[Mike Darancette]

The "Lawn Dart" was a great toy for the whole family.

[Delta 21]

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* 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
* 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 substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.

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

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

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ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!

[Conservative4Ever]

After a quick scan of the article...I didn't see any mention of the EasyBake Oven......some things are just too sacred for PCness. Still remember my Dale Evans cowgirl outfit complete with sidearm and holster. Talk about being Queen of the West...

Red

[Vermonter]

Could we have a show of hands for anyone who knows someone who put someone else's eye out with one of these toys from back when?

I'm sure it happened, but not to anyone I ever knew or heard of

(let's not forget slingshots and electric trains for the dangerous toy list)

[ServesURight]

I remember the science sets for kids that contained LOTS of chemicals and glass beakers.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There was some gunk in a tube that you could blow into enormous multi-colored bubbles circa mid-60's. I played with it a lot. It had a distinctive odor which when I happened upon it again when I was in my 30's came from a can marked Acetone. LOL! I was a sniffer and didn't even know it.

[gorush]

Erector sets and chemistry sets...lots of metalic pointy parts or the ability, at the very least, to make a huge stain, whether toxic or otherwise.

[TrebleRebel]

I have find memories of setting off smoke alarms in my house making shrinky dinks.

[Mears]

I grew up in the Depression and the Christmas tree lights were the most dangerous thing about Christmas.

Threadbare cords and sputtery lights all over a dry Christmas tree.

July Fourth was even more dangerous.

No one warned anyone about anything and we all survived.

[JoeGar]

As Mad Max is fond of saying, "Sling shots, air rifles, and lawn darts were invented to cull the stupid children from the gene pool."

[TrebleRebel]

FOND memories too......

[Interious]

I recently bought a a bunch of Slinkys. It's a wonder they've not been banned by the toy police for fear of a child doing SOMETHING horrible with it.

Are Superballs still allowed? Silly Putty, cap guns, slingshots, Cox glow engines?

Sleds...certainly they've been banned, Flexible flyers. Dart guns banned but not bicycles?

Certainly Erector sets are prohibited--so many small parts. Probably the greatest toy ever invented.

Take me back 40 years. The world is now a hell hole.

[Corin Stormhands]

You'll put your eye out...

Speaking of which, my brother shot me in the eye at point blank range with a plastic bullet from our "Secret Sam Secret Agent Kits." I got over it.

[RLK]

In the '40s we had firecrackers equal to quarter sticks of dynamite. We would take the powder out of several of them to make a big bomb. The noise would echo from the hills on the other side of the river three or more miles away.

[templar]

There was a time when nearly every boy had a six-shooter with a holster. Most of them fired plastic bullets.

I remember those well! My favorite was my little plastic bullet firing derringer that I saved up to buy for what seemed like forever. I remember that the bullet used a cap inserted into a two piece metallic cartridge with the hollow red plastic bullet placed on top. It didn't take me long to figure out that emptying a firecracker into the hollow of the plastic bullet made a much more satisfying bang when shot (and the bullet would hurt like h*ll if it hit you).

Kids today just don't get to have clean, decent, creative fun anymore.

[farmguy]

The toy I remember the most fondly was my Mattel shootin shell six shooter with greenie stickum caps.

I guess they don't make those anymore

[Republican Red]

Any one remember making the plastic type flowers?

Somehow you melted the plastic, if I am remembering correct I think it was in an easy-bake oven type of contraption. Then you would get a wire that you shaped into flower petals and a stem. Then you would dip the shaped wire into a boiling vat of plastic.

Nothing like boiling plastic to give a few unsupervised 8 year olds a good time.

[JoJo Gunn]

A couple have mentioned the "air blaster" guns. Wham-O made a pistol sized one, but I knew a kid who had one made like a bazooka. Had a red handle to pump it up with. Really loud. I was jealous of him, naturally.

[luckystarmom]

Well, this article is a little out of date. You can still buy creepy crawler type toys. They just have a different name. We were playing with a friend of ours a few months back. It's not a parent friendly toy, and I'm glad my kids don't have one. It's very messy!!!

[Major_Risktaker]

Yeah! One of my cool toys as a kid.

I had this Time Bomb Game also!
Time Bomb was good for a few laughs.

This is my family in the
picture below playing!

The last person left is the winner.