When Toys Were Toys And Boys Were Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFObOcjALvQ
Well, I survived 8, 7 and 3.
Wow, some of those look like a lot of fun!
I want that Atomic Energy Lab.. cool. I just checked eBay and you can buy the alpha radiation replacement.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Alpha-Radiation-Source-A-C-Gilbert-Atomic-Energy-Lab-/190593070111?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c603b741f
Apparently you CAN just walk into a store and buy plutonium in 1955, Doc Brown.
Now that’s just funny right there.
I had half of those when I was a kid. My favorite was the Gilbert Chemistry Set. The nuke set was a gyp.
Consumer Reporter: So, you don't feel that this product is dangerous?
Irwin Mainway: No! Look, we put a label on every bag that says, "Kid! Be careful - broken glass!" I mean, we sell a lot of products in the "Bag O'" line.. like Bag O' Glass, Bag O' Nails, Bag O' Bugs, Bag O' Vipers, Bag O' Sulfuric Acid. They're decent toys, you know what I mean?
They weren’t Gilbert brand, but I had a proper chemistry set complete with toxic and potentially explosive chemicals, and a cool home particle physics lab with radioisotope samples and a cloud chamber!
We didn’t cast our own, but the first generation of D&D players used leaden figures.
Uranium and radium samples? I am sure that unless you ate the sample you would be fine, but still?
Giving this to a 9 year old boy--wildly irresponsible.
You can buy radioactive stuff here!
http://www.unitednuclear.com/
Johnny seven assult rifle. Had 7 different weapons components. Had a shelf life of 2months.
I remember that weapon—on TV anyway. Why is it irresponsible?
What irked me as a kid were the ads that lied to me. For instance, I could NOT fly over fences after putting on a pair of PF Flyers.
Awesome that Jarts didn’t even make the list!
And I thought the gas powered pogo stick I saw on TV the other day was bad.
Remember Vac-U-Form? That was kind of crazy. I damn near passed out from the fumes once and burned myself quite a few times. Great fun though!
The really irresponsible ones were the insane legislators that have given us the nanny state.
Down with the nanny state! Bring back freedom. Eliminate stupid national “safety” standards!
I wandered alone in near wilderness with a rifle and a dog when I was 12. I spent more time in a canoe and on snowshoes growing up than I did on a bicycle. I started reloading ammunition at 13 and worked in the woods peeling pulp wood logs by hand when I was 14.
We have created a world where we dare not give children responsibility, then expect them to exercise it immediately and fully when they turn 18.
It is an insane expectation.