These playthings are all gone due to safety issues, but me and my gang all somehow managed to survive them; and we had a lot of fun with them too in the days when all us kids in the 60

Wrist Rocket sling shot: More powerful than a Wham-O sling shot(I still have 1 of those). It used surgical rubber tubing instead of the weaker flat rubber strap. It also has a bracket that rests on your wrist for more accuracy and power.  could shoot a 1/2" steel ball bearing through a 1" wodden door with that thing. Both the Wrist Rocket & Wham-O came with an arrow guide for even more lethal fun.

Those Kabangers were pretty dangerous! You had to hold then as far away from you as possible so as to avoid being hit in the head!

How about "pick up sticks". Those plastic sticks that you could put someones eye out with!  :D
Metal trucks and cars with sharp edges and the metal dollhouse I used to have.

Seems like they replaced most of the metal stuff with plastic.  :(  I just love the look of the old metal toys, and I doubt if anyone died from playing with one.  :-\\

Jonny six finger was kind of dangerous as you could shoot any projectile out of the fake "six finger" such as bobby pins, match sticks etc..Superlastic bubble plastic had such a strong chemical smell I couldn't imagine it being good to inhale. Creepy crawlers had that little metal mold that had to heat up enough to melt plastic or sear the flesh off of little fingers. I used to love the water rockets, my friends and I would stand a yard apart and duel it out with em'. Luckily we were poor shots.

How about letting kids have a go at creating mayhem with those
CHEMISTRY SETS
that naive parents used to get for kids?

Didn't anyone of you have a BB gun,  Or Estes model rockets with the chemical engines? One of our great feats of young engineering was taking a Big Bertha model rocket & adapting it for the big D size engines. It went so high we couldn't see the big orange recovery chute when it deployed! It took a minute or more before we could spot it and start chasing it down. Too bad we didn't live close to an airport!    w

Jonny six finger was kind of dangerous as you could shoot any projectile out of the fake "six finger" such as bobby pins, match sticks etc..Superlastic bubble plastic had such a strong chemical smell I couldn't imagine it being good to inhale. Creepy crawlers had that little metal mold that had to heat up enough to melt plastic or sear the flesh off of little fingers. I used to love the water rockets, my friends and I would stand a yard apart and duel it out with em'. Luckily we were poor shots.
I had Fun Flowers with the "thingmaker" that heated up like the Creepy Crawler molds...my Mom and Dad gave it to me for Christmas yet they NEVER let me use it at all....I was stuck with OVERPROTECTIVE parents who were too dam DRUNK to supervise me playing with it...so why did they get me the dam toy?

Remember when toy irons could really heat up?  My Suzy Homemaker Iron did! There was also the Suzy Homemaker vacuum cleaner that really worked...and the Suzy Homemaker washing machine also really washed your doll's clothes(You had to fill it up with tap water though)!

Okay..how about Easy-Bake Ovens! One could get a nasty burn if you handled the tiny cake pans without potholders!

How about letting kids have a go at creating mayhem with those
CHEMISTRY SETS
that naive parents used to get for kids?


Forgot all about them!! We used to heat up a bunch of chemicals over the alcohol burner just to fill the basement up with vast quantities of noxious smoke and fumes in order to mask the cigarettes we were smoking!!

Didn't anyone of you have a BB gun,  Or Estes model rockets with the chemical engines? One of our great feats of young engineering was taking a Big Bertha model rocket & adapting it for the big D size engines. It went so high we couldn't see the big orange recovery chute when it deployed! It took a minute or more before we could spot it and start chasing it down. Too bad we didn't live close to an airport!    w
 

An Estes Rocket almost killed my Bud. We used to play with my dads gunpowder (he re-loaded his own shotgun shells) Well, we tried to make our own engine since a buck for three was alot of money back then. We sawed the tip off an empty CO2 bb gun cartridge in order to make the hole a little bigger so we could fill it with gun powder. We put tape around it so that it fit snugly into the rocket. We always used ignition cord (the stuff m-80 fuses are made from) to ignite the engine; so..... our homemade engine was in actuallity a small pipe bomb. We couldn't even find the schrapnell after the explosion, but were lucky it didn't lodge in one of our heads. After this however, we moved on from rockets to junoir demolitionsts making all sorts of pipe bombs!