why'd you eat your hair i don't know
because she
wanted to she wanted to eat it because
she was hungry for hair welcome to watch
mojo and today we're counting down our
picks for the top 10 banned kids toys
there were actually 6 thousand one
hundred lawn dart injuries treated in
the nation's hospital emergency room
since 1978. for this list we'll be
looking at questionable toys that have
long since been taken off store shelves
due to their inherent safety issues some
may have been resold later after fixing
the issues but if the toy was ever
banned it's fair game did you ever play
with a band toy let us know in the
comments
number 10
skydancers who would have thought
something so cute would get yanked off
the shelf
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released in 1994 these skinny plastic
dials came with foam wings and a little
base to set her in when you pulled the
string on the back the wings would spin
like a helicopter and the doll would fly
into the air
sky wow fly for me too you make her
dance and fly incredibly popular at the
time the toys were given a recall due to
the unpredictable nature of how they
flew careful kid he might poke your eye
out repeated eye injuries broken teeth
blindness and even severe cuts were all
caused by the out-of-control spinning
dolls
number nine atomic lab kits
sold in the 1950s the gilbert u-238
atomic energy lab gave kids the
radioactive material needed to unleash
nuclear and chemical reactions from the
lens of a 21st century parent you'd
question how anyone ever thought this
was a good idea my name is sheldon
cooper and i'm trying to build a nuclear
reactor and i could use this help
included in the sets were compounds that
emitted beta and gamma rays both of
which are radioactive it was pitched as
being completely safe as long as you
followed the instructions carefully
which we all know kids do so well vent
radioactive gas
n oh thankfully the 50 price tag was far
too high to make it attractive in those
days forcing it off store shelves before
it even sold 5 000 kits
number 8 clackers
for the 1960s the concept was fairly
simple take two balls and attach them to
a string and children can swing them
around when they collide they make a big
clacking sound which the kids will adore
unbreakable miracle crackers are for
everyone even the little guys it was all
fine and dandy until the balls started
exploding with enough force applied the
collision would cause the balls to
shatter sending shards of glass or
plastic in any direction
the new original miracle crackers won't
shatter even if you use both hands
reports of facial and other injuries
caused the toy to be pulled from the
market before resurfacing again in the
1990s
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more modern materials prevented the
exploding balls from hurting anyone
further
number seven buckyballs
you can market it to older kids all you
want the magnets can adhere to each
other
and then it can cause intestinal
injury or damage that's not going to
stop the younger ones from playing with
them bucky balls were a set of small
powerful magnets that would stick
together to form various shapes each
magnet was about five millimeters wide
just small enough for a young kid to
swallow the company and cpsc have been
warning for a long time this is a
product not intended for kids yet the
incidents still happen countless reports
of children ingesting the magnets caused
a recall in the toy in 2012 forcing the
company to issue 375 thousand dollars
worth of refunds this x-ray shows a ring
of 18 bucky balls lodged in his stomach
that didn't however stop buckyball's
founder craig zucker from trying again
specs are essentially the same toy with
the new name and logo
number six
yo-yo water balls have you ever played
with a paddle ball you know that rubber
ball attached to a string with a paddle
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now imagine your hand is the paddle the
string is a bungee cord and the ball
contains a non-descript fluid that's the
concept behind the yoyo ball it sounded
innocent enough but many issues have
arisen from it there was of course the
potential choking hazard it posed if the
cord was wrapped around you in the wrong
way the material it was made of was also
highly flammable if pulled too far the
snapback could be quite painful and the
liquid in the ball was toxic everything
about this bouncing ball said it needed
to come off shelves i'll bounce back i
always bounce back number five kite
tubes
when you're done watching this video
search youtube for kite tube fail and
you'll see exactly why this kind of toy
has no business on store shelves it's
essentially a modified inner tube
designed to catch air while being
dragged behind a boat once airborne
neither the boat driver or the
passengers had any control over how the
tube would react to the air current
hello
mrs pummelhorst
i'd like to get down now in many cases
it would flip or turn suddenly
forcefully ejecting its passengers into
the air broken bones punctured lungs and
damaged eardrums were all injury
sustained as a result of the violent
crash back into the water
elvis has left the building the kite was
quickly recalled and flying boat tubes
were made illegal
number four snack time cabbage patch kid
no one would ever argue that cabbage
patch kids were a huge wave in the toy
industry but not every new doll was a
success
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released in 1996 the snack time kid was
intended to allow children to feed their
doll any number of plastic treats
innocent at first kids quickly
discovered the mouth wouldn't stop until
whatever it ate was fully immersed in
their little friend combine that with an
overpowered motor kids were getting
their fingers and hair stuck in the
dolls with no way to stop them from
eating after i got the battery i had to
see if i could you know push a button or
something a lever and pull the hair back
through but as the hair went in it
intertwined into the gear and then it
was you couldn't get it up by 1997
mattel gave up on the hungry hungry
hippo like dal and offered refunds to
parents who had purchased the product if
you pulled on the doll it only grabbed
more and it was pulling her hair away
from her scalp number three austin magic
pistol
say what you want about toy guns but
they have been a staple of the toy
industry for as long as guns have been
around but for a brief time in the late
1940s this magic pistol was no ordinary
play firearm using a combination of
calcium carbide and water the gun would
propel ping-pong sized balls from the
barrel for distances well over 70 feet
that was a good one the biggest problem
with this toy was the fact that it gave
children access to a literal explosive
compound that could go off with as
little as a couple of drops of sweat
combine that with the splash of sparks
that often erupted from the weapon
everything about this toy spelled
dangerous
number two
aquadots
similar in some ways to today's perler
beads aqua dots also known as bindis are
small beads that can be used to create
creative designs on small pegboards
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the magical dots you create spray and
play like other swallow hazard toys
younger children would accidentally
ingest the beads that wasn't however
what triggered the ban and subsequent
massive recall the complete super studio
play set includes the pop alone bin the
speed dryer the aqua sprayer the beads
were made of butane diol which when
ingested converts to a sedative known as
ghb or gamma hydroxybutyric acid
incidence of children swallowing and
suffering adverse effects were widely
reported he just started
weaving kind of like he was drunk or
something and he fell down concerns were
also addressed about the beads being
used as a recreational drug the
ingredients were eventually replaced
with safer ones allowing the toy to be
brought back to store shelves
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number one lawn darts it was on april
5th 1987 the david snow's world fell
apart and you thought getting hit with a
regular dart was bad lawn darts were a
staple of outdoor games for many years
shaped like their smaller counterpart
the metal pointed ends were quite heavy
propelled by hand into the air in an
arch to hit a circle target the darts
would have been harmless if they had
only hit the grass by afternoon she was
in a coma thousands of injuries from
lacerations concussions and even death
were reportedly tied to the unsafe usage
of this outdoor field game when they
dropped from 15 feet when they hit this
is 23 000 pounds per square inch they
were banned in the u.s in 1988 and then
in canada in 1989 less dangerous
substitutes have since been released all
with no metal tips
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