Banned Toys! Disney Flubber, Jarts, Dick Tracy, Star Wars, CSI, Swing Bike, ... TOY HISTORY #7
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- In this weeks episode we take a look at a couple banned and recalled toys from the 60's to the 2000's! Strap in for some toy history on Flubber, Jarts, Dick Tracy, Star Wars, Muscle Bikes and more!
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The story about the Flubber oozing up through cracks in pavement is just plain scary.
Would make a great movie
Ghost busters anyone?
@@Ckbtony1983 hahaha Vigo goes aaaarggh
@@EdsRetroGeekOut it would ⭐️
I remember being a little kid and playing with lawn darts with aunts, uncles, and cousins. Nobody ever got hurt.
However...
Those Star Wars lightsabers. A bunch of friends bought a bunch of them, I think later release as there were blue ones and single bladed (Vader) red ones. No one got burnt the one night we had a big battle-off, but I sure as heck hurt my ankle and had to call into work the next day.
Lightsaber injury is possibly one of the best excuses to call out of work.
Best excuse ever 🤣👌
Totally mind blown.. I did not know that the 90s flubber was a remake😂
You'd also be surprised like me to know that the "Original" Ben Hur that became a classic is also a remake. There are 2 other movies if I'm not mistaken and the source material is a book.
Wait there is an original Flubber?!?!
🤦🏿♂️
Well to be fair, the original was "the absent minded professor" not titled "flubber" but I remember enjoying the movie as a kid
Your kidding.........the original was the best. We didn't have flubbervwe had slime. I had mine for years opened it one day ad it had turned to liquid and runed my jeans
I remember looking for the Blank everywhere! That was one of my must haves as a kid.
Dude, same! I remember my dad taking me to countless toy shops looking for him lol
I still have my darth maul lightsaber, it's missing apiece though because of a guy I used to call a friend.
Honestly, I wonder if Hasbro (sorry, “Hassenfeld Brothers”) considered looking at the ingredients of Flubber and thought of finding any chemicals that could break down the Flubber much more easily.
Then again, it was probably some insanely toxic shit that would’ve harmed everyone involved even more, so...
Naw it just stays there and will be for the end of time.
Maybe like the blob it can be controlled by being put in freezing temperatures
@@raptorjesus5870 Future civilizations will use it as jewelry and currency as it will actually become a very rare mineral only found in one spot in the world.
The channel keeps getting better and better keep up the good work Ed
Thanks 🤘
The CSI fingerprint kit is even more interesting when you learn that its not actually a toy. Its an actual contact lifting kit used by actual CSIs thats been repackaged as a toy. The powder we use to lift prints in real life is highly, highly carcinogenic and the brush bristles we dust the contact is made from fiberglass.
I miss growing up in the 90s.
My old childhood best friend manage to put a djart in the hood of my father's car by accident.... my father was not very not the least happy... I was snitched out by my older brother...
Yikes 😰
Anyone remember those damn shoes that had rollerblades that came out in the back?😂
If I'm not mistaken, they're called Heelies.
WHEELIES!!!
I REMEMBER THOSE!!!!
Aren't they still around?
@@JonatasAdoM yes
The guy who invented them just passed away last week. He was multimillionaire from those things.
My cousin had a swivel bike when we were both in junior high. At first, he was the envy of the neighborhood but that ended after he let a bunch of us ride it. No one ever asked to ride it a second time. lol I don't know what they were thinking when they rolled those out into stores but it sure wasn't at hit in my little town. My cousin's swivel bike is the only one I've ever seen in my life. 😆
I like that he doesn't spend way too much time on each subject like similar videos I've seen
Wow I had 4 of those lightsabers. I had Maul’s double-bladed one, Qui-Gon, Anikin and Mace Windu’s. I think I had a couple more but they never burnt me so
Awesome 🙌
I bet Hasbro wasn’t expecting Flubber to be that hard to get rid of.
Indeed 🤣
That's kind of creepy if all that is true. They actually created an evil version of Flubber.
Woah- that’s what happens to my lightsaber?
I had the darthmaul saver and it’s middle melted and I had no idea why.
I was grounded for 4 month because my mom thought I was playing with a lighter and burning it.
I know a guy who owns The Blank carded and signed by Madonna. It's been certified by 2 highly respected companies that deal with signatures. I have no idea why he paid $10k for that thing.
Yeah that seems a bit high but cool to have it signed i guess 🤓
What about AquaDots? The toy that looked like gummies and turned into GBH when ingested had kids passing out.
Oh yeah i heard about those 😅
Awesome vid as always dude!
