The 33 Most Ridiculous Toys Ever
The what-were-they-thinking hall of fame.
by Cole Gamble
December 16, 2008
15. Pee and Poo
Again with the scatological humor. Okay, Japan, we get it. You love bodily waste. Maybe these toys are meant to engender a friendly attitude between your child and potty training, but how affectionate do we want our kids getting with their excrement? And what if the plan backfires and your kids get the impression that gigantic creatures with eyeballs are going to come out of their orifices?
14. Gelli Baff
You add a packet of this powder to your child's bath and it turns into goo. They already invented it. It's called Jell-O and it's delicious. Gelli Baff, on the other hand, is terrible. The above picture, incidentally, is one of the most disturbing I have seen in some time.
13. Chef Mario's Bento Plate
Hey, eating plastic raw fish has got to be safer than eating real raw fish.
12. Lawn Darts
No one knows how to play lawn darts. I think if you remain unpunctured by the end of the game, you are a winner. Lawn darts, with their sharp metal projectile-ness, derive from a simpler time when only one out of three kids survived childhood and everybody was okay with that. You should never allow your child to play with a toy that you'd be wary to have drunk Uncle Frank play with.
11. Skip It
Hey kid, don't have any friends to jump rope with? Let me introduce myself — I'm Skip It, the jumping game for outcasts like you. We're going to have a lot of fun together. By the way, if you fail to jump over me, I will slap you hard in the leg.
©2008 Babble
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Cole Gamble is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. He's working on an evil self-help guide titled Improve Your Life or Die.
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