I'm 66. I had the chemistry set, lawn darts, ThingMaker, and clackers. We also had M-80's and quarter sticks... fireworks equal to 1/4 stick of dynamite. We had shotguns and .22 rifles as early as 10 years old. You could walk right into the hardware store as a kid and buy ammunition for them.
I see all of those things, and raise you a Pogo Stick, Erector Set, and a Slip'n Slide. The Slip'n Slide was my favorite. Especially if you set it up on a steep hill with a pond or lake at the bottom.
My friends and I had several of these toys. My favorites were the Jarts. There's a funny story about those...once they were banned, the toy companies introduced a replacement toy that was supposed to be safer. This new game was called Posey Pitch...it replaced the lawn darts with five-pedal plastic flowers about the size of a frisbee that were about 1/8 of an inch thick, with a large circular hole in the middle of the "posey." Kids were meant to throw these things at wooden stakes that you drove into the ground, using a throwing motion like you use when throwing a frisbee. The problem was, kids figured out that if you gripped the poseys by one of the pedals and threw them sidearm, they would fly forever at a very high rate of speed similar to a boomerang (but without being able to return when thrown). We soon became very good at throwing them accurately and VERY HARD at each other. I once threw one at a fellow kid running down the sidewalk on the other side of the street...I hit him in the head and took him right off his feet Kids can make ANYTHING dangerous!!
"Kids can make ANYTHING dangerous" is funny and SO true! My little brother took the lid from our metal trash can, got gas from the garage, poured it in the lid and of course, lit it on fire! Luckily, my boyfriend was hanging out with us, and immediately put out the fire. Brother also liked to set his GI Joe plastic toys on fire, to watch them melt. He went on to join the ARMY!
@Bassingal when I was a teenager I made napalm. 25 years later there's still a permanent burn mark there in the yard. I also separated Hydrogen and oxygen from water and combined them. My parents and neighbors thought I made a bomb
When I heard about lawn darts, I thought that they were home defense tools 😂 😅 after all hold one end let intruders run into point or throw it to drive home point of get out message. 🤫🤭
I'm 55 so we grew up playing lawn darts all the time - i never got hit but my cousin still has a hole in her foot - but that's what you get for not paying attention. She never made that mistake again. Fun reaction - thanks for posting it.
Creepy Crawlers was so much fun! Those metal plates got HOT, but if you got burned once, you just figured out how to not get burned again. No need for a fuss. I loved that melty plastic smell. Thank you for this reaction - very fun!
I always used the slip-on handle that was provided for the molds. I don't remember ever burning myself. Later, they came out with edible GOOP, so you could eat your creations. The flavors that I remember were green apple, cherry, and black licorice.
The most dangerous toy I can remember having wasn't on the list, the wood burning kit. It was this pencil-type device that you plugged in and the metal tip got red hot so that you could burn designs on wood. Plus it had a very short power cord so you were always using it in dangerous places near the drapes and stuff. We also had the lawn darts, Jarts. It was actually really fun if played properly, but we were certainly no exception seeing how high we could throw them straight up and seeing how far we could get them to sink in the ground. I was most afraid of it landing on the roof and making a hole and getting in big trouble. We were never afraid of being hit. I actually had several of these, but never had and problems. But I was actually a little afraid of that wood burning kit. It seems they still have them, but it doesn't look like they are marketed as toys for kids anymore.
As an adult who picked up woodbuning (pyrography I think is the proper name) again you're right. It's an incredible art form. Sets are sold either online or in craft stores now. They're a lot better made and can exceed $100 USD. Gone are the days of the janky tool with 1 heat setting, 1 permanent tip, and a bit of cork for "protection",
I'm surprised they didn't mention the wood burning set. That metal wand got HOT, hence the burning part of the toy. My brother had one. I burned myself once but the incident that caused my mom to take it away was when my brother went off and left it plugged in and the drapes began to smolder! He wasn't happy to see it gone but I sure was.😮
They still make them. Some cost hundreds of USD and artist produce jaw dropping art with them. They've evolved to an artist tool, though. Even cheap sets aren't marketed to kids. I had 1 in Jr High. Loved it so much I picked up the hobby 20 years later. And oh yeah, I burned my fingers. I learned to properly use a tool, though, and didn't leave it unattended or near anything flammable.
When i was about 10 mom me got a woodturning lathe with the knives was fun till i got my shirt sleeve caught in it .lucked out and just lost the sleeve .
The girl next door could jump on her pogo stick for a super long time without falling, which made her kind of the neighborhood celebrity to us young ones. 😀
I'm surprised that cap guns weren't mentioned. Part of the fun was, of course, setting off the paper ribbons which had gunpowder. But even better was waiting for the cylinder to fall off while trying to shoot the pistol. Very dangerous, very highly desired. My mother confiscated the one that we had, my dad broke it apart & threw it away. We were upset...until we realized that we could still set off the gunpowder ribbons by striking each dot with a rock.
🙄 Cap guns were not very dangerous, and setting off individual caps couldn’t give you anything worse than a very minor burn at most. The more impressive way to set them off was not individually, but rather to smack an entire roll with a hammer. That would result in something more like a small firecracker.
A redesigned version of Clackers enjoyed a revival in the 1990s. The new design used modern plastics that would not shatter and two free-swinging, opposing triangles attached to a handle, with weighted balls at the ends. That is the one us 90s kids remember playing with.
@@Cricket2731 As a kid in the 90s, I had a set that my dad still had from the 70s. All you really had to do to not get injured was stand somewhere behind the person throwing them.
There's a picture out there of a kid on his bike flying off of a ramp jumping over several other kids. The best part of the picture was of the dad in the background sitting on the stoop watching.
We did that with our motorcycles...We had a place that was an old sand pit and we made ramps and one day I twisted my ankle when I landed wrong. Now, parents would sue if their Little Johnny / Little Susie gets a scratch. Drinking water from a hose, riding in the bed of a pickup and playing outside until the streetlights came on - after homework - is not done today.
Shrinky Dinks are still around. But you're more likely to find them somewhere like Hobby Lobby or a craft store than with toys. I bought a nice pack on 'zon. There's even a few art CZcamsrs who did videos on them and what's best to color them with - markers, pencils, etc.
They sky dancing fairy, there is a video that floats around where a little girl got one for Christmas, launched it, and it went up, came down and went right into the very lit fireplace. I could only begin to imagine how that crushed her little heart. That could have even been on AFV if I remember correctly.
I inherited my uncle’s pre-safety chemistry set and my sister and I would randomly mix together different chemicals to see what would happen (we both lived thru it). We accidentally burned a hole in our back lawn - it was awesome.
Played with lawn darts in the 60's. My brother and 4 or five of our nephews had a game where we would throw the dart strait up and who ever moved was out if it landed close to you and you did not move you got a point.. Clackers and chemistry sets were also in the toy box.
Who remembers the plastic water rockets? You filled them with water…connected it to the hand-held launcher…pumped it to God knows how much pressure…and BOOM! That rocket could take your head off!
Had more than one version of those. Had a two stage setup once. Would launch and when the lower section would loose pressure would release the upper stage and it would fly higher.
@@thoughtfulwatcher I grew up in Brooklyn, so I always played with them in the street. They would either easily break when landing on the hard pavement, or get lost on a roof!
