24 Christmas Toys That Would NEVER Be Allowed Today

Twenty-four toys that arrived on American Christmas mornings between the late 1950s and the early 1980s, every one of them impossible to sell today in the shape it came in.The Easy-Bake Oven that ran on a 100-watt light bulb. The Thingmaker hot plate that sat open on the kitchen table at around 390 degrees. Clackers, pulled from shelves after a federal warning in 1971. The die-cast cap pistol, ended by a marking law in 1988. The Johnny Seven One Man Army, the best-selling boys' toy in America in 1964. Lawn darts, banned outright on December 19, 1988, with families asked to destroy the sets already sitting in their garages.Each one is told the way we met it, with the joy first and the hazard afterward, because the design of these things assumed a child could be trusted to work it out. Printed in the corner of almost every box, in type the size of a fingernail, were four words. Ages 8 and Up.Resources used in this video:https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-II/subchapter-B/part-1306https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/1988/CPSC-Votes-Lawn-Dart-Banhttps://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/1989/CPSC-Votes-Final-Ban-On-Lawn-Dartshttps://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/1997/Following-Recent-Injury-CPSC-Reissues-Warning-Lawn-Darts-Are-Banned-and-Should-Be-Destroyedhttps://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/5053.pdfhttps://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1985/dangerous-toys-seized-by-us-marshal-in-phoenixhttps://www.cpsc.gov/Business--Manufacturing/Business-Education/Business-Guidance/Toy-Lookalike-Imitation-Firearmhttps://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:15+section:5001+edition:prelim)https://law.justia.com/cfr/title15/15-3.1.3.7.1.htmlhttps://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/05/11/2023-09999/marking-of-toy-look-alike-and-imitation-firearmshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-the-chemistry-set-70359831/https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/chemistry-at-play/https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/cyanide-uranium-and-ammonium-nitrate-when-kids-really-had-fun-with-science/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-the-easy-bake-oven-an-appliance-that-allowed-kids-to-heat-treats-with-a-light-bulb-revolutionized-the-toy-industry-180988181/https://www.deseret.com/2011/9/14/20215950/easy-bake-loses-its-bulb-with-100-watt-phase-out/https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/easy-bake-oven-loses-lightbulb-in-redesign-1.1010107https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy-Bake_Ovenhttps://toytales.ca/thingmaker-from-mattel-1964/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thingmakerhttps://clickamericana.com/topics/featured/thingmaker-mattel-vintage-toy-with-plastigoophttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackershttps://clickamericana.com/toys-and-games/clicker-clacker-toys-70shttps://qz.com/871228/clacker-popular-toy-recalled-because-it-explodeshttps://www.museumofplay.org/blog/sixfinger-sixfinger-man-alive-how-did-i-ever-get-along-with-five/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMAhttps://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1247520https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vac-U-Formhttps://www.samstoybox.com/toys/Vac-U-Form.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Change_Machinehttps://toytales.ca/strange-change-machine-from-mattel-1968/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incredible_Edibleshttps://nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/toys-games/incredible-edibles/https://www.samstoybox.com/toys/IncredibleEdibles.htmlhttps://toytales.ca/suzy-homemaker-super-safety-oven-from-topper-toys-1966/https://clickamericana.com/toys-and-games/who-is-suzy-homemaker-1966https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzy_Homemakerhttps://toytales.ca/air-blaster-from-whamo-1963/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wham-Ohttps://www.hakes.com/Category/REMCO__JOHNNY_REB___THE_AUTHENTIC_CIVIL_WAR_CANNON-LOT60954.aspxhttps://www.timewarptoys.com/toptoys.htmhttps://theswca.com/textf/toydeath.htmlhttps://www.samstoybox.com/toys/LeadSoldierCasting.htmlhttps://doctomstoys.com/home-casting/https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-worlds-most-dangerous-toy-editionhttps://www.goretro.com/2016/12/before-3d-printers-there-was-mattels.htmlhttps://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/fun-and-uranium-for-the-whole-family-in-this-1950s-science-kithttps://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/toys/gilbert-u-238-atomic-energy-lab.html