Most Dangerous Old Toys That Are Now Banned!
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- Most Dangerous Old Toys That Are Now Banned!
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Welcome back, folks! Ever miss the days when toys were as wild as our imaginations, like the daring flights of Lawn Darts or the unpredictable dances of the Water Wiggle? These iconic toys delivered laughter and thrills, yet they came with a twist. We'll dive into their stories, revealing how nostalgia intertwines with lessons from toys that teetered on the edge of fun and caution. Let's Play!
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:28 Clackers
1:14 Creepy Crawlers
1:54 Austin Magic Pistol
2:36 Atomic Energy Lab
3:18 Snacktime Kid
4:04 Easy-Bake Oven
4:48 Super Elastic Bubble
5:31 Lawn Dart
6:13 Barbie Rollerblade
6:53 Battlestar Galatica
7:37 Water Wiggle
8:22 Slip'n Slide
9:11 Sixfinger
9:55 Mini Hammocs
10:41 Skydancers
11:24 Moon Shoes
12:11 Little Lady Stove
13:05 CSI Figerprint kit
13:52 Aqua Dots Kit
14:43 Polly Pocket
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Do you think today's toys are safer than those from the past?
Only once. I taped mine with electrical tape when riding.
I dont think toys from our childhood & today are any different.You need parents guidance.
Yeah, definitely. I remember me, and my brother had one of those steam toy tractors where u set light to methylated spirits for the steam boiler to power the tractor. I'd be about 12/13yrs old 77/78
This is why growing up back in the day (50's - 70's) was WAY KOOL!!!
YES, it was😂
There is no way newer generations could survive what made us thrive.
Kids these days can't even go out in the sun..😂 They never drank from a garden hose..😂😂
Born in 66’ I have to fully agree!!
@@GaryMP4.8 I remember the one time I forgot to wait until the water got cold first, never forgot after that!! 😱
Anyone else remember getting your bellbottoms caught in your bicycle chain 😅
Yes
Me.
Yes until they brought out a clip for each leg that stopped your trouser bottoms from getting caught up in your bike chain those were the special days toys were simple & fun I remember French skipping with elastic you could play on your own I used to put mine over the bottom part of 2 bins at school to play.
Always.
Oh yeah 😅
I played with most of these. Rode in the back of pickup trucks and station wagons. Babyboomers are a tough breed.
And we did it all fueled by peanut butter sandwiches.
Gotta love rock fights 😅
@@johnnysalazar5399 - Never liked them, but they were very decisive in who was pitching stickball.
So were gen X (I’m a 66’ baby the oldest in our family) we rode in the back of dad’s truck, cars had no seatbelts (all 4 of us smushed in the back of the Oldsmobile), rode our bikes everywhere and stayed out all day in the summer, it was great! 👍🏻
@@johnnysalazar5399 And rubber ban fights! I even knew one guy who had BB GUN FIGHTS with his friends back in the day. 😳 I hope no eyes and serious injuries were suffered in those "games" that my friends and I NEVER did!
So the easy bake oven had no issues for 30+ years until the amoeba generation emerged in the 2000s and then it suddenly became a hazard...
And that says a lot, doesn't it?
Says alot about how your parents didn't care about safety 😂 don't forget to take your pills today gramps
Exactly, I baked in mine for years.
EXACTLY!! (and I have a kid born in 2002)….😂
Because when we were kids our parents actually taught stuff. Like that's HOT it will burn you. Be careful!!
I'm surprised they haven't banned trees , Kids climb them and get hurt ..
I was there in the 1950s-60s. Very, very few children were injured by those toys. The loss of personal responsibility and rise of the Nanny State are far, far worse today.
Heck, we used to jump off things from awkward heights every chance we'd get.