I grew up in the 60s and 70s, and I survived. :D Lawn darts were fun. I know not all kids could be trusted *not* to throw them at their friends or siblings, and not all kids could be trusted not to run in front of or behind the circle target while someone was throwing, but if everyone involved actually had a brain and used it, it was a really fun game to play. Clackers were a huge fad when I was in... fifth grade? Give or take a year, I forget. And again, if you used them as intended, they were a really good hand-eye coordination training tool. It took a lot of experimentation and frustration to get them working, but once you did it was fun. For a bit, then it got boring and we moved on to something else. But as with the lawn darts, when people got really hurt it was usually because someone was being an idiot, using them as bolos and throwing them *at* people, that kind of thing. I never knew nor heard of anyone who had their clackers actually break, though. That's weird, and I can definitely see that it'd be dangerous. One they didn't mention was cap guns. These were little metal guns and you loaded with strips of caps, basically little (like 5mm or so across) dots of actual gunpowder enclosed between two strips of paper, like a tiny explosive ravioli. :D The gun was a percussion mechanism, with a hammer sort of thing that snapped down and whacked one of the dots of gunpowder, which was sitting against a flat piece of metal. It went bang and you could smell the gunpowder. Of course, that wasn't good enough for us kids. We quickly ditched the guns and started putting caps down on the sidewalk and hitting them with hammers. Two or three caps stacked up made a better bang. Hitting a hole roll of caps with a really big and heavy hammer was the best. :) Again, I never knew nor heard of anyone who got hurt doing this, but I can see how it might happen, especially if you were banging your caps right on the edge of the sidewalk next to some dry grass or something. And speaking of fires, a kid with a really strong magnifying glass would of course spend some amount of time outside burning stuff in the sun. I never burned bugs or anything -- you have to be a reall glassbowl to do that -- but leaves and sticks were fun to burn with concentrated sunlight. And I'm sure any number of kids started serious fires that way, although I never did, nor anyone I knew. We also had the really *fun* slides on the playground -- tall and straight, not these low, bumpy or curly ones designed to slow you down. BORING! And parks with really tall swings, where you could get going fast and high, were kid magnets; only baby swings were low, much less had swing retarders on them. The merry-go-round at my elementary school was made all of bars, not just a solid, round plate. That meant there were open wedges in the middle, and if a 5th or 6th grader (10 or 11 years old) or two got in the middle wedges and pushed, the merry-go-round would go FAST. Wheee! When I was at that school, the little kids (up to 3rd grade) had a lunch period that overlapped with the big kids (4th and up) by like fifteen minutes, and those of us who were more responsible wouldn't let anyone push from the middle if there were little kids on the thing. It could get going fast enough that they'd have a hard time holding on, and they'd be scared and crying before that, so we'd yell at anyone who tried to push from the center when there were like 6- and 7-year-olds riding. Oh, and we had tall jungle gyms you could actually get hurt falling off of, which of course made them more fun to play on. I never fell off one, but I heard of it happening here and there. Basically, it was just a given back then that yes, you *would* hurt yourself periodically during childhood. It was normal, and it wasn't a problem unless broken bones, lost eyes, or actual death was involved. And it didn't get that bad very often at all. I never broke a bone until I was an adult, but I got a lot of bruises and scabs, and a few sprained ankles. And thinking about it, none of my injuries were because I was playing on or with anything that would be considered dangerous today. It was just kid stuff, and there are kids today getting the same kinds of injuries. It happens. And trying to protect kids from every possible injury or harm just stunts their development, their confidence and decision-making skills. Some things definitely needed to be banned, but sometimes today I think it's taken too far.
We had a Gilbert section in our hometown hobby shop. It was the first place I always went to. My grandfather worked as a freelance an electrical engineer. One day while visiting with him, he took me along to work, it might have been at RCA or GE or maybe someplace else. While there I saw shelves full of brand-new Atomic Energy kits. I asked about them and a man said they were given to the company when they had to stop selling them. He told me I could have as many as I wanted so I took 6 of them. I played with them for two weeks and every day after my grandfather got home, he helped me to build a working nuclear reactor which I used for my 6th grade science fair project. I set it up on the gym floor with all the other kids projects and even used the power to help energize half a dozen other kids projects. I got first place with it. The ironic thing was that back in fourth grade I made a very realistic model volcano that made molten lava, steam, ash, everything. I said that we had to set it off outside, but my teacher said other students made these and was perfectly safe inside. Being only 9 years old, I didn't argue. The volcano ended up starting a fire in the school, the fire company had to come and everything. When 6th grade came around, I was warned not to do bring anything dangerous for the science project. About a month later some government people showed up at my house and confiscated everything.
Never mind the toys, it was everyday life… I was born in the 60’s, youngest of 4 and we had a high-chair that could easily chop off a finger when you slid the stainless steel tray towards the child. Virtually everything in the house was constructed from or wrapped in asbestos… you went out to play at 7:30 AM, if you got hurt doing something stupid… you kept your mouth shut about how it happened when you got home because the whippin you might get was much worse than the initial injury….we were tough kids!! 🤣
I was born in the 50's we use to go down to the river and play in the quick sand. I got many a whipping for that when i didn't get all the sand off my pants before i got home for supper. I got a lot of whippings and that taught me respect. Teachers also could whip you, and the LAST one you would tell would have been mom, she would want to know why. lol. I deserved every one i got.
The CSI one didn't actually say "Asbestos Included" on the box. That was photo shopped on that image for comedic purposes. I loved the Jarts but they were super dangerous. There were a number of kids impaled in the head, eye, hand and foot with them. They were also quite heavy and could do some real damage. The jarts were ~12 inches in length with a 4+ ounce weight situated obviously at one end of the dart with the entire amount of the weight focused into a literal pointed dart tip. Ouch!
Lawn darts were fun. And we played the expert version. That's where you had a team in the front yard and one in the back yard and we threw them over the house. What fun. 😂
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So true, but seriously none of my friends ever died we got scuffed up a little bit we had to rub some dirt on a lot of things and our moms called us dumbass quite often. But we live through it, love lawn darts.
we used to play then over a house..so one side in the front yard and the other side in the backyard and we'd be tossing jarts over the house trying to hit a target we'd set up (cardboard box usually) - what could go wrong??
We sharpened our lawn darts and threw them up into the air to land on a huge dart board we made out of plyboard. We never got hurt and nobody stopped us.
It was in the late 1960s when I was around 9 years old I turned my bicycle into a chopper and on the back fender my sister who was probably 13 years old painted Hells Angels with flames. I thought I was so cool 😂😂😂
Around that same time period my other sister who was around 15 years old threatened my mother that she was going to thumb a ride to Woodstock in New York. But my mother said no you are not allowed to go and she never went 🤔😆😆
I can’t recall any horror stories with these but I do remember playing with the lawn darts. As a kid, we just thought it was a fun game but thinking back on it now as an adult, it’s like, how did my parents not realize how dangerous they were? 😂
We had monkey bars that were mounted ten foot above a cement slab, and 20ft tall metal slides with a joint half way up that reached 400 degrees in the sun. Let's not forget about sleeping in the back window of the car on long trips, or those metal wheeled roller skates that strapped to our shoes with leather threads that had a bent piece of metal that hooked them over your toes. We had rockets that used a hard plastic rocket (bottle) you filled 1/2 way up with water and then pumped enough air in to shred a car tire. We walked around with silver cowboy pistols that had cap rolls of paper with gunpowder that banged and gave off the wonderful smell. Those rolls were also great when you laid them sideways on the sidewalk and smacked them with a hammer to see how long your ears would ring. We played with mercury bubbles, and filled jars with dry ice to watch them blow. You spent hours on your swing set trying to get high enough to tip it over. Last but not least were ungrounded electric outlets, and telephones that would shoot fire out of the mouthpiece in a lightning storm. THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!
@mikeh8416 Everything you mentioned are fond memories for me. Especially the cap guns. I too enjoyed the smell of the tiny bit of gunpowder. We also rolled them up to get a bigger pop. I had clackers also. They were some deadly toys. Of course, swinging them wildly around people's heads wasn't the smartest move. The 70s was the greatest time in my life. What a shame what the world has become.
But the Romans didn't sell it as a toy... Makes you wonder why Mattel didn't sell mini hand granades during the Vietnam war time. With a catchy slogan like "Smoke the VC in your back yard, just like on the battlefield!" 😆
The deal was to buy the 'smoke grenades' and fire crackers sold for July 4th. Pull the wimpy smoker out of the plastic grenade case, insert gravel and the biggest fire cracker and powder from cut firecrackers. Light the fuse and throw it at your friends! Fortunately the plastic shell contained the gravel from flying out like shrapnel.
I was born in 68 so I’ll be 56 this year. My two older brothers had the lawn darts and we all the clackers. I have three daughters who are grown now but when they were younger my parents bought them the moon shoes for Christmas one year. You know the things you strapped to your feet that looked like little trampolines. Then about 5 years ago I bought one of my grandsons a pogo stick for his birthday but they do really good on designing those now.
Most of the more serious child hood injuries in the late 50's and early 60's came from monkey bars and swing sets that were made of all metal, on the monkey bars you could climb up about ten feet off the ground, which almost always was asphalt so they would be level and not sink into the ground, I know I chipped a front tooth on them, as did several of my friends, but back then kids never wore any safety equipment like kids do today.
Safety features, what was that? Motorcycling without helmets ( ditto bicycling), Tarzan swings, jumping off cliffs into a swimming hole (especially skinny-dipping in the woods), sitting in the back of a station wagon. I'm 65 and I live through my childhood...
As a 90s kid only thing I remember on here was the pogo stick and the cabbage patch kid that used to snap off fingers. And me and friends used to jump off trees unto trampolines too.
Had a chemistry teacher in high school that I'm pretty sure was a little... off. He'd get out some chemicals and tell us to LEAVE them under the vent hoods; if you wanted to know what they were - WAFT do NOT WHIFF! Well... in his words, "There's always one every year..." Poor girl got a nose full of pure ammonia and then ate the floor. Then there was the guy that was screwing around one class and spilled a cup of toluene on the floor tiles. He had to corral the area and get another chemical poured onto it to prevent it from eating through the floor. XD
…..remember when Dan Ackroyd of SNL fame played the shifty, shyster where in a 60 MINUTE skit where 60 Minutes was investigating dangerous toys, and Ackroyd was selling Bag-O-Glass, a plastic bag full of shards of sharp broken glass for $19.99. Claiming it was safe for children from 5 years old to a hundred. It was hilarious…😂
Kind of like a toy (on the cartoon Johnny Test) made by the "Wacko Toys" company called "bag-o-tacks"... or another toy of theirs, "don't shock yourself" (a toy that will shock you), or their "toy" called "Left Hook" where it's basically centered around a jack in the box toy that has a left handed boxing glove (instead of a clown head)
When I was a kid... maybe 11 or 12 years old, I made my own blow darts out of sharpened construction nails with a paper cone taped on the end. I stood across the street from my house and blew one through a section of PVC pipe. It hit the garage door with enough force to penetrate half of the nail into the door! When My Dad saw the hole... The pipe and darts were destroyed and I was grounded for a couple of weeks.
