kinda things that were banned , or maybe just some cool stuff that just went away

[griz400]

old stuff, or, maybe just some cool stuff that just went away

Things like products, commercials, anything u can think of, ill give a couple ideas, and see what u all can come up with

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSHo3j72fIo&feature=related
this was one of my favorites, they show it at chrysler training center sometimes

here was a toy that got banned when i was a kid
http://www.squidoo.com/clackers-klackers-klick-klacks

u can tell its winter i guess

 

[bigJake]

i remember them clackers Griz. All the other kids had them, but we was too poor. We couldn't even afford the knockoff ones over at the walmart.

 

[deeretrain]

metal tonka trucks. Those.plastic ones just look so whimpy.

 

[BMANN06]

Lawn darts! I used to play them all the time as a kid at my grandparents cottage.

 

[bigJake]

should a heard Sis scream the time she got one of them there lawn darts come down on her bare foot. True story.

 

[BMANN06]

:lol: Yah its not hard to see why these didn't last ... Although my uncle has a machine shop and ended up making us a set out of aluminum ... True story.

 

[Seadoobuddy]

I threw a lawn dart once and it stuck in my neighbor downspout...point first. Actually we weren't play the game correctly. We were using trash can lids as shields and I guess one got away from me. True story

 

[bigJake]

An estimated 6,100 people have been treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries involving lawn darts from 1978 through present. At least 80 percent of the victims were younger than 15 years old, and more than 50 percent were ten years old or younger. More than half of the victims had injuries to the skull, eye, ear or face. Many children have lost the use of an eye from this "toy". Investigations indicated that severe injuries included cranial punctures, facial lacerations and fractures to skull. Although victims were often bystanders, in many cases those playing the game were children.

 

[hfgreg]

I loved the stuff..

 

[bigJake]

An estimated 6,100 people have been treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries involving drinking SURGE from 1978 through present. At least 80 percent of the victims were younger than 15 years old, and more than 50 percent were ten years old or younger. More than half of the victims had injuries to the skull, eye, ear or face. Many children have lost the use of an eye from this "drink". Investigations indicated that severe injuries included cranial punctures, facial lacerations and fractures to skull. Although victims were often bystanders, in many cases those drinking the SURGE were children....

 

[LouDoo]

I'm not sure if these were officially banned, but it's been a long time since I've seen them.

Lou

 

[griz400]

heres some old candy u never hardly see anymore, when the strawberry festival comes here in fla, we can get some of these, heres a site
remember mallo cups ?????
http://www.nostalgiccandy.com/

 

[Seadoobuddy]

Griz - did you get my message to you yesterday?

One of my favorites...Joose was banned in 2010. Energy drink with alcohol ...get high and hyper at same time......

 

[griz400]

here is something i grew up with, was full size slot cars, we had 2 different tracks downtown uniontown pa. here is an example of em
http://www.slotcars.org/tunkeltracks/tracks/index.html - 1 friend of mine had a set up in his basement , about the size listed, we all had cars, but the tracks were like 25 - 50 cents an hr i think, usually 6 or 8 lanes
heres what the cars looked like....http://www.roadandtrack.com/racing/motorsports/slot-cars-come-of-age, anyone have any now ????

now they are all like h o scale -- same as the old lionel trains -- i know someone has some trains

 

[LouDoo]

This is for SDB, how about Schlitz, Strohs, Falls City, Oertel's 92, Weidman, Huedphal, beer.

Lou

 

[bigJake]

here is something i grew up with, was full size slot cars, we had 2 different tracks downtown uniontown pa. here is an example of em
http://www.slotcars.org/tunkeltracks/tracks/index.html - 1 friend of mine had a set up in his basement , about the size listed, we all had cars, but the tracks were like 25 - 50 cents an hr i think, usually 6 or 8 lanes
heres what the cars looked like....http://www.roadandtrack.com/racing/motorsports/slot-cars-come-of-age, anyone have any now ????

now they are all like h o scale -- same as the old lionel trains -- i know someone has some trains

we had a set that went around our Christmas Tree. Probably still in my dad's basement

 

[Seadoobuddy]

This is for SDB, how about Schlitz, Strohs, Falls City, Oertel's 92, Weidman, Huedphal, beer.