My son fell out of a tree barefoot, landed on the ONE rock under it and busted his leg, I heard the crack it was nightmare inducing!! This was 12 years ago it still gives me the shivers. 😫
Ban those damn trees!! 🌳
@@brucefournier2391 I remember going as high as possible on the swings and jumping off…we would compete to see who could go the farthest. 😂
These days...🤣 now that's funny!!! I doubt a kid these days even knows what a tree is!!!
Today's toys are basically BORING!!!
That’s why I bought my young’uns real firearms at an early age. They are both healthy, responsible, productive adults. Standing by for the forthcoming hate and discontent!
It's called a phone 😂
@@richarddouglas1712 best reply yet!
@richarddouglas1712 which gets boring every now and then
61 years old and I can STILL remember the smell of Plastigoop...
And I still have burn scars from the oven and those metal molds.
...(Still was one of the best toys ever...)
While Clackers, the atomic energy lab and the CSI fingerprint kit were out and out dangerous, many of these toys were perfectly safe to use... WITH PARENTAL SUPERVISION! The key words being parental supervision.
Having a parent there to say things like "Don't put that in your mouth", "That's hot, don't touch it" "You can hurt yourself/someone by doing that", "Don't stick your fingers in there, you'll get stuck/hurt/burnt" and other bits of wisdom that children have to learn is what made a potentially dangerous toy a safe and fun thing. And the ever dreaded "I told you so", when advice was not taken, was worse than a spanking. (Yes, I said spanking) Having a parent there to oversee and direct the activity was what kept many children from becoming hurt, injured or worse.
It is when you give a child a toy that generates heat and then abandon them that they get hurt. It is when you do not teach your children that the pans coming out of the toy oven are hot and can burn them that they get burned. It is from parental neglect that many of these toys went from being a thing of learning to being dangerous.
Would you rather your child learn how to bake a cake at 150 (or so) degrees, or let them forget and grab a pan that's 350 to 450 degrees?
Yes the Thing Maker could burn you (I speak from experience). But it was a very minor burn compared to the full size oven I use now. If I didn't want to listen to my Dad, a couple of quick burns and I understood the value of "proper safety procedures". Under my parent's supervision, I learned how to safely handle pots and pans; hammers, saws and even sharp woodworking tools. But it was under "supervision".
You see a ton of videos of children covered in Mom's makeup with it all over the room or covered in flour with it all over the kitchen. This did NOT happen in just a few seconds. This is where the parent(s) were ignoring their children long enough for them to make a huge mess. And that's dangerous. Not the flour, that's dangerous. It's not the make up that's dangerous. It's the lack of parental supervision that makes any situation dangerous. They are kids! They don't know what's safe and what is not. Parents need to teach (and protect) them.
Very good advice: When your kid(s) are quiet... you'd better go find out why. 👍
Parents these days are clueless
Clackers were banned in UK schools after a couple of kids were blinded when they shattered.
We called them click-clacks
Remember, playing with the lawn darts had fun with those
I loved the Thing maker creepy crawlers.
❤
My brother and I played all day with it so much fun making bugs I am a girl and loved it
Remember "Shaker Maker"....The jello mold figures that hardened, then you could paint them🙌
This was just our way of thinning the herd.😂
Growing up in the 70s, I had a pair of Clackers. I could get them going pretty easily; it was stopping them that was the painful part.
I could never get the hang of them. My mum could she was good
Banned in UK schools after a couple of incidents where the balls shattered sending fragments into the eyes of kids and blinding them.
I can still smell the Superelasticbubbleplastic and taste the “cake” and “frosting” mixes from the Easy Bake Oven circa 1975!
I'm a kid from the 60s and I'm still alive despite the toys we've had and I'm still amazed that I am alive 😳🤣😜👍‼️⁉️
Does anybody remember being poor back then and making their own slip and slides out of trash bags 🤣😂I played with half of those toys, I made, it couldn't have been that bad. And the plastic bubbles, I can still to this day remember what that smells and tastes like. That was one of my favorite things. And lawn darts, that was in every weekend occasion.🤣😂🤣 The 70s were the best 🔥
Don't forget rushing to the blue light special in K-Mart or buying the K-Mart sub sandwiches. Yep, poor and sooo happy compared to todays kids.