My friends got the straws in our high school cafeteria banned... we all had home ec class, the straws were slim enough that you could use straight pins (the needles that have the plastic ball at one end, used to hold stuff together that you intend to sew) as blow guns... you know where it goes from there... now, no one got their eye hit, but you had some explaining to do about all of the red spots you might have gotten, I actually already used to wear took to wearing insulated flannel shirts by then, and when they started that crap, it was a permanent thing I wore because it wasn't just in home ec they did it, it was all the time
I had the mini jigsaw. Radio Shack used to sell electronic kits of radios, robots and other machines that you could build. You had to use a soldering gun to connect circuits. Hobby shops sold wood burners for craving. ✌️
Back around 1980 when I was 12, a friend and I triple bounced his uncle (whom was a Green Beret stationed at Fort Bragg) on the trampoline at a bad angle. It sent him flying off the trampoline into a perfect dive-bomb 20ft out in the yard. It gave him a concussion, broke his jaw and broke his collar bone.
I had the PowerMite workbench with real working (miniature) saw and drill. I loved it because they actually worked. And it wasn't just battery powered, each one had to be plugged in with a miniature electrical plug. I never hurt myself with it though. Something else I had later that could be considered dangerous was a Mattel Strange Change toy. I got it used at a flea market. It had a red metal base, which plugged in, topped with a plastic chamber. On the side was a small compartment with built in vise. It came with several colored plastic blocks. You put one or more of the blocks in the chamber and turned it on. As it got hot, the block would soften and then unfold into a creature figure, at which point you would use a set of tongs to take it out (because it was HOT!). As it cooled, it would solidify into that shape. Later, you could put the creatures back into the chamber, heat them up, then stuff them into the compartment on the side and tighten the vise to compress them back into seamless plastic blocks. I had a lot of fun with it until the vise broken and I could no longer compress them back into the blocks. It kind of made the rest of it pointless.
I remember Creepy Crawlers. One of my favorite toys in the 60s along with my Easy Bake Oven. I also had green clackers. I never had one problem, nor did I know of anyone in person or on the news that had injuries. Must not have been massive casualties. Oh! Caps were so fun,as well. Get some caps and a rock and pop them for hrs.
In the 1980s we had a friend that had lawn darts, he would grab all the darts and toss them into the air and scream incoming artillery. We would scramble for sturdy cover. It ended when he put one through his Mom's new mini van wind shield.
As an 80s kid, we did some of the craziest and gnarliest things as kids haha. We would jump off the roof with umbrellas to try and fly lol. That was a bad idea! We would jump off bridges. Another really dumb idea. We also climbed a massive radio tower and we were hundreds of feet in the air and we somehow never got caught.
Oh for sure... they were super popular with people I was around as a kid in the 80s and into the 90s (even though in the 90s they were already banned; there were still millions of sets around to be had and being resold. I still have a set. I find them at garage sales every once and while.
Jarts are always mentioned in these videos. I remember my grandfather and I played with them. He was the fun grandfather type always carefree and up for an adventure but got super serious when we played with Jarts. It was not till years later when I learned just how dangerous they were and remembered how his whole attitude changed when we played a dangerous game. Very strict rules on where to stand while people were throwing, paying attention was critical, and the all clear was it own unique rule. Good times. To his credit no one got hurt while playing the game. My brother and I were shocked when we saw the lists. We could not figure out how people could get hurt. Then we realized his special rules were the reason why we were safe.
Those of us that survived these toys are a tough and imaginative bunch. We learned many things that today's kids just seem to lack. Things like common sense, the ability to duck, first aid, generally the ability to survive. I had a lot of these toys and I'm still here!
I had or used a friends version of just about every single one of these. My little cousin lived near a boy who was "hard to handle", probably today's ADHD, maybe a little Bi-Polar, in any case, the boy threw a "Lawn Dart at my little cousin and hit him in the eye. He was hospitalized for several days and has had to wear glasses ever since.
I almost forgot I had the early version of easy bake ovens. It looked like a regular oven, it heated with a 100 watt light bulb. You had to flip the oven door down to open it and reach over to take the still hot baked goods out of it.
Creepy Crawlers was still around in the 90s, I had one as a kid. The fumes were no longer a problem, but, well, you still were messing around with heated metal plates.
I have some friends who were playing with Rollerblade Barbie. (Ages3-7ish) They were playing beauty shop with hairspray. A little while later, the little brother was laying on the floor and his older sister was playing rolling the Barbie across his back. His clothes caught fire. The Barbie was pulled after the company was notified. (If you look up the reason this Barbie was pulled on Google or CZcams, it talks about this instance.)
I actually still have the cabbage patch doll that "ate" the food. The doll has a backpack on and when you lift the flap, there's the hole that the toy food fell though into the bag.
GOT into an argument with my little brother playing Jarts... Before it was over I threw one straight down through the top of his foot and stuck it to the ground... Didn't hit anything vital and he was limping around better than I was sitting for the first few days after... Those were the days, you had to be tough to survive...
My brother got mad at me and threw one at me. I reacted by grabbing it out the air. We then started throwing them toward each other and practiced grabbing them. We never got hurt until our dad caught us!
I once owned the Erector set, lawn darts, and I still have my Cylon Raider in its original box. My Grandfather and grandmother had 3 Cabbage Patch dolls in the original boxes when my grandmother passed away in 2010.
I still have scars on my wrist and legs from tripping over a toy metal dump truck when I was a kid in the 1950s. Today I am 74 and toys today are made with child safety in mind. Not then , metal was used due to its longevity. Many toys from then would be outlawed today. And, yes, I had several Erector sets. Parts were interchangeable and you could add things and make bigger things. All metal with nuts and bolts, screwdrivers and wrench's, (spanners), included. I may even still have an Erector screwdriver around.
They showed the Slip and Slide in the ending montage, but it should have had its own entry. Lots of spinal injuries resulted from that one due to falls. Plus several people got large cuts from sliding off the tarp and hitting the stakes that held it in place.
Jarts, Creepy Crawlers, Moon Shoes, are some of the things I had. (Sky Dancers were just after my time but my SIL who was younger had some, we still have one of them unopened). But if a kid wants to purposely try fate, they will find a way. I know I tried 😂. Burning and melting legos on lamps, trying to use gasoline to burn a tree to make a camp fire (glad an adult stepped in before I poured gas in the tree and killed it).
The really bizarre thing about the jarts, is that the kit included two colors of darts (three darts each with red fins and with blue fins), and two target hoops. If there's been only one target hoop, some kids might have all stood at one end of their yard and thrown toward the target at the other end, which would've been somewhat safer. But no, there were two target hoops, so *of course* everybody set the hoops up at opposite ends of the yard, and each kid or group of kids would stand by one of the hoops and throw their darts toward the other hoop. That way after you'd thrown all three, you didn't have to run to the other end of the yard to retrieve them. You could just pick up the ones your opponent had thrown, and throw those. This was so much more convenient, as long as you didn't mind standing right next to a target hoop while weighted spikes were being lobbed in its general direction. The uranium wasn't weapons-grade (enriched) uranium. It was just natural mined uranium, i.e., about 99% of it was the stable isotope. Granted, the remaining 1% is still sufficiently radioactive that it really really should not have been in a child's toy.
My oldest sister begged my mother for a skateboard. Somewhere in the mid-1970's, mom finally capitulated and bought her one. On her literal first ride down the driveway, she fell and broke her arm. The skateboard was thrown out and my sister was in a cast all summer!
I had Clackers (I'm an 80's kid), a pogo stick, Jarts, woodburning kit. I'm sure there were a few other things my older brother and I had that weren't on here, that we had. LOL
I'm 40. I played with lawn darts. I loved my creepy crawlers oven toy. I don't think there was so much harm in learning to respect ovens or heavy objects (the lawn darts were weighted). We also had a wood burning kit for making art on balsa wood with a searing hot pen. You mentioned trampolines. I cracked a rib wrestling on a trampoline and never told anyone until I was an adult.
I had an archery set that I would shoot the arrows up in the air, fly over my yard, my neighbors house and into the woods just beyond. Then I'd go get them, locating them imbedded in trees, the ground, etc.
