As a kid, I got the trouble for sticking my Jarts in the side of the coal shed. In my 50s I nearly killed myself on a Slip n Slide. My chemistry set wasn't nuclear, but I still bear scars from flaming sulphur which also set the kitchen table on fire. Yes, these toys were educational . They taught me not to do stupid shit.

A friends dad gave us a 'toy' he'd had from a long time ago. It was basically a self electrocution kit with two handles and a transformer. The old bit of kit was broken so we wired it through a modern variable resistor. When we turned it up it was impossible to let go of the handles, so you'd have to wait for someone to stop laughing and turn it off for you.

I found a complete set of Jarts, in the original box, at a yard sale a few years back for $5.00. There is actually a black market for the things, and last time I checked a complete original set was worth about $100. I keep mine as a nostalgic conversation piece. I love the fact the box has a label which warns they may cause serious or fatal injury.

My fave is still Dan Aykroyd's infamous Bag O'Glass (on SNL). It's essence as a dangerous toy was pure. Inexpensive and delivered the expected experience.

This is seriously just an inventory of my childhood toybox. God, I feel so old.

Anybody remember a toy from the mid 70's -- they may have been called Clackers -- that consisted of two good sized acrylic balls connected by a piece of rope? You held on to the middle of the rope and bounced the balls against each other by moving your hand up and down. As you moved your hand faster and faster, the rebounding force became great enough that the balls collided with each other both below and above your hand. Inevitably, the force involved would cause one of the balls to become detached from the rope, and fly off into space with sometimes harmful results. I don't think they stayed on the market very long.

My grandmother has a set lawn darts up in the attic, we played with them all the time. Key was you know, not being in front of the person throwing them so you didn't get hit. Same with a good ole bb gun. Just treat it responsibly and you won't get hurt.

Man I remember lawn darts. Was one of my favourite games to play with family in the 80s. There was one rule that when broken would stop the game for everyone though: We all had to stand at the same end, the end the current throw was happening from. If any of us failed to do that, we were grounded from playing.

I am Simon's age and totally had an easy bake oven, a slip'n'slide, and a trampoline with no pads covering the springs and frame (growing up in the 90's FTW😎). What's more, I drug the trampoline over by a tree house for extra oomph, and used my father's work truck boom for extra height drops. We'd drag sleds around the neighborhood with a four wheel drive truck when it snowed. I climbed a LOT of trees and spent a lot of time outside. It's amazing that the first bone I broke was only just last year.

Kid - "I jammed my hand into a small oven that I knew was hot enough to cook stuff and burnt my hand" 1960's Parents - "Well that was stupid" 2000's Parents - "Let's get a bunch of lawyers"

Still have 2 sets of lawn darts in the original boxes LOVED playing with them.... How about the shoes with springs under them? Instant leg breakers. My sis had the original Easy Bake oven - LOVED that thing.....

Gilbert also made the Kaster Kit - "Make your own lead toys!" Complete with a mini crucible. 😂😂 How did our parents survive childhood?

The primary reasonings for most of these "Dangerous Toys" sounds to be less actual danger, and more lack of parenting or operator error. I grew up playing with home made lawn darts and was never dumb enough to stand near the target zone, even as a 10 year old in the early oughts.

I remember the bow and arrow sets where the arrow had red suction cups stuck on the end. It was easy to pop those off and into a pencil sharpener they went.

When I was a child, once a year our local park board would set up a giant slip and slide that they powered up with a fire hose connected to the hydrant. It was much longer and wider than the store bought toy and set up on a large grass hill. It was an absolute blast.

The atomic energy kit was entirely safe, as long as you used the asbestos facemask included.

In the 1970's we had a steam powered "donkey engine" that was run by lighting a small reservoir of methylated spirits. Somehow that progressed to my older brothers pouring the methylated spirits onto the dining table and lighting it, quickly putting the flames out with a fire extinguisher before the burning liquid damaged the table. We also dipped our finger into the spirits and lit the finger on fire, quickly blowing it out before it started to burn the skin. Obviously our mum and dad were at work when all this insane behaviour took place, they would have killed us.

