25 Nostalgic Toys, Gadgets and Hobbies That Run the Gambit From Unhinged to Unreal

Kids these days with your fancy gadgets. Back in our day we had a stick and a rock
25 Nostalgic Toys, Gadgets and Hobbies That Run the Gambit From Unhinged to Unreal
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Playing with physical objects sure beats all that screen time, but them brightly-colored doohickeys are still no match for pure imagination. See, when you grew up with a fraction of the toys available today, your brain works overtime to bring you the fun.

Speaking of brains working overtime, why don’t you put that thing down and give your brain a little toy fact workout right now?

PEZ Shooter

A toy gun that shoots delicious Pez candies? 98 98 fun to eat fun to shoot Ready- Aim- Fire! SHOOTER PEZ DISPENSER SEE BACK FOR EXCITING TARGET GAME KASTER R E N T M P H N E P E2 n - What could possibly go wrong? CRACKED COM

Build-A-Home & Subdivision Set

BUILD-A-HOME & SUBDIVION SET Kenner's GIRDER & PANEL Set No.16 BUILD-A-HOME & SUBDIVISION SET DESIGN and BUILD o GREAT VARIETY of DIFFERENT BEAUTIFUL HOMES Construct subdivisions with os many os six houses of e time Also عبد Received - - Centers, - University - Date Aportments - Hamilu - - - - - IT'S FUN... IT'S EASY! Bebe honework of Palgathyland GIRDERS and JOESTS - the de ministry Insudation CRACKED COM - - - the Probut Mel and ايرة PANELS - - - BLAPWARD - - - - - - - - - - The owner may be liable for bodily

Aqua Dots

Product Recalls Aqua Dots/ Bindeez Beads A toy called Aqua Dots in the U.S. and Bindeez Beads in Australia was recalled after it was found to be contaminated with a chemical that can turn into a dangerous drug. Three children in Australia had to be hospitalized. THEMED THEMED NE WACK VOLNICE CHEMED AREMED THEMED ... QUA OOTS OUA OOTS AQUA OOTS AQUA OOT: AQUA OOTS POOT PARS adidas BONG YEENSH CCISN adidas I a I ASSICALES MADICADA SCTE KW WITH JOSE WITH MATER 1 mumi KIA DOSE I VIA ! WATER! - Sake CITY - CON - MARIA I / I

The CSI: Fingerprint Kit

Product Recalls CSI Fingerprint Examination Toy Kit The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization did a study in 2007 and found out that the hit had asbestos in it. That's not something you want anywhere, let alone in a toy for kids, so the kit was recalled. AGES 10+ CSI: ADULT SUPERVISION RECOMMENDED WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD parts Mont for - CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION WARNING: Communication FINGERPRINT - - EXAMINATION KIT - - I USE FINGERPRINT BRUSH COLLECT TO BUST DRAMING REAL - RECORD PRINTS VINGERPRINTS WITH DRISSON'S CSI TEAM CSI: nan - F un - NO CRIME SCE OTO NOTEBOOK HAND COL

The Conjuring

BEHIND-THE-SCENES FACTS The real doll that inspired The Conjuring was a normal Raggedy Ann. WARNING POSITIVEL CRACKED.COM DO NOT In The Conjuring, and the Annabelle spin-off, the evil-possessed doll is a creepy, ventriloquist-dummy-looking toy with wooden skin and large, unblinking eyes. In reality, the toy that inspired the series is a regular Raggedy Ann, which is locked up in Warrens' Occult Museum in Monroe, ст.

Mattel’s Cuddle & Coo

CRACKED.COM A doll caused an uproar for (allegedly) trying to convert children to Islam. Mattel's Cuddle & Coo doll played nonsense baby sounds, but some parents thought they heard the toy praising Islam or Satan (which are probably the same thing in such people's heads). Mattel didn't recall the doll, but did reprogram unshipped units.

Snake Eyes

G.I. Joe's Snake Eyes is only black to save paint. They made him black so they wouldn't have to put any paint on the action figure -- it's 100% black, the color of the plastic straight from the vat. CRACKED.COM

The Taco Bell Chihuahua

Speak ad slogans, boy! Say yo quiero TACO BELL CRACKED.COM This version of the Yo Quiero chihuahua toy portrayed him as a revolutionary, complete with Che Guevara beret, leading to newspaper headlines like Latino Leader Calls For Taco Bell Boycott. Viva Gorditas!

The Meat Slab Action Figure

There's a Rocky action figure of The Meat - the slab of meat Rocky punched. It's literally just a plastic version of that bag of meat, plus a slaughterhouse coat (with blood stains), and it must have been a really exciting toy for kids who bought Rocky action figures. CRACKED.COM

Rising Sun

A New Zealand farmer was put into a board game after his friends made him a fake Wikipedia entry. KE GRACKED.COM G Kotahi-Manawa Bradford was accidentally turned into a character for the board game 'Rising Sun' after his friends created a fake Wikipedia entry de- scribing him as a mythical Japanese monster.

