The 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys
Category: Health, Science & Technology
Via: the-irascible-harry-krishner • 14 years ago • 9 comments
These days, if a stuffed animal's plastic eye so much as wiggles, that toy is recalled faster than you can say "class action lawsuit."
That meant molten glass, molten metal, hazardous chemicals -- all were included in toys back then ... on purpose . (LINK)
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Arch-Man
14 years agoPowermite Tools allowed kids to play with fun-sized replicas of the tools Dad used every day at work, including the one that tragically cut both his hands off. Yes, unlike that pansy-ass plastic shit they sell now, these were actual working tools made of die-cast metal, only recognizable as a children's product due to the fact that they were smaller.
A little before my time, but some crazy stuff to make you say "what were they thinking."
Petey Coober
14 years agoThat was quite a list . And yes , I did have a Gilbert chemistry set . I recall making
stink producing experiments and a few that produced color changes in liquids .
But it wasn't till high school that I started launching rockets powered by explosive chemicals ....
Larry Hampton
14 years agoI had a chemistry set but couldn't tell ya what the brand was. Some of these toys make "Lawn Jarts" pale in comparison.
Perrie Halpern R.A.
14 years agoI had both a GilbertChemistryset and the power tools. I loved them. I have often thought about these differences between when most of us were kids and now. Don't get me wrong, those were dangerous toys, but I think we have gone overboard a bit.
I also had a Matel plastic creature maker. That thing got really hot. I burnt my self on many an occasion.... but I still played with it and loved it. Probably could have burned down the house with it, too!
Arch-Man
14 years agoAll I really remember is "Incredible Edibles"; you would heat the mix up in a mold let it cool and then eat. "That works."
I think this is it, can't recall the heater, but remember the casts.
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Krishna
14 years agoAt different times I actually had two different Chemistry sets! One was a Gilbert brand (I think they were more popular)-- but I also had a "Chemcraft" Chemistry set. I spent a lot of time with these//
(but then I turned away from chemistry to electronics. Among my other accomplishments, along with my friend Al-- we invented the Internet! But it was ahead of its time-- no one used it back then)