Well I’m 62 and I survived these toys and drinking from a garden hose. We had lawn darts, knives, BB and real guns, etc. We also had a mother that would wear our butts out when we got stupid. THAT is why we are still here. We had parents that were involved and would tune us up when necessary. My father was a Drill Sgt. in the Army (whole lot of stories on that) and he taught me the responsibility of firearms. The only “time out” we got was your mom resting to catch her breath when whooping your butt. My sister had an easy bake oven the the deserts were pretty good. I had the lawn darts and when sharpened on concrete they would stick into a tree. Our slip and slide was a muddy hill after a good rain. God I’d give anything to relive those days again.

I had this Air Blaster thing that was designed to blow things over across the room with a harmless pulse of air. I quickly found that if you stuck a pencil or other projectile in it, it also made a very effective and unsafe projectile launcher.

Honorable mention: A recent toy that consisted of small magnetic balls, that you could use to form sculptures. Turned out that when ingested by small children, the balls would stick together in intestines and cause wonderful things like internal bleeding. Fun toy!

I remember my only accident on a trampoline. My foot went in-between the springs and I fell over the edge with my foot still in the springs. Luckily my leg bent the correct way at the knee instead of breaking a bone or tearing a tendon. Unluckily I was hanging there upside-down by my ankle and my knee. When I finally wiggled free I landed on a bigass root that was sticking up out of the ground. I spent the rest of the day safely inside eating paint and sticking silverware into wall outlets.

I had a chemistry set where the first experiment I did created acrid smoke that made the house smell like a fart for four days. Played with that a week after my first experience with lawn darts. I could also ride my bike all over the city without a helmet or kneepads on. Darts were all metal tipped with wooden boards. I had so many toys that could have killed me, I'm surprised I made it to my 20's where I survived alcohol and more drugs than Cheech and Chong could shake a pipe at.

My grandfather bought Lawn Darts, which he, my dad, and uncles, remembered them as Jarts, which is what we all called them. He and his brother were on Omaha and Utah Beach on D-Day, which was not during their first tours in the European theatre? and both fought all the way through France, Belgium, Italy, and Germany, so the perception of what danger is, and what a serious injury is, was of a different magnitude than the average American, even in the mid-80's. He insisted on grinding the tips until they were sharpened sufficiently to penetrate plywood targets, and taught 10 year old me to regrind them until sharpened. He thought it was hilarious that we threw them OVERHAND at plywood targets right next to us, hard enough to stick into the plywood. Ironically, no one was injured until we were lobbing them underhand upwards. One came down as my cousin was picking on his younger brother, and me, saying some mean shit. He at first didn't see the dropping projectile, but managed to swing his head to the side but it still landed in his low back, entering at belt level and exiting his left butt cheek. His brother and I laughed until we cried and insisted we were allowed to go to the ER too. Looking back it was insanely stupid.

As a parent of (now adult children) I can confirm that if you do not hover over them every single waking second, they will attempt something shockingly dangerous even if they lack plastic ingestible toys or dangerous chemicals sold as safe for children. I saw mine trip over their own feet and receive head stitches without me being able to react fast enough to prevent injury. Saw the effects after they took toy magnets and made beautiful rainbow effects on the CRT TV screen. Caught them trying to taste dangerous chemicals that I thought safely stored and well out of reach of kids. I heard a strange bumping sound outside my living room door and came out to investigate only to find a broken Buzz Lightyear toy lying at the bottom of the stairs. (He fell without style) They fell victim to playground accidents and so many sports injuries that I began to fear taking them to the ER in case I was accused of child abuse over genuinely accidental injuries. The worst thing about this list is that despite 2 parents doing their very best to prevent incidents like that, and giving endless warnings and instructions to these kids, as adults they continue to injure themselves in 'accidents' that both parents mananged to succesfully avoid as both children and adults. I can understand that sport realted injuries occur and horse riding and contact sports will court injury, but they still both manage to fall down stairs or bump their heads on kitchen cabinets or even car door frames because of lack of attention. I've seen it happen, more than once. You can blame me for being an inadequate parent, but how many times can you advise someone to be careful of 'insert hazard here' and them watch them hurt or injure themselves before simply deciding that you will never be listened to even if you outlive the children?

Man, I am glad to have been a kid back in the days of these toys. The toys in today's video were the least dangerous to us. We were too busy using our bicycles to jump ramps, as fast as we could, and on ramps built as high as possible - Evel Knievel had a big influence on us in the 70's. Also, we had lots of bottle rocket wars. Yes, we actually shot bottle rockets at each other. No trips to the emergency room. And no one took an eye out, or lost an eye.