Without question absolutely remember. And yes way more happy. 🤘✌️
We didn’t have sleds so we used cardboard to slide down our “hill” in the backyard in the 70’s, we have movies of it and it was hysterical to watch.
Lmao 😂🤣😂🤣 indeed
My grandfather tied a hose to our swing set slide....way before waterslides and water parks existed😉
I had the water wiggle thing. I got smacked in the face but that was fun. Others would laugh, others would watch and be afraid of the toy. Those jumping shoes look dangerous.
Shrinky Dinks were pretty awesome
I had the Moon Shoes…completely over-hyped. Creepy Crawlers and Creeple People on the other hand, fantastic!
Always wanted those, never could have afforded it!
3:08 that atomic lab was SUPER EXPENSIVE for back then! Goodness!
I said the same thing.
As a child growing up in the 70’s we were exposed to countless dangers not only from toys but from just riding our bicycles. All of us succumbed to some type of injury as kids playing with fun innovative toys. Certain toys were obviously right to be banned (lawn darts and anything radioactive), but we had toys with small parts and sharp ends that if properly supervised helped us grow wiser and more ready for adulthood. Had a BB gun as a kid and though I didn’t shoot my eye out I did chip my front tooth, but that was a cautionary tale in being trained on the safety and use of such toys.
Have a set of the original set of the lawn darts, Jarts. Had them autograph by a child now an adult. He was at a vintage camper rally signing memmbers Jarts, he is known as the, Jart Boy.
This video serves as an illustration of what happens when government runs amok. Some kids can hurt on anything (One of my nephews was like that- he's an asshat and a risk-taker). Me? I owned real tools when I was 8, and played with junk and old car parts...built tree houses...rode my bike miles away...had a blast while learning to be responsible for myself, and never got hurt. Feel sorry for the kids today who will never know such things, but who spend their childhoods being shuttled from one adult-organized activity to another where they just learn to have to follow rules. And then people wonder why 30 year-olds are now like little castrati living in Daddy's basement and playing video games.
Wham-O made the best toys !!!!!! I loved my slingshot, and it came with an attachment you could use to shoot arrows. My Dad took mine away for a week because I shot my older brother 😒 Oops !!! Circa 1963
I ordered my Wrist Rocket and Bang-site Cannon, from the back of Boys Life magazine. Dad said no to the monkey and alligator though.
Are you familiar with Edmunds Scientific catalog? Fantastic catalog....1960's ---1970's.
@@charlesharrer4297 - Edmunds was great, I bought one of those mirror dishes, that make the coin hologram.
I remember hearing about the Snack Time Cabbage Patch Kids dolls.
A lot of kids earned the Darwin Award . Always earned the hard way lol .
Take a shot every time you hear him say “underscores.”
Mattel also made "Incredible Edibles" that you could eat after making them like the way "Creepy Crawlers" were made. BOTH toys gave users TOXIC fumes which were NOT good to breathe.
I remember the edible version, although I also remember my younger brother having the Creepy Crawler.
@@jenelleprins5306 I never tasted them but I remember that people said they did not taste that good. And the fumes from the "Creepy Crawlers" were HORRIBLE since my friends had that toy. Not sure if making the edibles also produced bad fumes for kids to breathe.
I had Incredible Edibles, and no, they didn’t taste good . Burned myself a couple of times- no biggie
@@timmillan6701 Glad you survived eating those "culinary delights" from Mattel. I remember that they looked gross even in the tv ads. I hope your burns did not leave any scars. 😳
Us Boomer Babies were rough and tough!!! 💪😤
Monkey bars over concrete or blacktop!.... When kids were "men"!
