Posted on 01/11/2019 11:11:08 AM PST by Red Badger
10. Spanish Barbie
In 1999, fans of this popular fashion doll were very upset that she was wearing a matador's costume - usually worn when bulls are ritually killed in a bullring as a public spectacle.
Barbie fans, including actress Alicia Silverstone, wrote letters to Mattel asking that they discontinue the toy.
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9. Air Pirates Comic
The underground comic, Air Pirates Funnies, was created by a group of San Francisco based cartoonists in 1971. The comic portrayed Disney characters engaging in VERY adult behavior. Disney sued, alleging copyright infringement.
In 1978, the Ninth Circuit ruled against the Air Pirates.
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8. Snacktime Kid Cabbage Patch Doll
The Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids featured battery-powered mechanical jaws. Armed with real chewing action this toy kept chewing, even when kids got their hair and fingers caught in the doll's mouth. Mattel recalled them in 1997.
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7. Clackers
Clackers, also known as Knockers and Click Clacks, consisted of two large acrylic balls, which hung on either end of a heavy string. The two balls would swing apart and together, making the loud clacking noise that gave the toy its name. If swung too hard, the acrylic balls would shatter, sending flying shrapnel everywhere.
Clackers were banned in 1985.
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6. Belt Buckle Gun
In 1959, Mattel introduced the Belt Buckle Derringer Toy Gun.
To unsuspecting badguys, this unique belt buckle looked harmless. But when the user extended his stomach, the gun swung out, firing a toy bullet and a cap.
Unfortunately, the caps could be accidentally ignited by friction and cause serious burns.
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5. Sky Dancers
Sky Dancers were a Barbie inspired helicopter-like flying toy. Placed on a mechanical base, once the cord was pulled, the Sky Dancer would twirl high into the sky.
The hard plastic Sky Dancer's propeller-like wings flew rapidly in unpredictable directions, hitting users and causing temporary blindness, broken teeth, face lacerations, and one mild concussion.
Galoob recalled almost 9 million Sky Dancers in 2000.
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4. Battlestar Galactica Missile Launcher
Red missles, about 1 1/4" long, created for the 1979 Battlestar Galactica toys, were just about the perfect size to lodge in a child's throat.
Before the missle recall, Mattel added stickers to the toys warning "do not put or fire red missiles into mouth or towards face."
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3. Yo-Yo Water Balls
Illinois, New Jersey and New York have all banned the Yo-Yo Water ball. The Yo-Yo Water ball is made of flammable diesel hydrocarbons.
The stretchy, sticky cord can wrap around a child's neck, causing strangulation.
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2. Lawn Darts
Heavily weighted and solid metal, Lawn Darts can pierce whatever they strike! Lawn darts have been responsible for over 7,000 injuries. On December 19, 1988, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned lawn darts from sale in the United States.
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1. Atomic Energy Laboratory
In 1951, A.C. Gilbert, inventor of the ERECTOR set, released the U-238 Atomic Energy Lab. Using real radioactive materials, one could witness mist trails created by particles of ionizing radiation.
The set included four Uranium-bearing ore samples, and originally sold for $49.50.
Now that there was funny...
I lost a few super balls on the school roof.
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.
Blood clots in the wrist from repeated bruising.
He stood incorrectly one time and that ball got him right in the eye.
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!
It wasnt 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. . .
I had the Battlestar Galactica ship that shot the red missile. It was awesome!
JoMa
One of the kits had cobalt. Don’t remember the isotope.
5.56mm
Every thing was a problem too the Mommy worriers!
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.
My left foot big toe remembers Lawn Darts. The good ole days!
You mean with reckless abandon? Always good to have explosives handy.
It doesn't? Damn!
Fun times.
1. Atomic Energy Laboratory
I had one of those ... really cool back then ... started making plans for my own A-bomb but ....
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Here's one...
But, in several instances, just studying the ACG ads led to much better "DIY" experiments and constructions...
TXnMA
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