languages at one go.
Wimp! You pissed on it just like you do for a Blue Bottle. That's just little thing we have here in Australia that loves to sting tourists because they pee while swimming at the beaches. And you wouldn't bloody know it! It's how you treat the sting too! So there's ya two bob for the day.
My grandmother has a set lawn darts up in the attic, we played with them all the time. Key was you know, not being in front of the person throwing them so you didn't get hit. Same with a good ole bb gun. Just treat it responsibly and you won't get hurt.
That makes sense, I guess come to think of it, the main problem is with it being labeled as "toys".. maybe people have a preconceived notion of the level of safety implied by something marketed as a "toy" and so don't treat as if it's a regular everyday object with the same capabilities.
We used to use a pharmacy's back wooden door as a bullseye. The owners never complained even though it had more holes than a collander. One day, one landed on my dad's head. He didn't get hurt much but he took them all away.
60-year-old here. Played w/ lawn darts every summer. Made monsters by melting rubbery goop on a molded hot plate. Made army men by pouring molten wax into a casting mold. Sister had an easy bake oven. Tasted great. Shot arrows, shot bb guns - the ones with the CO2 cartridges were the coolest. Had a blast. No injuries. If I had gotten burned it would've taught me to be careful around hot things - pretty good lesson to learn. We didn't get impaled with lawn darts because we weren't idiots. Absolutely dipped fingers in the molten wax. Slight ouch but cool results.
The people killed, maimed and disabled by these toys aren't around in a position to post on TH-cam about how safe they are. Look up survivor bias to see more examples.
I remember my only accident on a trampoline. My foot went in-between the springs and I fell over the edge with my foot still in the springs. Luckily my leg bent the correct way at the knee instead of breaking a bone or tearing a tendon. Unluckily I was hanging there upside-down by my ankle and my knee. When I finally wiggled free I landed on a bigass root that was sticking up out of the ground. I spent the rest of the day safely inside eating paint and sticking silverware into wall outlets.
We had a large trampoline in my back yard for almost 10 years for my kids which they and their friends would play around on well into their teens and many drunken adults playing on it too.. Long enough for the "safety netting" and padding around the edges to fall off years before we finally took it down. In hundreds of uses, nobody drunk or sober got hurt. Even my dogs would go on it. I had a Labrador that would like to take a ball up on it then fall on the ball and roll around on it giving herself a back massage. I eventually took it down because the kids had moved out and the dog that was the only one getting use out of it died.
My parents had a safety rule: when you ride in the bed of the truck, you have to sit your butt lower than the sides of the truck. Very forward thinking of them. When my Dad took me in the ocean on a 15ft boat, I asked him if it was safe. He said, “well, look what the big boys bring along for when their fancy boat sinks. It’s no bigger than ours.”
Reminds me of a scene in the movie "The Guardian", with Kevin Costner. It's about Coast Guard recruits training. And two of them get into a bar fight with Navy personell who think that Coast Guards are not real sailors, so they can't be in a sailors' bar. Their response - "When you guys in the Navy in your big boats can't take it anymore, you cry for help from us in the Coast Guard, to come and save you in our little boats! So who are the real sailors here?" This of course made it all end in hugs and friendship. No, wait, it didn't.
That Gilbert radioactive kit is sooo appealing! I always loved all the different "kits" as a child (many decades ago). I had a chemistry kit, quite a small one, but there was a whole series of them, each one bigger and more expensive, my friend had one that was bigger than mine. Then there were electronic kits, where you could put together different electronic circuits with components that were packaged so that it was easy to interconnect them in different ways. And combined kits that had mechanical and electronic components, also packaged so that it was easy to combine them in a multitude of ways. A friend of mine had a big electro-mechanical kit, the brand was called "Capsela", and he did not really do much with it, but when we got together and I was really fascinated about it, and I came up with many different experimental builds from his kit, he started calling me "genius" :)
Had an electric kit myself back when I was about 10. Growing up I loved to take my toys (often electronics) and put them back together again, so once I found an electronic kit where I could actually learn how the stuff works, I begged my parents and sure enough they obliged. Good times.
In the UK we had the Merit Chemistry Set in the 60s & 70s. Stink bombs and gunpowder were the favourite recipes. Slip and Slide? Any adults seriously injured are eligible for a Darwin Award.
I didn't know a product called slip and slide even existed. We just nailed a long plastic wrap to a hillside and poured soap, water and oil on it. Luckily smartphones were some rich people shit back then.
They were more often than not drunk and went down with their hands at their sides. what woudld happen is they would have their heads down. reach the end of the slide where their heads would suddenly catch on the lawn and stop..while their body was still moving. In reality these things were no more dangerous than anything else if you dont act like a moron. Its often a bad idea for adults to try to ride kids tricycles too. But when drunk adults are capable of doing all sorts of stupid things
Well, that last entry was already covered in a Business Blaze. The worst product recalls, or the worst products to be recalled, whichever of the two it was. But yeah the oven of chopped fingers already had some coverage for the OGBB.
This video reminds me of that old SNL skit where Jane Curtis is grilling Dan Akroyd over the various obviously dangerous things his company produces. The "Human Torch" costume was oily rags and a lighter. 🤣🤣🤣
I had a chemistry set where the first experiment I did created acrid smoke that made the house smell like a fart for four days. Played with that a week after my first experience with lawn darts. I could also ride my bike all over the city without a helmet or kneepads on. Darts were all metal tipped with wooden boards. I had so many toys that could have killed me, I'm surprised I made it to my 20's where I survived alcohol and more drugs than Cheech and Chong could shake a pipe at.
Ahhh... back in the day when being a kid was an education in surviving and avoiding injury, as well as toughening up. These days being a kid is about avoiding or taking advantage of lawsuits.
Lawn darts, easy bake oven and slip n slides were the bomb. Tho as we got older we just used a bunch of tarps, soap and a hose for a slide. 80s kids had it made lol
tarp, soap, hose. dang we were still doing that in the late 90's I'm a 90's kid (born in 83, but remember the 90's better). at my church camp where i worked in the summer, we setup a giant slide on a decent-sized hill. it was made up of a giant, thick piece of i dunno what. some plastic base thing maybe for gardening or something i dunno. then at the bottom/last half, a giant piece of more flimsy plastic. it was held in place mostly by some large plastic stakes and cinder blocks. relatively safe cuz it was very wide, there were a few instances of kids running into the cinder blocks. no one was really ever hurt. worst one was a kid hitting their foot on a block and scraping it up pretty badly. no one sued. miss the 90's early 2000's. life was much better then.
@@SeraphX2 ... Should have lined the sides with bales of straw . Then no one would have to worry about hitting a cinder block . You're welcome 😁✌️..... I miss the mid-late 70's and the early 80's .. Before the technical revolution . I miss privacy . I miss being able to let kids be free range on nice sunny days . I miss . I miss freedom . I miss NOT being on video 325,000 a week . 🥃 Here's lookin up your old address. Cheers ✌️🥃🥃🥃🥃🚬🥴🚬🥃
I have my fathers lead toy soldier casting kit he used when he was a kid. You actually had to melt lead in an electric pot that holds a ladle and pore it into a mold. It did not come with any sort of protection.
As a parent of (now adult children) I can confirm that if you do not hover over them every single waking second, they will attempt something shockingly dangerous even if they lack plastic ingestible toys or dangerous chemicals sold as safe for children. I saw mine trip over their own feet and receive head stitches without me being able to react fast enough to prevent injury. Saw the effects after they took toy magnets and made beautiful rainbow effects on the CRT TV screen. Caught them trying to taste dangerous chemicals that I thought safely stored and well out of reach of kids. I heard a strange bumping sound outside my living room door and came out to investigate only to find a broken Buzz Lightyear toy lying at the bottom of the stairs. (He fell without style) They fell victim to playground accidents and so many sports injuries that I began to fear taking them to the ER in case I was accused of child abuse over genuinely accidental injuries. The worst thing about this list is that despite 2 parents doing their very best to prevent incidents like that, and giving endless warnings and instructions to these kids, as adults they continue to injure themselves in 'accidents' that both parents mananged to succesfully avoid as both children and adults. I can understand that sport realted injuries occur and horse riding and contact sports will court injury, but they still both manage to fall down stairs or bump their heads on kitchen cabinets or even car door frames because of lack of attention. I've seen it happen, more than once. You can blame me for being an inadequate parent, but how many times can you advise someone to be careful of 'insert hazard here' and them watch them hurt or injure themselves before simply deciding that you will never be listened to even if you outlive the children?
I still have a set of "Clackers" that I received when I was a kid (I'm 56 now). It's a silver rings, to put your finger in to hold them, two green cords approximately 14" long, and a purple acrylic ball at the end of each cord. The balls are roughly 1.5" in diameter. I also had a wood burning kit, with which I managed to burn myself several times every time I used it. I played on my cousin's Slip'n'Slide at his birthday party when I was about 13 years old. The next day, my stomach muscles were so sore that I couldn't sit up without help. Lol. One of my favorite toys was called Shrinky Dinks, and I believe they're still being sold. It's just a package of very special plastic sheets. When they're put into a REAL OVEN for a specific amount of time, at a specific temperature, they shrink down to a much smaller size and become thick and rigid, like an acrylic key chain decoration. Kids color or paint a preferred outlined object, like a puppy, a ball, a sailboat, etc., on a plastic sheet, cut it out from the sheet, cut a small hole in it if it's to be used as a keychain or on a necklace, place it on a cookie sheet, and bake. And, of course, I had the Easy Bake Oven, as well. But my parents never bought me any extra cake mixes, so I only got to bake 1 or 2 that came with the oven.
You can still do the same thing today with the clear plastic lids like you see on deli containers. Grab a sharpie color them up and put them in the oven! Surprise surprise!
@@keithhampton9700 I remember when they were first introduced back in the 1960s then taken off the market for exactly that reason. Then reintroduced a few years later. i had the originals. Eventually I got bored with them and found them more fun when used like a bola. Unfortunately I got a bit too good with them and wrapped them around the upper limb of a tree that I couldn't reach.
I wasn't middle aged at the time, but at 18 I suffered a concussion on a slip and slide. Ironically, I was a camp counselor at the time and had overseen children safely using it. The problem was that we were horsing around after camp closed for the day and I went down one side and someone else went down the other side. You can figure out what happened around the middle. Just to be clear, I had right of way and wasn't the drunk idiot going down the wrong side.
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 I'm glad you found it amusing. Occurring about a week after my 18th birthday, it was pretty much my first adult mistake. Wasn't even the last mistake I would make before going off to college two weeks later.
Honorable mention: A recent toy that consisted of small magnetic balls, that you could use to form sculptures. Turned out that when ingested by small children, the balls would stick together in intestines and cause wonderful things like internal bleeding. Fun toy!
My brother had one set when he was a kid. It was a wonderful experience for him to build things. You shouldn't get them if there is an infat or small kid around
While I didn't have a nuclear lab set, I did have a number of what today would be dangerous chemistry sets as well as model rockets. That's probably why I grew up to be an engineer.
I remember playing lawn darts, but we’d throw them down an embankment and into the forest for maximum distance combined with a small recovery mission. Occasionally someone would forget we were down there and they’d throw another one, but thankfully nobody was impaled. We also had a slip n slide and played with throwing stars, and never wore helmets while biking.
Imagine slipping on a slip'n'slide, then while down, taking a lawn dart to the eye and while thrashing, getting your hand stuck in an Easy Bake Oven, all while your sibling waves a beeping geiger counter over you, because you crushed the sample.
