TOP 10 BANNED TOYS [Memories!]

www.burlingamepezmuseum.com ^ | 11 January 2019 | Staff

[laker_dad]

Now that there was funny...

I lost a few super balls on the school roof.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I wonder how Super Elastic Bubble Plastic, with a list of ingredients straight out of a Superfund Toxic Waste Site, managed to avoid the list?

Oh man...I can still smell that stuff. What an aroma! I loved it. It's probably the reason for my current drain bamage. It was almost like the smell of a freshly mimeographed quiz that the teachers used to hand out.

[NativeSon]

Blood clots in the wrist from repeated bruising.

[NativeSon]

Had a friend named Billy that was older and bigger and could really slam a super ball into the ground.

He stood incorrectly one time and that ball got him right in the eye.

[Swordmaker]

The Asian girls were the best.......It just flew up, and up and up......and was gone!...............

I kept expecting the one with the little girl on the high rise balcony to go over the railing and drop out of sight forever, LOL!

[Spruce]

I always wanted a set of Power Mite tools!

[Swordmaker]

Feh ... the danger of Jarts was only to idiots.

It wasn’t my girls who were idiots, it was the neighborhood kids who stood in other lines when brains were being handed out. . . the kind of kids who thought that wearing a towel attached to their shoulders would indeed allow them to fly when they jumped off a second story roof. . .

[joma89]

I had the Battlestar Galactica ship that shot the red missile. It was awesome!

JoMa

[M Kehoe]

One of the kits had cobalt. Don’t remember the isotope.

5.56mm

[tallyhoe]

Every thing was a problem too the Mommy worriers!

[NorthMountain]

the kind of kids who thought that wearing a towel attached to their shoulders would indeed allow them to fly

Ban towels. Ban roofs.

Banning Jarts showed me, clearly, that America had been taken over by the "safety Nazis", and was doomed. Here we are, now, with helicopter parents and bubble-wrapped snowflake kids wondering how it got so bad.

I can tell you: It got this bad because we let the @$$holes get away with banning Jarts.

[BlackbirdSST]

My left foot big toe remembers Lawn Darts. The good ole days!

[zeugma]

we both suspected that the caps were designed to explode and handled them accordingly.

You mean with reckless abandon? Always good to have explosives handy.

[zeugma]

the kind of kids who thought that wearing a towel attached to their shoulders would indeed allow them to fly when they jumped off a second story roof. . .

It doesn't? Damn!

[pax_et_bonum]

Fun times.

[PIF]

1. Atomic Energy Laboratory

I had one of those ... really cool back then ... started making plans for my own A-bomb but ....

[RedMonqey]

"

""Ban towels. Ban roofs.

Banning Jarts showed me, clearly, that America had been taken over by the "safety Nazis"”

My older brother and I got a set of lawn darts for Christmas... had to wait til spring to play with them.

When summer got around we were bored just throwing them into the the little yellow rings so we made it a bit mor interesting....

We decide to throw the darts OVER the house and try to hit the rings...

Which, with a forewarning(Bombs Away!) my brother threw it and I watched for it as it sailed over and eventually into the ring.

So far so good. Well, our little brother wanted to play but his throws were a little short... but the height was prefect.. to spike into the roof of the house.

By next Christmas the lawn darts disappeared as our father wasn't too pleased to have a leaky roof.

[Delta 21]

Yes, it’s Happy Fun Ball! The toy sensation that’s sweeping the nation! Only $14.95 at participating stores! Get one today!

Warning: Pregnant women, the elderly, and children under 10 should avoid prolonged exposure to Happy Fun Ball.

Caution: Happy Fun Ball may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.

Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture,should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.

Do not use Happy Fun Ball on concrete.

Discontinue use of Happy Fun Ball if any of the following occurs:

itching
vertigo
dizziness
tingling in extremities
loss of balance or coordination
slurred speech
temporary blindness
profuse sweating
or heart palpitations.
If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.

Happy Fun Ball may stick to certain types of skin.

When not in use, Happy Fun Ball should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Happy Fun Ball, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its parent company, Global Chemical Unlimited, of any and all liability.

Ingredients of Happy Fun Ball include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.

Happy Fun Ball has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

Happy Fun Ball comes with a lifetime warranty.

Announcer: Happy Fun Ball! Accept no substitutes!

[TXnMA]

"I wonder just how many engineers and scientists got started on their career paths thanks to A.C. Gilbert"

Here's one...

But, in several instances, just studying the ACG ads led to much better "DIY" experiments and constructions...

TXnMA