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Jeez...I know I should stop starting threads, but this was too good to pass up:

http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/2006/12/toys.php

I'm rather happy a person stupid enough to fire a toy missile into his mouth will not be contributing to the gene pool.

link (http://www.surplusandoutdoors.com/ishop/877/shopscr60.html)

I can't believe I missed out on Johnny Reb Cannon.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: we should have dropped lawn darts on Baghdad.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: we should have dropped lawn darts on Baghdad.

Take some of the terrorist out the first time around, and then just encourage them to play with the darts. :D

#9 is hilarious.

Take some of the terrorist out the first time around, and then just encourage them to play with the darts. :D

Exactly, the Iraqis can stand up armed with their backyard doom-bringers, and the US can stand down.

You know, these toys did serve a function. They cleaned out the gene pool.

I'm sure I've seen an article like this one in The Onion.

I'm rather happy a person stupid enough to fire a toy missile into his mouth will not be contributing to the gene pool.

Yeah. Small children and toddlers should know better.

:rolleyes:

Yeah. Small children and toddlers should know better.

:rolleyes:

Or rather the parents who should be teaching and watching the small children and toddlers.

Or rather the parents who should be teaching and watching the small children and toddlers.

Exactly...

OMGZ!!!! I have the light orb! I'm doomed!!!! :eek: :rolleyes:

OMGZ!!!! I have the light orb! I'm doomed!!!! :eek: :rolleyes:

My sister had those sky-dancer things, we never got hurt. Although my mom did take them away after one put a hole in the drywall.

Or rather the parents who should be teaching and watching the small children and toddlers.

Either way really. Same genepool.

There was nothing dangerous about that Battlestar rocketlauncher, and I have no sympathy for stupidity, or for parents who sue because the barrel-shaped object was attractive to the mouth of their little brat.

Pray for Coal who would do that not me

i can just hurt someone with coal as with a toy

Either way really. Same genepool.

There was nothing dangerous about that Battlestar rocketlauncher, and I have no sympathy for stupidity, or for parents who sue because the barrel-shaped object was attractive to the mouth of their little brat.

Really, and let's be honest if the child was stupid enough to put a toy down his throat, and then fire off a missile, he would've done the same thing with a BB gun.

Although my mom did take them away after one put a hole in the drywall.

Whoa! Luckily it was the drywall and not someone's eyeball! :eek:

Whoa! Luckily it was the drywall and not someone's eyeball! :eek:

No kidding, those things were like the manhacks from half-life.



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Yeah. Small children and toddlers should know better.

:rolleyes:

Meh, as a small child I didn't go on suicidal toy rampages. Though I was a bright young one, I suppose.
My sister had those sky-dancer things, we never got hurt. Although my mom did take them away after one put a hole in the drywall.

I had one of those thingies that were like the sky-dancers, but marketed at boys. I can't remember for the life of me what they were called.

The 'Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab' ?!?!!?

Aww man, I wish I was a kid in the 50's.

The 'Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab' ?!?!!?

Aww man, I wish I was a kid in the 50's.

Bleh, U-238 isn't dangerous unless you eat it or otherwise ingest it. Giving the sample ores to kids is very questionable, but you can still buy spinthariscopes and the like.

Pray for Coal who would do that not me

i can just hurt someone with coal as with a toy

I've never met anyone who understands.

I've never met anyone who understands.

i know both meanings of the coal story

i'am just saying i can just throw it at a person

Jeez...I know I should stop starting threads, but this was too good to pass up:

http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/2006/12/toys.php

I'm rather happy a person stupid enough to fire a toy missile into his mouth will not be contributing to the gene pool.

But..but...lawn darts are so fun!
edit: 400th post!!!!! Yea-uhzzz!

I can't believe I missed out on Johnny Reb Cannon.
Best advert ever.

I want a Johnny Reb Cannon

I had one of those thingies that were like the sky-dancers, but marketed at boys. I can't remember for the life of me what they were called.

My brother had a GI Joe helicopter that was very similar. I have two feint scars on both cheeks from when the thing slashed me across the face.

Apparently sharpening the blades is a bad idea..

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/7b54/

Bend over.

Oh god. Number 10 almost made me shoot Coke out of my nose.

Jeez...I know I should stop starting threads, but this was too good to pass up:

http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/2006/12/toys.php

I'm rather happy a person stupid enough to fire a toy missile into his mouth will not be contributing to the gene pool.


The mental images that " In 2000, the CPSC announced that over 150 children fell prey to Sky Dancer's helicopter-blade arms and erratic "Oh-Jesus-it's-chasing-me!" flying patterns " conjure have had me loling for the last few.

http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/2006/12/johnny_reb_cannon.php

I wonder how much these go for on eBay.

http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/2006/12/johnny_reb_cannon.php

I wonder how much these go for on eBay.

Not there. I just checked.

I remember sky dancers! My neighbour had one. They were good fun; one of the only toys that promised to stay in the air for a few seconds that actually did. The foam wings didn't hurt if you got hit by them; it was the stupid plastic dancer that hurt like hell. But, seriously, surely hurling any object could damage/remove someone's eye? You just had to watch where you pulled the string to let the sky dancer spin.

Come to think of it a neighbour of mine had a power wheels motorcycle. Man that kid was annoying. Come to think of it I haven't seen him in a while...

Me and my brother had some form of those sky dancing things. Some blue cool lookin' dudes. :cool: