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What is your favorite (semi-dangerous) toy?
I was sitting here contemplating the upcoming Christmas holiday and remembering my own misspent youth. I realized how many really cool toys are no longer being sold...probably because they are considered too dangerous by parents today.
One of my favorites was a Mattel "Thingmaker". It was basically a kit that consisted of a small hot plate that you plugged into a 110 volt wall socket and then used some aluminum casts to dump some "goop" into and cook and make your very own rubbery creatures.
The nice thing was, the hot plate was hot enough to at least boil water, so I am guessing the temps were somewhere around 250 F to 350 F. As a 9 year old, I had second degree burns over both hands and both arms...up to the elbows.
The other neat thing was the noxious fumes that the plastic "goop" made when being dipped into a bath of cold water (after proper cooking). It basically smelled like a tire factory that caught fire.
So...what are some of your favorite politically incorrect toys of yesteryear?
3 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
WELL THEY STILL SELL THE EASY BAKE OVEN AND ITS NOT THAT DANGEROUS BUT WHEN I WAS 6 MINE BLEW UP NO JOKE JUST TOTALLY POPPED IDK WHAT HAPPENED BUT ALL THE SUDDEN BOOOOOM AND IT WAS BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS
- mechlingLv 45 years ago
Oh I bear in strategies the toy you communicate of , i think of they have been suggested as creepy crawlers . My favorite toy became right into a sled that became into too short for me and finally became my maximum hated toy after a foul sledding twist of destiny . I have been given a working initiate and jumped on the sled merely as a results of fact the runners hit some hidden rocks and the sled stopped right away , regrettably I saved going smashing the lads downstairs and truthfully skinning myself up while caught between the wood slats on suitable of the sled . It became into an exceedingly long walk living house .
- keerokLv 71 decade ago
Wow, that oven probably had a gas line.
Well, my super dangerous (not just only semi) was a bunch of toy soldiers. Left them at the middle of the stairs and it got pretty dangerous for me when my father started screaming my name one early morning.