@@davefellhoelter1343 Unfortunately while funny it's not actually practical. I live in a house where planes regularly fly overhead in preparation for touchdown. When my mother got old enough that she needed help around the house she moved in with me, she was deaf as a brick BUT she was very susceptible to movement. She could easily pick up on someone standing next to her when we'd be none the wiser, no need to say how much she despised those planes and their rumbling through the night.
@@davefellhoelter1343 Honestly, it doesn't matter. To quote the Blues Brothers "How often do they go by? So often you won't even notice" Its the whiners we need to get rid of, I believe we can accomplish that with Carlin's fencing in certain states idea.
I remember I got my appendix removed right before summer vacation. I was six? It was about a day or two before I had my stitches removed, and I went across the street to go on the super slip n slide my friend’s dad built, down a huge hill. I had never seen my grandmother book it out the door, screaming at the top of her lungs, when she saw me sliding down on my stomach. 😂
You missed the Mattel "Thingmaker". (Creepy Crawlies) Basically a small open hotplate that had kids handling hot metal molds, far more dangerous than the Easy Bake.
I had this, all of these things had one flaw, you ran out of the gunk needed to make more and there was no Amazon or Internet to order more. After the first week, good luck getting the parents to send away for more. I seem to remember similar frustration on many of these types of toys. You got 4 packages of powder that melted into the shapes of these things, and then you had to graduate to finding other stuff around the house that you could heat up. That's when the real "fun" started!
@@Lockhart2000 Most parents saw it and their first reaction was "Well, that seems a whole lot safer than the molten lead we poured into molds when I was a kid! What a great idea!" Not a joke, BTW. I have a collection of old lead toy caster sets not much older than the Thingmaker. Safety is a slow process.
May I recommend an episode of crazy things sold in Sears Catalog throughout the decades? After ww2 you could allegedly buy "may or may not be" active ordnance shells.
Those were the days. Wish you still could, instead I have to buy one of those chem sets and engineer it myself. How else can you accurately play soldier
My grandfather bought Lawn Darts, which he, my dad, and uncles, remembered them as Jarts, which is what we all called them. He and his brother were on Omaha and Utah Beach on D-Day, which was not during their first tours in the European theatre? and both fought all the way through France, Belgium, Italy, and Germany, so the perception of what danger is, and what a serious injury is, was of a different magnitude than the average American, even in the mid-80's. He insisted on grinding the tips until they were sharpened sufficiently to penetrate plywood targets, and taught 10 year old me to regrind them until sharpened. He thought it was hilarious that we threw them OVERHAND at plywood targets right next to us, hard enough to stick into the plywood. Ironically, no one was injured until we were lobbing them underhand upwards. One came down as my cousin was picking on his younger brother, and me, saying some mean shit. He at first didn't see the dropping projectile, but managed to swing his head to the side but it still landed in his low back, entering at belt level and exiting his left butt cheek. His brother and I laughed until we cried and insisted we were allowed to go to the ER too. Looking back it was insanely stupid.
As I recall, Alton Brown had one of the Easy-Bake ovens when he was a kid. And then later went on to create a full sized pizza oven that uses stadium lighting bright enough to be seen from space...
I think That was a ripoff of the "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" movie, where he ran away, and joined some other characters, like the elf who wanted to be a dentist, on "the Island of misfit toys."
When I was a child, once a year our local park board would set up a giant slip and slide that they powered up with a fire hose connected to the hydrant. It was much longer and wider than the store bought toy and set up on a large grass hill. It was an absolute blast.
Mattel's ThingMaker. Metal molds that were filled with a latex-like Plastigoop and heated to a skin scorching temperature to make to bugs and creature components. I loved it, especially the glow in the dark Plastigoop. I got minor burns a couple of times but lessons learned. I also was trusted with POCKET KNIVES (Oooooo) at about 6-7 years of age and would whittle little boats and stuff. A couple small cuts (with small scars still visible), but again, lessons learned. I also played with matches.
I remember the Thingmaker. It disappeared eventually. I figured they were recalled after thousands of spider-shaped burns started showing up in doctors' offices. Do you remember the Incredible Edibles, which was exactly the Thingmaker except it used (supposedly) edible stuff and made bug-shaped candy like our modern gummy bears.
Viewmaster had a projector. In the pre LED days it came with a super-hot bulb, that was wisely covered by an ALUMINUM grille that also got maybe a fraction of a degree less hot. Yeah, had fingers wrapped up in gauze drenched in ointment ... Later models were redesigned with a wide plastic grill and these days they'd probably come with a somewhat safer LED anyway.
Me: sees link and thinks “hmmm wonder if they’ll do slip ‘n’ slides” not disappointed! Lol. One glorious Christmas (aussie btw so middle of summer) I inadvertently got given two by separate relatives. My brother and I immediately linked them together on my great grandads precipitously sloped front lawn, effectively forming a sixty foot long ski jump that was managing to launch us several metres into the air. This went on for at least an hour until my Mum came outside to see why all the males of all ages of our extended family were having so much fun, immediately freaked out and turned off the tap after seeing 8 year old me executing a perfect backflip 2 meters in the air and coming down on my belly in the muddy, heritage listed wetland that was formally my great grandads front lawn. It didn’t help that my Dad was yelling wild encouragement at me while waving a long neck of melbourne bitter over his head and wearing only a pair of budgie smugglers. Aussie christmases in the 70’s were the best lol….
You'd probably burn up the Olympics if they allowed you to continue! We'll stop inflicting any more comments with this fine Aussie amazement. (eager now to look up "budgie smugglers"!)
oh Blaze Boi this was a good theme for Danny to write it out, specially with a long introduction detailing hazardous child plays he did back in Rotherham
My favourite video so far! I'm old enough to have played with Lawn Darts when I was a kid. I think after seeing what they could do to other objects around when we missed our targets, we knew well enough to avoid throwing them at each other, but I know other people who somehow managed to survive their childhoods who didn't have the same philosophy... Yay for free health care in Canada! It came in handy for some of them...
Lawn darts: Danger to kids. I get it. Slip n Slide: Adults should be responsible. Gilbert set: Radiation. Yeah, I get it. Aqua Dots: Too easy to swallow even when playing properly. I'll give the nannies that one. Easy-Bake ovens: I always wondered about a "toy" being able to cook edible food. Seriously, as a kid watching commercials I thought, "Is that safe?"
I still have my Gilbert science kit... My parents found it in their garage and now it's in my hall closet. I've tried to get it but the huge glowing rat in that closet always gets out...
I had this Air Blaster thing that was designed to blow things over across the room with a harmless pulse of air. I quickly found that if you stuck a pencil or other projectile in it, it also made a very effective and unsafe projectile launcher.
Kids have definitely gotten dumber as time progresses. We made it through childhood without the infinite warning labels and still have all our fingers/toes/eyes etc. Lol
Back when I was a kid it was all about Darwinism. No helmets with the bicycles, toxic dangerous toys - stupid people didn’t survive childhood. Those were the days.
Everyone knows the rules for Lawn Darts. All the kids stand in a close circle, one kid flings the dart straight up as hard as he could... the last kid to run for his life wins. (or loses, if he waits a bit too long.)
That's exactly how me and my cousins played lawn darts. Well that and the mumbley peg version of throwing them as close to each others feet as possible.
Wow , amazing how so many kids think ( hmm , is that really the right word ? ) alike. We did that once realizing just after tossing them that this would be our LAST "game" of the day because it was now DARK. UH-OH !
The indoor version of which being known as "ceiling darts" or more informally "Gravitational dart ninjas". Torg and Riff still haven't trademarked it. (Also I love your books)
@@Reddotzebra That game I never played, though I did read the comic. It immediately reminded me of the instinctual knowledge of how Lawn Darts are played though, yes... and glad you enjoyed the books. :) (And yes, I am aware that I effectively stated that I HAVE played Lawn Darts with "kids rules"... I was a child of the 80s, it's a miracle any of us got out alive and as minimally scarred as we did. lol)
I think you mean that there is something wrong with people who give them to stupid children. As kids, we (and I mean everyone I knew) played with them all summer. I can't recall a single injury. Not one. And this is coming from someone dumb enough as a kid to literally knock himself out with a croquet ball one time. Even I was smart enough to understand "heavy pointy thing can hurt someone".
Having grown up in the 70s and 80s with many of these toys, and more, I find it amazing that my friends and I made it into adulthood with no major injuries!
I had a set! It was a city kids equivalent of horse shoes because you didn't have to ruin the lawn by having to have a dirt landing place. We never had a single accident and had tons of fun with them!
@@tinapatterson9234 Competition horseshoe is done with a clay pit so that nothing bounces, it just sticks. You are spot on with your comparison, and I think darts were a great urban adaptation of horseshoes.
@@tinapatterson9234 Good point. Lawn darts are a better option for a throwing accuracy game for more urbanized areas. I grew up occasionally playing bocce when visiting my cousins in a more rural area with a lot of Italian influence. Bocce is superior to both horseshoes and lawn darts, but lawn darts can be played in a smaller area and has less impact.
In the 80's of my childhood, we were still playing with toys from the past. With my cousin's chemistry set, we spilled a weird bubbling mix we "invented" which made some permanent stains to come off on a table, a carpet, and a linoleum floor. We've never been able to reproduce the mixture
Meanwhile, on the playground... Slides are now no taller than 4 feet. Where's the fun in that? Where's the challenge? We had slides that were 12 foot tall. As a 1st grader I had to muster my courage to climb the ladder. then more courage to stand on the top and sit down. But ohhh, the rush of sliding down!! A well earned reward for conquering your fears! And a lesson learned as well. And a memory. I can still see me climbing that ladder.
And the swing sets with hard-pan earth under them, the jungle-gym on asphalt, etc. Kids got scrapes, bruises and stubbed toes (who wore shoes?) and you'd walk it off.
Google Tulsa Gathering Place to see a state of the art playground with real slides, ladders, swings, etc. Signs up warn that play is not risk free, or words to that effect. So cool to hear the happy squeals of kids challenging themselves.
They have the rocket slide at Union Park here in Des Moines. That puppy is at least 16 feet tall. There's a sign that warns us it's a danger to be enjoyed at one's own risk. I think it's a historic landmark at this point. The friction burns one can get from high speeds across the fiberglass surface can be violent. Both me and my 3 year old son sport scars from the beloved slide.
There were some nice chemistry sets in the early 60s that had really cool experiments. My older brother was always doing cool stuff to amuse his young siblings. No supervision, it was awesome and no injuries. Never heard of the nuclear kit.
It was like over 500 dollars in today's money and the experiments were all about radiation : which is kinda cool but way less bang-for-your-buck than any other science kit.
I used t have a chemistry set-one of the DELUXE ones that unfolded into a lab!Followed the books of experiments that came with the kit-then tried other "experiments" in chemistry books--made gun powder-got in trouble from that one after almost blowing up our basement rec room-and stinking out guests with horrible smells from my experiments!
I remember, many years ago, I had an Erector set and a true chemistry set. Sure, I could have been in danger, but everything worked out and it lead me to a degree in applied sciences. And again, the opportunity for kids today to follow an exceed my background continue to fade. The tools and teachers are no longer available.
That's because no kid left behind is more important than a good education. When I was in school, if you didn't study, do homework and pay attention in class, you repeated that grade over again the next school year.
I've seen this list on several different TH-cam channels. I like your unique spin on it. Another dangerous toy was the Cabbage Patch Doll that could be fed plastic "food". Little fingers and hair could get caught in the gears of the doll's motorized mouth.
3:20 Right there, in that dude's hand..is that a beer I see? There's no way having a few drinks while yeeting heavy darts willy-nilly at your friends or kids could be dangerous. No way at all!! 🤣 Ahhhh...the good ole days..
