‘What are toys you had that you would shudder to give your kids now?’ – 21 playthings that would never make it past health and safety today

12.

‘Mercury maze.’
–Few-Entrepreneur-924

13.

‘Not a toy as such but climbing frames in public places were pretty mental, even our primary school. It was all modular scaffold, many a person was winded from falling and teeth were cracked. We bounced though.’
–TowJamnEarl

14.

‘I have a faint memory of a toy monkey that smoked real cigarettes. Oh we laughed and coughed.’
–tripleok

15.

‘I had a kids’ microscope. I went through a phase where I would put literally everything under it to see. Dead insects, different chemicals, plants. My mum once found me scratching my arm trying to get some blood to look at it under he microscope and set a rule I was only allowed under supervision.’
–SnakesInMcDonalds

16.

‘In the 90’s our Nan gave us a chemistry set that was from the 1960’s.’
–Clear-Two-3885

‘Pretty sure my chemistry set had actual radium in it.’
–Informal-Tour-8201

17.

‘Those sky fairy things that you pulled a rip cord on the base and they flew, after I had to have one cut out of my hair.’
–bethelns

18.

‘Remember my older brother getting a Black Widow slingshot then had it confiscated for firing it and breaking a window.’
–StereotypicallBarbie

19.

‘Miniature farm toys. Made of lead!’
–Jughead_91

20.

‘I had a fully working steam train toy with its railway tracks to go with it. Puffed out real smoke too.’
–Neobahamonkey-1

21.

‘So. Many. Toy. Guns.’
–Obvious-Water569

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