Except the ones that died and triggered bans. They aren't here to say how you all came out okay.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, that was the motto back then, that’s why kids today are pussies
I had a number of the Gilbert educational sets, but my favorite was their chemistry set. I kept trying to make explosives, but always failed.
My brother suceeded the first night he had his, Christmas 1962, mixed up something that went boom and left a nasty burn mark on the wall!
Who can get hurt by the water wiggle?! So crazy.
Long live Plastigoop!
Is that the same as Play Doh ? ( This product was originally invented as a DIY aid for getting grease and paint marks from walls)
I had the "boys" version of skydancers, dragon something or other, anyway, they HURT when they bit your fingers or caught you in the face, but we thought they were fun anyway!
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door." --Bilbo Baggins
Some of these toys are no-brainers, they needed to go. Atomic Energy Lab, for example. But many of them, while not 100% safe, were safe enough for most kids under adult supervision.
My friends and I played with Creepy Crawlers, and nobody ever got hurt. Same with Slip-n-Slide. Part of growing up is learning to use common sense.
Boomer kids were tough! I'm 69 and I survived many of the toys in this video, plus a few more they missed. We made jumps for our bikes out of cement blocks and plywood and we crashed and burned, all without any bike helmets. We rode in the back of pickup trucks, built tree houses, and blew up stuff with fire crackers and M80's. We learned, some times the hard way, about what was reasonably safe and what was not.
Had some of these and got hurt exactly zero times. They were not dangerous at all, the problem was people not being parents.
I love watching these they remind me of all the toys we had growing up. I love these memories. Thank you very much. ❤❤❤❤😊
Thank you for watching!
Born in 66’ I remember a good chunk of these toys. 😊
We played with all these so called " dangerous toys" for years. We made it to maturity. We didn't think anything of it. Hell, the danger part of it was all part of the fun! I'm so glad I was born a baby boomer. Today's kids have no idea of what they missed.
Had a easy bake oven but it didn't work lol
I had one in the late 60s early 70s that baked cakes
@@daniellewillis2767 lol
Creepy crawlers were my very favorite.
I tried making my own Slip and Slide but I only ended up injuring myself. The stupid ground was too hard and the rocks hurt. I tried putting it down a hill with dry grass.
I feel clumsy and not so bright kids are the reason many of these toys were band. Don't stick your finger in a hot oven, don't stand in front of a flying lawn dart. Don't put it in your mouth. Lack of common sense kills innovation and we all suffer because of a simple few.
Slip - N - Slide was always my favorite toy growing up in the 60’s during those hot summer days in Florida. Had clackers in the 70’s, now that was a dangerous toy. I also got a chemistry set one year that I requested. From what I remember it was a lot of fun. Oh, yeah and will never forget the toxic smell of plastic goop.
I found a pair of moon shoes at a yard sale! I tried them and almost broke my ankles so I then sold them for 300!
How did we make it?
It was necessary to use the brain and occasionally get hurt, we don’t allow kids to get hurt anymore. (I was born in 66’)
A lot didn't, hence the banning.
I was never allowed to have an EZBake Oven. My mum said, “you can learn to cook in real oven like a human being”. Boomers are smart.
The first time I used a Slip’n Slide my swim trunks slipped and slid right off my body leaving me naked at the other end. Neighborhood kids had a great laugh.
I had creepy crawlers as a child. It was a lot of fun making different creatures.
I never burned myself.
We had the clackers, did not get hurt. Had the super bubble and loved the smell still can think. We had the creepy crawlers got burnt but still played with it no scars. The sprinkler thingy never got hurt.
SO I guess marbles which children have played with for centuries is right out.