Had lawn darts, clackers and pogo sticks. Never had an incident with the darts but my clackers, which were red by the way, did shatter when I was playing with them. No injuries sustained. Now the pogo stick was different. We bounced up and down on those things, repeatedly falling off so we tried to bounce close to the grass so it wouldn't hurt so much when we hit the ground. It's a good thing kids bones are made of rubber!😊
We had fantastic toys in the 1960s and 70s. I remember getting a BB rifle and slingshots and smoke bombs and firecrackers and a mini bike just to name a few❤
Can't forget about the m-80s and the bottle rockets and then also turning my bicycle into a chopper and my older sister who was probably 13 years old at the time painting on the back of my bicycle fender Hells Angels with flames. I thought it was so cool 🤔😆😆
We had all of the above with no difficulties but managed to burn down a tree in the neighbor’s orchard with one of those little black pellets that were, I think, called snakes.
Blew my mind when I saw the Creepy Crawler plastic mold set. I had completely forgot I had that as a kid and that brought back some long-lost memories lol. Crazy...
I'm 61, clackers were all over the recess playground when I was in the 3rd grade circa 1970. Never quite caught the hang of getting them to hit at the top and bottom of the arc, but the kids who were good at it could make them blur like an airplane's propeller arc. 😮
We had Jarts and never had an issue! However, we were playing with regular darts at my aunt's and uncle's house when I was maybe 8 to 10 (1970-72)? My brother threw a dart, and it went in my arm! I just took it out and told him what a jerk he was. We never even *told* the adults! Kids these days are such wimps.
We had Jarts. My best friend and I vs 2 other friends from school were playing. One of the other friends threw one too hard while my friend and I were talking and not paying attention. The Jart went through my friend's foot. It stuck about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch into his foot. The hospital fixed it but he was limping around all summer long. Did we learn our lesson? Nah! We still played, but we payed attention from then on.
@@yournewzealandfamily thankfully I never got by one. On a different note, toy guns used to not have an orange muzzle to indicate that it was fake. My dad used to run around with cap revolvers, pretending to be a cowboy (this was in the 60s)
I think those things were called LAWN DARTS and my father-in-law bought them for my kids and they scared the he'll out of me that I had to hide them and told my kids that someone came in the yard and stole them....
We still have a set of jarts... Most of us who grew up in the 80s and even 90s played with jarts. And at least the dumb groups of friends would toss them high into the air and then dodge them as they came back down; it was a fun game and I only remember one of my group getting slightly injured. LOL. Jarts were very popular. Even today I know many people who have kept their sets and still play.
I had a geology kit in the 60s. It had sulfuric acid to test certain types of rock. I had lawn darts too. You have to be really stupid to get hurt. Basically you had to actually throw one at someone. I had clackers too. It shattered a couple of weeks after I got one.
We made up our own game with lawn darts. You’d stand still and try to throw the dart straight up and not flinch, look up or move. Of course your friend would warn you if they thought you were going to get hit, but the point of the game was to see who could throw it closest to oneself and still stick to the rules. It was unnerving to stand still, not looking up, which was almost impossible and have one of those thump into the earth inches from your foot. Even we thought it was a bad idea after a while. Suburban, pre-teen, front yard, brave, Russian roulette! Childhood was very different in the late 60’s to early 70’s. We were like pirates on the loose with our bicycles, going everywhere. Our play and games always had to have an element of danger or it wasn’t worth doing. It was always competitive between us, who could outdo each other was King Kid status until the next winner was crowned. Bleeding and crying were always a part of having fun or you weren’t doing it hard enough. Like I said, we were pirates! 🏴☠️ (Everyone survived) It was a blast! We knew how to have fun.
We used to stand around and throw the lawn darts in the air above us and see who didn't get killed by said darts when they came down. Yes the 70s was an interesting time indeed.
When I turned 12 yrs old I was able to get my own hobby trap line up in northern Manitoba, Canada. I had all different sizes of leg hold traps and conibears, my own .22 cal rifle and my own snowmobile. My area was about 100 square miles. Dad came out with me and my friend the first couple of times to show us areas to avoid and how to set the traps, then we were on our own the rest of the winter. Toys ......pfft.
My brother and I had the Thing Maker. We loved it. When we ran out of the liquid stuff that came with it we just used whatever we had laying around, lead, plastic,etc. I took a bunch of the little plastic bugs we made to school and sold them to my classmates. I had a pretty good bug business going until a teacher caught me and confiscated my inventory.
One toy I have that was banned for a non-dangerous reason is a bicycle mounted siren that you would put on the front fork of your bike frame, and you could engage and disengage the siren with a little chain. They were around from the 1910’s until the 1960’s when they were banned because they sounded too similar to actual police sirens at the time, and they haven’t been brought back since.
I was seriously injured on a trampolene. I shattered my sternum and broke several ribs on both sides of my ribcage. It probably should have killed me and I was an adult when it happened.
Lets be fair. Jarts really are not bad if used properly. I mean simply don't throw them at toward someone and you are fine. Jarts are sort of the equivalent to the archery sets that are still very much available. The arrows that come with these sets generally have blunt ends to hit paper or vinyl targets backed with hay bails but they seriously injure or kill a kid if their friend shoots it at them, depending how fast its traveling and the part of the body it hits especially the eye.
I had a wood-burning art kit that came with basically a handheld Electric soldering iron. I put a blister on my thumb half the size of the pad. It only happened once though, I am 66 years old and I can still hear the skin sizzle. I immediately stuck my thumb in my iced tea and did not tell my parents because I knew they would probably take the toy away from me. LOL😅
I legit had a tool set when I was 5 that a real saw in it. Lol I also played yard darts! Nothing like kids slinging giant darts at each other! Lol, those were the days. Great video guys.
I'm 66. I had the chemistry set, lawn darts, ThingMaker, and clackers. We also had M-80's and quarter sticks... fireworks equal to 1/4 stick of dynamite. We had shotguns and .22 rifles as early as 10 years old. You could walk right into the hardware store as a kid and buy ammunition for them.
It was fun, wasn't it?
I see all of those things, and raise you a Pogo Stick, Erector Set, and a Slip'n Slide. The Slip'n Slide was my favorite. Especially if you set it up on a steep hill with a pond or lake at the bottom.
We played with most of the toys in this video, and a train set with exposed wiring that shocked anyone who wasn't careful, which I wasn't.
Your generation had the cool stuff, mine is 90% screens 😭
@@itsnoterica It's never too late to act like a kid and do something stupid.
We Americans liked living on the edge as children......LOL. That's why we who survived to adulthood can take on anything.
I still have the lawn darts
Lawn darts have a whole different meaning these days. Heroin needles 🤦
@Andrew_P86 that's what we call the F16s in the Air Force haha
@@USFirst1776i thought thats what they called the F-104.
yea alright
My friends and I had several of these toys. My favorites were the Jarts. There's a funny story about those...once they were banned, the toy companies introduced a replacement toy that was supposed to be safer. This new game was called Posey Pitch...it replaced the lawn darts with five-pedal plastic flowers about the size of a frisbee that were about 1/8 of an inch thick, with a large circular hole in the middle of the "posey." Kids were meant to throw these things at wooden stakes that you drove into the ground, using a throwing motion like you use when throwing a frisbee. The problem was, kids figured out that if you gripped the poseys by one of the pedals and threw them sidearm, they would fly forever at a very high rate of speed similar to a boomerang (but without being able to return when thrown). We soon became very good at throwing them accurately and VERY HARD at each other. I once threw one at a fellow kid running down the sidewalk on the other side of the street...I hit him in the head and took him right off his feet
Kids can make ANYTHING dangerous!!
"Kids can make ANYTHING dangerous" is funny and SO true! My little brother took the lid from our metal trash can, got gas from the garage, poured it in the lid and of course, lit it on fire! Luckily, my boyfriend was hanging out with us, and immediately put out the fire. Brother also liked to set his GI Joe plastic toys on fire, to watch them melt. He went on to join the ARMY!
@Bassingal when I was a teenager I made napalm. 25 years later there's still a permanent burn mark there in the yard. I also separated Hydrogen and oxygen from water and combined them. My parents and neighbors thought I made a bomb
When I heard about lawn darts, I thought that they were home defense tools 😂 😅 after all hold one end let intruders run into point or throw it to drive home point of get out message. 🤫🤭
I'm 55 so we grew up playing lawn darts all the time - i never got hit but my cousin still has a hole in her foot - but that's what you get for not paying attention. She never made that mistake again. Fun reaction - thanks for posting it.
I'm the same age and my brother threw one at me on purpose and it stuck in my leg. Still have the hole in my shin!
Creepy Crawlers was so much fun! Those metal plates got HOT, but if you got burned once, you just figured out how to not get burned again. No need for a fuss. I loved that melty plastic smell. Thank you for this reaction - very fun!
Still have a complete set from my sons!!
That smelled a bit like someone microwaving food in a Styrofoam box, didn't it? I wonder why...
I always used the slip-on handle that was provided for the molds. I don't remember ever burning myself. Later, they came out with edible GOOP, so you could eat your creations. The flavors that I remember were green apple, cherry, and black licorice.
@@ewellford Who could resist the taste of goble-de-goop!
Man, I loved my creepy crawlers! All my allowance was spent on bottles of plastic.
