Most Dangerous Old Toys That Are Now Banned!

Do you think today's toys are safer than those from the past?

I played with most of these. Rode in the back of pickup trucks and station wagons. Babyboomers are a tough breed.

This is why growing up back in the day (50's - 70's) was WAY KOOL!!!

Anyone else remember getting your bellbottoms caught in your bicycle chain 😅

So the easy bake oven had no issues for 30+ years until the amoeba generation emerged in the 2000s and then it suddenly became a hazard...

I'm surprised they haven't banned trees , Kids climb them and get hurt ..

Today's toys are basically BORING!!!

61 years old and I can STILL remember the smell of Plastigoop... And I still have burn scars from the oven and those metal molds. ...(Still was one of the best toys ever...)

This just shows that our society and government cater to the stupid and punish the smart.

This was just our way of thinning the herd.😂

As a child growing up in the 70’s we were exposed to countless dangers not only from toys but from just riding our bicycles. All of us succumbed to some type of injury as kids playing with fun innovative toys. Certain toys were obviously right to be banned (lawn darts and anything radioactive), but we had toys with small parts and sharp ends that if properly supervised helped us grow wiser and more ready for adulthood. Had a BB gun as a kid and though I didn’t shoot my eye out I did chip my front tooth, but that was a cautionary tale in being trained on the safety and use of such toys.

Slip - N - Slide was always my favorite toy growing up in the 60’s during those hot summer days in Florida. Had clackers in the 70’s, now that was a dangerous toy. I also got a chemistry set one year that I requested. From what I remember it was a lot of fun. Oh, yeah and will never forget the toxic smell of plastic goop.

Does anybody remember being poor back then and making their own slip and slides out of trash bags 🤣😂I played with half of those toys, I made, it couldn't have been that bad. And the plastic bubbles, I can still to this day remember what that smells and tastes like. That was one of my favorite things. And lawn darts, that was in every weekend occasion.🤣😂🤣 The 70s were the best 🔥

I'm a kid from the 60s and I'm still alive despite the toys we've had and I'm still amazed that I am alive 😳🤣😜👍‼️⁉️

While Clackers, the atomic energy lab and the CSI fingerprint kit were out and out dangerous, many of these toys were perfectly safe to use... WITH PARENTAL SUPERVISION! The key words being parental supervision. Having a parent there to say things like "Don't put that in your mouth", "That's hot, don't touch it" "You can hurt yourself/someone by doing that", "Don't stick your fingers in there, you'll get stuck/hurt/burnt" and other bits of wisdom that children have to learn is what made a potentially dangerous toy a safe and fun thing. And the ever dreaded "I told you so", when advice was not taken, was worse than a spanking. (Yes, I said spanking) Having a parent there to oversee and direct the activity was what kept many children from becoming hurt, injured or worse. It is when you give a child a toy that generates heat and then abandon them that they get hurt. It is when you do not teach your children that the pans coming out of the toy oven are hot and can burn them that they get burned. It is from parental neglect that many of these toys went from being a thing of learning to being dangerous. Would you rather your child learn how to bake a cake at 150 (or so) degrees, or let them forget and grab a pan that's 350 to 450 degrees? Yes the Thing Maker could burn you (I speak from experience). But it was a very minor burn compared to the full size oven I use now. If I didn't want to listen to my Dad, a couple of quick burns and I understood the value of "proper safety procedures". Under my parent's supervision, I learned how to safely handle pots and pans; hammers, saws and even sharp woodworking tools. But it was under "supervision". You see a ton of videos of children covered in Mom's makeup with it all over the room or covered in flour with it all over the kitchen. This did NOT happen in just a few seconds. This is where the parent(s) were ignoring their children long enough for them to make a huge mess. And that's dangerous. Not the flour, that's dangerous. It's not the make up that's dangerous. It's the lack of parental supervision that makes any situation dangerous. They are kids! They don't know what's safe and what is not. Parents need to teach (and protect) them. Very good advice: When your kid(s) are quiet... you'd better go find out why. 👍

3:08 that atomic lab was SUPER EXPENSIVE for back then! Goodness!

Remember, playing with the lawn darts had fun with those .I just had a thought of an old toy from the 70s that me and my brother had the steam tractor where u need to put methylated spirits in a tray and set light to it for build up of steam

Growing up in the 70s, I had a pair of Clackers. I could get them going pretty easily; it was stopping them that was the painful part.

The first time I used a Slip’n Slide my swim trunks slipped and slid right off my body leaving me naked at the other end. Neighborhood kids had a great laugh.

I loved the Thing maker creepy crawlers.