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This years must have toys

Every year is a scramble to get the toys that everyone is talking about, and every kid wants! And this year is no exception! So here is a run down of this years must have toys. To put you ahead of the pack! (toys maybe fictional, much like Santa Claus)





Oh and here is a run down of
The top 10 ReCalled toys


1. Mini hammocks from EZ Sales   

Date recalled: August 1996

Reason: The company recalled nearly 3 million of these products after 12 confirmed fatalities by asphyxiation and numerous reports of near-death entrapments in which children became entangled in the hammock webbing. The hammocks lacked spreader bars at either end, allowing them to close around kids who lay in them.

  
2. Fisher-Price Power Wheels Motorcycle   

Date recalled: August 2000   

Reason: On certain models, the accelerator jammed, striking terror into the hearts of riders on these very real toy motorbikes. Fisher-Price recalled 218,000 units; it is unclear how many injuries resulted from crashes due to stuck accelerators.

 
3. Sky Dancers Flying Dolls     

Date recalled: June 2000   

Reason: These hard plastic dolls were designed to fly but lacked reliable controls, and thus flew in unpredictable directions. Due to more than 150 injuries (including temporary blindness, broken teeth, concussion, broken rib and lacerations), almost 9 million units were recalled.  


4. Aqua Dots by Spin Master

Date recalled: November 2007

Reason: These Chinese-made craft sets included small beads that contained a chemical that, when ingested, metabolized into the notorious "date rape" drug gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB). The CPSC reported that two children who had inadvertently swallowed the beads became comatose for hours, and one child was hospitalized for five days. The company recalled 4.2 million units.   


5. Clackers

Date recalled: These were sold in the early 1970s, predating the CPSC (which was created in 1972).

Reason: Clackers, which were also marketed under other names, consisted of two acrylic balls, each about the size of plum, which swung on either end of a string about a foot to 18 inches long. The balls were heavy, leading to numerous reports of injury when they smacked into kids' faces, often when the connecting string broke. The balls also occasionally shattered, causing cuts in kids. The products drew a safety warning — but not a recall — from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1971 and, later that year, a mandate that they be made with shatterproof balls and nylon cords.    


6. Easy-Bake Oven by Hasbro    

Date recalled: February and July 2007

Reason: Some 250 children got their hands or fingers caught in the oven’s opening, resulting in 77 reported burns. This included one 5-year-old girl who required a partial finger amputation.


7. Skippy Pool Toys by Swimways

Date recalled: November 2007   

Reason: These rubber fish-shaped pool toys contained a loop of elastic tubing shaped like a tongue that was used to launch the fish across the water like a slingshot. Swimways received 24 reports of the toy breaking during use. Five children were injured, including one child who required stitches in the hand. Another child’s thumbnail was ripped back from the nail bed.


8. Big Red Wagon by The Sportsman's Guide   

Date recalled: May 2002   

Reason: The four rubber wheels of the Big Red Wagon had plastic rims that could break and explode when being inflated. The Sportsman's Guide reported eight incidents of exploding tires, three of which involved adult consumers who sustained lacerations to the hand and abrasions.


9. Jarts and other versions of lawn darts

Date recalled: 1980s (multiple recalls)   

Reason: Lawn darts were responsible for 6,700 injuries and four deaths. The offending darts were heavily weighted on the business end, causing them to sharply pierce whatever they struck — tragically including many children.   


10. Snacktime Cabbage Patch Dolls by Mattel

Date recalled: Dolls were “withdrawn from store shelves” in January 1997 but were never formally recalled, as the CPSC stated that its testing did not reveal a hazard.

Reason: These models in the then-popular Cabbage Patch family had automated jaws designed to help kids learn how to feed even smaller kids. The problem: The doll didn't know what it was chewing. The CPSC received 35 reports of the dolls chomping human parts, namely fingers and hair.
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