My parents had a safety rule: when you ride in the bed of the truck, you have to sit your butt lower than the sides of the truck. Very forward thinking of them. When my Dad took me in the ocean on a 15ft boat, I asked him if it was safe. He said, “well, look what the big boys bring along for when their fancy boat sinks. It’s no bigger than ours.”

I LOVED the Slip-n-Slide! We had the perfect lawn for it, with a slight downslope. I also had the truly massive largest Gilbert Chemistry Lab made. Not the atomic kind, but still had a lot of sketchy items in the kit and it was also quite awesome, really. My uncle did work at Oak Ridge, and my Dad showed me how to do proper measurements for the various experiments. The worst I ever did was make a REALLY strong stink bomb. We never had Jarts because Dad had the presence of mind to see the potential danger, but my sister had the Easy Bake Oven, and I had a VacuForm thing that used even higher heat to vacuum form some cool shapes from sheets of plastic.

That Gilbert radioactive kit is sooo appealing! I always loved all the different "kits" as a child (many decades ago). I had a chemistry kit, quite a small one, but there was a whole series of them, each one bigger and more expensive, my friend had one that was bigger than mine. Then there were electronic kits, where you could put together different electronic circuits with components that were packaged so that it was easy to interconnect them in different ways. And combined kits that had mechanical and electronic components, also packaged so that it was easy to combine them in a multitude of ways. A friend of mine had a big electro-mechanical kit, the brand was called "Capsela", and he did not really do much with it, but when we got together and I was really fascinated about it, and I came up with many different experimental builds from his kit, he started calling me "genius" :)

I wasn't middle aged at the time, but at 18 I suffered a concussion on a slip and slide. Ironically, I was a camp counselor at the time and had overseen children safely using it. The problem was that we were horsing around after camp closed for the day and I went down one side and someone else went down the other side. You can figure out what happened around the middle. Just to be clear, I had right of way and wasn't the drunk idiot going down the wrong side.

I have my fathers lead toy soldier casting kit he used when he was a kid. You actually had to melt lead in an electric pot that holds a ladle and pore it into a mold. It did not come with any sort of protection.

Slip-n-slides, lawn darts, we had a blast with these things. But back then there were only three channels on TV to watch.

This video reminds me of that old SNL skit where Jane Curtis is grilling Dan Akroyd over the various obviously dangerous things his company produces. The "Human Torch" costume was oily rags and a lighter. 🤣🤣🤣

This should have been Business Blaze. Tell me about the dangerously fun toys FACT BOY!!!

As a child of the 1970’s I remember the Chemistry Sets we got for Christmas and Birthdays! I loved them so Damn Much

I was turned loose with a chemistry set, an actual .22 rifle, knives, slingshots etc. My cousin and I both had spring-air BB pistols and would engage in BB battles without benefit of safety glasses, much less padding. The same cousin had a VacuForm which softened sheets of plastic and sucked them down onto various forms to make toys. I also had several of the Marx "Johnny Eagle" replica guns complete with spring-launched hard plastic bullets, again, we don't need no steenkin goggles. I also had the One Man Army (more projectiles) and the Big Bang Cannon with its big damned cannonball. The slingshot (Wrist Rocket, the Magnum of the genre) fights lasted into "adulthood" with my Army buddies visiting my home on leave and finding a fully fruited-out Chinaberry tree for ammo. Later, while raising four boys of my own, it was popular for birthday parties to involve an indoor or outdoor session of paintball, which was mirrored in my Law Enforcement career (as a firearms trainer, go figure!) with the use of "Simunitions", magnum class paintball fired from real guns...what's next?

I grew up with Lawn Darts. Lived in a small college town with a huge park-like commons right on the main street. So I grew up playing them with college kids setting up games all over. Never saw anyone get hurt. I think it was also Hasbro that made a COTTON CANDY MAKER for children! I think it was for ages 8 & up. I had that & an original easy bake oven (aqua..). I didn't use that so much, but would make all the cotton candy, spun around probably 8" handheld paper cones in my bedroom as my friends, brothers & sisters could eat. Is when I learned how long melted sugar stays hot! It was an open tub that you swirl your paper cones around in, just like at a fair! THAT was a wonderful "toy for 8 year olds!!!

I remember those toys. Back then being dangerous, was part of the allure of a good toy. Seemed like many parents agreed with that idea.

