Dennis_Moore: Honeycomb's big...Yeah Yeah Yeah

I remember when they had those like every year.

That's another thing, whatever happened to fun stuff in boxes of cereal?

Oh man, anyone remember that toy rumor surrounding Back to the Future and hoverboards. You know, a kid got killed doing a flip on one so it was pulled off the shelves. That rumor stayed alive for years.

And I had ALL of the Entertech water guns - the CAR-15, Tec9, UZI, the scorpion. My dad bought them all at once from Target - he was more excited than I was.

WhyteRaven74: That's another thing, whatever happened to fun stuff in boxes of cereal?

I have a newspaper cartoon around here somewhere that has the character saying, "When I was a kid there was no W W W and anything you ever needed was in Battle Creek, Michigan."

Two Dogs Farking: The Entertech squirt guns were the shizzle.

Some of us had these in the Navy Barracks and have watergun fights in the hallways. One guy put his on his passenger seat in his car. Base security was not happy when he forgot it was there and went through the main gate... Needless to say the watergun fights stopped immediately and they were banned from being on the base. Funny thing is that we bought them from the base exchange.

WhyteRaven74:
bet that made you grimace

/so so sorry ;)

Oh, I LOL'd...well played.

3 wheel ATV's FTW

/or FTL
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///'nite

How long until the day we consider the Flesh-light a dangerous toy?

discount sushi: They left out Lawn Darts.

I loved my Dukes of Hazzard Big Wheel though.

I had the "Knight Rider" big wheel :)

Fireproof: So do any other children of the 80s/90s remember something vaguely like this:

They don't have those anymore? Wow, those were popular on every elementary school playground I remember. That's like getting rid of slides or swings!

Oznog: "Quicksilver" maze. Instead of the ball bearing used today in the maze puzzles, this used far cooler LIQUID MERCURY.

Heh, freaky thing is, my missus loves to scour the charity shops for "interesting" things...

She found one of these a year or two back, got it for 50p :)

Since she's not a big science person she didn't know if it was mercury or something just made to look like mercury.

It's now all siphoned off and kept nice and safe for when I have need of a mercury switch for er...something...
I dunno, look, stop asking me why I want to build mercury switches ok? Maybe I want a table lamp that turns off when you move it OK??

Child of the 70's. Favorite toys included clackers and my Daisy BB gun. I loved my Hot Wheels and race track sets until my grandmother discovered those tracks worked even better than a belt for disciplining young muck4doo.

My dad kept telling me grandmas old broken fridge in the backyard was a lot of fun to play in, but I never saw the attraction in trying it out.

Quantum Apostrophe: How do you "peddle" backwards?

On a tricycle?

Did anybody ever own a game called "Zoop the Loop"? It was a dart target game where you'd blow into a tube to launch a small rubber dart down a tube that would curl back and launch the dart at a clear dart board in front of your face. The mouthpiece had a piece of plastic in it to prevent inhalation of the dart. But the curved piece did not, and it was easy to remove. I received it on my 6th birthday in 1969, and promptly inhaled the dart as I took a breath. When I woke up in the hospital I learned that I had been passed out and blue when they found me.



Man...that was an AWESOME toy, except for the whole nearly dying thing.

I can't believe Lawn Darts didn't make the list.

When I was growing up paintball was starting to get popular, but we were poor, so all the kids in my neighborhood would get together on saturdays with our BB guns and ski goggles (and tweezers, just in case one went kinda deep).

Wizard Drongo: ...didn't know if it was mercury or something just made to look like mercury. It's now all siphoned off and kept nice and safe for when I have need of a mercury switch for er...something...

I'll never forget trying to act sick to stay home from school. Mom stuck the thermometer in my mouth and left the room. She had a pot of water on the stove for tea. I stuck the thermometer in the boiling water, watched it shoot up and explode in my freaking fingers. Got an ass beating, had to clean up (chase) the mercury with a broom and dust pan AND still had to go to school.

Fireproof: Damn, those things were awesome but dangerous. Got hurt on them all the time, but didn't care.

Never see them anymore, and all the ones I remember from my childhood have since been removed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5OTe8hUAUg (new window)

Dr_Bojangles: "When I was a kid there was no W W W and anything you ever needed was in Battle Creek, Michigan."

hahahahaha awesome!

bPrize: Oh, I LOL'd...well played.

hehe thanks :D

Be0wulf: Just a hint for everybody, so you learn from my mistake. If you ever need to google "Don't whiz on the electric fence", turn on safe search. k?... K.

Yeah, learned that a few weeks back. Quote to deter the curious, "At day 31 after the treatment, the necrotic part of penis was resected with only about 1 cm of the penile stump left."

I miss the water guns they sold. That whole set that looked like an M16, a 45, a 9mm, the AK 47. No bright colors or anything. COuld even get a water ballon mortar

Sorry, but this crap is stupid and the toys are tame.

It seems to me that the guy who wrote the article is trying to make 80s toys out to be hardcore so he can look and feel hardcore himself.

Lame.

But...

Oznog

!!!
I did have one of those Quicksilver mazes as a kid! I'll admit it - that one was pretty farked up, and it did come out in the 80s. Mine was blue for the background maze part, not black.

Freak Flag Fly: "At day 31 after the treatment, the necrotic part of penis was resected with only about 1 cm of the penile stump left."

Sounds like a Tuesday night at my house.

SOME of these dangerous toys were not banned, they simply went off the market cause parents stopped buying them when they were sick of paying for emergency room visits and repaying neighbors for property damage.

I haven't read the entire thread... but has anyone mentioned the metal slides at the parks? You know... the ones that would give you a 3rd degree burn. I have no idea why but those things were so fun even if you knew you were going to get burned.