And to think my parents grew up on farms where they used large and small tools, handled huge livestock, drove tractors as kids and drank raw milk. Imagine that! My mom is 91 now. 😂🎉
I got hit by a shattering Clacker, burned by Creeple People, Creepy Crawler, Thing Maker and Easy Bake Oven heating units multiple times, nearly broke my elbow falling off of a pogo stick and had an “interesting” experience with some neighbors’ old shoes with springs on the bottom. The poor person’s version (which was much more fun) was to drill holes on each side of paint and coffee cans turned upside down and putting thin rope through the holes and then tying them securely. My friends and I would stand up on top of the cans, hold onto the rope handles and walk around on them. My first sprained ankle was courtesy of those cans, but we sure had fun with them!😅
I LOVED the pogo stick at my grandmas house along with the metal strap to your shoes roller skates. We got hurt back then but got a band aid and continued on.
Toys for parents that really don't want to have children!!!
I had a chemistry set, but don't think it had any of the more dangerous chemicals in it. Got it in 1964 for my eighth birthday.
The real danger of Clackers was the way they would beat the ever-lovin' daylights out of your arm. Bruises and bone fractures were common.
I had Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab. Had one of their chemistry sets too. I didn't see the danger, and my kids have turned out mostly normal.
I miss Lawn Darts.
I don't see the difference between Barbie roller blades and the metal friction toy cars and planes we had in the 50's. They made sparks, we had fun, and we survived. Is it more dangerous because it was marketed for girls?
What we have learned here is, people need to be protected from themselves. And especially, apparently, children. Because we should not be responsible to teach our children about the dangers of ignoring common sense. My point is, it's not the toys that are dangerous. It's the stupid kids. Not all kids, just the stooopid ones.
I would kill for a Lawn Darts set!!!
And the Mattel Thing Maker was the greatest open ended toy ever created. You were limited to your imagination. There was no right or wrong. 18-20 years ago I bought every Thing Maker set Mattel made on eBay so my daughter could enjoy the same creativity. We did, and she never got burnt.
We have litigated the fun, wonder, and creativity out of toys like these.
You can find lawn dart sets at antique shows. Bought one last year 😊.
@@markporter298 Thanks
I remember clappers but it was on the stick in my time period. N creepy crawler i didn't know they had it back in day..
This just shows that our society and government cater to the stupid and punish the smart.
The BEST statement and I agree.
Sky Dancers!!!! I still have them!!!
You forgot wham-O "Air Blaster". We would shoot rocks out of that thing, LOL
I would’ve had a ball with those moon shoes for sure 😂💯
Yup those ones in the box
By 1980, Clackers were called "Kerbangers".
Kerbangers on the left, Kerbangers on the right, Kerbangers, Kerbangers, Kerbangers outta sight!
My wrist ached with missing limb 'phantom' pain while typing that.
I remember all those toys and I had most of them!
And nowadays all kids do is sit and stare at their cellphones. Locked away and hermetically sealed from any possible harm.
Good Memories 👍!
JAKE'58.
It only takes one family and a good civil lawyer to destroy all the fun for the rest of us😖
Spud guns were big in UK, a pistol which fired pellets of raw potato as ammo.
The other big hit was Sekiden guns, automatic pistols you loaded with a chamber of up to 50 or so gold coloured little plastic pellet balls. They packed quite a punch and had quite a range. Like a sort of chain gun version of the pea shooter.
Now...pea shooters...who remembers THOSE ??!!
Wow he just kept repeating the same safety issues over and over just slightly different each time but all meant the same thing by the 4th one I caught myself saying 'yeah we get it its not safe ' after that one till the end. Probably the only person who thought and said that but whatever 😊
They forgot to add bikes, because they can fall off and get hurt. Jump rope, because they can trip you. Rollerskates, because you can fall. That's why you need to bubblewrap your kids and never ever let them outside.
I remember throwing a lawn dart (Jarts) as high as I could. What are the odds it would come down right in the middle of a new garden hose?
I adored my Mattel Thingmaker! Despite the often burned fingers!
Every toy could be easily turned into a weapon. Hotwheel tracks an SST pull starters were whips while certain tops could be wound up and stuck into someones hair for maximum pain. The good old days.