The most dangerous toy I can remember having wasn't on the list, the wood burning kit. It was this pencil-type device that you plugged in and the metal tip got red hot so that you could burn designs on wood. Plus it had a very short power cord so you were always using it in dangerous places near the drapes and stuff. We also had the lawn darts, Jarts. It was actually really fun if played properly, but we were certainly no exception seeing how high we could throw them straight up and seeing how far we could get them to sink in the ground. I was most afraid of it landing on the roof and making a hole and getting in big trouble. We were never afraid of being hit. I actually had several of these, but never had and problems. But I was actually a little afraid of that wood burning kit. It seems they still have them, but it doesn't look like they are marketed as toys for kids anymore.
As an adult who picked up woodbuning (pyrography I think is the proper name) again you're right. It's an incredible art form. Sets are sold either online or in craft stores now. They're a lot better made and can exceed $100 USD. Gone are the days of the janky tool with 1 heat setting, 1 permanent tip, and a bit of cork for "protection",
I'm surprised they didn't mention the wood burning set. That metal wand got HOT, hence the burning part of the toy. My brother had one. I burned myself once but the incident that caused my mom to take it away was when my brother went off and left it plugged in and the drapes began to smolder! He wasn't happy to see it gone but I sure was.😮
Yeah I had that. Loved it.
They still make them. Some cost hundreds of USD and artist produce jaw dropping art with them. They've evolved to an artist tool, though. Even cheap sets aren't marketed to kids. I had 1 in Jr High. Loved it so much I picked up the hobby 20 years later. And oh yeah, I burned my fingers. I learned to properly use a tool, though, and didn't leave it unattended or near anything flammable.
When i was about 10 mom me got a woodturning lathe with the knives was fun till i got my shirt sleeve caught in it .lucked out and just lost the sleeve .
Still got one in the basement along with the creepy crawlers kit.
The girl next door could jump on her pogo stick for a super long time without falling, which made her kind of the neighborhood celebrity to us young ones. 😀
yep exactly. Exactly exactly . We had one of those too named Domini in Weiser if she ever happens to read this comment.
I never had a pogo stick. Honestly, I would probably keep falling over, lol.
I'm surprised that cap guns weren't mentioned. Part of the fun was, of course, setting off the paper ribbons which had gunpowder. But even better was waiting for the cylinder to fall off while trying to shoot the pistol. Very dangerous, very highly desired. My mother confiscated the one that we had, my dad broke it apart & threw it away. We were upset...until we realized that we could still set off the gunpowder ribbons by striking each dot with a rock.
🙄 Cap guns were not very dangerous, and setting off individual caps couldn’t give you anything worse than a very minor burn at most. The more impressive way to set them off was not individually, but rather to smack an entire roll with a hammer. That would result in something more like a small firecracker.
Those were so fun. I know they did eventually put orange on the barrel so they didn't look too real.
I still remember my matching pair of nickel plated pearl handled Roy Rogers cap guns. I never left home without them.
@@HandleTakenlol Those were a classic. And that style was still bigly popular way into the 90's at least. Not sure if they still are.
@@markhamstra1083 We thought that a hammer wasn't heavy enough... we decided to use dad's sledge hammer. :)
A redesigned version of Clackers enjoyed a revival in the 1990s. The new design used modern plastics that would not shatter and two free-swinging, opposing triangles attached to a handle, with weighted balls at the ends. That is the one us 90s kids remember playing with.
As a kid, I played with Jarts in my backyard. They were a blast. Miss those.
I still have a set
They're still available. But instead of the wicked metal points in the darts, there's now a weighted rubber tip.
@@Cricket2731 As a kid in the 90s, I had a set that my dad still had from the 70s. All you really had to do to not get injured was stand somewhere behind the person throwing them.
Imitating Evil Knievel on our bikes jumping homemade ramps we also made plastic Shrinky Dinks melt in a oven.
There's a picture out there of a kid on his bike flying off of a ramp jumping over several other kids. The best part of the picture was of the dad in the background sitting on the stoop watching.
@@Rockhound6165 yes,😄 haha saw it on Tik Tok
We did that with our motorcycles...We had a place that was an old sand pit and we made ramps and one day I twisted my ankle when I landed wrong. Now, parents would sue if their Little Johnny / Little Susie gets a scratch.
Drinking water from a hose, riding in the bed of a pickup and playing outside until the streetlights came on - after homework - is not done today.
Shrinky Dinks are still around. But you're more likely to find them somewhere like Hobby Lobby or a craft store than with toys. I bought a nice pack on 'zon. There's even a few art CZcamsrs who did videos on them and what's best to color them with - markers, pencils, etc.
@@thoughtfulwatcher Great information,thank you
They sky dancing fairy, there is a video that floats around where a little girl got one for Christmas, launched it, and it went up, came down and went right into the very lit fireplace. I could only begin to imagine how that crushed her little heart. That could have even been on AFV if I remember correctly.
That video pops up on instagram every now and then sooo funny
Every time I see or hear those flying fairy things it makes me think of that video.
In hindsight it makes sense that it flew into the fireplace, there would have been a draft from the heat going up the chimney.
I think I seen that video. I'm not too sure.
I inherited my uncle’s pre-safety chemistry set and my sister and I would randomly mix together different chemicals to see what would happen (we both lived thru it). We accidentally burned a hole in our back lawn - it was awesome.
Played with lawn darts in the 60's. My brother and 4 or five of our nephews had a game where we would throw the dart strait up and who ever moved was out if it landed close to you and you did not move you got a point.. Clackers and chemistry sets were also in the toy box.
Now that I think about it, we might have done that "we would throw the dart strait up" too!
Who remembers the plastic water rockets?
You filled them with water…connected it to the hand-held launcher…pumped it to God knows how much pressure…and BOOM!
That rocket could take your head off!
Had more than one version of those. Had a two stage setup once. Would launch and when the lower section would loose pressure would release the upper stage and it would fly higher.
Oh man, those were fun. I spent an entire blistering hot weekend playing with one. One of those golden kid memories for sure.
@@thoughtfulwatcher I grew up in Brooklyn, so I always played with them in the street.
They would either easily break when landing on the hard pavement, or get lost on a roof!
loved that thing.
Water rockets were great (the handheld ones with the hand pump)
I actually have a shirt that says, "Lawn Dart Survivor" . My parents still have their lawn darts.
I grew up in the 60s and 70s, and I survived. :D Lawn darts were fun. I know not all kids could be trusted *not* to throw them at their friends or siblings, and not all kids could be trusted not to run in front of or behind the circle target while someone was throwing, but if everyone involved actually had a brain and used it, it was a really fun game to play.
Clackers were a huge fad when I was in... fifth grade? Give or take a year, I forget. And again, if you used them as intended, they were a really good hand-eye coordination training tool. It took a lot of experimentation and frustration to get them working, but once you did it was fun. For a bit, then it got boring and we moved on to something else. But as with the lawn darts, when people got really hurt it was usually because someone was being an idiot, using them as bolos and throwing them *at* people, that kind of thing. I never knew nor heard of anyone who had their clackers actually break, though. That's weird, and I can definitely see that it'd be dangerous.
One they didn't mention was cap guns. These were little metal guns and you loaded with strips of caps, basically little (like 5mm or so across) dots of actual gunpowder enclosed between two strips of paper, like a tiny explosive ravioli. :D The gun was a percussion mechanism, with a hammer sort of thing that snapped down and whacked one of the dots of gunpowder, which was sitting against a flat piece of metal. It went bang and you could smell the gunpowder. Of course, that wasn't good enough for us kids. We quickly ditched the guns and started putting caps down on the sidewalk and hitting them with hammers. Two or three caps stacked up made a better bang. Hitting a hole roll of caps with a really big and heavy hammer was the best. :) Again, I never knew nor heard of anyone who got hurt doing this, but I can see how it might happen, especially if you were banging your caps right on the edge of the sidewalk next to some dry grass or something.
And speaking of fires, a kid with a really strong magnifying glass would of course spend some amount of time outside burning stuff in the sun. I never burned bugs or anything -- you have to be a reall glassbowl to do that -- but leaves and sticks were fun to burn with concentrated sunlight. And I'm sure any number of kids started serious fires that way, although I never did, nor anyone I knew.
We also had the really *fun* slides on the playground -- tall and straight, not these low, bumpy or curly ones designed to slow you down. BORING! And parks with really tall swings, where you could get going fast and high, were kid magnets; only baby swings were low, much less had swing retarders on them. The merry-go-round at my elementary school was made all of bars, not just a solid, round plate. That meant there were open wedges in the middle, and if a 5th or 6th grader (10 or 11 years old) or two got in the middle wedges and pushed, the merry-go-round would go FAST. Wheee! When I was at that school, the little kids (up to 3rd grade) had a lunch period that overlapped with the big kids (4th and up) by like fifteen minutes, and those of us who were more responsible wouldn't let anyone push from the middle if there were little kids on the thing. It could get going fast enough that they'd have a hard time holding on, and they'd be scared and crying before that, so we'd yell at anyone who tried to push from the center when there were like 6- and 7-year-olds riding. Oh, and we had tall jungle gyms you could actually get hurt falling off of, which of course made them more fun to play on. I never fell off one, but I heard of it happening here and there.
