After I got married, my wife found out I had some old Mercurochrome in our medicine chest. I had no idea it was even controversial, much less banned.
As a kid, I had the Remco voice control astronaut base ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/1969-REMCO-VOICE-CONTROL-ASTRONAUT-BASE-IN-ORIGINAL-BOX/324279383777?hash=item4b808eb6e1:g:-iIAAOSw8vtfTVEs Remco and Marx had the COOLEST toys). I was seven, and wanted to see what the rocket would look like from overhead. It went into my eye, of course.
We also had a hand-me-down toy called Creepy Crawlies, where heat was applied to plastic blocks that expanded into plastic monsters.
When I was a kid, I only had one toy and it was a dirt clod.
I named it Claude.
Wow - I was specifically looking for Mercurochrome a couple years ago as I hadn’t known it had been banned or whatever....