The Squid Game Doll

The 'Squid Game' doll was a real ornament used by a museum. The doll is named Young-Hee after a char- acter in Korean text- books. It is also a real or- nament used by a car- riage museum and was only borrowed for filming the series. CRACKED NOW YOU KNOW

Racist Monopoly

A board game released called Blacks & Whites was basically a racist Monopoly. EHALL 04 COMPANY ELECTRIC £150 ٢٩٨٨ MALL PALL CRACKED.COM The game explores issues of racial inequality by treating players differently based on the race in which they play, demonstrating how the odds were stacked against some races in com- parison to others.

The Osama Bin Laden Toy

CRACKED.COM Baffling things done by the CIA Making Osama toys Beginning in 2005, the CIA created an Osama bin Laden action figure that would slowly wear off its face paint to show that of the devil. You know, to teach the kids whose houses America was bombing who the real villain was. The CIA denies having sent them to Pakistan, but that sounds just like what they would say.

Board Game Cheating Scandal

CRACKED A 2,500-YEAR-OLD BOARD GAME A huge cheating scandal happened at the Chunlan Cup, a tournament for the Chinese board game Go that had a prize of $200,000. Go players have been using AI to train, but it's (obviously) banned in competition. When a noob beat the world champ, everyone accused the new guy of using Al. Не was eventually cleared, but it was extremely hard to prove one way or the other. - 4 / -

Bebop and Rocksteady

CRACKED ВЕВОР AND ROCKSTEADY WERE CREATED SOLELY FOR TOY SALES. They didn't appear in the live action movies, but were created by Peter Laird as more characters for the cartoon's toy line. They weren't given much personality or backstory, just Shredder's henchmen for the Turtles to beat every time. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

Archie Bunker’s Grandson

ARCHIE BUNKER'S GRANDSON IS A BABY DOLL WITH A PENIS. The toy was released during the heyday of All in ARCHIE BUNKER'S the Family, a '70s sitcom GRANDSON centered around a JOEY STIVIC blue-collar bigot. THIS permic a WET DOLLIS A PHYSICALLY CORRECT IDEAL MALE The commercial makes a point of calling the doll a physically correct boy. Twice. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/EqYTUjRNjH4

Breaking Bad Action Figures

PARENTS RECENTLY PETITIONED TOYS R US TO PULL THE BREAKING BAD ACTION FIGURES FROM THEIR SHELVES. A WARNING: Ages CHOKING HAZARD The Walter White 15+ BEW - figure comes with a 35 gun, a bag of cash, and Br eaking 56 a baggie full of meth*. Bad TOY FAIR NY 14 EXCLUSIVE 100 Not actual meth. an actual gun or actual cash Walter White Figura Toys R Us no longer sells them. CRACKED.COM

Kablam!

KABLAM! pioneered chuckimation CRACKED.COM KaBlam! showcased Action League Now!, featuring toy figures animated by chucking them around the frame. One of the main heroes was The Flesh, who was super-strong and super-naked.

Karl Marx Action Figures

CRACKED COM YOU CAN GO HIKING WITH KARL MARX AND HIS FRIENDS! MOUNTAIN RESEARCH Japanese toy maker Mountain Research released a foursome of surveyors modeled after Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Mao Zedong, and Henry David Thoreau. There's no indication as to why two Communist dictators, the philosopher who inspired them, and an unrelated poet guy are hiking mountain trails.

Mongo Beefheads

CRACKED There are action figures for every obscure-ass Star Wars character, but around 1985 they ran out. New characters were prototyped in a continuing story, including an alien tribe with the offensive-sounding name Mongo Beefheads.

Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids

CRACKED KS! Feed Me My mouth really moves! 2g HST 1996's Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids did make it to shelves, but not for long - their gimmick was that you could feed them through their battery-powered jaws, but inevitably kids got their hair and fingers stuck, leading to a mass recall.

The Car

CRACKED CAR STOP STOP KC GA KM THE CAR PL The 1978 horror movie The Car - not at the top of James Brolin's resume by any stretch - spawned a game that never made it, in which players competed not to get run over by Satan.

Luscious Limbs

LUSCIOUS LIMBS Luscious Limbs Food on FINES - other delicious parts of the Acady KAY A LIVELY LUNCH OF LIMAS November Networking! Just - with water mold and - CRACKED.COM - DESERVALLY Ever wanted to gnaw off your own foot? Now you can!

My Puppy Puddles

MY PUPPY PUDDLES ROMPER ROOM My Puppy PUDDLES Squeeze PUDDLES' collar & make him drink his water. Sit him on his training troy. My Puppy PUDDLES only puddles where he oughtal CRACKED.COM My Puppy PUDDLES only puddles in N taining tray. Ranked number one among toys with bladder infections.

Yoda Magic 8-Ball

UP MY SKIRT, YOU MUST LOOK, TO SEE YOUR FUTURE. 1600 Ages 4 and up No. 69370 STAR THE EMPIRE YODA STRIKES BACK THE JEDI MASTER. WARS Kenner CERTAIN CANNOT BE HE ANSWERS ALL YOUR Kenner QUESTIONS! - - . - - - HA It's the Yoda Magic 8-Ball, complete with mangled grammar. We assume the most-asked question is why? CRACKED.COM http://www.dallasvintagetoys.com/1981kennerstarwarsesbyodamagicBbalffortunetellerwbox.aspx

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