Rosenfeld, L. (2015, July 10). A Brief History of the Etch a Sketch: Why We’re Still Fascinated By the Toy After 55 Years. Retrieved from, What set the game apart, however, and why it would never happen today, is the titular Dream Phone it came with.

Harry Potter is one of the biggest multi-media franchises in the world. Perhaps one of the best things about the original books were that they grew up with their readers. The first, The Philosopher’s Stone (named The Sorcerer’s Stone in the US), featured a young Harry Potter first finding out he was a wizard. By the final book, The Deathly Hallows released 10 years later, he was an adult and saving the world. It’s cute, cuddly, and you can show off your artistic talent! The Doodle Bear was invented in New York by a man named Ed Kaplan in 1995.Baby dolls have been around forever, but the Cabbage Patch Kids took things to the next level when they came out in 1983. These fabric dolls were released right in time for Christmas, but stores only had between 200 to 500 dolls to offer customers. This led to riots and property damage! Not only were these fun for the kids, but they would also give parents a few blessed minutes of silence as their kids spent more and more time under the water to collect them. It was supposed to work out for everyone. Transformers were released by Hasbro in 1984. The first generation of these toys included 18 Autobots and 10 Decepticons, which transformed into cars or semi-tractor trailers. These toys were so popular, an animated show was created in the same decade. Other times, people would get hurt by someone throwing their slammer in anger. Also, I bet someone has eaten and choked on a pog, too. We’re Stronger for Surviving the Most Dangerous 90s Toys Sky Dancers were one of the most exciting toys for kids in the '90s, and presented hours of fun, until your flying, spinning, hovering Sky Dancer flew out a window or into a fireplace or, more commonly, right into your eye.

Imagine trying to make a really safe toy and failing in every way imaginable. That’s the yo-yo water ball. On the night of Halloween, 10 teens decide to go to a party at an abandoned funeral parlor. "Hull House", rumored to be built on an evil patch of land & underground stream, is the place. While starting the party, the teens gather around a big mirror to perform a seance...BIG MISTAKE. They awaken some evil force and find themselves trapped and taken over one by one. Now it's a battle for who can survive and cross over the stream before going to hell....One 4 All. Argos Reveals the Bestselling Toys From the Last 45 Years – How Many Do You Remember? Retrieved from, According to a 2000 recall notice from the CPSC, "The hard plastic Sky Dancers dolls can fly rapidly in unpredictable directions, and can hit and injure both children and adults." How could something like this be dangerous? It’s soft, after all. On one side is a knot of hard plastic that connects to a soft-ish, fluid-filled ball with an elastic cord that could stretch several feet. That doesn’t sound too bad, right? Except it was. In fact, every part of this toy was a little hazardous. Your toy box wasn’t complete without these popular toys from the 80s and 90s. Even today, many of them have gotten modern facelifts or are collectibles that are worth thousands of dollars.

https://www.asiaone.com/world/5-facts-you-never-knew-about-everyones-favourite-virtual-pet-tamagotchiNothing like good old fashioned gender prejudice with children’s toys, am I right? The Suzy Homemaker line of “toys” is exactly what you’re picturing–a line of productions from the 1960s made specifically for young girls, featuring fake vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, ironing boards, ovens, blenders, etc. While anyone could have seen the trouble that Lawn Darts would bring, not every toy was so obviously dangerous. Some toys required the right imagination or a penchant for the sort of danger that only a child would appreciate. We’re going to fondly examine some of the most dangerous 1990s toys so that we can collectively wonder: what were we thinking? Hungry Hungry Hippos came out in 1978 from Milton Bradley. The board game is designed for 2 to 4 players with the objective being to gobble up the most white marbles. The Dream Phone was a board game released in 1991, aimed at teenage girls. The idea was that you moved around the board and had to guess which “hot guy” was your secret admirer. It was basically Guess Who for teenage girls. For one thing, people would play pogs for keeps, and that would start fights. Many schools had to put a ban on pogs to stop fighting from happening over pogs. Nobody wants to lose their precious National Geographic pogs.

Lorio, J. (2018, October 9). Big Wheel 1970s Vintage Tricycle for Sale is Perfectly Preserved, Perfectly Awesome. Retrieved from, https://www.theringer.com/2017/3/27/16038420/tamagotchi-collectors-bandai-digital-pets-9b946143c747 The Vac-U-Form is a weird thing. First off, why would they think that kids playing with plastic would be fun? Just like the Creepy Crawlers maker, the Vac-U-Form required kids using an extremely hot piece of metal to mold plastic into shapes to make their own toys. Go to listen to the audio podcast on your favorite platform: https://dumbcoolweirdpodcast.buzzsprout.com/share Remember when you were a kid, and you were so excited to find a new Furby or Barbie Princess under your Christmas tree? In the 20th century, some toys were all fun and games until someone lost an eye...literally.The Gym Scooters were the best thing to happen to gym class and the worst thing to happen to school kids’ fingers. I honestly feel sad for anyone that did not get the chance to play with these.