I had most things on this list. The best was the big wheel. I went through so many of those. I had one similar to the pic in the link. Then another just like it. I had a rambo one too. My favorite was the voltron one. It had a lion head in front that's mouth folded down into his head. I wore them all out pedaling as hard as I could down our slightly inclined driveway, locking up the pedals, turning hard, and pedaling as had as I could again. That big front will was totally slick in no time.

How do you "peddle" backwards?

Piddle on an electric fence and you'll see.

Sorry about the depressing monologue on perverts and the internet.

My kids are safely tucked away in the land of anime visiting their grandparents this month- damn you wannabe samurais out there- I will use American superiority and hunt your ass down with a 44magnum if you even attempt anything on my kids.

CrankMyBlueSax: '80s toys are for pansies.

Anybody remember this fun little skull-breaker from the '70s

Clackers! We actually had a couple kids at my school break their wrists with these. Somehow.

CrankMyBlueSax: '80s toys are for pansies.

Anybody remember this fun little skull-breaker from the '70s

Came here for this. I remember they had a habit of shattering.

Oznog: "Quicksilver" maze. Instead of the ball bearing used today in the maze puzzles, this used far cooler LIQUID MERCURY.

Mmmmm... delicious mercury...

never trust a bunny: That big front will [wheel?] was totally slick in no time.

My brake had a flat spot that went halfway through the bar.

I would divebomb down the sidewalk hill, and spin out at the end of my driveway.

Not a good idea barefoot, though. OW, ow ow ow ow ow!

Namegoeshere's mom: "*sigh* Get in the car..."

Everyone read "Last Child in the Woods." Interesting stuff.

TheKnownUniverse: I broke my wrist when I was 8 because for some reason I decided to Sit n Spin on a bookshelf. Good times.

I just added you to my favorites as "sit n spew on a bookshelf."

Awesome.

WhyteRaven74: That's another thing, whatever happened to fun stuff in boxes of cereal?

Accountants. That shiat was too expensive.

Or ON boxes of cereal. Anyone remember the 45 records that came on a few boxes? They'd last a few plays before becoming totally trashed.

* Record: a bit of black vinyl you put on a record player. It spins, and sound, usually music, comes out
//Kind of like a v0.1 CD.

Pocket Ninja: Goddamn atlatl.

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YouPeopleAreCrazy: WhyteRaven74: That's another thing, whatever happened to fun stuff in boxes of cereal?

Accountants. That shiat was too expensive.

Or ON boxes of cereal. Anyone remember the 45 records that came on a few boxes? They'd last a few plays before becoming totally trashed.

* Record: a bit of black vinyl you put on a record player. It spins, and sound, usually music, comes out
//Kind of like a v0.1 CD.

I remember spooky sounds on Boo Berry cereal boxes.

/Yes. Cardboard vs. vinyl was a srsly losing battle.

LIGHT BULB FIGHTS!

/Break out the flourescent tubes!

CrankMyBlueSax: '80s toys are for pansies.

Anybody remember this fun little skull-breaker from the '70s

Clackers! Remember how they destroyed your wrist when you got them out of sync? Or shattering them on the street while razor-sharp shards of plastic flies everywhere? Oh yea....good time for sure.

muck4doo
I remember spooky sounds on Boo Berry cereal boxes.

/Yes. Cardboard vs. vinyl was a srsly losing battle.

Archies records. On Honeycomb boxes. Ruled.

/Sugar
//Aww Honey Honey
///You are my candy girl
////And you got me wanting youuuu...

Aww man, when I was a kid, I apparently filled my backpack with those Entertech guns for an airplane trip and tried to take them with me. The woman who got to do the baggage check's eyes bugged out when she checked it out, and then she started laughing her ass off.

namegoeshere: never trust a bunny: That big front will [wheel?] was totally slick in no time.

My brake had a flat spot that went halfway through the bar.

I would divebomb down the sidewalk hill, and spin out at the end of my driveway.

Not a good idea barefoot, though. OW, ow ow ow ow ow!

Namegoeshere's mom: "*sigh* Get in the car..."

LOL did i mention I hated spelling in grade school?

By brake do you mean the hand brake some of them had? I seem to vaguely remember something like that. Braking on a big wheel taught me how to brake on one of those BMX bikes too. I think mine was a Murray. I carried me through a couple of barbed wire fences in middle school.

I need to go hijack my parents photo albums. Hooray for nostalgia.

ciocia: You know, I'm bone weary of the whole, "precious little overprotected snowflakes" meme. The common thread is: "we had moms who smoked, and lawn darts, etc. etc., and we survived, so there." Guess what? The "overprotection" kids have now has helped more of them grow up. True story. The rate of child mortality by unintentional injuries for kids 5-14 in 2004 was 6.5 per 100,000. In 1980, it was 15 per 100,000, or more than twice as much. Link (new window) Yeah, teaching kids to be tough is part of raising them. So is getting them to not die before then.

Not only tough, but to have common sense and to think for themselves. THAT's what's not happening. Kids are incapable of thinking for themselves. And those 8.5 other kids were Darwin awards anyway.

I for one really enjoyed the look of horror on the little kids faces when I would shoot them with my home made matchstick gun.


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ciocia: You know, I'm bone weary of the whole, "precious little overprotected snowflakes" meme. The common thread is: "we had moms who smoked, and lawn darts, etc. etc., and we survived, so there." Guess what? The "overprotection" kids have now has helped more of them grow up. True story. The rate of child mortality by unintentional injuries for kids 5-14 in 2004 was 6.5 per 100,000. In 1980, it was 15 per 100,000, or more than twice as much. Link (new window) Yeah, teaching kids to be tough is part of raising them. So is getting them to not die before then.

Oh no, 6 and a half kids...

You know, I met the half kid who survived, wished he was dead...

Kids these days miss out on all the fun shiat...