This is the toy. It has to be. It came out before yard darts so I am pretty sure that THIS WAS THE TOY. This was the toy that started our American trend towards law suits and all the Mothers of the world to embark on their mad dash to remove everything cool about being a kid. Maybe there were no lawyers before this toy, all I know is I couldn't believe I could get my hands on something so cool.
This toy was a mini oven/hot plate. It featured a cast iron heater that would get incredibly hot and melt these little plastic sheets into forms over molds that looked like cars, planes or any toy that could be bought from Hong Kong.
But we kids knew exactly what this toy could be. Something to fight to the death (or at least severe injury) over. Many wrestling matches ended with someone saying UNCLE just prior to having their hand pressed down on this incredibly hot little oven.
Shortly after this toy was on the market, and other great toys like yard darts (see more below***) the mother's of the country started to get tough on corporations for making cartoons with anvils dropping on heads, and bombs going off in the hands of cats, the Three Stooges, dangerous toys and fireworks. And that is when the world started to get all boring and safe.
*** Yard darts were those huge darts that had a real heavy, real pointy end. The object was to get on opposite ends of the lawn and throw them at each other, but technically you were supposed to be throwing them at a little plastic circle. It only took a few hundred ex-ray pictures of these things lodged into kid's skulls for the mothers to get this fab toy off the market.
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