Oh man, I remember lawn darts. You throw one straight up (you hope) as hard as you can (friends standing around), lose track of it in the mid-summer sun (because of course you do), then everyone scatters! It's an absolute wonder none of us ever got speared. We _kinda_ understood that they were dangerous, but a bunch of 9-11 year olds don't have a developed sense of self-preservation.
I had a science kit that came with about 50 different compounds and most of the experiments included a boys best friend in the 70's,,,, FIRE! What a joy to have the pyro in all of us hooligans approved by proxy of Mattel or whomever was selling those toys. They helped justify what was previously fodder for being grounded for a week into a "legitimate" learning experience. Thank you Mattel, (OMG am I happy my kids didn't have a chance to burn down the house with that crap!)
@@robertschnobert9090 2004. Probably past the statute of limitations. Plus although there were some bruises and sprains nobody was hurt. I'm not a fan of a litigious society. If a kid gets hurt, its typically the kid or the parents fault. Except for aqua dots that was kinda F'd up. My daughter was born in '06 and I always recognized it was MY job to ensure her safety. You have to TEACH them to not be idiots. Part of parenting.
@@Kabup2 I agree and disagree. I learned much from watching my parents make mistakes. If it were simple to "legislate away" idiots, it would have been done long ago. I don't believe that it is possible.
I was turned loose with a chemistry set, an actual .22 rifle, knives, slingshots etc. My cousin and I both had spring-air BB pistols and would engage in BB battles without benefit of safety glasses, much less padding. The same cousin had a VacuForm which softened sheets of plastic and sucked them down onto various forms to make toys. I also had several of the Marx "Johnny Eagle" replica guns complete with spring-launched hard plastic bullets, again, we don't need no steenkin goggles. I also had the One Man Army (more projectiles) and the Big Bang Cannon with its big damned cannonball. The slingshot (Wrist Rocket, the Magnum of the genre) fights lasted into "adulthood" with my Army buddies visiting my home on leave and finding a fully fruited-out Chinaberry tree for ammo. Later, while raising four boys of my own, it was popular for birthday parties to involve an indoor or outdoor session of paintball, which was mirrored in my Law Enforcement career (as a firearms trainer, go figure!) with the use of "Simunitions", magnum class paintball fired from real guns...what's next?
Had a great old book for kids when I was a kid. Had great designs for making cool electrical stuff. Like cooking a hot dog using house current. You basically stuck electrodes into the opposite ends of the hot dog and plugged it into the wall. GOOD TIMES! Must be in my old closet at my parents house.
I remember the hot dog cooker. Wrap the wires of an electrical cord around a couple of framing nails and drive them through a piece of wood. impale the hot dog on the nails and plug the cord in. What could possibly go wrong?
@@Buster_Piles When I was a kid, something really weird was wrong with me. My older brother and I (12 and 10) used to ride our bikes to a sporting goods store to by gun powder for his muzzle loader. We would fire it off at night, without slugs, just paper and powder. It was fun, but it never, not once, ever occurred to us to blow stuff up with the gun powder. Something was definitely wrong with us.
@@Foolish188 great comment! 👍 the best we had were bangers. Many a lad got chased down, sat on and had a lit banger shoved onto their pants or jumper. 🤣👍 we were little tearaways. Great days!
This episode reminded me of the sometimes dodgy electrical and chemical projects in those "boy's annual" type books from the 30s - 60s (...I loved looking through them when I visited my grandparents as a kid). I remember one in particular that gave instructions (for kids in their early teens) on how to rig up a fence with electrified pads to "surprise" neighbourhood cats!
I had onf of those science kits in my early teens.... Bits and pieces of that thing ended up in various school science projects over the next three years.
In my youth we just had an electric fence surrounding the whole property that we inevitably, sometimes intentionally, came into contact with ourselves. It really surprised some deer, horses, and the occasional llama. Can't imagine a cat not coming away from that with serious PTSD. At 5,000 volts output it surely exceeded what a high-powered shock collar could manage, and even those can mess up the neural pathways of cats and dogs permanently.
@@sophierobinson2738, sending sympathy! Our neighbours have 3 dogs that play-fight (loudly) outside my bedroom window for hours every morning! It's driving me nuts. ('Course, it's the owners I'm grumpy with - it's not the critters' fault.)
May I recommend to you the chemical formulary (styropyro did a couple of videos on it). Projects include: gunpowder, homage tracer bullets that explode on you if you follow the directions, discount napalm, carcinogens, actual napalm, and more!
We used to dig pits for “forts”, and pull up long grass with giant dirt clods on the roots, and hurl them twenty or so yards at each other. The neighborhood kids divided into two armies and went at it. It was dangerous, but FUN. And sometimes, very painful. Amazingly, I cannot recall a single trip to the hospital as a result of this summertime activity lol...we had a ball!!!
My friends and I used to play a game with lawn darts. We would throw them all straight up into the air and when they hit the peak of their trajectory we would run. I'm amazed we made it out alive.
I LOVED the Slip-n-Slide! We had the perfect lawn for it, with a slight downslope. I also had the truly massive largest Gilbert Chemistry Lab made. Not the atomic kind, but still had a lot of sketchy items in the kit and it was also quite awesome, really. My uncle did work at Oak Ridge, and my Dad showed me how to do proper measurements for the various experiments. The worst I ever did was make a REALLY strong stink bomb. We never had Jarts because Dad had the presence of mind to see the potential danger, but my sister had the Easy Bake Oven, and I had a VacuForm thing that used even higher heat to vacuum form some cool shapes from sheets of plastic.
I remember the Home Chemistry set. I quickly learned what sulfur dioxide smelled like. So did my parents. BTW, true story, I ended getting my undergraduate degree in chemistry.
I was still a kid the first time I saw Jarts. I instantly thought to myself, "that's an injury waiting to happen!" We were always really careful with them. They did work really well, though. Horseshoes were only marginally safer.
We had them in the 70's. I remember once my sister had one go right through her shoe into the ground. Thankfully, it went between her toes. Could've gone through her foot. The sharp weighted ends were quite heavy and capable of serious damage.
We still buy slip and slides here in Australia. In fact we make extra long ones out of builders plastic for holidays and add soap to them for crazy fun.
In one of my past lives/jobs, I got to interact with some of the management from one of the manufacturers mentioned in this video. They only cared about getting in and out with as much cash as possible, as quickly as possible, with no thought towards quality or safety, which "wasn't their problem". They could make your head spin with their rapaciousness.
@@SBCBears not a bad guess, but they only work through distributors, so I never met anyone from Wham-O. The company I was referring to is very litigious and will quickly spin a web of lawsuits around you if they feel directly slighted.
I grew up with Lawn Darts. Lived in a small college town with a huge park-like commons right on the main street. So I grew up playing them with college kids setting up games all over. Never saw anyone get hurt. I think it was also Hasbro that made a COTTON CANDY MAKER for children! I think it was for ages 8 & up. I had that & an original easy bake oven (aqua..). I didn't use that so much, but would make all the cotton candy, spun around probably 8" handheld paper cones in my bedroom as my friends, brothers & sisters could eat. Is when I learned how long melted sugar stays hot! It was an open tub that you swirl your paper cones around in, just like at a fair! THAT was a wonderful "toy for 8 year olds!!!
Honestly, the only ones of these that sound *dangerous* to me are the Aqua Dots (though the atomic science kit is borderline). All the others are simply a case of 'well don't _do_ that then'.
@@kharnthebetrayer1575 It's perfectly safe *if you follow the directions.* I call it borderline because, unlike the others, a child could hurt themself by ignoring the directions without requiring gross stupidity or parental negligence.
@@macdjord I'm not gonna pretend to know what measures they used to contain the Uranium isotopes ... But if someone can break a seal and unwittingly make their house an irradiated mini Chernobyl then I put that much higher on my list of priorities. My grandmother actually used a couple of these kits to make an X-Ray machine for a science fair. She won, and nobody really gave a shit about the kid that built a literal cancer ray because people were using radioactive materials as sales gimmicks.
Don't kid yourself. Lawn Darts racked up a body-count of horrific deaths and injuries. We had these and it's a miracle I survived. Me and the gang of morons I ran with when I was 12 did several variations on the rules including throwing them straight up and fleeing, as well as standing far away and lobbing them at each other.
Lawn Darts were absolutely amazing. They served 2 incredibly important functions. 1) They were absolutely brilliant fun, giving hours Of competitive play, outdoors, that kids today Are massively lacking. 2) In a word: Darwin.
@@robertcampbell6349 of course, get hit in the head with a pogo stick and the same thing will happen, what’s your point? Myself and millions of other children that grew up playing it came out just fine, mostly because we had good parentS (the capital S is important there) that watched over us and made sure we knew right from wrong, and not to Chuck weighted spears at each other. Although it still happened occasionally, but boys will be boys. The problem isn’t with the toy, the problem is a lack of good parenting.
@@robertcampbell6349 apologies my good man. It’s far easier to just assume a reply is not a joke, and you’re dealing with a moron, than it is to assume it’s a joke and you’re dealing with someone who has at least half a brain. Sure, you’ll occasionally get bit and look dumb like I do here, but it’s rare.
I had darts, lawn darts, BB guns, chemistry sets. But the most dangerous toy I had was an electronics set. It included items used to make an electric motor, and it taught me that if you increase the current the motor went faster. This gave me the idea of hooking up my Scalextric racing track to the mains. And it worked. The little cars went super fast, but they flew off the track immediately and in some cases burst into flames. Parts of the plastic track and cars melted. No real damage was done. It set fire to the carpet but I managed to put it out. I’m pretty sure the electronics set did not warn against using it to hook up your Scalextric to the mains. So it’s clearly the company’s fault.
Now that's really interesting because scalectric cars use low voltage DC motors and mains power is 120V or 230V AC (depending on your part of the world), so how exactly did that manage to work? The car shouldn't move at all because not only will AC not drive a DC motor but the tiny wires connected to it would immediately vaporize. (And yes I'm calling bull***t on this)
When I was a kid, I found a set of lawn darts in the attic of my grandparent's farmhouse. My grandmother told me they were stored there many years ago after my great-uncle was impaled in his bare foot. I set them up on the lawn and we used them, but we set up the rings beside each other to avoid a repeat event separated by decades.
Holy Makinac you actually start off with the infamous " Lawn Darts" with actual hardened steel points.... This reminds one of when just a young kid witnessing a very traumatic experience , one due to drunken adults playing the Lawn Darts game.....When the tipsy father wildly threw the dart in air , watching it land imbedded into the top of the skull of his son , and who was also a neighborhood friend of mine ..... Afterwards these darts were then sold with flattened points to avoid these kind of tragedies ! Thanks ....This memory has been vivid in my mind since the day it happened many years ago...Scarboro
Hilarious! I'm knotting myself 😅. Great days! I got a lawn dart in my buttock, went quite deep. Probably should've had a tetanus jag but hey, we were tough in those days!
@@scarborosasquatchstation1403 but hey, we're laughing. 🤣 better times. We used to have stone fights (throwing rocks at each other) and all sorts. Today's kids are far too soft. Wear your scars with pride buddy! 😊👍
As a kid, I got the trouble for sticking my Jarts in the side of the coal shed. In my 50s I nearly killed myself on a Slip n Slide. My chemistry set wasn't nuclear, but I still bear scars from flaming sulphur which also set the kitchen table on fire. Yes, these toys were educational . They taught me not to do stupid shit.
I did try to make nitroglycerine in my backyard. It didn't work, thank God.
