20 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time

Good Housekeeping ^ | 8/29/18 | Caroline Picard

[pa_dweller]

Remember those black discs that you'd light with a lighter or match, and they turned into long coils like a snake?

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I do!   Don't remember what they were called, tho'.

[Tired of Taxes]

My kids had a couple of these toys while growing up in the 2000’s.

[Red Badger]

Atomic Laboratory Kits Science-based toys still win over parents today, but we guess this particular '60s chemistry kit wouldn't pass muster anymore. The Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab — from the inventor of the Erector Set — actually contained four types of uranium ore. I WANT ONE NOW!!....................

[Red Badger]

https://search.brave.com/images?q=fireworks%20snake&source=web

[Sirius Lee]

I’ve always said: A little radiation builds character in a child.

[Red Badger]

“We all gotta die of sumthin’.”- Jocelyn Elders.................

[mware]

I remember the glass making kit in the Wish Book. Really cool chemistry sets too. My oldest brother snagged one of them on Christmas.

[Red Badger]

14 sec....................

[mware]

My little brother got the Incredible Edible kit. Same story burnt fingers all around.

[Red Badger]

SLingshots was last.............

[cyclotic]

I’m a big Camping with Steve fan. That was probably his best quip ever.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I had a cap gun and sling shot. We also had a slip n slide and lawn darts which were marketed under the name Jarts. The only thing any of us got hurt on was the slip n slide. But we never gave it up. 😏

[gitmo]

When I was a lad we played chicken with knives. Two players would spread their legs and you throw a knife to stick between your opponent’s feet. He (or she) would have to move a foot next to the knife. Then the opponent throws a knife between your feet.

The feet got closer and closer together until someone chickened out or got a knife in the shoe.

[wyokostur]

Estes Rockets...Fun times.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Dad might have killed me had we burned that barn down.***

Brings back memories of an incident with a hay wagon in my youth playing with matches.

[Retain Mike]

We made bows and arrows out of hazelnut suckers. They worked well enough to shoot across the back yard. I had a sling shot made from a tree and thin strips of bicycle tire tubbing. Didn’t need the toy store. Kids this day don’t have that sort of imagination. Do they?

[pingman]

What? Huh? Can you repeat that?

[ViLaLuz]

I had a Creepy Crawlies Thing Maker, too. Also suffered many burns LOL. That and a Vacuum Form, which also caused burns and inhaled plastic fumes.

[21twelve]

As another youtube commenter said “I love how after the fire ‘starts’ he just sits down talking like everything is normal.”

[mass55th]

LOL!! Did you ever fill that pit back up? We weren't that daring when we were kids in the 50's. Up until we got to a certain age, our mother always went with us trick or treating, so we couldn't misbehave. I've lived in New York State my whole life. Grew up in Rochester. I live in the Mohawk Valley now. Fireworks have been banned in this State as long as I've been alive...75 years worth. We couldn't afford them anyway when we were kids, so every 4th of July, my Dad, who worked for the New York Central Railroad put out some railroad flares. We thought it was so cool at the time. Back in the 90's, whenever I traveled south to visit friends, I always stopped and stocked up on fireworks. When the 4th of July rolled around, I'd take them and my two sons over to a nearby friend's house. They had plenty of property to set them off.

Halloween was always my favorite time of year when I was younger. My mother restricted us as to what neighborhood streets we could go to, despite the fact that that part of Rochester was still decent. We knew which houses gave out the better candy, and one house always gave us nickels. Another house always handed out Hershey Candy Bars. They've ruined Halloween for kids now. I've lived in the same small apartment complex for 22 years. The first year or two I had kids come to my door. I haven't had a kid show up once in all those remaining years. I always buy Halloween candy each year, just in case, but I make sure I buy something that I like, because I know I'll end up eating it all anyway.