Toys that were real killers ;)

remember the snl Bag'o'glass and the Johnny space commander mask...it was a plastic bag that you put over your head

 

No never tried reverse stretch :hide:

You’d toss the knife various ways and it would have to fall to the earth with the blade sticking in the ground




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Wow what a fun trip down memory lane this thread is. Still got a scar from the woodburning kit, mumbly peg was also a classic. Lead soldiers, painted with lead paint and the casting kits. And who can forget the heating pipes in public schools wrapped in asbestos, we used to pick off hunks a throw them at each other in grade school.

 

wait...mercury is dangerous? lol

I save those mercury hood switches off old cars for my dad...not sure why he collects that :leaving:

 

Oooo when i was like 9 i think, my Mom gave me this doll, "Chatty Cathy" it was her's when she was a kid, the thing was like 2 feet tall and it freaked me out, i had nightmares about it....

 

I used to chew on toys covered with lead paint and it never hurt me.

 

I used to chew on toys covered with lead paint and it never hurt me

 

Those little green army men were a real fire hazard too.

 

Especially when burned with a magnifying glass! We would melt them in the opening of the ant hill.

 

There was an episode on the 60s TV show Get Smart where armed Kaos agents had Mr. Smart trapped in the toy section of a department store. Smart and his colleague, Agent 99, used various toys to subdue the Kaos agents, including pop guns that hit the agents in the face with plastic balls.

The grand finale was a toy called 'Destructo', a bomb that flew by radio control. Smart flew it over to the Kaos agents on the other side of the room and blew them up.

Smart's last line was, "The real credit goes to these toys. We had at our disposal every fiendish plaything devised for the pleasure of little children. All those poor devils had were real guns and bullets."



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There were a number of chemical toys around the late 60s to early 70s. Some were like a goop that you would makes figures out of. One was called Creepy Crawlers.

Then there was Silly String, highly flammable, and known to light people's hair on fire at weddings and birthday parties when it came into contact with lit candles.

Around the 1980s there was a toy phone that would play recordings. It had a very loud speaker in the earpiece, loud enough to cause hearing damage. You weren't supposed to put it up to your ear but rather listen to it like a loudspeaker.

Also in the 80s there were long rubber flexible swords. You could really lash the crap out of someone's skin or poke their eye out with those.

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Yeah. I have that sketch on my SNL tapes.

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Fuck yins old heads, we had some dangerous ones.
Man, I want to say I tried Lawn Darts =(

 

Wait a minute, that happened in an A-Team episode too. They emptied out the gunpowder from fireworks and filled one of those air pump water missiles and dropped it from a remote control plane. They also made weapons putting bottle rockets in toy rifles with 9v batteries somehow wired as the triggers.

 

A-team was nuts about that kind of stuff. I saw one episode where they taped dynamite sticks to hubcaps, lit them, and then tossed them like frisbees.

Wonder how many kids killed themselves mimicking the A-team.

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I had this fairy that I could set it up in this contraption of some sort, and wind it up and it flew out of my hand spinning in the air.

It was made of solid plastic, even the wings.

Gotta watch out for those things, could be dangerous.

ps. whoever invented marbles is probably hated by most parents who have children under 4.

 

Worse than the Fisher Price motorcycle was the Yuppie craze in the 80s of putting their kids on ATVs, even little toddlers who couldn't even properly reach the handlebars and pedals. That's like trying to make a toy for little kids out of a vehicle made for adults.

The advertisements of the ATV companies didn't help either in the 80s. They'd show kids and teens riding those things in a frantic reckless manner.

After all the accidents, that craze lost its steam.

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Just a harmless little Big Wheel right? NO!

Check out the hand brake by the back wheel. I don't remember if they advertised it as a hand brake, or a powerslide feature, but we used it for powerslides.

If you got it going fast enough you could flip it. And you could get your fingers jammed between the handle and hard plastic tire, which was usually studded with tiny rocks.

I actually ran over my fingers while trying to reach for it in a hurry once. I found out how much i weighed then. *ow*

I think they discontinued that model. I don't remember seeing many with the brake on it.

 

lol at the big wheel...my neighbors had some and their driveway was a hill...it was awesome (my parents were cheap so I had to just play with theirs)....and the "cool kid" had a green machine that he would never ever let anyone try

 

weapons are the funnest toys. I had bb guns, bow and arrows and blow guns.