I found out using my chemistry set, that setting Sulphur on fire 🔥 is a bad idea. (It produces Sulphur dioxide. Which you shouldn't breathe.)
If you do stupid shit remember to have someone hold your beer first. You're probably going to need it when the smoke clears.
My annual chemistry kits (it was the de facto present for me) helped to mould me into the scientist I became.
Did it? Cause it sounds like you kept doing stupid shit.
I found a complete set of Jarts, in the original box, at a yard sale a few years back for $5.00. There is actually a black market for the things, and last time I checked a complete original set was worth about $100. I keep mine as a nostalgic conversation piece. I love the fact the box has a label which warns they may cause serious or fatal injury.
I remember throwing a blue one at my grandparent's house back in the early 1980s. I found it in the yard with two others; nobody else was around. It was one of the ones with the plastic rod that the fin assembly could slide back and forth on; you would grab the round knob at the end of the rod and use that for a handle to toss it,and once you did the fins would slide to the back to stabilize it. I threw it a couple of times and thought "Yeah, that's dangerous; how long will it be before they get banned?"
You can still play with them. Just do like we used to do. Dont throw them at each other. And have the opposite team stand off to the side. Playing with stuff like this safely doesn't take a very high IQ level
I'd buy a set. I miss lawn darts.
We have a set, & love to play!! Even our dogs knew to get out of the way. I always found it ridiculous they were banned, when there are REAL DARTS, with sharper points. I also feel like they should bring them back, considering people are throwing axes for fun
My fave is still Dan Aykroyd's infamous Bag O'Glass (on SNL). It's essence as a dangerous toy was pure. Inexpensive and delivered the expected experience.
Johnny Human Torch was my favorite. A bag of oily rags, and a lighter.
what about the space helmet? It had the rubber bands included.
Kid - "I jammed my hand into a small oven that I knew was hot enough to cook stuff and burnt my hand"
1960's Parents - "Well that was stupid"
2000's Parents - "Let's get a bunch of lawyers"
So much this! As a 60's child, my parents would have just asked me if I had learned anything. No need to call a lawyer when you hurt yourself.
@@jimcappa6815 Lawyers were not allowed to advertise in those days so the parents didn't realize they could sue.
Ah, supposed "good old times" narrative...
@@ExtremeMadnessX or the past was the worst. Either one.
Even if you required amputations? I do think that if the toy can easily permanently injure someone that way it maybe has some safety concerns that warrant to be adressed
I am Simon's age and totally had an easy bake oven, a slip'n'slide, and a trampoline with no pads covering the springs and frame (growing up in the 90's FTW😎). What's more, I drug the trampoline over by a tree house for extra oomph, and used my father's work truck boom for extra height drops. We'd drag sleds around the neighborhood with a four wheel drive truck when it snowed. I climbed a LOT of trees and spent a lot of time outside. It's amazing that the first bone I broke was only just last year.
Sounds like you're from the midwest haha. Ohio, here. We did the exact same when I grew up in the 90s
My friend and I once rode a Big Red on on embankment, no we did not flip her on us though we came quite close!
I never had dangerous toys...we couldn't afford them.. I made my own... fireworks, cannons, gas balloons.. lots of things.
managed not to damage myself too badly..... a few burns and cuts.... LOL
@@DrJohnAZoidberg BB Guns, 3 wheelers, mini bikes, go-karts, pulling wheelies and jumps with a lawn mower (to name a few). Yeah, we definitely lived in different times. Missouri born and raised here, but I think that same chillaxed mentality was national if not global back then.
90s kid here too the best was our crazy baby boomer parents would egg us on and help us in these crazy endeavors like my dad showing me how to rig the governor on my go kart.
A friends dad gave us a 'toy' he'd had from a long time ago. It was basically a self electrocution kit with two handles and a transformer. The old bit of kit was broken so we wired it through a modern variable resistor. When we turned it up it was impossible to let go of the handles, so you'd have to wait for someone to stop laughing and turn it off for you.
Dude that's hilarious....as a 47 yr old male who also played with homemade sketchy toys growing up I approve
Was he Gen X? Or a Boomer? I’m genuinely curious.
Man, I am glad to have been a kid back in the days of these toys. The toys in today's video were the least dangerous to us.
We were too busy using our bicycles to jump ramps, as fast as we could, and on ramps built as high as possible - Evel Knievel had a big influence on us in the 70's.
Also, we had lots of bottle rocket wars. Yes, we actually shot bottle rockets at each other. No trips to the emergency room. And no one took an eye out, or lost an eye.
I wasn't raised to live life in fear. We rode in the back of pickup trucks, cars had no seat belts, we played lawn darts, our parents smoked in the car and rolling the windows down was not an option. Back when motorcycles were dangerous ands sex was safe. Things were so much better back then.
Ever then use the ramps to kamikazee into each other? Then the (only once) downhill rolls in metal trash barrels... and ohjoy, the summer when the (Stoughton WI) fireworks malfunctioned, dropping hundreds of unexploded pieces in a big field to collect, jam into soda bottles.... one blew its bottom, shot up to explode against a treelimb and shower us shrapnel. Good days!
We used to go sledding on a nearby hill that had a berm and a pond beyond the berm. The trick, of course, was to see who get the closest to the water without falling through the ice. When (not if) somebody fell through the ice, we'd all laugh as they stripped down to their long johns and run like hell home to get dry and warm. Can't ban ponds or ice, so there's that.
@@RCAvhstape Damn. This IS a group of forgotten brothers and sisters! Had the sledding-ending-in-ice but was Yahara River in Stoughton, WI (can't believe those brain cells still active) which was always thin center current and thought of crashing thru terrified me. But we had a chain link fence at end; soon bent and then a ramp for those that DID end up on the ice. But none crashed thru. Lesse... same place my brother tried that fancy move of waterskiier letting go, sliding up to dock or ramp and stepping out, oh so cool. Had perfect view of him hitting the crushed-rock ramp at about 35mph (seemed). Skis instantly stopped, he flew out and damn if he maintained for a sec or two. That blurry, spinning-wheel effect in cartoons? Real thing!
We had a big hill in the neighborhood. You ride down, cut into a yard, hit the ditch and jump your bicycle all the way across a road and into a church parking lot. One kid went home for something, came down his hill and out in front of a car. He would have made it but the car swerved the same way he was going. I watched him fly through the air, legs still going like he was pedaling, probably a good 40 feet and landed in a yard. He was pretty damn sore for a few weeks.
Yep, Bottle rocket wars, roman candles.
One guy broke his arm playing kickball of all things. "Big Eddie" went for a big kick. Rolled his foot across the top of the ball instead and went straight up in the air horizontal. Awesome hang time. Tried to catch himself with that arm and ended up with an extra "elbow".
He jumped up, held up his arm, half of it flopped back down like a noodle and he just made a "Uh" sound and ran in the house. 30 seconds later his mom was dragging him to the car by his good arm.
Good times.
This is seriously just an inventory of my childhood toybox.
God, I feel so old.
Ditto though we also had an arsenal of rocks to use for really boring days.
My dad had a distinctly Ivan Drago take on parenting: "If he dies, he dies".
Obviously I didn't .
Ah yes, you kept a slip and slide, lawn darts and an oven inside a toy box…
OK boomer
You and me both brother.
Man I remember lawn darts. Was one of my favourite games to play with family in the 80s. There was one rule that when broken would stop the game for everyone though: We all had to stand at the same end, the end the current throw was happening from. If any of us failed to do that, we were grounded from playing.
Anybody remember a toy from the mid 70's -- they may have been called Clackers -- that consisted of two good sized acrylic balls connected by a piece of rope? You held on to the middle of the rope and bounced the balls against each other by moving your hand up and down. As you moved your hand faster and faster, the rebounding force became great enough that the balls collided with each other both below and above your hand. Inevitably, the force involved would cause one of the balls to become detached from the rope, and fly off into space with sometimes harmful results. I don't think they stayed on the market very long.
I remember a version from the 90's that had two single-piece molded plastic ball-and-rope parts attached to a handle.
The Clackers I remember weren't acrylic, they were glass. It took a lot to break them but they would regularly loose chunks from one or both balls. They weren't intended to be slammed into each other with great force but, when kids are involved, that's often what happened. This would have been around 1970-1974 when I would have played with them.
Guys in shop class made them all the time. Principal finally banned them after multiple people were injured in various ways.
@@renaissanceman7145 I never actually owned a set, and it was a long time ago, so they may have been glass. That makes them even more dangerous. Thanks for the reply.
I was in junior high-it was about 1972-73. They were made of glass, very cool if you had the coordination to make them clack, but weren’t around for very long.
Well I’m 62 and I survived these toys and drinking from a garden hose. We had lawn darts, knives, BB and real guns, etc. We also had a mother that would wear our butts out when we got stupid. THAT is why we are still here. We had parents that were involved and would tune us up when necessary. My father was a Drill Sgt. in the Army (whole lot of stories on that) and he taught me the responsibility of firearms. The only “time out” we got was your mom resting to catch her breath when whooping your butt. My sister had an easy bake oven the the deserts were pretty good. I had the lawn darts and when sharpened on concrete they would stick into a tree. Our slip and slide was a muddy hill after a good rain. God I’d give anything to relive those days again.
Yeah your mother didn't have to work 3 jobs to keep you alive
One of my childhood toys was a Colt New Service revolver in .32-20. Mom didn't know about that.
But at that same time, black people also couldn’t drink from the same water fountains as white people, Europe and Asia were recovering from the attrition of World War 2, and tens of millions of people died every year from famine up until the early 2000s. Those days were awful if you weren’t a white American. But that doesn’t fit the “1950s were a better time” narrative now does it. 🤫
@@matthewmans3984 yes I remember those days and that was sad. But damn it don’t paint me racist because I was reminiscing about my childhood.
@@captainskippy6622 Here here!
Still have 2 sets of lawn darts in the original boxes LOVED playing with them....
How about the shoes with springs under them? Instant leg breakers.
My sis had the original Easy Bake oven - LOVED that thing.....
I remember the bow and arrow sets where the arrow had red suction cups stuck on the end. It was easy to pop those off and into a pencil sharpener they went.
Rip the cat... Tasted s bit funny tho
i put a kids eye out with the similar style dart gun...i took off the tip and told him to put his hand up...he didnt i fired....i swear i was aiming for his chest...but regretfully he lost his left eye...and more regretfully i got my ass beat so bad i really couldnt sit or stand or walk for a month....we had to move
@@artjones2498 I've no sympathy for the loser, if he'd just have held up his hand as requested (or ducked) he would have been fine.
Carry on that man!
We used to make spears with 4 inch nails stuck into bamboo garden stakes. I stuck one right through a chums cheek.
Ah, great days!
Sort of like the blowgun in my closet
The primary reasonings for most of these "Dangerous Toys" sounds to be less actual danger, and more lack of parenting or operator error. I grew up playing with home made lawn darts and was never dumb enough to stand near the target zone, even as a 10 year old in the early oughts.
Yeah, nobody stands next to the pipe sticking out of the ground while others are tossing horseshoes at it! How hard is it to realize you need to be standing _next_ to the person doing the tossing/throwing, not near the target?
It was how we weeded out the weak minded.
"Nuclear hide and seek" however was right in the kit's manual, apparently. Safe!
@@oldenweery7510 that's why I believe in Darwin haha
I'm not saying stupid people deserve it, in just saying that if we remove the warning labels the problem will sort itself out.
Gilbert also made the Kaster Kit - "Make your own lead toys!" Complete with a mini crucible. 😂😂
How did our parents survive childhood?
