The 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys

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

[EveningStar]

These days, if a stuffed animal's plastic eye so much as wiggles, that toy is recalled faster than you can say "class action lawsuit." Back in the day, though, child safety consisted of just getting out of the way and letting natural selection do its thing. If a kid was too dumb to play with a toy the right way, well, he'd just have to learn to get along with one less eye.

[palmerizedCaddis]

Hey folks, I had a Gilbert Kaster deal in the early fifties.
We played Waterloo, Gettysburg and all sorts of fun stuff. We used lead pipe with a gasoline powered blowtorch plumbers pot.

No girls just dumb boy stuff.

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

Caddis the Elder

[Scythian]

Remember that "Super Fun Ball Commercial" SNL did? LOL

"Never look directly at Super Fun Ball ..."

[PowderMonkey]

A Revell modeling kit, and a tube of genuine “airplane glue.” The gateway drug if ever there was one.

[Scythian]

Na, just razzen’ ya ...

[dfwgator]

and a tube of genuine “airplane glue.”

[OB1kNOb]

Oh yeah!

[SERKIT]

The Blago Doll is one of the most dangerous.

[Daffynition]

Don't forget mercury and *real* fireworks! *sigh*

[OB1kNOb]

I didn’t get mine until I turned 10 years old. My parents were strict like that. ;-)

[MrEdd]

The ultimate kid toy from the 1960s was...a red towel. With a red towel, you have a cape and you can *fly.

* If you're five.

[Tenacious 1]

Didn't need a toy maker to provide ways for me to walk the thin line between mayhem and disaster. The fun I could have with a plastic model airplane and a can of lighter fluid. Oh and often the unlucky airmen and burning plane was thrown off the roof of our house.

It's funny looking back. As a kid I remember a couple times thinking, "How did it come to this?" Case in point. My brother and I use to set a couple train sets together (one of them was a GI Joe train). We would set army men on them; two trains going around. The original object was to shoot army men off the other guys train train with spit wads. That graduated to slingshots with the snap-pops. Then on to firecrackers. When we almost set the garage on fire with tiny makeshift flamethrowers we went back to spit wads. By then, our trainset was considerably smaller.

[Ace of Spades]

Back in my day (the 80s), we had toys that could take off a finger or blow up in your face. We played on rusted steel jungle gyms that could give you tetanus just by looking at them. That’s the way it was and WE LIKED IT!

[wolfman23601]

I still have my ninja hand claws...

[dead]

There was no toy like an M80. Makes cans fly, takes out beehives, eradicates mailboxes.

They even blew up underwater!

The M80 made ALL other toys a hundred times more interesting, for one instant usually.

[Daffynition]

I was always soooooo jealous of my brother who got all the cool Gilbert sets....I'd have to wait until he went to summer camp and use them on the *sly*.

[pfflier]

It does seem way high considering a post earlier of 4 deaths last year attributed to BB guns.

[buffaloguy]

We really had some neat toys when I was a kid. I had a couple of the Gilbert sets.

[wbill]

“Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball”

[Daffynition]

Remember...when you had a couple of M-80s...you *felt* like you ruled the world? *sigh*

[Maverick68]

bump for greatness