Comments on: 7 Dangerous Toys Kids Today Are Missing Out On

By: Judy

Judy — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:24:03 +0000

This has been so fun. We had all that crap, clackers, Creepy Crawlers, Super Elastic Bubble Plastic, real chemistry sets, the Vac-U-Form, and I didn’t have an Easy Bake Oven but my friend Debbie did, and those were only the manufactured things. The stuff we made up ourselves might have been crazier. And you remember those little turtles? You kept them in a small plastic bowl that had a little stairway and a plastic palm tree at the top? The ones that were eventually banned for sale in the U.S. because they were found to be contaminated with or carriers of salmonella? LOL. How did any of us manage to survive?

By: David

David — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:43:59 +0000

I wish I could remember the name of a toy my family had in the early 1960′s. It was two metal hoops about 5 ft. diameter with a seat in between. You could sit in the seat and flip over. As you did the whole thing rolled down the road or it had a frame that it could be put in and you did flips in one place. My sister says she remembers finding me with my neck caught between the seat and the frame. But it was so much FUN!!

By: Patti

Patti — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:59:26 +0000

Pogo Balls and Hippity Hops are not the same. Like the first person to mention the Pogo Ball said, it was big a ball (actually, kinda like 2 balls) with a ring around it resembling Saturn. You stood on the ring part and tried to jump up and down. These came out almost 2 decades later than Hippity Hops, which were first introduced in 1969. Pogo Ball – http://memoryglands.com/pogo-ball Hippity Hop – http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/1-hippity-hop-ball-best-price

By: Catman

Catman — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:12:10 +0000

You guys are talking about the Pogo Balls like you know what you are talking about …so I wonder what I’m remembering. We had big rubber balls approx 28″ diameter back in the late ’60s that were called Hippity Hops. They were mostly orange and the original ones just had a rubber ring approx 10″ in diameter as a handle. IIRC later there was a version that had a rabbits (or goats) head with the ears as handles. Are we all remembering the same things but different generations?

By: Cjackson

Cjackson — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:02:27 +0000

I think this article is very interesting, however there are soo many more toys today that still pose a threat to our children’s health. Read my blog about dangerous children and teen’s trends today:
http://blogs.micds.org/cajackson/tag/nonfiction/

By: Clay Boggess

Clay Boggess — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:32:44 +0000

We will never fully be able to protect our kids! As hard as we try, life just happens so get over it! Today’s toys are just plain boring.

By: Chuck Boardman

Chuck Boardman — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:02:41 +0000

I had so many dangerous toys and somehow survived without a scratch. My sister had an easy bake oven. We both had creepy crawler sets and I also had molds that made monster erasers that you could put on the end of pencils and another where you could make rubber toy soldiers. We would burn ourselves on the molds and sometimes let them sit too long until the plastigoop would catch fire. I had a Johnny reb cannon and secret sam spy brief case and gun. It is a wonder we never put our eyes out. The stupid kid next door got his arm stuck in my johnny reb cannon and couldn’t get it out and my mom, after pouring cooking oil down the cannon barrel, still couldn’t get the kids arm out. They had to call the fire department who came and split the barrel open to free the kids arm. I was devistated and my folks never got me another. I also remember we used to from fire crackers and M80s at our GI Joes all dressed up. I blew a hole in my Joes rubber raft that way. I also remember we used to blow quite large holes in the road with gun powder in baby food jars. The powder carefully collected by splitting open a hundred fire crackers. We also accidentally set two woods on fire playing with fire crackers. I almost set the garage on fire with my chemistry set. Now at age 53 I still have all my digits and both my eyes. Some of us are just lucky I guess. I sure did have a blast figuring out my toys.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:16:28 +0000

I personally haven’t killed myself with any toys…(yet), but my friend had a Birthday party and had a rope swing and a trampoline. Monica was accidently pushed off the trampoline and got caught in the net so the grandmother had to untangle her. After that we were jumping off the rope swing. On my second turn I jumped a little late and fell flat on my back. Only suffered a mild headache. My “friend” reminds me EVERY day.

My friend and I would have Pecan wars. He had LOTS of pecans so we’d grab two buckets and throw them at each other with the trees for cover. We also made forts by twining it together with those stems the pecans come with. I came up with it.

At school my friends were on the monkeybars and we were throwing a soccer ball around and I sprained my finger trying to catch it.

In 2nd and 3rd grade none of us could reach the monkeybars so we’d jump off the platform and swing around the pole. Never thought of breaking my arm from that…

Finally my friends had a swingset. The swing set had a bench thingy with a floor. I was turning around to talk got hit in the face with that and got my tooth chipped.

Scratch what I typed at first.

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:14:30 +0000

Remember the toxic tube of rubber cement that you would put a gob of it on the end of the supplied straw and blow through to make your own balloon? I remember getting my first high off of that at age 5. Why my parents didn’t just buy me a package of balloons?
Not really a toy, but remember the first Pop-Rocks candy? I remember the large pop rocks would seemed to have enough force to blow up a tooth.

By: Carli

Carli — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:34:32 +0000

Unfortunately, I’m too young to have killed myself with any of these awesome toys (believe me, I would have). The only toy mentioned that I had was the Easy Bake Oven, and when I used it, my mom sat next to me to make sure I didn’t burn myself. *sigh*