Thanks 🤓
Hey! Big fan and Rhode Island resident here. Couple of corrections on the Flubber thing. The picture you showed is not the Hasbro warehouse, but Hasbro headquarters in Providence. The Hasbro warehouse is in Pawtucket, RI. Also, the story about it “oozing through the pavement” is just conjecture and not true at all.
So the rumors aren’t true 🥲 no flubber oozing
Top Video again. I really like your videos. Thanks
Thanks 🤓
My step dad used to tell me him and his brothers would go outside at night, throw lawn darts straight up, and scatter across the yard. Just one of many stories of his. It's a wonder nobody got killed.
Yikes 😅
@@EdsRetroGeekOut riiiight
I had that Darth maul lightsaber. It could get hot but I just played without the batteries and made the sounds myself, Also had the tramp figure but lost it in a house fire. Would love to have that in my collection today. And my brother and I ALWAYS wanted the Blank figure.
The pogo stick with a motor had to have broken thousands of bones.
I had the CSI kit as a kid... no idea it was recalled! I still have it somewhere here, I remember accidently blowing the powder on my face several times.
RIP me I guess?
I had one of the darth mall lightsaber.
Nostalgic. ☺️💕🇵🇭
think i saw the nintendo fitness game in a retro store by me
I play with those darts when I’m camping with my family 😟
I still have the scar in the back of head from lawn darts. 6 stitches. I was 10
🤯 yikes
They Stoll make lawn darts out if foam though
Yeah but they don’t do the job like the metal ones used to 😅🤠
Bruh, I had the CSI kit too💀👀
😅🤯😅 yikes
The Blob was almost a reality.
Wii Fits great grand dad.
Indeed 😏
I have one of the Darth maul sabers!
Funny thing nobody mentions is duel disk. I would always fuck up my friend. Hell for the shadow realm duels person who lost got there face smashed with a duel disk
Ooh ill look into that 🤠
Did you check how much the Blank goes for? It's crazy!
Insane indeed 🤯
I'm actually angry about the Blank. I had the entire collection and could never find it. I didn't know why till years later
How on Earth did that dart kill a child?
That's worrying but at the same time.. how?
Man...
Flubber ...did they think though inventing chemical mixes?
Like that sounds... Terrible for the future and the environment?
😅 indeed
is that a Dillenger Escape Plan shirt?
My uncle got got by a lawn dart when he was a kid.
Did he survive?
@@lmno567
Yeah, he was fine as far as I know. Just had a puncture wound and a bad bruise to his skull. He was never very bright so it was hard to tell if there was any long lasting mental effects..
@@mattlewis6517 I was expecting like a hit in the leg or something, not the head. I guess he didn't need that part of it after all.
Getting permission from the goverment to dump all that flubber into the see is the craziest thing I've heard in a while. They really gave zero shit about the ecosystem back then.
That wasn't flubber. It was Jimmy Hoffa.
🤣🤣
Lmao I had the tramp toy
"Dust contained asbestos" whats a littlr bit of cancer for the kids?
See this is a problem. Taking toys off the market just means that more people make it to adult hood.
Have anyone tried reasoning with the flubber?
🤓🤣🤣🤣
Jarts are what your parents bought when they felt the had too many children...
🤣🤣🤣
I love how Disney freaked out about how the Blank action figure could have spoiled the whole movie back then and like 90% of merchandising for every movie immediately spoils it now. Remember when the third Shrek film came out and they spoiled the reveal that he was going to be a father because of all the Baby Shrek merchandising, even the Happy Meal promotion?
So true 🤓
The toys for Batman Begins showed Liam Neeson as being Ra's Al Ghul.
We were lucky to only get those after the movie.
@@Paulafan5 Same thing with the Phastasm from Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm. They didn't even bother to hide it.
The 60s Flubber incident would make a great horror movie story!
Indeed 🤘
Watch "The Stuff"
I feel like the hasbro flubber story could actually make for a really good horror story
Indeed 🤩👌
It reminds of the 1980s movie called The Stuff.
I would probably have enjoyed that more than the actual film. Advert creeped me out, and the film just bored me.
The blob or the stuff are movies your should check out.
Well frik, I had no idea flubber was a remake.
Me neither 🤯 blew my mind and why didn’t we get a sequel?! They also used a lot from the original movie
I think the name change probably is what throws a lot of people.
Reading that some folks never realized there was an original black & white version, that I grew up on in the 70s is shocking. Especially since the original was made before me in 1973. But wow!!! They only know the Robin Williams version ?!?!?!?! Really?!?!?!? That makes me feel old. Lol
I so want to see a flubber movie about getting rid of it.