I don’t know if it was lead but I remember setting the carpet on fire with a casting kit like that in the 90s. I also remember this thing that melted crayons so you could make….. bigger crayons.
Those who didn't survive the introductory training didn't have a chance at making kids
@@TrueMechTech if only we had such an effective vetting system! 😂
The thing is a lot of people did die, but they can't speak for themselves because they're dead. We're the lucky ones
@Elizabeth Sullivan I certainly didn't indicate that nobody died. But our parents lived through it.
In the 1970's we had a steam powered "donkey engine" that was run by lighting a small reservoir of methylated spirits. Somehow that progressed to my older brothers pouring the methylated spirits onto the dining table and lighting it, quickly putting the flames out with a fire extinguisher before the burning liquid damaged the table. We also dipped our finger into the spirits and lit the finger on fire, quickly blowing it out before it started to burn the skin. Obviously our mum and dad were at work when all this insane behaviour took place, they would have killed us.
Before you killed yourselves?? OMG I had a chemistry set one of those old ones before they made them more safe for kids. It had some pretty caustic stuff that I just mixed together. We never read any instructions for anything! We'd just start pouring stuff together looking for an explosion. Nothing happened but we ruined some fabrics and made some awful smells. Those mixtures could have been toxic and poisoned us.
ngl that sounds like a fun afternoon. But yeah I am so glad you guys didn't go down in a housefire
So basically parents are more dangerous than miniature steam engines. Good to know!
If the toys didn't kill you your parents would. 😄
Playing with fire is my favourite pass time. Kids still do that. I am living ( but damaged) evidence
As a kid of the 70's I'm amazed I survived. LOL I remember slicing my hand on a Tonka Toy and my dads like. "Spit on it you'll be fine." hahaha
Yep. Actually. the best treatment for small cuts and slices is your own spit. Found that out reading the book "Gulp" by Mary Roach.
You where lucky, my mother put a big splash of iodine on it. it did hurt more than the injury itself and i spontaneously spoke 9 different languages at one go.
Wimp! You pissed on it just like you do for a Blue Bottle. That's just little thing we have here in Australia that loves to sting tourists because they pee while swimming at the beaches. And you wouldn't bloody know it! It's how you treat the sting too! So there's ya two bob for the day.
As a teenager, my garage first aid kit was a stack of paper towels and a roll of electrical tape.
My grandmother has a set lawn darts up in the attic, we played with them all the time. Key was you know, not being in front of the person throwing them so you didn't get hit. Same with a good ole bb gun. Just treat it responsibly and you won't get hurt.
I have a set of lawn darts I bought at a yard Sale.
How dare you suggest people take responsibility for themselves.
@@TheNotoriousCheeto Yeah - that's the job of all The Karens and Darrens who Know What's Best For Everyone©. 😂🤣😂🤣
That makes sense, I guess come to think of it, the main problem is with it being labeled as "toys".. maybe people have a preconceived notion of the level of safety implied by something marketed as a "toy" and so don't treat as if it's a regular everyday object with the same capabilities.
We used to use a pharmacy's back wooden door as a bullseye. The owners never complained even though it had more holes than a collander. One day, one landed on my dad's head. He didn't get hurt much but he took them all away.
As a child of the 1970’s I remember the Chemistry Sets we got for Christmas and Birthdays! I loved them so Damn Much
60-year-old here. Played w/ lawn darts every summer. Made monsters by melting rubbery goop on a molded hot plate. Made army men by pouring molten wax into a casting mold. Sister had an easy bake oven. Tasted great. Shot arrows, shot bb guns - the ones with the CO2 cartridges were the coolest. Had a blast. No injuries. If I had gotten burned it would've taught me to be careful around hot things - pretty good lesson to learn. We didn't get impaled with lawn darts because we weren't idiots. Absolutely dipped fingers in the molten wax. Slight ouch but cool results.
Molten wax? Amateur! The ones with molten lead were the real deal! 😜
Survivorship bias. I guarantee the injured thought themselves pretty intelligent.
also, I’m more than a bit uncomfortable with the implication that unintelligent people deserve injury and death.
My 760 BB gun out did the CO2.
Pump it 10 times it woudl go through a metal trash can.
The people killed, maimed and disabled by these toys aren't around in a position to post on TH-cam about how safe they are. Look up survivor bias to see more examples.
Slip-n-slides, lawn darts, we had a blast with these things. But back then there were only three channels on TV to watch.
I remember my only accident on a trampoline. My foot went in-between the springs and I fell over the edge with my foot still in the springs. Luckily my leg bent the correct way at the knee instead of breaking a bone or tearing a tendon. Unluckily I was hanging there upside-down by my ankle and my knee. When I finally wiggled free I landed on a bigass root that was sticking up out of the ground. I spent the rest of the day safely inside eating paint and sticking silverware into wall outlets.
We had a large trampoline in my back yard for almost 10 years for my kids which they and their friends would play around on well into their teens and many drunken adults playing on it too.. Long enough for the "safety netting" and padding around the edges to fall off years before we finally took it down. In hundreds of uses, nobody drunk or sober got hurt. Even my dogs would go on it. I had a Labrador that would like to take a ball up on it then fall on the ball and roll around on it giving herself a back massage. I eventually took it down because the kids had moved out and the dog that was the only one getting use out of it died.
Paint is so good 🤤
And thank you for THAT mental image.
@@emb5048 no problem. I'm glad to be of service. Lol.
My parents had a safety rule: when you ride in the bed of the truck, you have to sit your butt lower than the sides of the truck. Very forward thinking of them.
When my Dad took me in the ocean on a 15ft boat, I asked him if it was safe. He said, “well, look what the big boys bring along for when their fancy boat sinks. It’s no bigger than ours.”
Reminds me of a scene in the movie "The Guardian", with Kevin Costner. It's about Coast Guard recruits training. And two of them get into a bar fight with Navy personell who think that Coast Guards are not real sailors, so they can't be in a sailors' bar. Their response - "When you guys in the Navy in your big boats can't take it anymore, you cry for help from us in the Coast Guard, to come and save you in our little boats! So who are the real sailors here?" This of course made it all end in hugs and friendship. No, wait, it didn't.
I bet it ended like the time the Klingon told Scotty that the Enterprise should be “towed away AS garbage!” (The Trouble With Tribbles)
And riding in the back of a pickup we just made sure not to put our hands between the bed and the cab so your hands wouldn't get crushed.
That Gilbert radioactive kit is sooo appealing! I always loved all the different "kits" as a child (many decades ago). I had a chemistry kit, quite a small one, but there was a whole series of them, each one bigger and more expensive, my friend had one that was bigger than mine. Then there were electronic kits, where you could put together different electronic circuits with components that were packaged so that it was easy to interconnect them in different ways. And combined kits that had mechanical and electronic components, also packaged so that it was easy to combine them in a multitude of ways. A friend of mine had a big electro-mechanical kit, the brand was called "Capsela", and he did not really do much with it, but when we got together and I was really fascinated about it, and I came up with many different experimental builds from his kit, he started calling me "genius" :)
Had an electric kit myself back when I was about 10. Growing up I loved to take my toys (often electronics) and put them back together again, so once I found an electronic kit where I could actually learn how the stuff works, I begged my parents and sure enough they obliged. Good times.
In the UK we had the Merit Chemistry Set in the 60s & 70s. Stink bombs and gunpowder were the favourite recipes.
Slip and Slide? Any adults seriously injured are eligible for a Darwin Award.
I didn't know a product called slip and slide even existed. We just nailed a long plastic wrap to a hillside and poured soap, water and oil on it. Luckily smartphones were some rich people shit back then.
They were more often than not drunk and went down with their hands at their sides. what woudld happen is they would have their heads down. reach the end of the slide where their heads would suddenly catch on the lawn and stop..while their body was still moving.
In reality these things were no more dangerous than anything else if you dont act like a moron. Its often a bad idea for adults to try to ride kids tricycles too. But when drunk adults are capable of doing all sorts of stupid things
This should have been Business Blaze. Tell me about the dangerously fun toys FACT BOY!!!
When I saw the title I thought it was going to be a Business Blaze video too.
With a cameo from Florida Man
Totally agree
Wait a few months; it will be.
Well, that last entry was already covered in a Business Blaze. The worst product recalls, or the worst products to be recalled, whichever of the two it was. But yeah the oven of chopped fingers already had some coverage for the OGBB.
This video reminds me of that old SNL skit where Jane Curtis is grilling Dan Akroyd over the various obviously dangerous things his company produces.
The "Human Torch" costume was oily rags and a lighter. 🤣🤣🤣
Classic sketch!!
I had a chemistry set where the first experiment I did created acrid smoke that made the house smell like a fart for four days. Played with that a week after my first experience with lawn darts. I could also ride my bike all over the city without a helmet or kneepads on. Darts were all metal tipped with wooden boards.
I had so many toys that could have killed me, I'm surprised I made it to my 20's where I survived alcohol and more drugs than Cheech and Chong could shake a pipe at.
Well your an id
Legend.
Ahhh... back in the day when being a kid was an education in surviving and avoiding injury, as well as toughening up. These days being a kid is about avoiding or taking advantage of lawsuits.
Yep. Classic late 60s episode of a METAL lawn dart nailing my brother (glanced off skull; no worries other than superficial laceration).
@@mvtv-montanavigilantetv5976 We lodged one in a bicycle seat and got another stuck in the shingles of the townhouse I lived in.
I remember those toys. Back then being dangerous, was part of the allure of a good toy. Seemed like many parents agreed with that idea.
We played with all of these toys in the 60's & 70's , & were still here taking care of the older & the younger generations.
Lawn darts, easy bake oven and slip n slides were the bomb. Tho as we got older we just used a bunch of tarps, soap and a hose for a slide. 80s kids had it made lol
don't forget the mini trail bikes
tarp, soap, hose. dang we were still doing that in the late 90's I'm a 90's kid (born in 83, but remember the 90's better).
at my church camp where i worked in the summer, we setup a giant slide on a decent-sized hill. it was made up of a giant, thick piece of i dunno what. some plastic base thing maybe for gardening or something i dunno. then at the bottom/last half, a giant piece of more flimsy plastic. it was held in place mostly by some large plastic stakes and cinder blocks.
relatively safe cuz it was very wide, there were a few instances of kids running into the cinder blocks. no one was really ever hurt. worst one was a kid hitting their foot on a block and scraping it up pretty badly. no one sued.
miss the 90's early 2000's. life was much better then.
My neighbor made a huge slip and slide out of garbage bags a garden hose........
Still make slip and slides during summer lmao. YES!
@@SeraphX2 ... Should have lined the sides with bales of straw . Then no one would have to worry about hitting a cinder block . You're welcome 😁✌️.....
I miss the mid-late 70's and the early 80's .. Before the technical revolution . I miss privacy . I miss being able to let kids be free range on nice sunny days . I miss . I miss freedom . I miss NOT being on video 325,000 a week .
🥃 Here's lookin up your old address.
Cheers ✌️🥃🥃🥃🥃🚬🥴🚬🥃
I have my fathers lead toy soldier casting kit he used when he was a kid. You actually had to melt lead in an electric pot that holds a ladle and pore it into a mold. It did not come with any sort of protection.
