Hilarious! Toy Ads from the '80s and '90s

[mattmns]

I just saw this on slashdot, and it is hilarious!

http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/2006/12/toys.php

 

[Stevedye56]

I especially liked the lawn darts picture with the kid with a dart through his neck. That was hillarious.

 

[Rach3]

And the crackpots live on:

Kids do the darndest things, but not, apparently, nuclear physics. The toy was only sold for one year. It's unclear what effects the Uranium-bearing ores might have had on those few lucky children who received the set, but exposure to the same isotope—U-238—has been linked to Gulf War syndrome, cancer, leukemia, and lymphoma, among other serious ailments. Even more uncertain is the longterm impact of being raised by the kind of nerds who would give their kid an Atomic Energy Lab.

 

[Rach3]

It's quite ridiculous that tiny samples of alpha emitters and Wilson cloud chambers are listed here as "highly dangerous". To wax hyperbolic, it is an insult to the millions of veterans who died to give us freedom of press, for these lazy idiot "journalists" to squander it with their unresearched, unverified tripe.

 

[Rach3]

Hehe, look how the "journalist" puts " "very low-level" radiation sources" in quotes. She thinks it's ironic!

(edit: fixed her gender)

 

[Rach3]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh! Radioactive nuclear weapons! Think of the children!

 

[dontdisturbmycircles]

"The brightly-colored disco ball cost 1,500 Chuck E. Cheese tickets. For the average skee-baller, that adds up to about 15 months of play at a cost of approximately $20,000."

I had to laugh at that. I can remember convincing my parents to take me and some friends to chuck e. cheese's for a couple hours. Probably spent a good $100 playing the various games, and walked out with a few stickers you could get for $0.25 at the corner store. lol.

 

[Rach3]

And McDiabetes will kill a million times as many children as that whole list put together.

 

[Mk]

Right under this topic I see "Potato Cannons"

 

[Hurkyl]

We had both lawn darts and sky dancers! Fortunately, we all have at least one shred of intelligence too.

 

[Math Is Hard]

We had both lawn darts and sky dancers!

For some real fun, glue 'em together. Dart dancers! wheeee!

 

[moose]

Under this thread are 90's arcade games, potato cannons, magnets, and legos...