OMG that flubber back story of them trying to get rid of it was wild, it just kept coming back from the dead
I want some flubber 🤣
You might want to look at clackers for a third episode, they were often made with bakerlite instead of plastic, so would shatter into kids eyes.
I had some of those 🤣👌
Shut up, Larry
Go complain about how bad everything is
Snap Bracelets were also popular back in the early 90's
Bakelite? Who still uses bakelite in 1990...
Truth Seeker Go and have a Snickers, mate.
Lawn darts stayed alive and well in our family well into the 2000's when someone stole them during a picnic. Basically, just teach your kids not to be idiots and they work just fine.
Yeah i grew up with lawn darts, but they went missing a few years ago too
Lazy people: Aw, but that takes effort!
Agree, lawn dart injuries were from user error, not the toy itself. Plenty of other games are played the exact same way, such as horseshoes, and everyone is well aware of the risks.
If you're that incompetent of a parent that your kids use metal spike projectiles without your knowledge, then you might as well hand them the kitchen knives
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess I think you might be misunderstanding. WE were the kids using the metal spike projectiles. As you can see we're all here and alive. You see back in the day kids were actually taught by their parents how to safely handle things in the world around them. Something they tend not to bother doing anymore. So, no, parents weren't incompetents that didn't know what they were doing. They were attentive parents that bothered to take time to teach. Sorry if your experience was different.
Didn’t they have something similar to SwingWing in an episode of Ed,Edd, N Eddy?
😏 could be
It was the episode where they were trying to capitalize on trends/fads if I remember correctly. At one point all the kids were using swingwings, the Ed boys tried to get in on it, and then by the time they did the fad was over.
I think.
I miss lawn darts, but some parents want the government to parent their kids, even with a "for adults only" label. I was 5 and knew not to toss one if someone was in the line of fire. Horseshoes could kill someone if you connect with their heads. Baseballs have killed people too, so why not ban them as well?
i know, lawn darts is actually pretty fun.
I agree. I miss those summer days with family throwing those lawn darts. Back then as a kid I thoughtI wow these darts are hefty in weight. It only takes just a few stupid people to ruin stuff like lawn darts for the rest if us. Those of us who know how the hell to act and use products correctly.
Yeah, I also hate it when stuff is getting banned for everybody just because some morons can't be bothered to parent their kids.
Please take your shit takes to twitter
There are toys like lawn darts now, they just don't come to a not sharp point.
The fact it comes to a stubbed point means it gained huge pressure per square inch..
And it only takes one 3year old thoughtlessly running though to cause a huge problem.
Lawn darts are an accident waiting to happen
@Cynical Frenchface good?
you lit didnt need the point at the end to play the game?
its not only as much fun? but safer?
Grandparents actually had lawn darts back in the 80’s and I definitely remember them. They had the blue and red ones.
🤠 safety helmets!
My dad bought bolts for a pistol crossbow to use as lawn darts.
@@EdsRetroGeekOut My father owns a set of every type of jart produced in North America before the ban and found and gifted me a set of sliders. They are no more dangerous than horseshoes. You just don't give them to children to toss around.
I used to play with lawn darts as a kid back in the 80's. Had more than a few close calls playing with them.
When I was a kid I got a set of lawn darts from a yard sell. Me and my friend would launch them into the air at each other. One of them came down with sun behind it and I couldn't see it. I put my arm up to block the dart and it stabbed me in the forearm. If I hadn't put my arm up it would have taken my eye out. They went into the trash after that.
Yikes 🤯
Dude, lawndarts are why Gen X rules... we culled the weak.
Yes!!!!! 🤟😎
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Legend has it, a byproduct of the 1960s flubber was used to create Ecto Cooler in the 80s.
🤣🤣🤣🤘
Man I remember looking for that Blank figure every week for months at every Florida toy and grocery store. I still have all the other figures but that Blank is my grail.
U did forget to mention the batmobile that got recalled in the mid 2000’s cause of claims of kids being stabbed by the fins I still have mind and have the hot wheels version of that batmobile i mainly still have it cause it was already part of my Batman collection and wasn’t giving it up
Alright, how do we get rid of all these oversized darts?
Market them as toys to children?
Brilliant!
🤣🤣🤣👌
Lucy Lawless: YOU REMOVED IT FROM FROM IT'S ORIGINAL PACKAGING!
The Collector: OH NO! (Melts from battery acid).
🤣🙌 simpsons
Ed: "It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt."
Me: In my experience, it's all fun and games until a bunch of whiny-@$$ parents groups get in the way. 😒
Are you talking about the toy guns or the flying murder sticks?