🤣
good ole molten lead to fill the kiddies' bones
You could burn yourself on it and then cash in
It was called "Metal Machines" and it. Was.AWESOME
Victorian time workhouse model 😅
As a parent of (now adult children) I can confirm that if you do not hover over them every single waking second, they will attempt something shockingly dangerous even if they lack plastic ingestible toys or dangerous chemicals sold as safe for children. I saw mine trip over their own feet and receive head stitches without me being able to react fast enough to prevent injury. Saw the effects after they took toy magnets and made beautiful rainbow effects on the CRT TV screen. Caught them trying to taste dangerous chemicals that I thought safely stored and well out of reach of kids. I heard a strange bumping sound outside my living room door and came out to investigate only to find a broken Buzz Lightyear toy lying at the bottom of the stairs. (He fell without style) They fell victim to playground accidents and so many sports injuries that I began to fear taking them to the ER in case I was accused of child abuse over genuinely accidental injuries. The worst thing about this list is that despite 2 parents doing their very best to prevent incidents like that, and giving endless warnings and instructions to these kids, as adults they continue to injure themselves in 'accidents' that both parents mananged to succesfully avoid as both children and adults. I can understand that sport realted injuries occur and horse riding and contact sports will court injury, but they still both manage to fall down stairs or bump their heads on kitchen cabinets or even car door frames because of lack of attention. I've seen it happen, more than once. You can blame me for being an inadequate parent, but how many times can you advise someone to be careful of 'insert hazard here' and them watch them hurt or injure themselves before simply deciding that you will never be listened to even if you outlive the children?
I still have a set of "Clackers" that I received when I was a kid (I'm 56 now). It's a silver rings, to put your finger in to hold them, two green cords approximately 14" long, and a purple acrylic ball at the end of each cord. The balls are roughly 1.5" in diameter.
I also had a wood burning kit, with which I managed to burn myself several times every time I used it. I played on my cousin's Slip'n'Slide at his birthday party when I was about 13 years old. The next day, my stomach muscles were so sore that I couldn't sit up without help. Lol.
One of my favorite toys was called Shrinky Dinks, and I believe they're still being sold. It's just a package of very special plastic sheets. When they're put into a REAL OVEN for a specific amount of time, at a specific temperature, they shrink down to a much smaller size and become thick and rigid, like an acrylic key chain decoration. Kids color or paint a preferred outlined object, like a puppy, a ball, a sailboat, etc., on a plastic sheet, cut it out from the sheet, cut a small hole in it if it's to be used as a keychain or on a necklace, place it on a cookie sheet, and bake. And, of course, I had the Easy Bake Oven, as well. But my parents never bought me any extra cake mixes, so I only got to bake 1 or 2 that came with the oven.
You can still do the same thing today with the clear plastic lids like you see on deli containers. Grab a sharpie color them up and put them in the oven! Surprise surprise!
Original Clackers were made of glass. Later was changed to Acrylic.
@@keithhampton9700 I remember when they were first introduced back in the 1960s then taken off the market for exactly that reason. Then reintroduced a few years later. i had the originals. Eventually I got bored with them and found them more fun when used like a bola. Unfortunately I got a bit too good with them and wrapped them around the upper limb of a tree that I couldn't reach.
@@thomasmendez2816 Dude. I bet they made the best Bolo. Great dangerous times!!
I wasn't middle aged at the time, but at 18 I suffered a concussion on a slip and slide. Ironically, I was a camp counselor at the time and had overseen children safely using it. The problem was that we were horsing around after camp closed for the day and I went down one side and someone else went down the other side. You can figure out what happened around the middle. Just to be clear, I had right of way and wasn't the drunk idiot going down the wrong side.
Hence, the phrase, "We believe alcohol was involved."
I literally lol.
@@jed-henrywitkowski6470 I'm glad you found it amusing. Occurring about a week after my 18th birthday, it was pretty much my first adult mistake. Wasn't even the last mistake I would make before going off to college two weeks later.
These are some of the most fun threads ever seen on TH-cam. Sorry to patter on sometimes but looks like we're all embracing it!
Let me guess. The drunk idiot came out with little or no injury?
Honorable mention: A recent toy that consisted of small magnetic balls, that you could use to form sculptures. Turned out that when ingested by small children, the balls would stick together in intestines and cause wonderful things like internal bleeding. Fun toy!
I guess putting balls in your mouth isn't such a good idea, no matter the size. A shame, that.
They're not meant for small children. The danger there is lack of parental supervision.
@@Gertyutz A redditor stuck a bunch of them in his urethra so maybe people can’t be trusted-
My brother had one set when he was a kid. It was a wonderful experience for him to build things.
You shouldn't get them if there is an infat or small kid around
While I didn't have a nuclear lab set, I did have a number of what today would be dangerous chemistry sets as well as model rockets. That's probably why I grew up to be an engineer.
Engineers never omit to mention that they are engineers. Even when no one asked.
So did my cousin, albeit minus two fingers and an eye...
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@@Fleurlean4 An engineer once told me a joke: How do you find an engineer into a big crowd? Don't worry, he will come and tell you.
I remember playing lawn darts, but we’d throw them down an embankment and into the forest for maximum distance combined with a small recovery mission. Occasionally someone would forget we were down there and they’d throw another one, but thankfully nobody was impaled. We also had a slip n slide and played with throwing stars, and never wore helmets while biking.
Did you ride in the back of a pick-up truck? Drink water from a hose? Eat a Kinder Surprise?
@@sandybarnes887 I did all three of those things
@@superdays7933 same here. The good ole days
All but eat kinder surprise lol.
ah the good old days of dangerous childhood fun
The atomic energy kit was entirely safe, as long as you used the asbestos facemask included.
And the included lead apron, gloves, and shoes
If you got really lucky you had the kit AND lived in an area where radon gas is abundant ...
Imagine slipping on a slip'n'slide, then while down, taking a lawn dart to the eye and while thrashing, getting your hand stuck in an Easy Bake Oven, all while your sibling waves a beeping geiger counter over you, because you crushed the sample.
Sounds like a Family Guy episode to me.
+you swallowed some GHB-coated plastic pellets
I am dying 😂 😂 😂 I tried reading this out loud to my 90's born children but couldn't get past the easy bake 😂 😂 😂. Thanks best laugh .
This is not too far from at least one family reunion.
And the atomic sample is embedding with the glass in your rear! I wonder how much that lawsuit would have been worth?
In the words of George carlin, back in my day the kid who ate the marbles didn't grow up to have kids of their own.
Carlin was an absolute genius of observation and language. God I miss him.
Probably because those kids were geeks and stayed that way even through adulthood.
OMG I remember Carlin's cure for loud Air traffic, sell the affected houses to the Deaf! Perfect!
@@davefellhoelter1343 Unfortunately while funny it's not actually practical. I live in a house where planes regularly fly overhead in preparation for touchdown. When my mother got old enough that she needed help around the house she moved in with me, she was deaf as a brick BUT she was very susceptible to movement. She could easily pick up on someone standing next to her when we'd be none the wiser, no need to say how much she despised those planes and their rumbling through the night.
@@davefellhoelter1343 Honestly, it doesn't matter. To quote the Blues Brothers "How often do they go by? So often you won't even notice"
Its the whiners we need to get rid of, I believe we can accomplish that with Carlin's fencing in certain states idea.
I remember I got my appendix removed right before summer vacation. I was six? It was about a day or two before I had my stitches removed, and I went across the street to go on the super slip n slide my friend’s dad built, down a huge hill. I had never seen my grandmother book it out the door, screaming at the top of her lungs, when she saw me sliding down on my stomach. 😂
You missed the Mattel "Thingmaker". (Creepy Crawlies)
Basically a small open hotplate that had kids handling hot metal molds, far more dangerous than the Easy Bake.
I'm guessing it got less bad press because most parents saw it and their first reaction was "Awww, hell no!"
I had this, all of these things had one flaw, you ran out of the gunk needed to make more and there was no Amazon or Internet to order more. After the first week, good luck getting the parents to send away for more. I seem to remember similar frustration on many of these types of toys. You got 4 packages of powder that melted into the shapes of these things, and then you had to graduate to finding other stuff around the house that you could heat up. That's when the real "fun" started!
Most definitely burned my little fingers on that lol
@@brooks-e8249 And thus stimulating the imagination! I also had a Thingmaker, and an imagination!
@@Lockhart2000 Most parents saw it and their first reaction was "Well, that seems a whole lot safer than the molten lead we poured into molds when I was a kid! What a great idea!" Not a joke, BTW. I have a collection of old lead toy caster sets not much older than the Thingmaker. Safety is a slow process.
May I recommend an episode of crazy things sold in Sears Catalog throughout the decades? After ww2 you could allegedly buy "may or may not be" active ordnance shells.
You could buy a steel house, too. There was one in the town I grew up in.
Those were the days. Wish you still could, instead I have to buy one of those chem sets and engineer it myself. How else can you accurately play soldier
You used to be able to buy TNT at the hardware store.
My grandfather bought Lawn Darts, which he, my dad, and uncles, remembered them as Jarts, which is what we all called them. He and his brother were on Omaha and Utah Beach on D-Day, which was not during their first tours in the European theatre? and both fought all the way through France, Belgium, Italy, and Germany, so the perception of what danger is, and what a serious injury is, was of a different magnitude than the average American, even in the mid-80's. He insisted on grinding the tips until they were sharpened sufficiently to penetrate plywood targets, and taught 10 year old me to regrind them until sharpened. He thought it was hilarious that we threw them OVERHAND at plywood targets right next to us, hard enough to stick into the plywood. Ironically, no one was injured until we were lobbing them underhand upwards. One came down as my cousin was picking on his younger brother, and me, saying some mean shit. He at first didn't see the dropping projectile, but managed to swing his head to the side but it still landed in his low back, entering at belt level and exiting his left butt cheek. His brother and I laughed until we cried and insisted we were allowed to go to the ER too. Looking back it was insanely stupid.
As I recall, Alton Brown had one of the Easy-Bake ovens when he was a kid.
And then later went on to create a full sized pizza oven that uses stadium lighting bright enough to be seen from space...
and I’m already thinking of that Robot Chicken sketch, “The Island of Misfit Toys.”
I think That was a ripoff of the "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" movie, where he ran away, and joined some other characters, like the elf who wanted to be a dentist, on "the Island of misfit toys."
When I was a child, once a year our local park board would set up a giant slip and slide that they powered up with a fire hose connected to the hydrant. It was much longer and wider than the store bought toy and set up on a large grass hill. It was an absolute blast.
Simon -- This was one of my *ABSOLUTE FAVORITE EPISODES BY YOU --- EVERRRR!!!*
Seriously, good show old chap!!
Mattel's ThingMaker. Metal molds that were filled with a latex-like Plastigoop and heated to a skin scorching temperature to make to bugs and creature components. I loved it, especially the glow in the dark Plastigoop. I got minor burns a couple of times but lessons learned. I also was trusted with POCKET KNIVES (Oooooo) at about 6-7 years of age and would whittle little boats and stuff. A couple small cuts (with small scars still visible), but again, lessons learned. I also played with matches.
man we would be scheduled for something today :b kids used to work in the mines !
I remember the Thingmaker. It disappeared eventually. I figured they were recalled after thousands of spider-shaped burns started showing up in doctors' offices. Do you remember the Incredible Edibles, which was exactly the Thingmaker except it used (supposedly) edible stuff and made bug-shaped candy like our modern gummy bears.
@@Penguin24766 and inside working mills and spinning looms.
Viewmaster had a projector. In the pre LED days it came with a super-hot bulb, that was wisely covered by an ALUMINUM grille that also got maybe a fraction of a degree less hot. Yeah, had fingers wrapped up in gauze drenched in ointment ... Later models were redesigned with a wide plastic grill and these days they'd probably come with a somewhat safer LED anyway.
One of the GREATEST SNL skits ever was Dan Aykroyd as the toy maker promoting "Bag o' Glass" or the razor blade doll.