Lou

Schlitz and Strohs are still around...don't know about the others.

 

[Sink]

Pop rocks are still around... in Nebraska anyway. I had some (stolen from the kids) a few weeks ago! Still taste like crap!

O

 

[deeretrain]

Trains. That's one of my other hobbies that I've been into since I was a kid. I have a 11 by 22 ft. Layout HO scale that is a slow works in progress. And trains have become high tech these days just like jet skis

 

[bigJake]

so you're sayin you got a HO Train:thumbsup:

 

[griz400]

how bout before cell phone days, how many of you were the cb radio kinda breaker 1 9 people, ???? i had a police scanner

 

[Sink]

CB's were huge when I was in high school. We used to keep in touch and when the LEO's would be on a call (very small town so they all went) we would do burnouts down main street!!! What a great time!

How about metal models. I used to build die cast car models and cant find them anymore. They are all plasitc now. That or they are already put together.... Not banned but gone. I did find a few that were that hadn't been built yet on ebay. They want a lot for them. Probably parts missing too.

 

[bigJake]

Breaker 19, has this guy been banned yet? 280 more days til the ban goes into effect.
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[griz400]

The Slip 'N Slide Collection
(Recalled 1993)

For anyone older than 18 who grew up with a backyard, a hill and a hose, a Slip 'N Slide on a hot summer day in the was the next best thing to a pool. But headfirst dives down the slick polyethylene strips seldom went without incident. On a hot Alabama afternoon some years ago, this writer's cousin broke his arm on one of those mustard-colored contraptions.

The Slip 'N Slide and its brethren (the Slip 'N Splash, White Water Rapids and Wet Banana) sold more than nine million units from 1961 through 1992. The product is intended for children, not adults. According to the 1993 recall, "Because of their weight and height, adults and teenagers who dive onto the water slide may hit and abruptly stop in such a way that could cause permanent spinal cord injury, resulting in quadriplegia or paraplegia. The slider's forward momentum drives the body into the neck and compresses the spinal cord."

Seven adults and a 13-year-old suffered neck injuries or paralysis as a result of using the slides. Given the irregularities in most yards' turf and the general danger in sliding headfirst down a hill, the injuries aren't all that surprising. We've previously witnessed the perilous spectacle of five amusement park rides that pushed the limits of common sense--and unlike a slide set up in 5 minutes on a Saturday, those rides were supposedly designed by engineers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl4hUHGXfIs

 

[griz400]

"Gun Fighter" Toy Cork Gun
(Recalled 1979)

The warning "You'll shoot your eye out" wasn't reserved just for Ralphie in A Christmas Story. The CPSC raised the same alarm about a toy cork gun that sold for the bargain price of $1.27 in the 1976 to 1977 Christmas season. After instructing buyers to visit Eagle Family Discount Stores throughout the Southeast to obtain a refund, the recall described how "serious injury could occur if a child abuses the toy by removing the muzzle end of the gun barrel, exposing the ends of two metal rods covered with plastic plunger caps. These caps can be removed by a force of three or four pounds, leaving the ends of the metal rods completely exposed. If the toy gun is cocked and discharged, the exposed ends of the metal rods could then be propelled forward into a child's face or eyes."

Modifying this double-barreled armament to make the junior version of a sawed-off shotgun would seem irresistible to young criminals. But the only casualty cited in the recall concerns "one incident of eye injury occurring when a three and one-half year-old boy apparently shot the toy gun into his eyes and was struck by the unprotected metal rod." Okay, so some little Ralphie did shoot his eye out.




The CPSC acted fast to rid America of the cork gun menace. The slightly more upscale $1.99 Western Double-Barrel Cork Rifle received a recall that same year due to similar suspicious "pushrods," In this instance, nobody was actually hurt by the product recalled. Today, instead of BB or cork guns, kids are encouraged to stick with the Nerf variety.