The 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys

Cracked.com ^ | October 19, 2011 | Tracy V.

[mdmathis6]

“Two MS Degrees in engineering fields sort of debunks the IQ drop with every use”

No it doesn’t...you might have had 4 MS degrees!(tee hee...just kidding)

[cloydlloyd]

Used up many cans of mom’s hairspray and a book of matches... fire ants hate flame throwers. Another fond memory involves snap n pops at the mall, 2 boys on the second floor. Said memory ends with mall security if I recall.

[Hoffer Rand]

Clackers!!

I still have a set of the glass ones. Before they got all wussie and started only making them in plastic.

[Bob]

In 1977, at the height of the Lawn Jart popularity craze, an estimated 120,000 people died each year due to Lawn Jart accidents.

Do you have a source for that figure? It seems unimaginably high to me. Could that perhaps have been the number of injuries rather than the number of fatalities?

[JoeProBono]

[mdmathis6]

“M80s also made it perfectly acceptable for boys to play with Barbie dolls”

Depending on what location of the body they exploded upon?

[RJS1950]

I am certainly familiar with both of these “toys”.

[The Great RJ]

I somehow survived having a chemistry set as a kid and even did glass blowing experiments. I also played with fireworks and rode my bicycle without a helmet as did my friends. Strangely I never was injured and only had one friend suffer a broken arm falling from a swing set. According to today’s nannies at least half my generation should never have made it to adulthood.

[pfflier]

It wasn't even an airshow, it was an air race. I can just hear it "When airplanes fly, people die".

Indy car racing next??

[wolfman23601]

It is an ongoing fight I have with my wife. I refuse to make our son where a helmet riding the bike in the neighborhood.

[frithguild]

I can still remember that smell ...

[Calvin Locke]

I did the American Basic Science Club kit a month.

About all I remember from the nuclear kit was that it came with a bit of radium painted on head of pin and stored in a cardboard tube to protect it from abrasion.

I don't recall any uranium.

And yes, it did say to get dry ice to "see" the particle decay.

Oh, and that "projector/illuminator" was came in an earlier kit, maybe the photography and/or optics.

[PowderMonkey]

MY EDC rig in 1962:Mattel Tommy Gun

[frithguild]

real bows and arrows for Christmas

They were in the Sears Christmas Catalog.

[PLMerite]

“We used to cast Tiki heads and put them on a leather thong.”

Somebody’s going to really misunderstand that.

[12Gauge687]

I had something like a bazooka called the Sonic Blaster - boy, was that loud.

[frithguild]

Used up many cans of mom’s hairspray and a book of matches

You should have tried Endust - it had a wide dispersion nozzle and an amasing orange flame!

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

In 1977, at the height of the Lawn Jart popularity craze, an estimated 120,000 people died each year due to Lawn Jart accidents.

I suspect that you were having a bit of fun when you posted this, because the actual number was a bit closer to...four. As in four total, not per year.

[JoeProBono]

[pigsmith]

I still have an iron like Ruth has. And it still gets hot.