Kid Killers

[supergee]

Nine toys my generation* survived.
*Well, most of us, anyway.

Thanx to File 770

Comments

[bibliofile]

Oh man, those liquid plastic flowers! The smell was more of a feature for me, like the professional-grade artist's markers.

Fortunately, I missed a bunch of the others.

[arlie]

I loved the footsie - the last one. Got pretty good at it too, in spite of being a generally clumsy child.

[carbonel]

I got really good at Clackers, despite my usual clutziness. Sheer persistence at a very specific skill, I think.

I tried the moon shoes once, and decided it made a terrible combination with my lousy sense of balance.

I spent a lot of time with Creepy Crawlers and the dip flowers; the latter was a family activity for us. We all survived, but I hate to think how many brain cells we killed in the process.

[weofodthignen]

Fidget spinners aren't listed, but apparently kids are needing the emergency room from misusing them: an American dad was testing how fast he could get it to spin using compressed air and his 5-year-old needed 30 stitches and a Norwegian 1-year-old swallowed a battery from an LED-equipped version and had to have stomach surgery to remove it.

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