Vintage Toys & Tech Photos

savetz writes "Here's a fun site: Consumer Reports magazine's vintage photo gallery, in which you can see photos from when the magazine reviewed electric toasters in 1956, in-car record players in 1961, radio sunglasses in 1966, and other good stuff. Don't forget about the flaming Nerf ball."

Comments

just me?

[trans_err]

is this just me or do all these new products seem a bit dated?

Flaming Nerf Ball

[Cyno01]

This brings to mind that classic SNL sketch...Consumer Reporter: Well, let's try this one. What about this little foam play ball? I mean, even you, Mr. Mainway, can't find anything dangerous about this. Huh? Irwin Mainway: [ takes ball, bounces it on table, then shoves it in his throat and feigns choking ]

Re:Dangerous Toys

[caternater]

Good god! It has a 157dB blast. I guess the kids went through two pairs of pants... first from wetting himself with excitement, then from crapping himself after hearing that *boom*.

Nerf ball on fire sounds silly, but...

[dagg]

When I was like 12 years old... me and my friends used to try shoving fireworks into, or taping fireworks onto everything not living. We did it to nerf balls, frisbees, He-men, Fisher Price guys, and water balloons. We'd often light the firework, throw the item and stare. Was a lot of fun. Good thing the nerf balls never burst into flames. If they did... we would have did it more often :-).

--Yer Sex while flying

Re:My parents own some of these!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe it's time to move out of the basement.

Flaming Nerf Ball?

[A non moose cow]

The nerf ball failed because it caught fire after being exposed to a lit match?

I guess they also condemned:
1. coloring books
2. jigsaw puzzles
3. the hair on childrens heads

Why didn't they just condemn matches?

Re:Dangerous Toys

[CaseyB]

Fun Toy Banned Because Of Three Stupid Dead Kids