Toys of Danger we loved

[Lynne]

TOYS FROM OUR PAST. SOME WE NOW CONSIDER DOWNRIGHT DANGEROUS BUT WOW...THEY WERE FUN! WHAT TOYS CAN'T YOU FIND TODAY THAT YOU OWNED GROWING UP? THE ONE BELOW TAUGHT ME DON'T TOUCH THE HOT THINGS! LOL

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One of my fav toys as a kid. I used to make jewelry out of them. So fun.

 

[Lynne]

This baby would blow out your buddy's eardrums from several feet. There was also a pistol version, I think made by a different company.

I want one now. What a fun toy!!

 

[Lynne]

It seems that everyone had toys from the Uncle Fester Toy Company.
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I am around lots of solvents and chemicals and can identify many by smell. Many soft plastic toys were loaded with volatile organic compounds. I still remember the smells in my mind's eye and they kill brain cells.
The psychodelic colored bubble blowing kit was bad. You would put a small wad of this multi colored bubble gum looking stuff at the end of a straw and blow a wild looking bubble. And you would inhale quite a bit of it along the way.View attachment 16814 it has polyvinyl acetate which is a very cheap plastic used in latex paint. And acetone. Banned in the 80s.

This is still sold I think.

 

[Lynne]

How about toys with little bitty parts? My middle son once stuck a matchbox motorcycle fender up his nose into his sinus cavity to "see what would happen." And then there's the Lite Brite toy!

All those tiny little pegs. Looked like candy to babies.

Still a great toy

 

[Lynne]

I had an Easy Bake Oven. It really worked well. I bought one for my own kid and it didn’t get hot enough to bake. It was a waste.

 

[Duke]

I want one now. What a fun toy!!

The last time I saw one for sale was at a vintage toy show, at least five years ago. It was $750. You can get one of the pistols for about half that, but will have to get much closer to rupture an eardrum.

 

[Paulm]

The psychodelic colored bubble blowing kit was bad. You would put a small wad of this multi colored bubble gum looking stuff at the end of a straw and blow a wild looking bubble. And you would inhale quite a bit of it along the way.View attachment 16814 it has polyvinyl acetate which is a very cheap plastic used in latex paint. And acetone. Banned in the 80s.

I remember that stuff....can actually almost taste it now that im remembering it.... wow, just think we used to play with that surrounded by lead painted walls with asbestos cielings....lol.....hmmmm, explains a lot about me I think.....of course that was before graduating on to other brain killing substances of the teen years.....lol

 

[ozentity]

You had great dangerous toys in the US in those days.They probably never thought of exporting them to oz in those days,with a population of 2000 lol.

 

[Mrs Cooper]

You totally stole mine! :smileycat: I just came in here to shout JARTS! ! I love them and miss them.

Horseshoes is an okay substitute but no danger of getting impaled. Boo!

I have a nice scar on my lip & chin where a horseshoe thrower missed the stake & got me.

BB guns. Old school fireworks. Bikes without helmets.

 

[Mrs Cooper]

I had an Easy Bake Oven. It really worked well. I bought one for my own kid and it didn’t get hot enough to bake. It was a waste.

Ah I had one too! Best friend & I used to use it all the time. And yeah, the old ones worked.