I grew up in the 60s playing with some of those toys, my brother and I play with lawn darts, I think they were invented by a non-parents to get kids killed!!! Oh yeah they're considered safe because they didn't have a point on it like a regular dart but guess what gravity f****** kills. 🤫🤪🤫🤔
My Uncle took jarts to a whole new level, he would sharpen the tips so they would stick better. We had no clue of danger in the 70's we just rode our bikes with two others riding on the front and back, played jarts, played with our science kits (with mercury included) and made shrink art in the oven. Those were the days. Kids today are soooo boring.
Interesting video. I remember as a child playing Operation and the buzzer went off causing me to jerk away and I accidentally backhanded my friend. She had to go to the hospital because I scratched her eye with my fingernail. She came out alright and forgave me. Another "game" that was a bad idea was Twister.
I don't think you've really lived until you've broken a bone of two
Jarts were FUN!! 👍🏻👍🏻
This video highlights why you don't have to talk so much to illustrate the toys demonstrated....
At $29.70 in the early 1950s I can't imagine that many kids would have just casually gotten one unless they were serious about science! Superelastic..etc was fun to play with when I got some for my birthday, but even at ten I thought the stuff seemed awfully chemical! We had a fated Mr Water Wiggle that never worked right, but it stayed around in the garage anyhow! Every so often we'd pull it out in the summer and try to get it to work, but it would always do the same thing! Go up, tip over and spray water into the side of the house while my mom could be heard inside shouting to "Turn that da**ed thing off!" Haha! I don't know why my parents took so long to get rid of the thing!
Anything will break in one of those machines. Just have to put enough pressure on it.
Baby boomers and X’ers lived and are tuff. Millennials and Ziers are too soft for the toys we played with
Why was that a problem. Kids are less responsible today than before!
Foresight in manufacturing is important I will agree.. most importantly though it's the parents responsibility to make sure their kids are safe. Nothing wrong with lawn darts in a responsible adults hands. Parents these days are just lazy AF.
These toys were the Best and only proved whether or not you produced a moron for a kid, every other kid played fine but there’s always that small percentage that ruins it for the rest of the world
Okay, some of those classic failed toys got to get fixed and no longer banned and never be backfired: Austin magic gun, Atomic Energy Lab, triple etc.
I grew up a lot of the toy's from 1970....
Came for the Boomer comments and I was not disappointed 😂
You could learn a lot from us Boomers!
how on earth did I ever survive the 60s as a child?
And I bet you know if your male or female
@@dbelex please don't bring my light-hearted statement into your ignorant bigoted world. I had friends who were LGBTQ in high school and church in the 70s before it was even a word yet who had to hide their sexuality and it always bothered me. I do so hate responding to stupid comments. I would prefer that you not respond with your nonsense if you haven't the class and dignity to delete it.
I cut my knee somehow on or getting off a slip and slide. I had 5 stitches in my knee. Im 45 and still will get on one
I remember the mini carpenter set where they used real bladed saws and tools, and the toy fighter jets that were matal with a sharp point. Being a kid in those times was pretty much the survival of the smartest, if a child got hurt or choked with one of these toys, they were the stupid ones, like Homer Simpson said about the silly strings 'if you're stupid enough to eat it, than you deserve to die' true words 😆
Btw, anyone remember the crackling boulders that were usually that purpleish blue color?
Well, it’s after 10pm and we’re all blotto. Bring out the lawn darts. What could go wrong?
Now grown adults have fears only they have
So we were bad!! We sharpened our lawn darts and threw them at each other
I was Julia Childs with my Easy Bake Oven!
In the show, "My Name Is Earl ", Earl is playing with Lawn Darts & one of the lands on his back 😂
So...I should reconsider buying "my little plastic bag" for the grand kids?
Sure it recalled but the Atomic energy lab gave Little Johnny superpowers.
In all seriousness who thought that was great idea.
These toys were predecessors of Darwin Awards... kids who ate their toys would hardly make it to adulthood.
I remember sky dancers