Comments on: 5 Banned Toys and Games

By: BuzzInSC

BuzzInSC — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:10:04 +0000

Hmmm And we worry if the Iranians get to replenish their “kits”

By: themonkey

themonkey — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:02:07 +0000

“Burn with the ‘Thingmaker’…learn with the ‘Thingmaker’” ~joel hodgson (MST3K circa 1990)

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:31:18 +0000

It’s unfortunate that the particular kit was only available for a half-life of 2 years. I wonder if even after sales they continued to honor the material replacement policy.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:09:04 +0000

I mean, I’m not saying we should give all kids a Fisher Price “My First Mercury Boiler”, but yeah.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:30:04 +0000

We should wonder if we are being overly over-protective of our children. Fear can be an educational deterrent to kids, and puts them in a worse situation then properly understanding the things we keep them from.

By: Jon the action figures buff

Jon the action figures buff — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:26:56 +0000

@swissonian good reference.
@Edward I don’t think the issue is what will the next generation think is too dangerous, it’s more about on how a 1950 really was dangerous, I don’t think anyone would want their kids being exposed to radiation.

By: Splint Chesthair

Splint Chesthair — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:14:08 +0000

when I was 11-12 years old, my dad brought home 3 or 4 old chemistry sets that were barely touched. He renovated houses and the owner had these in the basement and said my dad could have them. They had all the good stuff in them. One of them even had an experiment for making gunpowder! I was constatly wrapping thing in magnesium and making the house stink like rotten eggs by making stinkbombs with sulfur.

By: K!P

K!P — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:01:44 +0000

Pain is a learning experience. *that being said: i hope kids are allowed outside in a couple of years.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:30:47 +0000

First thing to come to mind was Vault-tec too, Fallout is full of campy vintage goodness.

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:53:18 +0000

Dad used to work with radioactive sources in his lab. He had us kids shooting off rockets and making beer. Mom, on the other hand, brought home radioactive mutagens to create beautiful, if overly aggressive, guppies.

Things such as these bring a smile to my face. As children, my grandfathers jumped trains, owned firearms or ran from the Nazis. These days we worry about our children eating lead paint or choking on small parts. What will the next generation think is too dangerous?

By: NorwegianBlue

NorwegianBlue — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:28:49 +0000

Sorry about the dual post, but…

There’s a house just up the road who have a ridiculously long slip’n'slide down their ridiculously long front law every summer. It stops a few short feet short of a dry stone wall. Apparently nobody has had a serious intefrace with the wall, yet…

I don’t think the lawn darts were every actually banned here in the UK, until quite recently I have seen them in use.

The exploding park flyer was not unique, it’s probably down to a lithium ion battery. They don’t like shocks and I’ve seen a few plane’s apparently spontaneously combust after a hard landing. The tech has improved in that respect in the last few years. Having said that I’ve seen worse conflagrations with methanol fueled planes.

By: NorwegianBlue

NorwegianBlue — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:20:35 +0000

I just love the way the kid in the illustration appears to glow in the dark.

By: chrisr

chrisr — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:04:52 +0000

I told this story here before, but I once got a geology science kit with a chunk of mineral asbestos in it.

By: swissonian

swissonian — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:31:06 +0000

I really love that the Atomic Energy Lab has a certain “Fallout” Series touch to it, comes with your very on voucher for a place in a Vault-tec Vault ^^