Me: sees link and thinks “hmmm wonder if they’ll do slip ‘n’ slides” not disappointed! Lol. One glorious Christmas (aussie btw so middle of summer) I inadvertently got given two by separate relatives. My brother and I immediately linked them together on my great grandads precipitously sloped front lawn, effectively forming a sixty foot long ski jump that was managing to launch us several metres into the air. This went on for at least an hour until my Mum came outside to see why all the males of all ages of our extended family were having so much fun, immediately freaked out and turned off the tap after seeing 8 year old me executing a perfect backflip 2 meters in the air and coming down on my belly in the muddy, heritage listed wetland that was formally my great grandads front lawn. It didn’t help that my Dad was yelling wild encouragement at me while waving a long neck of melbourne bitter over his head and wearing only a pair of budgie smugglers. Aussie christmases in the 70’s were the best lol….
Great story, Dude!
Please don’t speak metric, mate
Unless you lived in Darwin in 74
@@heathergarnham9555 lived there for 4 years. It’s never not summer in Darwin…. Pretty shit Christmas for the residents of Darwin that year though…
You'd probably burn up the Olympics if they allowed you to continue! We'll stop inflicting any more comments with this fine Aussie amazement. (eager now to look up "budgie smugglers"!)
oh Blaze Boi this was a good theme for Danny to write it out, specially with a long introduction detailing hazardous child plays he did back in Rotherham
My favourite video so far! I'm old enough to have played with Lawn Darts when I was a kid. I think after seeing what they could do to other objects around when we missed our targets, we knew well enough to avoid throwing them at each other, but I know other people who somehow managed to survive their childhoods who didn't have the same philosophy... Yay for free health care in Canada! It came in handy for some of them...
Lawn darts: Danger to kids. I get it.
Slip n Slide: Adults should be responsible.
Gilbert set: Radiation. Yeah, I get it.
Aqua Dots: Too easy to swallow even when playing properly. I'll give the nannies that one.
Easy-Bake ovens: I always wondered about a "toy" being able to cook edible food. Seriously, as a kid watching commercials I thought, "Is that safe?"
I totally agree!
Easy-Bake Ovens have light bulbs inside, the incandescent kind that put out more heat than light.
@@LexYeen Indeed!! For those who don’t know, an incandescent lamp gives off over 95% of its energy as heat. So it really is a good heat source.
We knew they weren't safe. Who else stuck their hands under the lampshade and got a little too close to the bulb.
Out of everything on this list, the Easy-Bake oven is what you were concerned about? Are you for real?
I still have my Gilbert science kit... My parents found it in their garage and now it's in my hall closet. I've tried to get it but the huge glowing rat in that closet always gets out...
Rich kid problems..
Huge Glowing Rat! I like it! 👍
Maybe try befriending him with food?
Glowing rats probably like pizza.
I had this Air Blaster thing that was designed to blow things over across the room with a harmless pulse of air. I quickly found that if you stuck a pencil or other projectile in it, it also made a very effective and unsafe projectile launcher.
Im so glad i grew up in the 80’s,before they took the fun out of every thing!
you got that right.
Also before everything was videoed. No evidence of our jackassery other than scars.
Kids have definitely gotten dumber as time progresses. We made it through childhood without the infinite warning labels and still have all our fingers/toes/eyes etc. Lol
Same, it was more fun that way
We were the last generation to actually get a good education, and who aren't complete pussies.
I’m 47 and we had a lawn dart set when I was a kid, fun as heck.
Back when I was a kid it was all about Darwinism. No helmets with the bicycles, toxic dangerous toys - stupid people didn’t survive childhood.
Those were the days.
Everyone knows the rules for Lawn Darts. All the kids stand in a close circle, one kid flings the dart straight up as hard as he could... the last kid to run for his life wins. (or loses, if he waits a bit too long.)
That's exactly how me and my cousins played lawn darts. Well that and the mumbley peg version of throwing them as close to each others feet as possible.
Wow , amazing how so many kids think ( hmm , is that really the right word ? ) alike. We did that once realizing just after tossing them that this would be our LAST "game" of the day because it was now DARK. UH-OH !
The indoor version of which being known as "ceiling darts" or more informally "Gravitational dart ninjas".
Torg and Riff still haven't trademarked it.
(Also I love your books)
@@Reddotzebra That game I never played, though I did read the comic. It immediately reminded me of the instinctual knowledge of how Lawn Darts are played though, yes... and glad you enjoyed the books. :) (And yes, I am aware that I effectively stated that I HAVE played Lawn Darts with "kids rules"... I was a child of the 80s, it's a miracle any of us got out alive and as minimally scarred as we did. lol)
There's nothing wrong with lawn darts. Theres something wrong with people who give them to CHILDREN.
I think you mean that there is something wrong with people who give them to stupid children.
As kids, we (and I mean everyone I knew) played with them all summer. I can't recall a single injury. Not one. And this is coming from someone dumb enough as a kid to literally knock himself out with a croquet ball one time. Even I was smart enough to understand "heavy pointy thing can hurt someone".
It's character building.
Nah. They were meant for kids.
F-16's in the early days - has a rash of accidents leading to them earning them the nickname 'lawn dart'
I had lawn darts as a kid. I wasn't stupid so I didn't kill anyone with them either.
Having grown up in the 70s and 80s with many of these toys, and more, I find it amazing that my friends and I made it into adulthood with no major injuries!
mate I'm nearly seventy & have played with all those sorts of toys. that's how you keep the gene pool clean.
Lawn Darts were the freaking bomb! My Uncle had a set from his childhood in the 60s! We always played with them in the late 70s/early 80s. Good times.
I had a set! It was a city kids equivalent of horse shoes because you didn't have to ruin the lawn by having to have a dirt landing place. We never had a single accident and had tons of fun with them!
@@tinapatterson9234 Competition horseshoe is done with a clay pit so that nothing bounces, it just sticks. You are spot on with your comparison, and I think darts were a great urban adaptation of horseshoes.
@@tinapatterson9234 Good point. Lawn darts are a better option for a throwing accuracy game for more urbanized areas. I grew up occasionally playing bocce when visiting my cousins in a more rural area with a lot of Italian influence. Bocce is superior to both horseshoes and lawn darts, but lawn darts can be played in a smaller area and has less impact.
In the 80's of my childhood, we were still playing with toys from the past. With my cousin's chemistry set, we spilled a weird bubbling mix we "invented" which made some permanent stains to come off on a table, a carpet, and a linoleum floor.
We've never been able to reproduce the mixture
That is why you should always write down everything when you are doing an experiment.
Meanwhile, on the playground... Slides are now no taller than 4 feet. Where's the fun in that? Where's the challenge? We had slides that were 12 foot tall. As a 1st grader I had to muster my courage to climb the ladder. then more courage to stand on the top and sit down. But ohhh, the rush of sliding down!! A well earned reward for conquering your fears! And a lesson learned as well. And a memory. I can still see me climbing that ladder.
Try a metal slide in Vegas during summer. Wearing shorts...
And the swing sets with hard-pan earth under them, the jungle-gym on asphalt, etc. Kids got scrapes, bruises and stubbed toes (who wore shoes?) and you'd walk it off.
It's ironic that bare ground is actually safer than the rubber tiles they have now. But hey, it looks safer...
Google Tulsa Gathering Place to see a state of the art playground with real slides, ladders, swings, etc. Signs up warn that play is not risk free, or words to that effect.
So cool to hear the happy squeals of kids challenging themselves.
They have the rocket slide at Union Park here in Des Moines. That puppy is at least 16 feet tall. There's a sign that warns us it's a danger to be enjoyed at one's own risk. I think it's a historic landmark at this point. The friction burns one can get from high speeds across the fiberglass surface can be violent. Both me and my 3 year old son sport scars from the beloved slide.
There were some nice chemistry sets in the early 60s that had really cool experiments. My older brother was always doing cool stuff to amuse his young siblings. No supervision, it was awesome and no injuries. Never heard of the nuclear kit.
It was like over 500 dollars in today's money and the experiments were all about radiation : which is kinda cool but way less bang-for-your-buck than any other science kit.
I used t have a chemistry set-one of the DELUXE ones that unfolded into a lab!Followed the books of experiments that came with the kit-then tried other "experiments" in chemistry books--made gun powder-got in trouble from that one after almost blowing up our basement rec room-and stinking out guests with horrible smells from my experiments!
@mugwump you must be my older brother. Is your name Bob?
I own and still use an original set of lawn darts. The fact that they’re dangerous as hell just makes it more fun.
I remember, many years ago, I had an Erector set and a true chemistry set. Sure, I could have been in danger, but everything worked out and it lead me to a degree in applied sciences. And again, the opportunity for kids today to follow an exceed my background continue to fade. The tools and teachers are no longer available.
That's because no kid left behind is more important than a good education. When I was in school, if you didn't study, do homework and pay attention in class, you repeated that grade over again the next school year.
I've seen this list on several different TH-cam channels. I like your unique spin on it.
Another dangerous toy was the Cabbage Patch Doll that could be fed plastic "food". Little fingers and hair could get caught in the gears of the doll's motorized mouth.
I knew those things were evil just looking at them. Now, I know why. Chuckie has nothing on them!
3:20 Right there, in that dude's hand..is that a beer I see? There's no way having a few drinks while yeeting heavy darts willy-nilly at your friends or kids could be dangerous. No way at all!! 🤣 Ahhhh...the good ole days..
These toys just needed to be sold with an actual parent.
IDK, who do you think gave them the toys in the first place?
@@SuzysRedStripeshe said an ACTUAL parent.
@@rickwilliams967 Fair point
Oh man, I remember lawn darts. You throw one straight up (you hope) as hard as you can (friends standing around), lose track of it in the mid-summer sun (because of course you do), then everyone scatters! It's an absolute wonder none of us ever got speared. We _kinda_ understood that they were dangerous, but a bunch of 9-11 year olds don't have a developed sense of self-preservation.
A coworker said a group of kids always uses the dumbest ones brain lol! From my misadventures when younger, she is probably right.
I had a science kit that came with about 50 different compounds and most of the experiments included a boys best friend in the 70's,,,, FIRE! What a joy to have the pyro in all of us hooligans approved by proxy of Mattel or whomever was selling those toys. They helped justify what was previously fodder for being grounded for a week into a "legitimate" learning experience. Thank you Mattel, (OMG am I happy my kids didn't have a chance to burn down the house with that crap!)
This deserves several sequels! \m/
We literally had a slip n slide at our high school graduation-time "senior day." Down a hill.
Did you sue the school? Time for 12 million bucks! 🌈
The down the hill part is most likely what saved you all from serious injury.
@@robertschnobert9090 2004. Probably past the statute of limitations. Plus although there were some bruises and sprains nobody was hurt. I'm not a fan of a litigious society. If a kid gets hurt, its typically the kid or the parents fault. Except for aqua dots that was kinda F'd up. My daughter was born in '06 and I always recognized it was MY job to ensure her safety. You have to TEACH them to not be idiots. Part of parenting.
@@mattfleming86 Hard to do, when the parent is idiot too.
@@Kabup2 I agree and disagree. I learned much from watching my parents make mistakes.
If it were simple to "legislate away" idiots, it would have been done long ago. I don't believe that it is possible.
I was turned loose with a chemistry set, an actual .22 rifle, knives, slingshots etc. My cousin and I both had spring-air BB pistols and would engage in BB battles without benefit of safety glasses, much less padding. The same cousin had a VacuForm which softened sheets of plastic and sucked them down onto various forms to make toys. I also had several of the Marx "Johnny Eagle" replica guns complete with spring-launched hard plastic bullets, again, we don't need no steenkin goggles. I also had the One Man Army (more projectiles) and the Big Bang Cannon with its big damned cannonball. The slingshot (Wrist Rocket, the Magnum of the genre) fights lasted into "adulthood" with my Army buddies visiting my home on leave and finding a fully fruited-out Chinaberry tree for ammo.
