Dude. I totally want an Atomic Energy Lab. That would be awesome!

My dad still has a set of Jarts in the garage.

Mwahahaha!

What...no Bag o' Glass?

Came here for the:



...And was not disappointed, Occam'sLadySchick.

//Damn you!

Good job linking to page 2, doofus.

What?

Oh, hells yeah.



This thing looks like a thousand different flavors of awesome.

So how many people ran out to buy up Aqua Dots before they pulled them from shelves?

The company that made the atomic energy kit also used a few pieces from that particular kit in their largest chemistry kit. I happen to know where one of those large kits is. And yes, it still contains the uranium.

TwistedIvory: Good job linking to page 2, doofus.

doofus here. the 1st page had "already been submitted and was not listed."

sorry if it confused you.

Doctor Funkenstein: This thing looks like a thousand different flavors of awesome.

I actually had one of these in the early 80s from Edmund Scientific (I used to live within bicycle distance from them). My model only had two radioactive sources (uranium or and a small amount of radium painted onto the head of a pin), bit otherwise it was identical. The cloud chamber was my first experience with nuclear physics and was totally worth the trouble of locating dry ice.

/Not mutated
//Well, not any more that I was when born

Link to page 2 - check.
13-page click-whoring slideshow - check.
Submitter is a douche - check.

Occam'sLadySchick: the 1st page had "already been submitted and was not listed."

a) then it sucked

and/or

b) put a "?submitter_is_a_douche" after the link to bypass the bad kitty next time

The List
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Aqua Dots
Jarts
The New Easy-Bake Oven
Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab
Mini-Hammocks from EZ Sales
Snacktime Cabbage Patch Dolls
Sky Dancers
Bat Masterson Derringer Belt Gun
Creepy Crawlers
Johnny Reb Cannon
Battlestar Galactica Missile Launcher
Fisher-Price Power Wheels Motorcycle
Honorable Mention #1: The Chicken Limbo Party Game
Honorable Mention #2: Manley Toys Disco Light

And-1: b) put a "?submitter_is_a_douche" after the link to bypass the bad kitty next time


i forgot about that one. thanks.

nice photoshops dude.

/what's a douche
//sounds french for 'blissfully unable to be insulted'

Occam'sLadySchick: sounds french for 'blissfully unable to be insulted'

LOL, that will do, why not!

nice photoshops dude.

It has been a while since I entered anything, so you had to have been checking my profile. * hey, that tickled! * But thanks.

Hobodeluxe Clackers were the first thing I thought of when I read the headline. I remember playing with them and having them shatter and spray shards of hard plastic all over. My family had four or five sets, and they all shattered eventually. I guess we were too stupid to stop using them after the first (and second and third...) set broke.

HeadbangerSmurf: What?

I'll admit to having that album.

Occam's Chainsaw

So how many people ran out to buy up Aqua Dots before they pulled them from shelves?

God dammit. I never hear about this stuff until after the fact.

Where's the Super Fun Ball?

I guess Bush mistook Saddam's obsession for vintage toys for a desire to make a nuclear weapon.

The tiny little date on the first page of the article is 12/13/06.

Nicely done. Not quite two years old.

And-1: Link to page 2 - check.
13-page click-whoring slideshow - check.
Submitter is a douche - check.

Occam'sLadySchick: the 1st page had "already been submitted and was not listed."

a) then it sucked

and/or

b) put a "?submitter_is_a_douche" after the link to bypass the bad kitty next time

I think you also forgot

-article from 2007
-and a repeat!

/hehehehe

List is fail without:


/yeah, i know the list is for real toys

My sister and I used to launch the sky dancers horizontally at each other. Those things hurt like a mofo.

Doctor Funkenstein: Oh, hells yeah.

This thing looks like a thousand different flavors of awesome.


Good. God.

I thought that was a joke or something from Fallout 3.

Now I see that it's #4 on the list.

How did the Oozinator (or, as I call it, the Sperminator) not make the list?

Check out this ad for the toy and tell me it's not dangerous:

The Oozinator by Hasbro

Creepy Crawlers... I had one of those back in the 80s and I burned my fingers pretty good once or twice. The tongs were grossly inadequate and often resulted in having the mold fall off of them, often onto a hand.

Bermuda59: Where's the Super Fun Ball?

Happy Fun Ball



/Hotlinked because... F-it! Why not?

WTF are Jarts? It's Lawn Darts dammit!

Wow, link is not even a Cracked list...

MIguy: WTF are Jarts? It's Lawn Darts dammit!

JARTS were just the brand name... "Lawn Dart" is too generic to trademark.



/Hotlinked for your viewing pleasure

MIguy: WTF are Jarts? It's Lawn Darts dammit!

I always thought of it as a cross between Javelin and Darts.

Oh how I loved lawn darts, my brother and I actively tried ending each others lives regularly.
My easy bake oven was used to maim more than one plastic toy, never thought to put my siblings' hands in it thou.
And my sit and spin. I would spin until I threw up.
The next generation had Pogo Ball, my sister broke her hand, twice, on that little death toy.
Ahh, those were the days

Mexican fireworks. Any type.

/Made 100% USA rules free.

What about half-floating-pool-spikes-that-will-go-up-your-ass-if -you-land-on-them-just-right? I loved those.

I had the missile-shooting Viper. It was awesome. Then my mom found out about the recall...

midnightmuse: And my sit and spin. I would spin until I threw up.

Its good to know I'm not the only kid that nearly spun themselves into oblivion. In retrospect, it couldn't have been good having my brain slosh around in my skull like that.

As for the baking things, I almost forgot... With Creepy Crawlers, you had a cooling tray you were supposed to fill with water. Flash burns from steam... awesome. I can't believe I forgot that.

Annual Fark repeat.

What about the smoke stacks on Optimus Prime? Is there some reason us kiddies in the USA had to have the snub-nosed version. And that Megatron, he was a realistic pistol for chrissakes.

I had (and still do, packed away somewhere) those Sky Dancers. They were all kinds of awesome.

/used them responsibly.

I also had the Easy Bake Oven, and my bro had the Creepy Crawlers set. Mom made sure we were very careful using these. However, I will say that hot glue guns are what's really dangerous for kids. I know they're not toys, but I can't tell you how many times I inadvertently burned my finger off with those things.

farking kids today are so coddled... can't take a hit in the skull from a lawn dart...

We used to play with lawn darts every Sunday when we went to my Great Grandmas house in the 70's. She had a huge yard and we would place the yellow ring at least 25/30 yards apart and nobody was ever hit by one. You just didn't stand near the yellow ring but after playing this game almost every Sunday we had a pretty good idea where the lawn dart was going to land. We could land it in the circle most of the time.

My sisters had the EZ bake oven in the 70's, nothing bad ever happened other than nothing really baked in it but growing up with a gas oven/stove we learned early on what HOT was.

Sadly my Star Wars X-Wing fighter did not make the list. It shot rockets as well. Little red plastic pointed ones back then again, this was the 70's.

I had this on toy. It was supposed to throw a football. It has an arm you would pull back and set the timer and then it would launch the football at you as you ran but the arm sometimes would spring back up after you had pushed it down. It was a hunk of plastic that if it hit you in the head it would have hurt like hell. I had a few close calls with it. Sadly I can't remember what it was called.

Lawn darts are still the shiat though. Loved playing with them.

I vividly remember the terror of jarts in wars between our household and the neighbors.

good times.

sjbiars: Its good to know I'm not the only kid that nearly spun themselves into oblivion.

There are millions of us. Millions.