As the current holiday shopping season ramps up in to top gear, a non-profit children’s safety organization known as W.A.T.C.H. (World Against Toys Causing Harm) has listed their Top 10 Unsafest Toys for the 2018 Holiday Season. Gracing the list this year at Number 4 is none other than Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel, specifically the Superstar Blade roleplay item. As W.A.T.C.H. states in their description of the item:
HAZARD: POTENTIAL FOR BLUNT FORCE AND EYE INJURIES!
W.A.T.C.H. OUT! Young children are encouraged to “power up” with this “Super Ninja Steel” spring-loaded plastic blade, with the potential to cause facial and other impact injuries.
The roleplay item’s functionality is a spring loaded mechanism that shoots out a few inches. The organization’s fears stem from the fact that the item is a sword (meant to be swung at people) and that the spring loaded feature could inadvertently cause facial injury to the wielder.
TokuNation.com advises parents and collectors alike to use common sense when handling a children’s toy and if you purchase the item for your child to be a parent and explain how to, and how not to, play with it. Check out the full press release by clicking here.
W.A.T.C.H. says the Superstar Blade is the 4th most unsafe toy of 2018. Eek.
http://news.tokunation.com/2018/11/1...-of-2018-56838
Well, it is a sword toy, and children will inevitably try to smack others with it.
But I guess the spring loaded gimmick could be dangerous, too.
This does lead me to reminisce about my Lost Galaxy Quasar Saber, which had an extending blade gimmick. It wasn't spring loaded, though, but manual, and I quickly learned as a kid that swinging it hard enough could force the extending gimmick
An eyesore in more ways than one, then.
Anyone else see the name of the toy safety group and think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldyraUyiU-A
Because I can't be the only one, can I?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldyraUyiU-A
Because I can't be the only one, can I?
FYI, never saw that show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldyraUyiU-A
Because I can't be the only one, can I?
Silliness aside, some of these complaints are things the toy itself says might happen and to not do what they are calling them out for what may happen
I agree sitting a kid down and telling them what and what not to do with a toy, look at Shinkenger and the folding mecha's and that instruction sheet it came with. Just say what could happen, and yeah it would be dangerous, but it is said what will happen if you use it wrongly
I think if anything this is a good sign. If they have to stretch this much for a list placement - something that has adequate warnings and no explicitly bad parts - then that just goes to show how few dangerous toys there are these days and how better toy companies have gotten at avoiding harm towards kids. It's one of the best things I could have heard from that perspective
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