Later, while raising four boys of my own, it was popular for birthday parties to involve an indoor or outdoor session of paintball, which was mirrored in my Law Enforcement career (as a firearms trainer, go figure!) with the use of "Simunitions", magnum class paintball fired from real guns...what's next?
Had a great old book for kids when I was a kid. Had great designs for making cool electrical stuff. Like cooking a hot dog using house current. You basically stuck electrodes into the opposite ends of the hot dog and plugged it into the wall. GOOD TIMES! Must be in my old closet at my parents house.
I remember the hot dog cooker. Wrap the wires of an electrical cord around a couple of framing nails and drive them through a piece of wood. impale the hot dog on the nails and plug the cord in. What could possibly go wrong?
Evidently there's a "Glowing Pickle" trick that involves the same thing, but the sodium in the brine makes the pickle glow.
I bet the family pet didn't appreciate it though. Was it one electrode in the mouth and the other up the back passage?
@@Buster_Piles When I was a kid, something really weird was wrong with me. My older brother and I (12 and 10) used to ride our bikes to a sporting goods store to by gun powder for his muzzle loader. We would fire it off at night, without slugs, just paper and powder. It was fun, but it never, not once, ever occurred to us to blow stuff up with the gun powder. Something was definitely wrong with us.
@@Foolish188 great comment! 👍 the best we had were bangers. Many a lad got chased down, sat on and had a lit banger shoved onto their pants or jumper. 🤣👍 we were little tearaways. Great days!
This episode reminded me of the sometimes dodgy electrical and chemical projects in those "boy's annual" type books from the 30s - 60s (...I loved looking through them when I visited my grandparents as a kid). I remember one in particular that gave instructions (for kids in their early teens) on how to rig up a fence with electrified pads to "surprise" neighbourhood cats!
I had onf of those science kits in my early teens.... Bits and pieces of that thing ended up in various school science projects over the next three years.
In my youth we just had an electric fence surrounding the whole property that we inevitably, sometimes intentionally, came into contact with ourselves. It really surprised some deer, horses, and the occasional llama. Can't imagine a cat not coming away from that with serious PTSD. At 5,000 volts output it surely exceeded what a high-powered shock collar could manage, and even those can mess up the neural pathways of cats and dogs permanently.
I need some of those electric pads to keep dogs out of my yard.
@@sophierobinson2738, sending sympathy! Our neighbours have 3 dogs that play-fight (loudly) outside my bedroom window for hours every morning! It's driving me nuts. ('Course, it's the owners I'm grumpy with - it's not the critters' fault.)
May I recommend to you the chemical formulary (styropyro did a couple of videos on it).
Projects include: gunpowder, homage tracer bullets that explode on you if you follow the directions, discount napalm, carcinogens, actual napalm, and more!
We used to dig pits for “forts”, and pull up long grass with giant dirt clods on the roots, and hurl them twenty or so yards at each other. The neighborhood kids divided into two armies and went at it. It was dangerous, but FUN. And sometimes, very painful. Amazingly, I cannot recall a single trip to the hospital as a result of this summertime activity lol...we had a ball!!!
We did that, too. We called the weed bombs dead ducks!
My friends and I used to play a game with lawn darts. We would throw them all straight up into the air and when they hit the peak of their trajectory we would run. I'm amazed we made it out alive.
That's obviously how the toy is meant to be played with. I mean what good is a game if there's no stakes?
Consumer safety left up to the consumer themselves. What a novel idea. People responsible for their own actions
Weird way of thinking that those who produce dangerous products aren't responsible for those products 🤔...
@@ExtremeMadnessX = Most of those toys can be used safely with proper guidance
I LOVED the Slip-n-Slide! We had the perfect lawn for it, with a slight downslope. I also had the truly massive largest Gilbert Chemistry Lab made. Not the atomic kind, but still had a lot of sketchy items in the kit and it was also quite awesome, really. My uncle did work at Oak Ridge, and my Dad showed me how to do proper measurements for the various experiments. The worst I ever did was make a REALLY strong stink bomb. We never had Jarts because Dad had the presence of mind to see the potential danger, but my sister had the Easy Bake Oven, and I had a VacuForm thing that used even higher heat to vacuum form some cool shapes from sheets of plastic.
I remember the Home Chemistry set. I quickly learned what sulfur dioxide smelled like. So did my parents. BTW, true story, I ended getting my undergraduate degree in chemistry.
I was still a kid the first time I saw Jarts. I instantly thought to myself, "that's an injury waiting to happen!" We were always really careful with them. They did work really well, though. Horseshoes were only marginally safer.
I just took a peek on eBay & there is an original vintage Jart set going for a princely sum.
We had them in the 70's. I remember once my sister had one go right through her shoe into the ground. Thankfully, it went between her toes. Could've gone through her foot. The sharp weighted ends were quite heavy and capable of serious damage.
I watch all your shows but actually love business blaze because it shows your delightful personality.
We still buy slip and slides here in Australia. In fact we make extra long ones out of builders plastic for holidays and add soap to them for crazy fun.
Hello fellow Aussie I said the same thing.
@@kerrynicholls6683 its so much fun and i love that our kids are all learning to do it too. Its become a tradition in our family..
In one of my past lives/jobs, I got to interact with some of the management from one of the manufacturers mentioned in this video. They only cared about getting in and out with as much cash as possible, as quickly as possible, with no thought towards quality or safety, which "wasn't their problem". They could make your head spin with their rapaciousness.
Money's green.
I'm guessing the appropriately named Wham-O. I loved their stuff.
@@SBCBears not a bad guess, but they only work through distributors, so I never met anyone from Wham-O. The company I was referring to is very litigious and will quickly spin a web of lawsuits around you if they feel directly slighted.
I grew up with Lawn Darts. Lived in a small college town with a huge park-like commons right on the main street. So I grew up playing them with college kids setting up games all over. Never saw anyone get hurt.
I think it was also Hasbro that made a COTTON CANDY MAKER for children! I think it was for ages 8 & up. I had that & an original easy bake oven (aqua..). I didn't use that so much, but would make all the cotton candy, spun around probably 8" handheld paper cones in my bedroom as my friends, brothers & sisters could eat. Is when I learned how long melted sugar stays hot! It was an open tub that you swirl your paper cones around in, just like at a fair! THAT was a wonderful "toy for 8 year olds!!!
Honestly, the only ones of these that sound *dangerous* to me are the Aqua Dots (though the atomic science kit is borderline). All the others are simply a case of 'well don't _do_ that then'.
🤣😂🤣😂🤣borderline…. That kit is a young mad scientists dream 😂🤣😂🤣
I can see some Pinky and The Brain !!
@@kharnthebetrayer1575 It's perfectly safe *if you follow the directions.* I call it borderline because, unlike the others, a child could hurt themself by ignoring the directions without requiring gross stupidity or parental negligence.
@@macdjord
I'm not gonna pretend to know what measures they used to contain the Uranium isotopes ...
But if someone can break a seal and unwittingly make their house an irradiated mini Chernobyl then I put that much higher on my list of priorities.
My grandmother actually used a couple of these kits to make an X-Ray machine for a science fair. She won, and nobody really gave a shit about the kid that built a literal cancer ray because people were using radioactive materials as sales gimmicks.
The aquadots were fine. It's the parents' fault for not supervising and keeping their kids from eating the things.
Don't kid yourself. Lawn Darts racked up a body-count of horrific deaths and injuries. We had these and it's a miracle I survived. Me and the gang of morons I ran with when I was 12 did several variations on the rules including throwing them straight up and fleeing, as well as standing far away and lobbing them at each other.
Lawn Darts were absolutely amazing. They served 2 incredibly important functions.
1) They were absolutely brilliant fun, giving hours
Of competitive play, outdoors, that kids today
Are massively lacking.
2) In a word: Darwin.
Get hit in the head with one of those and you'd find yourself riding the short bus to school.
@@robertcampbell6349 of course, get hit in the head with a pogo stick and the same thing will happen, what’s your point? Myself and millions of other children that grew up playing it came out just fine, mostly because we had good parentS (the capital S is important there) that watched over us and made sure we knew right from wrong, and not to Chuck weighted spears at each other. Although it still happened occasionally, but boys will be boys. The problem isn’t with the toy, the problem is a lack of good parenting.
@@KelticTim it was a joke.
@@robertcampbell6349 apologies my good man. It’s far easier to just assume a reply is not a joke, and you’re dealing with a moron, than it is to assume it’s a joke and you’re dealing with someone who has at least half a brain. Sure, you’ll occasionally get bit and look dumb like I do here, but it’s rare.
@@KelticTim No worries.
I'm surprised that the Vac-U-Form, Creepy Crawlers or Incredible Edbiles toys didn't make the list. great video. Loved those toys as a kid.
I had darts, lawn darts, BB guns, chemistry sets. But the most dangerous toy I had was an electronics set. It included items used to make an electric motor, and it taught me that if you increase the current the motor went faster. This gave me the idea of hooking up my Scalextric racing track to the mains. And it worked. The little cars went super fast, but they flew off the track immediately and in some cases burst into flames. Parts of the plastic track and cars melted. No real damage was done. It set fire to the carpet but I managed to put it out. I’m pretty sure the electronics set did not warn against using it to hook up your Scalextric to the mains. So it’s clearly the company’s fault.
AMAZING! :D
Lol! I totally forgot about doing that as a kid with my race track.
Now that's really interesting because scalectric cars use low voltage DC motors and mains power is 120V or 230V AC (depending on your part of the world), so how exactly did that manage to work? The car shouldn't move at all because not only will AC not drive a DC motor but the tiny wires connected to it would immediately vaporize.
(And yes I'm calling bull***t on this)
That electric toy sounds like the best! What's not to like about flying burning cars?
We would toss yard darts as high up in the air and then dodge them as they fell this taught us that gravity is a bitch.
When I was a kid, I found a set of lawn darts in the attic of my grandparent's farmhouse. My grandmother told me they were stored there many years ago after my great-uncle was impaled in his bare foot. I set them up on the lawn and we used them, but we set up the rings beside each other to avoid a repeat event separated by decades.
Lawn darts! Let's play! 😃
Holy Makinac you actually start off with the infamous " Lawn Darts" with actual hardened steel points.... This reminds one of when just a young kid witnessing a very traumatic experience , one due to drunken adults playing the Lawn Darts game.....When the tipsy father wildly threw the dart in air , watching it land imbedded into the top of the skull of his son , and who was also a neighborhood friend of mine ..... Afterwards these darts were then sold with flattened points to avoid these kind of tragedies ! Thanks ....This memory has been vivid in my mind since the day it happened many years ago...Scarboro
Hilarious! I'm knotting myself 😅. Great days! I got a lawn dart in my buttock, went quite deep. Probably should've had a tetanus jag but hey, we were tough in those days!
@@Buster_Piles : Yah my friend got a half dozen stitches on the noggin , just to close the deep gap from the imbedded lawn dart...! Fun WoW...!!!
@@scarborosasquatchstation1403 but hey, we're laughing. 🤣 better times. We used to have stone fights (throwing rocks at each other) and all sorts. Today's kids are far too soft. Wear your scars with pride buddy! 😊👍
I love how excited he got when he saw the writer had included lawn darts haha. Cute. Binging with babish has really expanded from food.
I would love to see a part 2 of this