The Most Dangerous Toys Of All Time

Creepy Crawlers

This toy was seemingly in response to the wildly popular Easy-Bake Oven, a lightbulb disguised as an oven which was marketed to young girls. Mattel assumed boys would rather play with bugs than bake cakes, and so released an oven that baked bugs rather than cakes. The problem was that the open-face electric hot plate on which the bugs were cooked could reach temperatures up to 390 °F (199 °C). Not only could children inhale the toxic fumes of liquid plastic being superheated, but they could also reach right in the oven and sear the skin off of their little hands.