"Federal safety guidelines for toys changed, and the prongs on the back of the facial features could no longer be sharp."
I just KNEW this thread would become a CONSERVATIVE issue. (other than the obvious of making your OWN fun your OWN way using your OWN cardboard box! (Caution - staples may be sharp. Rough edges may cause abrasions. Sitting in a box in the middle of a road you are not visible to drivers. They may run over you.)
That last one SHOULD have been printed. Many years ago I debated whether to hit the box or not. Even just clipping it to send it off the road. Then figured it might still have the appliance in it so i swerved around it. Looked in the mirror and out climbs a kid!!! I turned around and told him how lucky he was. Then took his box.
When she was a child, some very young twin boys in her neighborhood were playing with a cardboard box in the middle of the road. The details are hazy, but apparently they were taking turns squeezing into the box while the other pushed the box down a steep hill in the road.
A passing car saw the box in the middle of the road and elected to run over it, killing the boy. None of the kids in her neighborhood played in cardboard boxes much after that. Thanks for swerving.