In the UK we had the Merit Chemistry Set in the 60s & 70s. Stink bombs and gunpowder were the favourite recipes. Slip and Slide? Any adults seriously injured are eligible for a Darwin Award.

I was a kid in the '70s and a teenager in the '80s, and all I hear about is how dangerous things were back then. Sure didn't seem that way when I was living through it, though. Just normal kid stuff... Hell, we'd be gone from home for hours and not go home until the streetlights came on -- how is it that none of us were ever kidnapped or murdered? Parents today would be sent to jail for letting their kids roam the neighborhood like we did. Kind of sad, honestly...

I had a science kit that came with about 50 different compounds and most of the experiments included a boys best friend in the 70's,,,, FIRE! What a joy to have the pyro in all of us hooligans approved by proxy of Mattel or whomever was selling those toys. They helped justify what was previously fodder for being grounded for a week into a "legitimate" learning experience. Thank you Mattel, (OMG am I happy my kids didn't have a chance to burn down the house with that crap!)

Lawn darts, easy bake oven and slip n slides were the bomb. Tho as we got older we just used a bunch of tarps, soap and a hose for a slide. 80s kids had it made lol

While I didn't have a nuclear lab set, I did have a number of what today would be dangerous chemistry sets as well as model rockets. That's probably why I grew up to be an engineer.

We used to dig pits for “forts”, and pull up long grass with giant dirt clods on the roots, and hurl them twenty or so yards at each other. The neighborhood kids divided into two armies and went at it. It was dangerous, but FUN. And sometimes, very painful. Amazingly, I cannot recall a single trip to the hospital as a result of this summertime activity lol...we had a ball!!!

I own and still use an original set of lawn darts. The fact that they’re dangerous as hell just makes it more fun.

Imagine slipping on a slip'n'slide, then while down, taking a lawn dart to the eye and while thrashing, getting your hand stuck in an Easy Bake Oven, all while your sibling waves a beeping geiger counter over you, because you crushed the sample.

As a kid of the 70's I'm amazed I survived. LOL I remember slicing my hand on a Tonka Toy and my dads like. "Spit on it you'll be fine." hahaha

Though I had almost everything you featured (and my chemistry set was pretty dangerous) I had a host of other dangerous toys most of which heated up to dangerously hot temperatures such as the Vacuform, the Incredible Edible machine and an entertaining toy that squirted molten hot plastic into molds to make tanks, jeeps and army men.

There was a book for kids, published in USSR somewhere in 1953, that taught them how to DIY different stuff, like electric motor, wind turbine (generator), movie camera, high voltage generator and x-ray device. X-ray device was built from lightbulb (at that time they didn't contain gas inside, only vacuum, so were suitable for this), and 60 kV was taken from high voltage generator described earlier in the book. I have a scan, if you want.

May I recommend an episode of crazy things sold in Sears Catalog throughout the decades? After ww2 you could allegedly buy "may or may not be" active ordnance shells.

I still have my Gilbert science kit... My parents found it in their garage and now it's in my hall closet. I've tried to get it but the huge glowing rat in that closet always gets out...

Having grown up in the 70s and 80s with many of these toys, and more, I find it amazing that my friends and I made it into adulthood with no major injuries!

One of the GREATEST SNL skits ever was Dan Aykroyd as the toy maker promoting "Bag o' Glass" or the razor blade doll.

As I recall, Alton Brown had one of the Easy-Bake ovens when he was a kid. And then later went on to create a full sized pizza oven that uses stadium lighting bright enough to be seen from space...

60-year-old here. Played w/ lawn darts every summer. Made monsters by melting rubbery goop on a molded hot plate. Made army men by pouring molten wax into a casting mold. Sister had an easy bake oven. Tasted great. Shot arrows, shot bb guns - the ones with the CO2 cartridges were the coolest. Had a blast. No injuries. If I had gotten burned it would've taught me to be careful around hot things - pretty good lesson to learn. We didn't get impaled with lawn darts because we weren't idiots. Absolutely dipped fingers in the molten wax. Slight ouch but cool results.

