Ah lawn darts....how I miss throwing them at my little brother and watching him cry while trying to dodge them. It's a wonder that he's survived to this day.
EDIT: That pic of the kid with the lawn dart in his shoulder is more than worth the cost of clicking the link.
I still have a set...We played with them this summer when we went camping..I promtly put them in the trunk once booze broke out..drunken lawn darts makes baby jesus cry
All toys are dangerous if you don't use them properly. That's the fun of being a kid... figuring out how to use the toy in a destructive manner. I never thought lawn darts should be a KIDS toy anyways. Upper teens maybe, but why eliminate a product completely? Should regular darts go too?
I miss the METAL Tonka trucks that could take a finger if you weren't careful.
I remember when a kid on my block got one of the "new and improved" lawn dart sets. They featured rounded out tips and I think they filled them with cement. Yeah, real geniuses at the lawn dart company. Give kids blunt heavy objects that crush skulls, to toss around as a replacement, BRILLIANT!
I can't find the link right now but a while back I read about a toy cannon that was powered by calcium carbide and water, you weren't supposed to stick anything in the end, it just went bang. When you mix calcium carbide with water it produces acetylene so if you jammed something in the end you've got a bomb instead of a canon. On the plus side you'll be the envy of every kid on the block with your shiny new hook hands!
Ahh lawn darts. Reminds me of the bow & arrow set I got when I was 10 which wasn't exactly a toy. The bow was about 4 feet tall, not compound. "I shot an arrow in the air.. " I got nailed in my crown with a target arrow (blunt tip) but I still have no idea how it didn't crack through and skewer gray matter. It had to have been the thick skull.
Sky dancers? come ON, that shit was AWESOME!
Which kid wouldn't be happy with something that flies and mauls? Truth be told, the wings really were pretty foamy and soft.
Now the Thundercats Thunderclaw, that thing was cool. It really snapped shut pretty hard.
Man My brother and I used to play "Ninjas" in the 80's with lawn darts, throwing them at each other and then dodging so that they darts would stick in trees. My sister refuced to play and stayed inside.
The Increadible Edibles barely were edible, and the bottles for their sauce looked just like the Creepy Crawly's "Plastigoop" bottle so you dodn't want to mix them. There were some cool critters in the late series Crawlies, Monsters that came in parts that you would assemble, in all their Big Daddy Roth goodness.
Matteol had other cool "Heat Based" toys, Like one where you would get little plasic Block that you would put in "heat chamber" and they block would iunfold into Dinosaurs, animals or Monsters, and you could play with them, until you were bored, then heat them up and crush them back into little blocks (wioth a Mattel Logo on them.
Theother was the most useful "toy" ever, the Mattel Vacu-fomer. You would get cards of Syrene in various thicknesses, that fit in a fram at the top of the toy, like a door. the "dsoor would flop to one side ofer a steel heating element and you would watch the thing until you smelt the plastic and it sagged in the middle, then you would quickly flop the "door" over to the other side, which had a mold, with little hols in it, that sat in a fram attatched to a piston, and when you flopped the door over ontop the mold you hammered at the piston's l;ever with all you were worth iuntil the plastic cooled, Then you could cut out the pieces from the now molded sheet of styrene or cleat butrate, and assemble your new "toy". I jsued that thing for years making custom canolpies for plastic fighter kits, and for Space Shiop pieces for all of out amatuer movies up intil the late 80;s when the piston rings wore out and it had no suction any more.
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EDIT: That pic of the kid with the lawn dart in his shoulder is more than worth the cost of clicking the link.
LAWN DARTS 4 LIFE.
I remember when a kid on my block got one of the "new and improved" lawn dart sets. They featured rounded out tips and I think they filled them with cement. Yeah, real geniuses at the lawn dart company. Give kids blunt heavy objects that crush skulls, to toss around as a replacement, BRILLIANT!
http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/Auction_Item.asp?Auction_ID=31568
"As the inventor of the Erector Set..."
Which kid wouldn't be happy with something that flies and mauls? Truth be told, the wings really were pretty foamy and soft.
Now the Thundercats Thunderclaw, that thing was cool. It really snapped shut pretty hard.
http://www.toyarchive.com/Thundercats/Vehicles/Thunderclaw.html
The Increadible Edibles barely were edible, and the bottles for their sauce looked just like the Creepy Crawly's "Plastigoop" bottle so you dodn't want to mix them. There were some cool critters in the late series Crawlies, Monsters that came in parts that you would assemble, in all their Big Daddy Roth goodness.
Matteol had other cool "Heat Based" toys, Like one where you would get little plasic Block that you would put in "heat chamber" and they block would iunfold into Dinosaurs, animals or Monsters, and you could play with them, until you were bored, then heat them up and crush them back into little blocks (wioth a Mattel Logo on them.
Theother was the most useful "toy" ever, the Mattel Vacu-fomer. You would get cards of Syrene in various thicknesses, that fit in a fram at the top of the toy, like a door. the "dsoor would flop to one side ofer a steel heating element and you would watch the thing until you smelt the plastic and it sagged in the middle, then you would quickly flop the "door" over to the other side, which had a mold, with little hols in it, that sat in a fram attatched to a piston, and when you flopped the door over ontop the mold you hammered at the piston's l;ever with all you were worth iuntil the plastic cooled, Then you could cut out the pieces from the now molded sheet of styrene or cleat butrate, and assemble your new "toy". I jsued that thing for years making custom canolpies for plastic fighter kits, and for Space Shiop pieces for all of out amatuer movies up intil the late 80;s when the piston rings wore out and it had no suction any more.
Man parents these days are such wimps.
Scott