Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:48:00
You’ll put your eye out!
I had some of these!
In the spirit of the holidays, Radar presents the most dangerous toys of all time, those treasured playthings that drew blood, chewed digits, took out eyes, and, in one case, actually irradiated. To keep things interesting, we excluded BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm. Below, our toy box from hell.
I had lawn darts, the old spiky kind. My cousin had the Sky Dancers and I frickin’ loved launching them. I had variations on the Fright Factory, and I don’t know where I got it, but it was the old electric deep fryer kind. I also had the Battlestar Galactica Viper with hot, hot missle launching action. I also had the old Mattel Ovion, Imperious Leader, Daggit, Adama, Apollo, the Cylon...I had the whole Battlestar Galactica line.
Does this mean I have to turn in my Star Wars original trilogy cool kid card?
Posted by JimK at 10:48 PM on December 13, 2006
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#2 Posted by Christian 
on 12/14 at 12:43 AM -
I look at the list of dangerous toys and go “Fock, i want those!!”
Is it me, or are we creating the biggest set of lil wieners ever to walk the planet? Why not just wrap the children in bubble wrap and leave them in the basement. After all, thats the only way to be sure they won’t get hurt or something.
#3 Posted by Christian on 12/14 at 12:44 AM -
Oh, one quick thing....
I got to play Santa at work the past 2 weekends, and actually got to tell a kid that he would shoot out his eye when he asked for a b-b gun. Very satisfying.
#4 Posted by chrisbg99 on 12/14 at 04:34 AM -
Heh, Sky Dancers. I remember those. Of course I was 14 when they were released, so my sister (I have a twin sister) would have probably been beyond the age for it. But I loved this:
When spun aloft, the wings—which felt so soft and cushy in the aisles of Toys “R” Us—turned into steely-hard child manglers. In 2000, the CPSC announced that over 150 children fell prey to Sky Dancer’s helicopter-blade arms and erratic “Oh-Jesus-it’s-chasing-me!” flying patterns.
#5 Posted by chrisbg99 on 12/14 at 04:39 AM -
Also I have fond memories of my G.I. Joes raiding my sister’s Barbie Playhouse. Much carnage resulted.
#6 Posted by JimK on 12/14 at 03:39 PM -
Yes. Yes, it does.
But!
But! I had a two foot high hand-painted ceramic R2D2 that lit up and made the warbling noises when you pushed his head down! It was my night light! Come on, that has to count for something! Besides, mostly what I did with the BSG toys was tie handkerchiefs to the Ovion with fishing line leads and throw them off the roof… :)
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#1 Posted by Drumwaster
on 12/14 at 12:38 AM -
Yes. Yes, it does.
The simple fact that you had one means that you shouldn’t have had it in the first place.
{quietly tucks mine deeper into the wallet}