I started helping [or wanting to help] mom prepare food around the age of two, she said, and I was always fascinated at the prospect of prepping ingredients and creating food and so I always made sure I was in the kitchen where I could help once I heard the clatter of a pan or saw mom donning her apron. Although I didn't pursue becoming the world-class chef I might have otherwise been able to aspire to my parents did recognize my passion for making food and, to help my tiny hands learn the craft safely on my own, I was given an Easy-Bake Oven while still in my single-digit years in the 1970s for Christmas one year and, although I likely got other presents that year, it's the only present I can recall from that particular Christmas. Mine was the upgraded red clear-plastic unit that resembled a proper kitchen stove with a front-door oven that opened towards you and down, and once activated the oven used a crafty bimetal lock to keep the door securely locked once the unit began to heat up [which my also very mechanically-inclined mind was unable to thwart or bypass (ed: my folks had to keep all screwdrivers hidden since if I came across one I would immediately begin taking things in the house apart such as dad's electric alarm clock which he was none too amused by)] until the unit cooled down and the item inside was safe to handle. Unfortunately that lead to an almost unbearable 45-60 minutes from the time you turned it on until you were able to retrieve your concoction [various packs of cake mixes, brownies, and even a pizza kit] so when you returned to your bedroom some 7 hours later you found your item was not only completely cold but also now a bit stale and hardened. Still I have great memories from having my own tiny 'kitchen' and I'm sure mom loved not having me under foot so much when she was trying to prepare family meals. I also had lawn darts and lived to tell the tale. And drank from 60s- & 70s-era garden hoses. And had those clacker balls, two heavy colored glass balls attached with a thick string, which I was adept at using and was always happy to demonstrate to the neighborhood kids and family members just how fast and hard I was able to propel these small glass grenades just inches from our faces. And had a Honda mini-bike [think small dirt bike for little kids] that I rode for years w/o a helmet. Nobody wore seatbelts then, and kids were allowed to ride untethered in the back of trucks going 65 mph down the highway. My guardian angel must still be tired AF from my formative years, and probably had to take up drinking and smoking as coping mechanisms :P That and your family members endlessly drilled common-sense and self-preservation into your head to the point of great annoyance, eye-rolls, sighs, and "I know!"s and "I will!"s. Good times.

I remember I got my appendix removed right before summer vacation. I was six? It was about a day or two before I had my stitches removed, and I went across the street to go on the super slip n slide my friend’s dad built, down a huge hill. I had never seen my grandmother book it out the door, screaming at the top of her lungs, when she saw me sliding down on my stomach. 😂

I remember playing lawn darts, but we’d throw them down an embankment and into the forest for maximum distance combined with a small recovery mission. Occasionally someone would forget we were down there and they’d throw another one, but thankfully nobody was impaled. We also had a slip n slide and played with throwing stars, and never wore helmets while biking.

Everyone knows the rules for Lawn Darts. All the kids stand in a close circle, one kid flings the dart straight up as hard as he could... the last kid to run for his life wins. (or loses, if he waits a bit too long.)

When I was a kid growing up in Philadelphia PA in the 60's, we had wonderful hobby shops where a lad could buy small bottles of "chemicals" like powdered sulfur, Sodium Nitrate, and Charcoal. Potassium Nitrate was not available so the Sodium Nitrate worked just fine in making gunpowder. Then there were the Estes rockets that we bought. The stores sold the engines and the wick. Bet a kid can't buy any of this great stuff today without the FBI visiting his house.

When I was a kid, I found a set of lawn darts in the attic of my grandparent's farmhouse. My grandmother told me they were stored there many years ago after my great-uncle was impaled in his bare foot. I set them up on the lawn and we used them, but we set up the rings beside each other to avoid a repeat event separated by decades.

Mattel's ThingMaker. Metal molds that were filled with a latex-like Plastigoop and heated to a skin scorching temperature to make to bugs and creature components. I loved it, especially the glow in the dark Plastigoop. I got minor burns a couple of times but lessons learned. I also was trusted with POCKET KNIVES (Oooooo) at about 6-7 years of age and would whittle little boats and stuff. A couple small cuts (with small scars still visible), but again, lessons learned. I also played with matches.

In the words of George carlin, back in my day the kid who ate the marbles didn't grow up to have kids of their own.

i went to law school in the 90s and when discussing products liability our torts professor only knew about lawn darts from the casebook. he couldn't believe any parent actually bought or any child actually played with them. I told him my family had some that we played with and no one ever got hurt. also our neighbor had a trampoline and it is amazing no one got seriously hurt on that, we would time the bouces to launch each other (landing next to someone who is just jumping) insanely high and often off the trampoline. i also nearly lost an eye from a bb (week in hospital with eyes bandaged), and friend had bb under the skin in his forehead that you could see and feel.

