Top 10 Worst Toys

[Dubh Aingeal]

An article at the Radar lists the ten most dangerous toys of all time, those treasured playthings that drew blood, chewed digits, took out eyes, and, in one case, actually irradiated. To keep things interesting, the editors excluded BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm.

10. Fisherprice Power Wheels Motorcycles

9. Battlestar Galactica Missle Launcher

8. Johnny Reb Cannon

7. Creepy Crawlers

6. Bat Masterson Derringer Belt Gun

5. Sky Dancers

4. Snacktime Cabbage Patch Dolls

3. Mini Hammocks from EZ Sales

2. Gilbert u238 Atomic Energy Lab

1. Lawn Darts

Honorable Mention - Manley Toys Disco Light

[BrassFusion]

5. Sky Dancers

On or about my second day at work, some lady asked if we had them... "those dolls that spin and fly around."

I kinda boggled and said "Sky Dancers?? I thought those were recalled a few years ago... something about poking out the eyes of children..."

"Yeah, that's it. Do you carry those?"

The scariest part is... we do.

[HipsterDufus]

lmfao. That was hilarious. Particularly the part about the finger eating cabbage patch doll from hell.

[pomba gira]

Those Sky Dancer things look cool... where can I buy one? The cap gun belt buckle's pretty sweet, too. Bet those go for a nice chunk of change on the collectibles market.

My brother & I had several Thingmaker variants (including the "Incredible Edibles" one).. they were helly fun. You knew it was hot so you were careful & only got the occasional superficial burn. Of course back then parents didn't flip out & run screaming to the nearest lawyer anytime their kid got a scratch, either.

The one plaything I remember as really scary was this fancy trike thing, kind of like a metal BigWheel with a stick shift & more elaborate rear end, called the Vrroom X-15 or something like that. It weighed a ton & had all kind of sharp corners & edges... suffice it to say, there are very good reasons why they don't make many toys out of sheet metal nowadays. It had some stability issues too, resulting in frequent wipeouts in which you got squashed & cut by the thing as well as bruised & abraded by the pavement. Never knew anyone else who had one, so gods only know where my daddy picked it up. He thought it looked well-made... heh.