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** Considering lawn darts are pretty much the modern equivalent of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150511150810/http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=39726 plumbatae] of the Late Roman Empire...

** It gets worse - the placement of the targets? They were laid ''[[Too Dumb to Live|at the kids' feet]]''. Seriously, how on earth did any of them live to adulthood?<ref>MOD: What do you mean, "they"? ''We'' survived by not being stupid enough to stand at the target, no matter what the rules said.</ref>

** This tends to be emphasized when then appear in fiction - for instance, in ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' during the [[Joe Pesci]]/[[Napoleon Bonaparte]] fight. While this episode has many examples of this Trope, the lawn darts are regarded as the deadliest.

* The Atomic Energy Lab pictured above was a real toy. In 1951, A.C. Gilbert introduced his U-238 Atomic Energy Lab, a radioactive learning set we can only assume was fun for the whole math club. For a mere $49.50,<ref>According to [http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/ this site], the price would come out to somewhere in the range of $700 to $800 in 2013. Even the latest-generation video game consoles on the day of release aren't worth that much!</ref> the kit came complete with three "very low-level" radioactive sources<ref>Which wouldn't be at all dangerous to handle, but are extremely toxic if ingested.</ref>, a Geiger-Mueller radiation counter, a Wilson cloud chamber (to see paths of alpha particles), a spinthariscope (to see "live" radioactive disintegration), four samples of uranium-bearing ores, and an electroscope to measure radioactivity.

** [http://unitednuclear.com/ These guys] can hook you up, but it's not in one convenient set. And will run you a bit more than half a c-note.

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*** This adds [[Fridge Horror]] [[Adult Fear]]. Think about what would happen if you owned a gun and your child found it (even without bullets) and decided to play "Cowboys" with it. Now imagine what would happen if a police officer was driving by as your child was playing.

** An arcade shooting game had its gun replaced with a bright colored model because of this. Apparently when police entered arcades they were not amused to have realistically looking toy guns pointed at them.

** Similarly, [[Transformers Generation 1|the original version]] of the ''[[Transformers]]'' character Megatron transformed from a robot into a Walther P-38 pistol. More recent incarnations have transformed from a robot into [[Beast Wars|a dinosaur]], a jet, or a tank (for example) so that his action figures don't (legally) need to be bright orange.

** Similarly, [[Transformers Generation 1|the original version]] of the ''[[Transformers]]'' character Megatron transformed from a robot into a Walther P-38 pistol, which unfortunately looked like a real gun. More recent incarnations have transformed from a robot into [[Beast Wars|a dinosaur]], a jet, or a tank (for example) so that his action figures don't (legally) need to be bright orange.

*** The redesign of the original toy in 2006 turns into a differently-colored one-off of a Nerf Maverick blaster with orange safety cap, rather than the semi-realistic Walther P38. Despite this being ''legally mandated'', toy collectors ''still'' [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|complained]].

**** This was mocked in the [[Insecticomics]]' [[Fourth Wall Mail Slot|Ask Vector Prime A Question]] feature, where said Megatron writes in to say he's still dangerous, [[Beware the Nice Ones|able to disguise himself as a simple Nerf gun.]]