Basically, it was just a given back then that yes, you *would* hurt yourself periodically during childhood. It was normal, and it wasn't a problem unless broken bones, lost eyes, or actual death was involved. And it didn't get that bad very often at all. I never broke a bone until I was an adult, but I got a lot of bruises and scabs, and a few sprained ankles. And thinking about it, none of my injuries were because I was playing on or with anything that would be considered dangerous today. It was just kid stuff, and there are kids today getting the same kinds of injuries. It happens. And trying to protect kids from every possible injury or harm just stunts their development, their confidence and decision-making skills. Some things definitely needed to be banned, but sometimes today I think it's taken too far.
We had a Gilbert section in our hometown hobby shop. It was the first place I always went to. My grandfather worked as a freelance an electrical engineer. One day while visiting with him, he took me along to work, it might have been at RCA or GE or maybe someplace else. While there I saw shelves full of brand-new Atomic Energy kits. I asked about them and a man said they were given to the company when they had to stop selling them. He told me I could have as many as I wanted so I took 6 of them. I played with them for two weeks and every day after my grandfather got home, he helped me to build a working nuclear reactor which I used for my 6th grade science fair project. I set it up on the gym floor with all the other kids projects and even used the power to help energize half a dozen other kids projects. I got first place with it. The ironic thing was that back in fourth grade I made a very realistic model volcano that made molten lava, steam, ash, everything. I said that we had to set it off outside, but my teacher said other students made these and was perfectly safe inside. Being only 9 years old, I didn't argue. The volcano ended up starting a fire in the school, the fire company had to come and everything. When 6th grade came around, I was warned not to do bring anything dangerous for the science project. About a month later some government people showed up at my house and confiscated everything.
Atomic energy lab... first thing I thought was Sheldon from the TV show the Big Bang Therory... 😂
Me too 😂
I can see young Sheldon having that, but he would more than likely go a few steps further.....
Never mind the toys, it was everyday life… I was born in the 60’s, youngest of 4 and we had a high-chair that could easily chop off a finger when you slid the stainless steel tray towards the child. Virtually everything in the house was constructed from or wrapped in asbestos… you went out to play at 7:30 AM, if you got hurt doing something stupid… you kept your mouth shut about how it happened when you got home because the whippin you might get was much worse than the initial injury….we were tough kids!! 🤣
I was born in the 50's we use to go down to the river and play in the quick sand. I got many a whipping for that when i didn't get all the sand off my pants before i got home for supper. I got a lot of whippings and that taught me respect. Teachers also could whip you, and the LAST one you would tell would have been mom, she would want to know why. lol. I deserved every one i got.
The CSI one didn't actually say "Asbestos Included" on the box. That was photo shopped on that image for comedic purposes. I loved the Jarts but they were super dangerous. There were a number of kids impaled in the head, eye, hand and foot with them. They were also quite heavy and could do some real damage. The jarts were ~12 inches in length with a 4+ ounce weight situated obviously at one end of the dart with the entire amount of the weight focused into a literal pointed dart tip. Ouch!
Lawn darts were fun. And we played the expert version. That's where you had a team in the front yard and one in the back yard and we threw them over the house. What fun. 😂
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I had several of these growing up in the 60's and like Brad Upton says "The dumb kids didn't make it".
It may have served a Darwinian function!😮
So true, but seriously none of my friends ever died we got scuffed up a little bit we had to rub some dirt on a lot of things and our moms called us dumbass quite often. But we live through it, love lawn darts.
@@kurtsaxton823 Oh, I ALMOST FORGOT the wonderful sting of Mercurochrome! We even survived PUTTING MERCURY INTO OUR OPEN WOUNDS!!
@@mikeh8416 yep and we might have a few twitches because of that but we're good right?
@@mikeh8416 the late boomers and the early Gen x... No sissies were aloud.
@7:31 I remember lawn darts… yes I am older than ya’ll but never any incidents that I recall personally!
we used to play then over a house..so one side in the front yard and the other side in the backyard and we'd be tossing jarts over the house trying to hit a target we'd set up (cardboard box usually) - what could go wrong??
We sharpened our lawn darts and threw them up into the air to land on a huge dart board we made out of plyboard. We never got hurt and nobody stopped us.
Some of them was fun To play. Loved lawn darts. 😂
It was in the late 1960s when I was around 9 years old I turned my bicycle into a chopper and on the back fender my sister who was probably 13 years old painted Hells Angels with flames. I thought I was so cool 😂😂😂
Around that same time period my other sister who was around 15 years old threatened my mother that she was going to thumb a ride to Woodstock in New York. But my mother said no you are not allowed to go and she never went 🤔😆😆
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I can’t recall any horror stories with these but I do remember playing with the lawn darts. As a kid, we just thought it was a fun game but thinking back on it now as an adult, it’s like, how did my parents not realize how dangerous they were? 😂
We had monkey bars that were mounted ten foot above a cement slab, and 20ft tall metal slides with a joint half way up that reached 400 degrees in the sun. Let's not forget about sleeping in the back window of the car on long trips, or those metal wheeled roller skates that strapped to our shoes with leather threads that had a bent piece of metal that hooked them over your toes. We had rockets that used a hard plastic rocket (bottle) you filled 1/2 way up with water and then pumped enough air in to shred a car tire. We walked around with silver cowboy pistols that had cap rolls of paper with gunpowder that banged and gave off the wonderful smell. Those rolls were also great when you laid them sideways on the sidewalk and smacked them with a hammer to see how long your ears would ring. We played with mercury bubbles, and filled jars with dry ice to watch them blow. You spent hours on your swing set trying to get high enough to tip it over. Last but not least were ungrounded electric outlets, and telephones that would shoot fire out of the mouthpiece in a lightning storm. THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!
@mikeh8416 Everything you mentioned are fond memories for me. Especially the cap guns. I too enjoyed the smell of the tiny bit of gunpowder. We also rolled them up to get a bigger pop. I had clackers also. They were some deadly toys. Of course, swinging them wildly around people's heads wasn't the smartest move. The 70s was the greatest time in my life. What a shame what the world has become.
The design of Lawn darts were actually used by ancient Roman soldiers the original was called the plumbata!
But the Romans didn't sell it as a toy... Makes you wonder why Mattel didn't sell mini hand granades during the Vietnam war time. With a catchy slogan like "Smoke the VC in your back yard, just like on the battlefield!" 😆
The deal was to buy the 'smoke grenades' and fire crackers sold for July 4th. Pull the wimpy smoker out of the plastic grenade case, insert gravel and the biggest fire cracker and powder from cut firecrackers. Light the fuse and throw it at your friends! Fortunately the plastic shell contained the gravel from flying out like shrapnel.
We had Yard Darts (Jarts)
I have... in the box
Jarts was a brand name;)
I was born in 68 so I’ll be 56 this year. My two older brothers had the lawn darts and we all the clackers. I have three daughters who are grown now but when they were younger my parents bought them the moon shoes for Christmas one year. You know the things you strapped to your feet that looked like little trampolines. Then about 5 years ago I bought one of my grandsons a pogo stick for his birthday but they do really good on designing those now.
10:55 and 11:35 - I remember my younger sister having both of these. And yes, the cabbage patch doll ate her finger once or twice.
Most of the more serious child hood injuries in the late 50's and early 60's came from monkey bars and swing sets that were made of all metal, on the monkey bars you could climb up about ten feet off the ground, which almost always was asphalt so they would be level and not sink into the ground, I know I chipped a front tooth on them, as did several of my friends, but back then kids never wore any safety equipment like kids do today.
Neighborhood kids avoided the arched monkey bars for a while after a girl broke her arm. It was over concrete, so we had to be a bit careful.
Safety features, what was that? Motorcycling without helmets ( ditto bicycling), Tarzan swings, jumping off cliffs into a swimming hole (especially skinny-dipping in the woods), sitting in the back of a station wagon. I'm 65 and I live through my childhood...
As a 90s kid only thing I remember on here was the pogo stick and the cabbage patch kid that used to snap off fingers. And me and friends used to jump off trees unto trampolines too.
Billy was a chemist's son, but Billy is no more.
What he thought was H2O was H2SO4.
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Had a chemistry teacher in high school that I'm pretty sure was a little... off. He'd get out some chemicals and tell us to LEAVE them under the vent hoods; if you wanted to know what they were - WAFT do NOT WHIFF! Well... in his words, "There's always one every year..." Poor girl got a nose full of pure ammonia and then ate the floor. Then there was the guy that was screwing around one class and spilled a cup of toluene on the floor tiles. He had to corral the area and get another chemical poured onto it to prevent it from eating through the floor. XD
@@cybercifrado LOL!!
