# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![gurujulp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ba9def/32.png) [@gurujulp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gurujulp)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/41 "2008-12-01T20:18:52Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Well, I think you see the problem here. If there were a _large_ amount of beer involved, you would have been able to hold the rockets until the engines ignited. I have a video that shows someone putting one in their @$$- but it was emailed, not online, so I don’t have a link- if you want it, pm or email me. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/42 "2008-12-01T20:19:45Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Some other kid had that, but we all had different Thing Makers. Creepy Crawlers were just one set. I definitely had the Fright Factory, Mini-Dragons, and Creeple Peeple. I remember some of the others (Giant Creepy Crawlers, Fighting Men, Fun Flowers), but probably didn’t own them personally. I also had Incredible Edibles (which used “Gobble-De-Goop” instread of Plastigoop). ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/43 "2008-12-01T20:41:10Z")
You guys were so lucky to have all those cool toys! All we had were aerosol cans, matches and gasoline. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/44 "2008-12-01T20:43:25Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I definitely had the Fright Factory, Mini-Dragons, and Creeple Peeple. I remember some of the others (Giant Creepy Crawlers, Fighting Men, Fun Flowers), but probably didn’t own them personally. I also had Incredible Edibles (which used “Gobble-De-Goop” instread of Plastigoop). I had the set that had some from every set. Somebody else had Incredible Edibles. They also had the toy that shaped Tootsie Roll Flavor Rolls. You could buy refill packs. A couple years latter the Flavor Rolls were in the candy section. They had a grape flavor I wish was in the current ones. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/45 "2008-12-01T20:46:38Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > They also had the toy that shaped Tootsie Roll Flavor Rolls. [Toot Sweet](http://www.timewarptoys.com/toot.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/46 "2008-12-01T20:47:13Z")
It wasn’t technically a toy, but as teenagers we played tag with bb guns. We’d don several sweatshirts, gloves, goggles and a minibike helmet, load up, and run around the backyard firing at each other. Good times. ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/47 "2008-12-01T21:17:43Z")
Nobody has mentioned cap pistols yet. And caps. Take one big red roll of caps, a hammer and a brick and BOOM! er what did you say??? ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/48 "2008-12-01T22:31:26Z")
Dang, I was going to mention cap guns. And yes, we also abused the cap rolls with a hammer. We also had the creepy crawlers and my parents also allowed my brother and me to have bottle rockets at around age nine. Lawn darts were also a favorite of ours. Clearly safety was not a huge issue with my parents. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/49 "2008-12-01T22:48:13Z")
> [@SpectBrain](#): > > Nobody has mentioned cap pistols yet. And caps. Take one big red roll of caps, a hammer and a brick and BOOM! > > er what did you say??? You can do that with packs of paper matches too, with the extra added bonus that they tend to fragment on impact and throw burning sulphur. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/50 "2008-12-01T22:52:31Z")
I remember taking those red, white and blue boxes of caps and hitting the entire box with a hammer. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/51 "2008-12-01T22:58:17Z")
Model. Airplane. Glue. ---
**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 2, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/52 "2008-12-02T00:23:46Z")
Burning model airplanes. I’d forgotten. I was annoyed that if you unrolled caps and set them on fire, the first explosion blew the burning part off and extinguished the roll. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/53 "2008-12-02T00:32:50Z")
Ahhh, firewoks, BB guns and models. My Dad once built a really cool model ship, he spent hours and hours on the rigging, ropes, etc. It took him almost a month to finish it. One day not too long after he completed it, a friend suggested we take it out to this little pond nearby, where we proceeded to bomb it with cherry bombs and shoot it with BB’s until we finally sank it. For us, it was a major vistory over those imaginary pirates. My father was, ah, less than amused. Needless to say, I had trouble sitting for a couple days! ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/54 "2008-12-02T01:35:14Z")
> [@MonkeyMensch](#): > > In my mind it’s [Agent Zero-M’s Sonic Blaster](http://gizmodo.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/06/196601.jpg). My older brother got one in 1964 for Christmas and got to fire it inside the house exactly once. > > Typical use scenario: > Firer, “Listen to this guys!” > KABOOOM! > Guys, “Wow, my ears are ringing! That was really loud!” > Firer, “Wha?” > > You have to love the way it was designed to fire from the shoulder so it’s actually pressed against your ear when in use. Quickly pulled and now dearly prized by collectors the sound level has been measured at over 150 dBa. That is just friggin awesome. I had a chemistry set. I mixed everything that said “Flammable” together and was very disappointed when it didn’t explode. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/55 "2008-12-02T01:49:16Z")
[Obligatory Onion article.](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28331) [And another.](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28681) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![crypto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/56 "2008-12-02T01:51:31Z")
Good memories from some of these toys! My first answer was in the op, the glass (or hard acrylic) Click-Clacks. I loved those things. My brother and I had a set and his was purple glitter, and mine was blue. His blew up into a million pieces, and mom decided that was enough. But, no harm done. But I hit myself a number of times while practicing with those things. No different than a yo-yo in terms of skull pain on a failed around the world trick. Shrinky Dinks was another that was already mentioned. Are those still made? I know they made a comeback after they died, so I assumed they somehow made those safer, but I had my share of burn scars from those damn plastic things… Nothing greater than a toy that requires a kid to play with an oven! The fireworks that I remember most fondly I believe were called Roman Candles, although I could be wrong. They were tubes that fired about 10 glowing objects in the air, but we held them and shot them at each other. I still don’t know what was in those things or what would have happened if we actually hit each other. After the parents saw that, we had a heavy dose of sparklers… One sad note: I had a classmate die from getting hit in the head with a lawn dart. I still can’t believe they pulled them off the market, because a kid can die falling off of a bike, and accidents can happen with just about anything… but the occasional death does happen. I imagine getting clunked in the head with a horse shoe could kill you too. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/57 "2008-12-02T02:35:24Z")
> [@SpectBrain](#): > > Nobody has mentioned cap pistols yet. And caps. Take one big red roll of caps, a hammer and a brick and BOOM! Wimp. We soaked the roll in gasoline first. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/58 "2008-12-02T02:53:20Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > Wuss. We held them until they flew out of our hands. We would throw bottle rockets, but we would hold roman candles to shoot at each other. For that matter we used to have BB Gun fights! ---
**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 2, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/59 "2008-12-02T03:03:00Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > We would throw bottle rockets, but we would hold roman candles to shoot at each other. Elitist. We couldn’t afford Roman candles. Bottle rockets were a dime a dozen on July 5th. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/60 "2008-12-02T03:55:39Z")
You know, here in NH anyone can buy fireworks the size of a milk crate which are capable of launching multiple flaming projectiles into low earth orbit. But you can’t buy bottle rockets. Go figure. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049.md?page=4)