Besides Creepy Crawlers, chemistry sets that you could make explosives, there were model rockets sold at toy stores. I believe they are now restricted to 18+ but you could basically make an unguided missile with a little high school chem knowledge. In the 70s saltpeter and sulfur were over the counter items too.

You missed the Mattel "Thingmaker". (Creepy Crawlies) Basically a small open hotplate that had kids handling hot metal molds, far more dangerous than the Easy Bake.

I still have a set of "Clackers" that I received when I was a kid (I'm 56 now). It's a silver rings, to put your finger in to hold them, two green cords approximately 14" long, and a purple acrylic ball at the end of each cord. The balls are roughly 1.5" in diameter. I also had a wood burning kit, with which I managed to burn myself several times every time I used it. I played on my cousin's Slip'n'Slide at his birthday party when I was about 13 years old. The next day, my stomach muscles were so sore that I couldn't sit up without help. Lol. One of my favorite toys was called Shrinky Dinks, and I believe they're still being sold. It's just a package of very special plastic sheets. When they're put into a REAL OVEN for a specific amount of time, at a specific temperature, they shrink down to a much smaller size and become thick and rigid, like an acrylic key chain decoration. Kids color or paint a preferred outlined object, like a puppy, a ball, a sailboat, etc., on a plastic sheet, cut it out from the sheet, cut a small hole in it if it's to be used as a keychain or on a necklace, place it on a cookie sheet, and bake. And, of course, I had the Easy Bake Oven, as well. But my parents never bought me any extra cake mixes, so I only got to bake 1 or 2 that came with the oven.

I'm surprised that the Vac-U-Form, Creepy Crawlers or Incredible Edbiles toys didn't make the list. great video. Loved those toys as a kid.

My favourite video so far! I'm old enough to have played with Lawn Darts when I was a kid. I think after seeing what they could do to other objects around when we missed our targets, we knew well enough to avoid throwing them at each other, but I know other people who somehow managed to survive their childhoods who didn't have the same philosophy... Yay for free health care in Canada! It came in handy for some of them...

and I’m already thinking of that Robot Chicken sketch, “The Island of Misfit Toys.”

mate I'm nearly seventy & have played with all those sorts of toys. that's how you keep the gene pool clean.

Love all your channels. Don’t know how you find the time to do them all lol. Best history & geography channels on KZfaq.

Another fun thing was the CastMaster machine, where you could melt a re-moldable plastic in a heat machine and squished it into 2 piece molds, and make tanks, trucks, and soldiers and military stuff, and re-melt it, if it didn't come out right. Then they came out with a set for race cars, with different colors, and finally a Doll house, and pets set, to keep our sisters from bothering us.

Im so glad i grew up in the 80’s,before they took the fun out of every thing!

I’m 47 and we had a lawn dart set when I was a kid, fun as heck.

In the late 80's I worked at a Hardee's. Our kids meal toy was a Ghost Buster sound maker. When giving the meals to the parents I would point out how to work the toy and how to take the batteries out so they could make it not work. Parents thanked me because they didn't want the things going off all the time. The toys were recalled about a week later...apparently, kids could also remove the button batteries and swallow them!

I love watching videos with you in it don't stop making em thank you for the information you've provided us

I remember, many years ago, I had an Erector set and a true chemistry set. Sure, I could have been in danger, but everything worked out and it lead me to a degree in applied sciences. And again, the opportunity for kids today to follow an exceed my background continue to fade. The tools and teachers are no longer available.

We still buy slip and slides here in Australia. In fact we make extra long ones out of builders plastic for holidays and add soap to them for crazy fun.

Gee, I missed most of the fun stuff, I guess. Although I did have a chemistry set and clackers. Modern lawn darts have a rubbery, round end instead of a point, and tend to bounce when hitting the ground. That's either more challenging or more frustrating, depending on how you want to look at it.

In the 80's of my childhood, we were still playing with toys from the past. With my cousin's chemistry set, we spilled a weird bubbling mix we "invented" which made some permanent stains to come off on a table, a carpet, and a linoleum floor. We've never been able to reproduce the mixture

Lawn Darts were the freaking bomb! My Uncle had a set from his childhood in the 60s! We always played with them in the late 70s/early 80s. Good times.