*It's all fun and games til someone gets hurt... Then it's hilarious 😂
@@christiansmith5047 I shouldn't be laughing lmfao
@@kryptonitespider-bitedynam7305 I meant, in general. I get their concerns about the lawn darts or the Hula Hoop thing on kids' heads, though.
I was the goalie of my brothers' lawn dart team and I am fi.....
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I was the goalie of my broth...
Jarts weren't really a toy. It was a game. A fun game. The problem was bad marketing more than bad design. It should have been sold in sporting goods with the archery sets instead of toys with the squirt guns.
Damn, I had that Darth Maul lightsaber as a kid. Didn't realize it was that potentially dangerous. I got the toy to go with my Darth Maul costume I wore that year for Halloween and got in a lightsaber duel with another kid who went as Obi-wan. He won.
Yeah i had the Qui Gon Jinn lightsaber. Never heard of a recall lol. That mofo lasted over 10 years before it broke haha
Did he have the highground?!
So you're telling me that the BLOB was just a giant ball of FLUBBER !?
Lol
🤔 maybe
You can't stop Flubber. It will just keep evolving.
We picked up a very questionable Tarzan toy not long ago 😂 some of you might know the one I’m talking about.
Rad repeatin tarzan.
A movie about removing flubber/ooze from the streets of a city???? Have you seen Ghostbusters 2? 😊
😯🤯 it all make sense now that movie was just a flubber coverup!
@@EdsRetroGeekOut at a boy, now you're getting it 😂💯
Ed love these videos. Suggestion for another video is what your toys in Belgium were like compared to the American ones(ones you got, ones you didn't and ones you wanted, different names, etc). You could do games and game systems also(same idea with that ones you got, ones you didn't, and ones you wanted, different names, etc). Keep up the good work.
Its pretty much all the same we just got american products with occasionally a translation name but nothing too weird 🤷♂️
I used to joke It's all fun and games until someone's eye goes rolling across the floor. With some of these toys that could be a literal problem. Great Toy History video Ed! I love the research you put into these and your clever transitions between the toys. These videos are becoming some of my favorite to watch on RUclips.
Thanks buddy 🤓
Well this is depressing. I had Stadium Events and 2 of the gamepads. The Nintendo that we owned broke and so it was tossed, but I remember putting all of the games in a box out of the way. Years later I went back to look for them and they were gone. I'm pretty sure one of my parents most likely my Dad tossed out all of my games. So somewhere in an Alberta landfill is a copy of stadium events.
So Flubber is literally indestructible??? That’s terrifying. Why isn’t it more well known?
I think the fbi got a hold of it 😏🤣
Excellent video Ed! So that last toy made for Nintendo was just a limited edition? It wasn't recalled for safety reasons? There's another Nintendo toy which didn't last long called Rob The Robot. Rob came with a deluxe version of the first Nintendo Entertainment System. I believe Rob was designed to be used with the game:"Gyromite." I'd be interested to find out why it didn't last and if it was possibly recalled.
No it was an idea of a third party developer and nintendo wanted the idea so they bought it made more games for the math and recalled the original stadium events and put out world class track meet as a nintendo developed game 🤓
The Video Game Historian made a very comprehensive video on the subject. Long story short, it was the Trojan Horse of Nintendo to sell its FamiCom (rebranded the NES) to a videogame-phobic North American market in 1985 as a toy. They were never recalled, they just stopped production when they got a good foothold on the market (and being a terrible accessory to use)
Jart's/Lawn Darts were really good. No good reason for their ban, even with what is said in this video. Kid's get hurt. It's part of being a kid.
I saw them in an episode of izombie and was like wait whut this is a thing 🤠 I probably would have played with it back in the day if we had some but then again we were uses to getting hurt and playing on metal playgrounds 🤘
@@EdsRetroGeekOut The majority of the stuff made in the 60's and 70's was potentially lethal, yet the vast majority of us survived. Of course back then we had parent's that actually kept tabs on what you were doing so if you were caught trying to impale friends or siblings with lawn jarts they'd take them away and ground you until you learned not to throw them at people. It just seems like parent's today don't really want to be bothered with parenting.
@@deniseboldea1624 OK boomer!
@@acertainshape Gen Xer actually. 😁
Pretty sure dying isn't part of being a kid.
I was one of the kids in the 80s that had to go to the er because of jarts
Yikes 🤯
I guess our parents had faith in our IQ's and common sense. At age 10 in the 1960's we had Jarts. NO ONE remotely was ever in danger.