…..remember when Dan Ackroyd of SNL fame played the shifty, shyster where in a 60 MINUTE skit where 60 Minutes was investigating dangerous toys, and Ackroyd was selling Bag-O-Glass, a plastic bag full of shards of sharp broken glass for $19.99. Claiming it was safe for children from 5 years old to a hundred. It was hilarious…😂
From the maker of the Bass-o-Matic...
Kind of like a toy (on the cartoon Johnny Test) made by the "Wacko Toys" company called "bag-o-tacks"... or another toy of theirs, "don't shock yourself" (a toy that will shock you), or their "toy" called "Left Hook" where it's basically centered around a jack in the box toy that has a left handed boxing glove (instead of a clown head)
@@MrEli768 That's real? Sounds like a Simpsons episode.
When I was a kid... maybe 11 or 12 years old, I made my own blow darts out of sharpened construction nails with a paper cone taped on the end. I stood across the street from my house and blew one through a section of PVC pipe. It hit the garage door with enough force to penetrate half of the nail into the door! When My Dad saw the hole... The pipe and darts were destroyed and I was grounded for a couple of weeks.
My friends got the straws in our high school cafeteria banned... we all had home ec class, the straws were slim enough that you could use straight pins (the needles that have the plastic ball at one end, used to hold stuff together that you intend to sew) as blow guns... you know where it goes from there... now, no one got their eye hit, but you had some explaining to do about all of the red spots you might have gotten, I actually already used to wear took to wearing insulated flannel shirts by then, and when they started that crap, it was a permanent thing I wore because it wasn't just in home ec they did it, it was all the time
I had the mini jigsaw. Radio Shack used to sell electronic kits of radios, robots and other machines that you could build. You had to use a soldering gun to connect circuits. Hobby shops sold wood burners for craving. ✌️
Back around 1980 when I was 12, a friend and I triple bounced his uncle (whom was a Green Beret stationed at Fort Bragg) on the trampoline at a bad angle. It sent him flying off the trampoline into a perfect dive-bomb 20ft out in the yard. It gave him a concussion, broke his jaw and broke his collar bone.
I had the PowerMite workbench with real working (miniature) saw and drill. I loved it because they actually worked. And it wasn't just battery powered, each one had to be plugged in with a miniature electrical plug. I never hurt myself with it though.
Something else I had later that could be considered dangerous was a Mattel Strange Change toy. I got it used at a flea market. It had a red metal base, which plugged in, topped with a plastic chamber. On the side was a small compartment with built in vise. It came with several colored plastic blocks. You put one or more of the blocks in the chamber and turned it on. As it got hot, the block would soften and then unfold into a creature figure, at which point you would use a set of tongs to take it out (because it was HOT!). As it cooled, it would solidify into that shape. Later, you could put the creatures back into the chamber, heat them up, then stuff them into the compartment on the side and tighten the vise to compress them back into seamless plastic blocks. I had a lot of fun with it until the vise broken and I could no longer compress them back into the blocks. It kind of made the rest of it pointless.
Love when the kids participate in reaction videos, love hearing a generation younger than me and their thoughts and perspectives 😂👏🏻🩶
I remember Creepy Crawlers. One of my favorite toys in the 60s along with my Easy Bake Oven. I also had green clackers. I never had one problem, nor did I know of anyone in person or on the news that had injuries. Must not have been massive casualties. Oh! Caps were so fun,as well. Get some caps and a rock and pop them for hrs.
My Clackers were purple and instead of the silver ring mine were older with a 2" wooden dowel Lol Soo much fun!!!❤
We had the JARTS, and I had the Creepy Crawlers as well. I remember they had that goop that came edible as well…😂
Gobbledy goop
Incredible Edibles. They were nasty
@@brendaenglish2477 yes they were….lol
In the 1980s we had a friend that had lawn darts, he would grab all the darts and toss them into the air and scream incoming artillery. We would scramble for sturdy cover. It ended when he put one through his Mom's new mini van wind shield.
I remember playing with the lawn darts every summer when camping with my grandparents. Knowing them it was probably one of the original sets. 😂
As an 80s kid, we did some of the craziest and gnarliest things as kids haha. We would jump off the roof with umbrellas to try and fly lol. That was a bad idea! We would jump off bridges. Another really dumb idea. We also climbed a massive radio tower and we were hundreds of feet in the air and we somehow never got caught.
Holy cow! We had the lawn darts when I was a kid, they were still around when I was a young adult in the 70's.
Oh for sure... they were super popular with people I was around as a kid in the 80s and into the 90s (even though in the 90s they were already banned; there were still millions of sets around to be had and being resold. I still have a set. I find them at garage sales every once and while.
Jarts are always mentioned in these videos. I remember my grandfather and I played with them. He was the fun grandfather type always carefree and up for an adventure but got super serious when we played with Jarts. It was not till years later when I learned just how dangerous they were and remembered how his whole attitude changed when we played a dangerous game. Very strict rules on where to stand while people were throwing, paying attention was critical, and the all clear was it own unique rule. Good times. To his credit no one got hurt while playing the game. My brother and I were shocked when we saw the lists. We could not figure out how people could get hurt. Then we realized his special rules were the reason why we were safe.
Those of us that survived these toys are a tough and imaginative bunch. We learned many things that today's kids just seem to lack. Things like common sense, the ability to duck, first aid, generally the ability to survive. I had a lot of these toys and I'm still here!
Also the ability to not scream or cry which would draw parents out of the house and make you go home 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@TruthIsNotTemporary yea or lose the toy knife etc if they found out we hurt ourselves with it lol.
I had Creepy Crawlers I absolutely loved it it was my favorite toy I was probably around 10 years old or so❤
I had or used a friends version of just about every single one of these. My little cousin lived near a boy who was "hard to handle", probably today's ADHD, maybe a little Bi-Polar, in any case, the boy threw a "Lawn Dart at my little cousin and hit him in the eye. He was hospitalized for several days and has had to wear glasses ever since.
I almost forgot I had the early version of easy bake ovens. It looked like a regular oven, it heated with a 100 watt light bulb. You had to flip the oven door down to open it and reach over to take the still hot baked goods out of it.
Still have the lawn darts and the knockers. Hit myself many times with the knockers, but ti still like them.
Creepy Crawlers was still around in the 90s, I had one as a kid. The fumes were no longer a problem, but, well, you still were messing around with heated metal plates.
I have some friends who were playing with Rollerblade Barbie. (Ages3-7ish) They were playing beauty shop with hairspray. A little while later, the little brother was laying on the floor and his older sister was playing rolling the Barbie across his back. His clothes caught fire. The Barbie was pulled after the company was notified. (If you look up the reason this Barbie was pulled on Google or CZcams, it talks about this instance.)
WOW, cool story, thanks for that- I'm going to look it up, and no doubt get lost down the YT rabbit hole once again!
I actually still have the cabbage patch doll that "ate" the food. The doll has a backpack on and when you lift the flap, there's the hole that the toy food fell though into the bag.
GOT into an argument with my little brother playing Jarts... Before it was over I threw one straight down through the top of his foot and stuck it to the ground... Didn't hit anything vital and he was limping around better than I was sitting for the first few days after... Those were the days, you had to be tough to survive...
My brother got mad at me and threw one at me. I reacted by grabbing it out the air. We then started throwing them toward each other and practiced grabbing them. We never got hurt until our dad caught us!
I had Creepy Crawlers as a kid in the 1960’s. I loved it! Yes, I did burn the hell out of myself but I learned that aluminum mold gets hot.😅
I once owned the Erector set, lawn darts, and I still have my Cylon Raider in its original box. My Grandfather and grandmother had 3 Cabbage Patch dolls in the original boxes when my grandmother passed away in 2010.
I still have scars on my wrist and legs from tripping over a toy metal dump truck when I was a kid in the 1950s. Today I am 74 and toys today are made with child safety in mind. Not then , metal was used due to its longevity. Many toys from then would be outlawed today.
And, yes, I had several Erector sets. Parts were interchangeable and you could add things and make bigger things. All metal with nuts and bolts, screwdrivers and wrench's, (spanners), included. I may even still have an Erector screwdriver around.
still have my lawn dart puncture scar on my ankle!!!
Ouch!
They showed the Slip and Slide in the ending montage, but it should have had its own entry. Lots of spinal injuries resulted from that one due to falls. Plus several people got large cuts from sliding off the tarp and hitting the stakes that held it in place.
Jarts, Creepy Crawlers, Moon Shoes, are some of the things I had. (Sky Dancers were just after my time but my SIL who was younger had some, we still have one of them unopened). But if a kid wants to purposely try fate, they will find a way. I know I tried 😂. Burning and melting legos on lamps, trying to use gasoline to burn a tree to make a camp fire (glad an adult stepped in before I poured gas in the tree and killed it).
My dad still has a set of lawn darts. We bring them out every year when we have BBQs. Nobody has gotten hurt yet 😁
I had Jarts and loved them. Never hit anyone with one. Very fun to play.