They need to recall a lot of adults' brains since they are defective.

I watch all your shows but actually love business blaze because it shows your delightful personality.

Holy Makinac you actually start off with the infamous " Lawn Darts" with actual hardened steel points.... This reminds one of when just a young kid witnessing a very traumatic experience , one due to drunken adults playing the Lawn Darts game.....When the tipsy father wildly threw the dart in air , watching it land imbedded into the top of the skull of his son , and who was also a neighborhood friend of mine ..... Afterwards these darts were then sold with flattened points to avoid these kind of tragedies ! Thanks ....This memory has been vivid in my mind since the day it happened many years ago...Scarboro

oh Blaze Boi this was a good theme for Danny to write it out, specially with a long introduction detailing hazardous child plays he did back in Rotherham

My friends and I used to play a game with lawn darts. We would throw them all straight up into the air and when they hit the peak of their trajectory we would run. I'm amazed we made it out alive.

Apparently, even pocket knives were kids toys, back in the day. I remember an episode of "Leave It To Beaver", when Ward tried to send The Beav out to play Mumblety-peg. I think, when June visited Ward's grave and said she was worried about The Beaver, part of it may have been that The Beav was throwing that pocket knife around his own kids.

My husband is an X-ray tech at a Trauma I hospital. Trampoline accidents (totally avoidable, stay away from them) are in the top 3 reasons he keeps busy when he has a shift in the Emergency Department. The other two are car accidents (for the love of God, wear your seatbelts!) and older people falling (can’t avoid getting old, but do yourself a HUGE favor and get a roommate if you’re old and live alone).

We literally had a slip n slide at our high school graduation-time "senior day." Down a hill.

Oh man, I remember lawn darts. You throw one straight up (you hope) as hard as you can (friends standing around), lose track of it in the mid-summer sun (because of course you do), then everyone scatters! It's an absolute wonder none of us ever got speared. We _kinda_ understood that they were dangerous, but a bunch of 9-11 year olds don't have a developed sense of self-preservation.

I still have my set of lawn darts from childhood lol. As for the slip n' slide, I wonder how many of the adult "mishaps" were due to the consumption of alcohol...

Personally I think the radioactive kit would be a great idea, but for high school age students. I began collecting radioactive materials when I was 14, and I have quite a collection now. But even storing them in my bedroom, the background count at a few feet away is barely increased. The real danger would be in potent alpha emitters like Americium-241, which can be ingested. Outside the body it's harmless, but alpha is by far the most damaging type of radiation when it's in your tissue. Other than that, you have to take care when handling Uranium and other metals because they are heavy metals, just like lead

Meanwhile, on the playground... Slides are now no taller than 4 feet. Where's the fun in that? Where's the challenge? We had slides that were 12 foot tall. As a 1st grader I had to muster my courage to climb the ladder. then more courage to stand on the top and sit down. But ohhh, the rush of sliding down!! A well earned reward for conquering your fears! And a lesson learned as well. And a memory. I can still see me climbing that ladder.

I remember my brother getting a creepy crawler set in the early 70's. You had to heat up the metal molds on the stove and pour in the liquid plastic. They came with a wire handle you needed a potholder to remove it from the heat. Quite a few kids got serious burns.

Love the memory lane episodes. I got lawn darts when I was 5. Slip n slide? We used 30ft tarps, dish soap, sprinklers, and a hill. My sister baked us Easy Bake cakes in her bedroom all the time.

I got a proper tool kit as a kid in 80s. It was all kid sized but proper tools. Hammer, wrench, saw (with sharp blade) etc. Solidly built. Wish hadn't lost various pieces along the way. My mom still has the pliers.

There were some nice chemistry sets in the early 60s that had really cool experiments. My older brother was always doing cool stuff to amuse his young siblings. No supervision, it was awesome and no injuries. Never heard of the nuclear kit.

These toys just needed to be sold with an actual parent.

I can attest that lawn darts were hella' fun. My grandparents had a set. Great fun with the cousins on holidays and birthdays, and very little adult oversight...

I have a set of Lawn Darts in their box on a shelf in my den. I also had an Easy Bake Oven as a kid, never burned anything but the cakes! We did have a Slip and Slide growing up. I never got hurt, but my brother ended up with a broken collar bone when my head impacted it at high velocity.