We also routinely had access to real cherry bombs and M-80's that my older brother would bring up from South Carolina. NO adult supervision. NO ONE ever came close to getting hurt. We were careful. Did not take chances, but had SO much fun!!!
We were given access to .22 rifles at day camp with NO ADULT supervision. No one EVER got injured! I weep for the coddled citizens of the USA with their lives essentially run BY THE STATE as a parent.
To this day, I have a set of Jarts in my basement. On the one hand, yep...they're giant metal darts so SURPRISE!!! They're f'ing dangerous. Who knew?!!!
We did. As kids. Neither my sister nor myself was ever dumb enough to put ourselves in a position to be injured from them. I guess we were just super responsible? IDK, it's always stumped me the number of injuries they caused. I still just don't get it.
People still make Jarts, no shortage of people that have instructions to do so. Prime example of the nanny state.
Bro I had a friend take a lawn dart 🎯 to the head!!! It was crazy!! He kept his cool and was okay!!! My dad destroyed the darts that day!!! Soon after they disappear forever!!!!💯🇺🇸🔨🙏🎸🎯✊🌎🏈👍🏻🍀🌊
"Things were better the old days"
The old days:
LOL I still have the darth maul lightsaber.
Look at the recall of the original Harry Potter Nimbus broom. The reason is, well interesting and probably should have undergone more testing.
We had stadium Events when I was a kid and the power pad. Bet my bro still might!
Woah 😯
6:53 I had the Qui Gon and Darth maul One of the things I regret most in my child hood was breaking that Darth maul light saber in two within the first couple days of owning it.
I still have to have e that qui gon jin one somewhere still
We had a power pad! I'm guessing we had the World Class Track Meet ($14.25), not the Stadium Events ($40k) lol. I still remember racing against the final boss, Cheetah. I was the only one of my friends who could beat him 😎
And the gold medal goes to Christian! 🤘🤠
OMG I HAD THE CSI THING
Edit: I never used the fingerprint stuff
Could never find the blank toy. Also, the prune face was hard to find. Found it on the way out and never saw another one again. I searched for the blank but to no avail.
I live in Canada and I remember the Dick Tracy figures being available and I bought a few of them but I wasn't ever able to find the Blank. They advertised the character on the back of the package as well as toy Catalogues but I wasn't ever able to find that figure.
🤠 keep lookin’ they’ll eventually pop up!
Supposedly the few(3,000?) that were made were sold off by Sears Canada, from what I read. Actual Canadians would know more than I...
@@oneeyesmiley55 It's possible but but in Toronto where I'm from. I looked everywhere from Toys R Us, Zellers which was our big department store before Walmart came to Canada, Woolco another Canadian Store, Consumers Distributing which advertised the figure in their Catalogue but they didn't ever have it. Sears didn't have much of a toy department in the actual store but they had a lot more in their Wishbook Catalogue that you could order from so it's possible it was sold from there. I didn't notice it though. Just like the last series of the LJN WWF figures, I wasn't ever able to find the Ultimate Warrior in My area. I don't think we ever got him and some others from the last series as some of the figures were cancelled in general. It wasn't until Hasbro took over making the figures that I got the Ultimate Warrior but the same thing happened at the end of the Hasbro line. Many of the fugures just to name a few because many didn't ever get released in Canada including: Razor Ramon, Shawn Michaels, Crush, The Rocket Owen Hart, The Steiner Brothers, The Smoking Guns, Bret Hart all attires, The Undertaker, The British Bulldog, The Headshrinkers, Bam Bam Bigelow, Mr. Perfects Blue Attire, Hulk Hogan Red suit, and Yellow suit, etc. Back then there was no online so you would just have to go to the States to find them. Even then they were hard to find. It was just certain areas that got them. The second line of the WCW Galoob figures we didn't ever get either. Only the first series we got. Anyways you can find pretty much anything today but for insane prices!
So its for adults only and this guy let his young daughter play with hmm thats the parents fault same with any other injury caused by jarts if a parent lets their child play with something for adults why not give them a gun
Thays crazy I had those lightSaber toys as a kid and the csi fingerprint kit and never heard anything about them lol
Jarts should be brought back as a Natural selection device.
🤣
Does anyone remember the ed edd and eddy episode where everyone had a swing wing like toy on their heads? I has no idea that was a real toy. Kinda makes puts a new spin on it
'spin' on it. Nice.
HA!! Yes, I do remember that episode. Just vaguely though
@@andhe **exhales through nose slightly harder**
My cousin had a power pad and I thought he was the richest kid on the planet.
You're doing a fantastic job with these videos, great research and delivery, I hope you keep them up!
Thanks so much 🤓