The really bizarre thing about the jarts, is that the kit included two colors of darts (three darts each with red fins and with blue fins), and two target hoops. If there's been only one target hoop, some kids might have all stood at one end of their yard and thrown toward the target at the other end, which would've been somewhat safer. But no, there were two target hoops, so *of course* everybody set the hoops up at opposite ends of the yard, and each kid or group of kids would stand by one of the hoops and throw their darts toward the other hoop. That way after you'd thrown all three, you didn't have to run to the other end of the yard to retrieve them. You could just pick up the ones your opponent had thrown, and throw those. This was so much more convenient, as long as you didn't mind standing right next to a target hoop while weighted spikes were being lobbed in its general direction.
The uranium wasn't weapons-grade (enriched) uranium. It was just natural mined uranium, i.e., about 99% of it was the stable isotope. Granted, the remaining 1% is still sufficiently radioactive that it really really should not have been in a child's toy.
My oldest sister begged my mother for a skateboard. Somewhere in the mid-1970's, mom finally capitulated and bought her one. On her literal first ride down the driveway, she fell and broke her arm. The skateboard was thrown out and my sister was in a cast all summer!
I had Clackers (I'm an 80's kid), a pogo stick, Jarts, woodburning kit. I'm sure there were a few other things my older brother and I had that weren't on here, that we had. LOL
I'm 40. I played with lawn darts. I loved my creepy crawlers oven toy. I don't think there was so much harm in learning to respect ovens or heavy objects (the lawn darts were weighted). We also had a wood burning kit for making art on balsa wood with a searing hot pen.
You mentioned trampolines. I cracked a rib wrestling on a trampoline and never told anyone until I was an adult.
I’m now 67. I absolutely loved my creepy crawler set!
I had an archery set that I would shoot the arrows up in the air, fly over my yard, my neighbors house and into the woods just beyond. Then I'd go get them, locating them imbedded in trees, the ground, etc.
Yeah, that's a war tactic that an archer division would use to annihilate infantry...
Had lawn darts, clackers and pogo sticks. Never had an incident with the darts but my clackers, which were red by the way, did shatter when I was playing with them. No injuries sustained. Now the pogo stick was different. We bounced up and down on those things, repeatedly falling off so we tried to bounce close to the grass so it wouldn't hurt so much when we hit the ground. It's a good thing kids bones are made of rubber!😊
We had fantastic toys in the 1960s and 70s. I remember getting a BB rifle and slingshots and smoke bombs and firecrackers and a mini bike just to name a few❤
Can't forget about the m-80s and the bottle rockets and then also turning my bicycle into a chopper and my older sister who was probably 13 years old at the time painting on the back of my bicycle fender Hells Angels with flames. I thought it was so cool 🤔😆😆
We had all of the above with no difficulties but managed to burn down a tree in the neighbor’s orchard with one of those little black pellets that were, I think, called snakes.
@@Llabrickitw I use to love the black ash snakes that you would light up. I had many boxes of them in the late 60s and early 70s.
Blew my mind when I saw the Creepy Crawler plastic mold set. I had completely forgot I had that as a kid and that brought back some long-lost memories lol. Crazy...
The good old days.
I'm 61, clackers were all over the recess playground when I was in the 3rd grade circa 1970. Never quite caught the hang of getting them to hit at the top and bottom of the arc, but the kids who were good at it could make them blur like an airplane's propeller arc. 😮
We had Jarts and never had an issue! However, we were playing with regular darts at my aunt's and uncle's house when I was maybe 8 to 10 (1970-72)? My brother threw a dart, and it went in my arm!
I just took it out and told him what a jerk he was. We never even *told* the adults! Kids these days are such wimps.
I have to say that my grandpa had a set of lawn darts. I played many times with family members. They were a blast. The danger was part of the fun. 😂😂😂
"I want one" in the thumb nail 😂
We had Jarts. My best friend and I vs 2 other friends from school were playing. One of the other friends threw one too hard while my friend and I were talking and not paying attention. The Jart went through my friend's foot. It stuck about 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch into his foot. The hospital fixed it but he was limping around all summer long. Did we learn our lesson? Nah! We still played, but we payed attention from then on.
I’ve played with yard darts, really had to watch out for when they went errant
So scary!
@@yournewzealandfamily thankfully I never got by one.
On a different note, toy guns used to not have an orange muzzle to indicate that it was fake. My dad used to run around with cap revolvers, pretending to be a cowboy (this was in the 60s)
I think those things were called LAWN DARTS and my father-in-law bought them for my kids and they scared the he'll out of me that I had to hide them and told my kids that someone came in the yard and stole them....
@@normanwyatt8761 I’ve heard lawn darts, long darts, etc. they’re all the same really
We still have a set of jarts... Most of us who grew up in the 80s and even 90s played with jarts. And at least the dumb groups of friends would toss them high into the air and then dodge them as they came back down; it was a fun game and I only remember one of my group getting slightly injured. LOL. Jarts were very popular. Even today I know many people who have kept their sets and still play.
I had a geology kit in the 60s. It had sulfuric acid to test certain types of rock. I had lawn darts too. You have to be really stupid to get hurt. Basically you had to actually throw one at someone. I had clackers too. It shattered a couple of weeks after I got one.
We made up our own game with lawn darts. You’d stand still and try to throw the dart straight up and not flinch, look up or move. Of course your friend would warn you if they thought you were going to get hit, but the point of the game was to see who could throw it closest to oneself and still stick to the rules. It was unnerving to stand still, not looking up, which was almost impossible and have one of those thump into the earth inches from your foot. Even we thought it was a bad idea after a while. Suburban, pre-teen, front yard, brave, Russian roulette! Childhood was very different in the late 60’s to early 70’s. We were like pirates on the loose with our bicycles, going everywhere. Our play and games always had to have an element of danger or it wasn’t worth doing. It was always competitive between us, who could outdo each other was King Kid status until the next winner was crowned. Bleeding and crying were always a part of having fun or you weren’t doing it hard enough. Like I said, we were pirates! 🏴☠️
(Everyone survived)
It was a blast!
We knew how to have fun.
Brings back memories! I love your videos. Love from Texas USA!
We used to stand around and throw the lawn darts in the air above us and see who didn't get killed by said darts when they came down. Yes the 70s was an interesting time indeed.
Hello from Park Forest Illinois a south suburb of Chicago God blessed this lovely family
Cool I love Chicago suburbs!
@@FyfFyd-wu2jpMay I ask where you are from
When I turned 12 yrs old I was able to get my own hobby trap line up in northern Manitoba, Canada. I had all different sizes of leg hold traps and conibears, my own .22 cal rifle and my own snowmobile. My area was about 100 square miles. Dad came out with me and my friend the first couple of times to show us areas to avoid and how to set the traps, then we were on our own the rest of the winter. Toys ......pfft.
Cap Guns. Loved them.
My brother and I had the Thing Maker. We loved it. When we ran out of the liquid stuff that came with it we just used whatever we had laying around, lead, plastic,etc. I took a bunch of the little plastic bugs we made to school and sold them to my classmates. I had a pretty good bug business going until a teacher caught me and confiscated my inventory.
Left handed Tennessee guy checking in!!
Always great to see you Jerry!
What kind of witchcraft let you write with your left hand?
One toy I have that was banned for a non-dangerous reason is a bicycle mounted siren that you would put on the front fork of your bike frame, and you could engage and disengage the siren with a little chain. They were around from the 1910’s until the 1960’s when they were banned because they sounded too similar to actual police sirens at the time, and they haven’t been brought back since.
I was seriously injured on a trampolene. I shattered my sternum and broke several ribs on both sides of my ribcage. It probably should have killed me and I was an adult when it happened.
Lets be fair. Jarts really are not bad if used properly. I mean simply don't throw them at toward someone and you are fine. Jarts are sort of the equivalent to the archery sets that are still very much available. The arrows that come with these sets generally have blunt ends to hit paper or vinyl targets backed with hay bails but they seriously injure or kill a kid if their friend shoots it at them, depending how fast its traveling and the part of the body it hits especially the eye.
0 views and 29 likes? CZcams is drunk.
Ummmm wtf does that even mean?
@@brandonnavarro4876 It means that CZcams showed that there was 0 views but also showed that it had 29 likes so I decided to comment a joke about it.
@@FyfFyd-wu2jp it means the videos come out early for patreon members. That's what that means
Who cares! Enjoy the video now.
I had a wood-burning art kit that came with basically a handheld Electric soldering iron. I put a blister on my thumb half the size of the pad. It only happened once though, I am 66 years old and I can still hear the skin sizzle. I immediately stuck my thumb in my iced tea and did not tell my parents because I knew they would probably take the toy away from me. LOL😅
I could pogo stick without holding the handle bars and holding the stick together with my knees. Fun times😂
I legit had a tool set when I was 5 that a real saw in it. Lol I also played yard darts! Nothing like kids slinging giant darts at each other! Lol, those were the days. Great video guys.