The Most Dangerous Toys of All Time

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"Anything that can be used as a weapon, will be used as a weapon" I work at a daycare, and we had kids using a rubber band to affix toothpicks to popsicle sticks. This wasn't the craft they were supposed to be making, but these kids were 100% making shanks.

“The police will shoot your kids anyway.” Damn, dude. No holds barred. I’m here for it.

I still own the eating Cabbage Patch doll I had as a child. I chose not to return it when they got recalled. Usually the hair-eating happened with kids who slept with their doll, and luckily I was never one for having toys in bed. Also, it did technically have an off switch. The backpack could be unhooked from the doll's back and the eating function no longer worked. It was in the instructions, but no one reads those, I guess.

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That police line was brutal :O

Sky Dancers were very effective weapons against annoying siblings. Every girl I knew who had one 100% deliberately launched it at someone at least once.

I remember owning Aqua Dots as a kid. Beads with a spray that would hold the beads into the shape you created. Later find out that the toy had a date rape drug as a part of the chemical make up that coated the beads when I was a teenager. GHB specifically. Complete recall + lawsuits, and terrified my mom when I shared the information with her.

Had a Gilbert chemistry set as a kid, was so interesting I expanded it to a real lab setup by high school. Only after a friend with similar interests blew the roof off his attic lab that I stopped and dismantled mine. The new (at the time) computer sciences seemed a safer pursuit. Curiously my high school chem book had the process for making LSD in it.

Yeah, SlipNSlide nearly did me in as a kid. Camp councilors thought it'd be clever to put them on a steep hill. So, not only did I smash my head on the way down, got fired across the ground at the bottom. To add to the liability - and not making this up, the summer camp was on the training ground for the local prison. So the grass and dirt were saturated with expended tear gas. So, we were effectively sliding into a nice patch of chemical irritants. Thank you, childhood!

I narrowly avoided winning one of those csi finger prints kits at a school fundraiser... I came in third place and won a book instead... glad I won that "dumb book" now.

Seeing the Skydancer dolls on this list makes me a little sad. I get that they were dangerous, but I know someone who said that she always wanted to be a Skydancer as a child. Nowadays, she's a Hairhanging artist at Cirque du Soleil, and she says she feels like she finally got to fulfill her dream of becoming a real life Skydancer. So, even though that was before my generation, those toys will always have a special place in my heart because I think they may have subconsciously inspired her career path and if she didn't have her duo Hairhanging act nowadays, I probably would've never seen her performance and I would've also never met her and her friend with who she's doing the performance. And exactly that friend and coworker of her is also a Contortionist and Aerial artist and she inspired me to start Contortion myself. So, long story short: No Skydancers = No Hairhanging for this person. No Hairhanging = no duo act with that other person. No duo performance of them = me, not getting into Contortion because I would've never met her and never actually considered doing Contortion. Conclusion: Even though they are a safety hazard, I still like the Skydancer toys. 😅 (I really can't keep my comments short, can I?)

How about the glassblowing and lead casting kits they released for kids way, way, waaaaay back in the day? Loved this video, great job Devin!

Oh hey, I had one of those asbestos CSI kits growing up. I read the big warning sheet that came with it, and asked my parents what asbestos was. If I remember right, they just took it right then and returned it. Good times

As a kid I had a “007 Spy Kit” which had a gun that shot plastic bullets and a briefcase with a built-in hidden gun that also shot plastic bullets. The briefcase could be rigged so that if it was opened with the wrong combination, it would set off a cap. The television ad showed a close-up of somebody opening the briefcase, the cap goes off, and his hands disappear, out of shot, implying that he was killed. Ah, the innocence of childhood.

I worked at a Hardee's in the late 80's. We had a kids' meal come out for the Ghost Buster's movie (I don't remember which movie) but the toy was a little ghost sound maker...looked about the size of your average key fob today. Had 3 or 4 buttons to make sounds. The problem was the battery compartment was very easy to open. When I handed out the toys to parents, I showed them the battery compartment so that they could remove the batteries when their kids had annoyed them too much. We didn't have those toys more than 2 weeks...apparently some kids were eating the batteries.

Man the 60's were wild. There was a toy that literally became a shrapnel grenade after using it for long enough and it was just like on the market for years.

I won't lie. I was half expecting my favorite childhood toy to be in here. It was called precious metals. You melted metal and poured it into a silicone mold to make your own charms and things. It was pretty awesome. Everything was bolted in for safety. I couldn't really see how anyone could hurt themselves without truly doing something absolutely idiotic and against the instructions, but it did get recalled so clearly someone managed it.

The Skydancer one cracks me up because I had one or two of these as a kid. And I've looked back on them in the past and been like "wow, that was actually kind of dangerous" But I also remember intentionally launching them at my older brother as a 10ish year old, and somehow neither of us got injured.

I remember taking my purple Clackers to elementary school ... for a little while. As kids, we didn't really understand why they were banned, but the general theory was that too many kids had broken fingers and /or noses. I very nearly broke several of those things myself.