# World's most dangerous toys **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049 "2008-11-30T14:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/1 "2008-11-30T14:20:27Z")
Over in the Game Room, one of the Daily Feuds was about toys. Lawn Darts was the number one most dangerous toy. According to [Radar’s most dangerous toys](http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/12/toys.php) they’re only number 2. Those Chinese GHB ladened decorative dots wins the day. The most dangerous toy I’ve ever played with didn’t make either list. [I loved my click clacks.](http://www.retroland.com/pages/retropedia/toys/item/6204/) They were pretty and loud and I could get them flying. I shattered two pair before they could no longer be found made of glass. The plastic ones that replaced the glass sucked. Not only did the shatter, they were also hard as a, well, solid glass ball. I suffered the bruises without comment. It was part of the game. Have you ever put your life on the line in order to have fun as a kid? P.S. I can’t believe the nuclear lab set wasn’t placed much higher. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/2 "2008-11-30T14:26:30Z")
Glass? Despite the claims of the site Click clacks were made of a hard acrylic type plastic not glass. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/3 "2008-11-30T14:28:11Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Glass? Despite the claims of the site Click clacks were made of a hard acrylic type plastic not glass. They were like gigantic marbles on a string and they were the coolest, most beautiful thing ever! ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/4 "2008-11-30T14:32:43Z")
The amount of Click Clacks I’ve seen tangled around telephone wires indicates clearly how dangerous this toy was. Either that, or the owners parents were doing it to get rid of them. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/5 "2008-11-30T19:02:15Z")
Definitely chemistry sets! How was I possibly allowed to “play” with this thing, unsupervised at the age of 8 or so? I, too, was nearly decapitated by a lawn dart. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/6 "2008-11-30T19:25:47Z")
Uh, woodburning kit anyone? [http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Deluxe-Activity-Sets-07797/dp/B00000JB9M/ref=pd\_bbs\_sr\_6?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1228073094&sr=8-6](http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Deluxe-Activity-Sets-07797/dp/B00000JB9M/ref=pd_bbs_sr_6?ie=UTF8&s=toys-and-games&qid=1228073094&sr=8-6) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/7 "2008-11-30T19:30:12Z")
My ex brother-in-law had a giant, tangled ball of click-clacks. It was the size of a basketball, and anyone who was bored would sit down and attempt to free a single set of click-clacks from the ball. I don’t remember anyone ever succeeding. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/8 "2008-11-30T20:54:36Z")
Remember those bow and arrow sets with the suction dart tip? How long did it take your older brother to figure out; that you could pull that tip off, and the sharpen the end with a pencil sharpener and go little brother hunting? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/9 "2008-11-30T21:01:48Z")
[Battlestar Galactica spaceships from Mattel](http://www.battlestargalactica.com/toys/toys_0002.htm). So many children ate the missiles, causing injury and death, that Mattel had to [recall and redesign the toys](http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml79/79001.html). [This collection](http://theswca.com/textf/toydeath.html) of papers regarding the controversy features a bizarre line in a lawsuit against Mattel: “the [spaceship] toy is shaped in such a fashion to be very similar to a penis which almost beckons small children to put it near their mouth…” Who filed this lawsuit, Sigmund Freud? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/10 "2008-11-30T21:10:34Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > [“the [spaceship] toy is shaped in such a fashion to be very similar to a penis which almost beckons small children to put it near their mouth…” Who filed this lawsuit, Sigmund Freud? Holy mackerel, that’s weird. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/11 "2008-11-30T21:14:19Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > : “the [spaceship] toy is shaped in such a fashion to be very similar to a penis which almost beckons small children to put it near their mouth…” Who filed this lawsuit, Sigmund Freud? Maybe Kirk Cameron. “See, dear? God designed it perfectly to put in you mouth.” ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/12 "2008-11-30T21:28:45Z")
I know from experience that a Stretch Armstrong doll, when stretched across a room by two people, can snap back with ferocity when one person lets go. That hurt like hell. Any kind of fireworks, really, but bottle rockets especially. I mean, who didn’t enjoy a good game of bottle rocket “tag” , holding glass Coke bottles to aim the rockets at your buddies? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/13 "2008-11-30T22:22:38Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I mean, who didn’t enjoy a good game of bottle rocket “tag” , holding glass Coke bottles to aim the rockets at your buddies? Wimp. We lit them at threw them at each other. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/14 "2008-11-30T22:52:28Z")
Wuss. We held them until they flew out of our hands. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/15 "2008-11-30T22:54:09Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Wimp. > We lit them at threw them at each other. > 🙂 Naw, we used the Black Cats for throwin’ at each other. Bottle rockets were for _shootin’_ at each other. More than once I had a firecracker with a quick fuse go off in my hand, so watch who you’re calling a wimp! :tosses lit M-80 at carnivorousplant: ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/16 "2008-11-30T23:00:07Z")
Yeah, remember _those_? For years, kids would blow their fingers _off_ and the parents went 'Meh, dumbass…😕 ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/17 "2008-12-01T01:22:53Z")
I remember many a finger singeing from the old Creepy Crawler sets. The only childhood toy I really miss. ---
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/18 "2008-12-01T02:17:59Z")
When I was about 6 or 7 years old (around 1974) the kids who used to live upstairs had this game that was discontinued or recalled. The basic premise was that there was this arm on a spring that held a pie pan and it would pivot around the board and stop on someone and then “sproing!” release and hit someone in the face with a pie. Now, the makers of the game realized that you wouldn’t make pies all the time to play this game so they recommended you fill the pie tin with shaving cream in order to make it look like a pie. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/19 "2008-12-01T02:54:05Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Glass? Despite the claims of the site Click clacks were made of a hard acrylic type plastic not glass. Nuh uh. Mine were glass, and had the flying shards of death to prove it. Have you a cite that says otherwise? My recollection is that the acryllic version came later (probably after a series of lawsuits). And **Fetchund** has mentioned my other most favorite most dangerous toy: Creepy Crawlers. (Hey, let’s give our 7-year-old an open hot plate to play with!) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/20 "2008-12-01T02:54:10Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Wuss. We held them until they flew out of our hands. Well, it _was_ my high school graduation party, and there was a very _small_ amount of beer involved. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049.md?page=2)