BIG FAT TOY EDITION

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Toys From the 70's Easy Bake Oven, Gay Bob, Jarts, and more ... My sister had an Easy Bake oven, and later, so did my kids in the 1970s.  ALAS .. After a release of a new Easy-Bake Oven model in May 2006, Hasbro received reports of 29 children getting their hands or fingers caught in the front-loading door, including 5 reports of burns. In February 2007, the Consumer Product Safety Commission ... well, got involved.  SO NOW The 21st-century version, the Easy-Bake Ultimate Oven, comes with games, videos and downloads, but it requires no light bulbs. That's right, no light bulbs. What's an Easy-Bake Oven without light bulbs? Well, since it has a heating element similar to a conventional oven, it's really just a miniature oven. "Why wouldn't I just use a real oven?" reads one of the online Easy-Bake Ultimate Oven FAQs. "The Easy-Bake brand is a fashionable fun food brand that inspires tween girls to bake, share and show their creativity and expertise through an immersive brand experience." Now I get it. You can fake your cake and eat it too. [Indy Week] We had Lawn Jarts, and it was, as I remember it,  the only game we, as a family, played with any regularity.   Badminton and Croquet took too long to set-up.  You may remember Jarts, if only because Sixty-Minutes got involved in having them banned.  A seven-year-old girl was killed by a lawn dart thrown by one of her brothers.  The 'Jarts' had been purchased unintentionally as part of a set of several different lawn games and were stored in the garage, never before having been played. The girls father began a crusade to get lawn darts banned, claiming that there was no way to keep children from getting their hands on lawn darts short of a full ban.  Sixty Minutes had that kind of clout.   The show later destroyed the Audi 300 and 500 brand, using falsified data but, somehow, only managed to air one report on the Clintons (Cattle Futures) until Slick's Impeachment seven years later. They were never banned. Gay Bob, The World's First Gay Doll For Everyone.  Flew under our radar in the 70's.  I only know about it because it's featured in Vintage Ad Browser.  We had GI Joe.  Nanny staters thought GI JOE GI was a violent toy.   Unplugged Here's an Easy Bake Oven alternative that pointedly goes after both boys and girls.  Who could complain about this? (ROLL)