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Did anybody have one of those little spinning wheels? I had one and loved it but never did anything useful with the knitted product. The instruction page in the box showed pictures of all kinds of cool things you could make, like mittens, hats and scarves but I never figured out how to do that. Loved making those braids, though, as useless as they were.
Did anybody have one of those little spinning wheels? I had one and loved it but never did anything useful with the knitted product. The instruction page in the box showed pictures of all kinds of cool things you could make, like mittens, hats and scarves but I never figured out how to do that. Loved making those braids, though, as useless as they were.
LOL, we would set them up in various formations and shoot our BB guns at them and throw Black Cat firecrackers as "explosive ordinance", LOL.
I had such a FUN childhood.
Some of those army men were cheap, weren't they ? They wouldn't stand up because a flaw in the mold gave them a heavy tumor on one side. We used those for casualties, usually decapitated them by chewing off their noggins.
One time we had this aunt staying with us that wore these thick Coke-bottle lensed glasses, she hovered around the table at dinner time making sure we all ate our vegetables. While sweeping the living room she kept finding the heads from our army men and showed them to our mom and accused me and my brother of not eating our peas.
I remember those plastic rubber toy bakers. I think they were called Creepy Crawler makers. And there was one set that was for girls. I am a girl I had both sets. Burned my fingers on those things more times than I care to count.
Used the heck out of mine and when my oven finally quit, I started putting my trays out on the driveway.
I went to google to find an air gun that was popular for a very short time when I was much much younger. I found it on this web site I'm posting but it didn't exactly look like this one. (No. 7) The one I remember was almost bazooka looking, quite a bit bigger than the one shown in the web site. But then I started looking at the other toys listed as dangerous and had to laugh at some of them.
#1- Sonny Six Finger. I had a couple of those. Kind of neat and the only "dart" I can see that would hurt was if you shot the cap popper one at somebody. You could hardly feel the other one. My dad even shot my brother and I with it a few times playing around.
#3- Slip and Slide. Dangerous????
Putting something like #4, Water Wiggle on a "dangerous" list makes me think the author of this article grew up very paranoid.
#5. I got a Johnny Seven, O.M.A. for Christmas one year. Only thing dangerous about it at the time was when I accidentally hit the grenade launcher and shot the plastic grenade with the cap popper on it across the living room full of family. My cousin caught it before it hit anything, thankfully.
#6, the Thing Maker, this one has been talked about plenty on here
#7 was the Air gun I was talking about
#8, the Wheelie Bar could be rough on somebody. Back then we were on our "Sting Ray" 20" bikes and proud we could pop a wheelie pretty easy. I tried with the Wheelie Bar and you stop going up a lot sooner than you want to and it give you a rough landing when the front wheel hits the ground again.
My mother wouldn't let us bring #9, the Super Elastic Bubble any where near the house. "None of that messy sticky stuff coming in here!" lol
I never heard of #10
I didn't have the set in the bonus, but I did have a chemistry set I loved fooling with. And it was so easy to reorder all the chemicals from the factory when you ran out
Some of those army men were cheap, weren't they ? They wouldn't stand up because a flaw in the mold gave them a heavy tumor on one side. We used those for casualties, usually decapitated them by chewing off their noggins.
One time we had this aunt staying with us that wore these thick Coke-bottle lensed glasses, she hovered around the table at dinner time making sure we all ate our vegetables. While sweeping the living room she kept finding the heads from our army men and showed them to our mom and accused me and my brother of not eating our peas.
My brother had them, but I preferred the bag of plastic dinosaurs. We used to take turns picking them and then have battles. I have no idea how we figured out which dinosaur won each round, though.
Growing up, the toy that did by far the most damage to our house, my friends skin haha was the good ol orange two foot length Hotwheel track! Great memories.....
I recall a couple of times my Mom used a piece of Hot Wheels track on our backsides. That stung more than a little.
I’m 61. I had a car seat that was basically meant to restrain me, so I wouldn’t go flying through the window. Except, the whole blessed thing was made out of metal. Back when metal was really metal. It was like Maggie Simpson’s, I had a little steering wheel that could beep beep — made out of metal. If my mother had had an accident in that thing I would’ve been killed. Period.
In the late 50s, my parents had a car bed in the back seat. It had a metal frame, no seat belt that I recall and was made of cloth. Good thing neither of them had an accident - the occupant of that thing would have been toast.
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