Who remembers those elaborate Medieval battle sets that they sold for the use of

[Baitball Blogger]

children, that they probably wouldn't do today because some of the pieces were danger?

I thought I remember one where they had a primitive artillery weapon that was composed of a timber with a pretend forged metal arrow head. You would mount the timber on this portable spring-loaded base, and turn the timber into a projectile.

Does anyone remember this?

[Karadeniz]

1. Yikes! Never heard of this! About when was it sold?

[Baitball Blogger]

2. It would have been late sixties.

[grumpyduck]

3. I remember some of those, although not that specific one.

That was back in the day when people took responsibility for their own actions and parents took responsibility for what their kids did. IOW, when people used common sense and weren't so much into finger-pointing and lawsuits.

[Aristus]

4. Are you saying that the toy industry doesn't have a responsibility to make safe toys?

Personal responsibility is a good thing.

So is corporate responsibility.

[grumpyduck]

7. Not saying that at all.

But we all know that the business world will create stuff that "should not" be sold, or that hasn't been tested, for the purpose of making money. Here's where people need to make common-sense decisions as to whether to buy products or not, and whether they're safe to use in their own life. And if they buy them, and something happens, they "should" take responsibility for their choice.

When I was a kid in the sixties, my parents would refuse to buy me anything they thought wasn't safe, no matter how much I wanted it. I used to love to take mechanical toys apart and put them back together, but, if (for instance) I cut myself on a sharp edge, they didn't go out and blame the toymaker and get a lawyer. They just took care of the cut and tried to teach me to be more careful next time.

Now, as far as making safe toys -- who's going to decide what's safe? From what I'm seeing nowadays, if you listen to enough people, NOTHING will be considered safe.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Some of those toys were prone for accidents.

[Claire Oh Nette]

10. gen x had some bad ass toys...

mini-artillery that shot arrow, lawn darts (what could possibly go wrong?), bb guns as toys, the original clangers or ker-bangers made of glass! Big Wheel with no brakes, and general unsupervised free time outside.

At least in suburban southeast Los Angeles county in the early 70s.

Good times, good times.

[grumpyduck]

11. We had plastic military weapons

that fired little blue bullets (I thought they were blue so you could find them in the grass, but I may be wrong): pistols, rifles, even a belt-fed anti-aircraft gun. Revolvers with spring-loaded bullets. Plastic swords, shields, and helmets. Bows and arrows (with suction cup tips). And other stuff I don't remember. This was in the early sixties.

And somehow we survived.

[Turin_C3PO]

14. Not everyone survived.

Kids died choking on certain toys, eyes were put out by BB guns, etc. It’s a good thing that the toy industry wised up and started making safe toys.

[brewens]

6. Trump should bring back lawn darts. Only his followers would buy them anyway.

[bluedigger]

8. Ah, the toys of my youth!

[Brother Buzz]

9. I always thought the Medieval battle sets were relegated to the old farts....

who spent hours painting the die cast pieces.

We had the molded plastic WW11 army stuff. The rich kids had the cool die cast army vehicles, but we were strictly infantry foot soldiers.

[hunter]

12. As I recall the Sears Christmas Wishbook had several pages of these.

Medieval, Cowboys and Indians, Civil War, World War One and Two, etc..

[Baitball Blogger]

13. My dad probably did buy it from Sears.