D'oh.

[mamajoan]

The annual Top Ten Worst Toys list is out, from toy safety watchdog group WATCH, and I own one of the toys on it!

It's the Pound-A-Ball toy. It's actually a great toy IMO, based on the very unscientific reason that Isaac likes it. You put the balls on the top and hit them, and they fall into the toy and roll down ramps and stuff. He loves it -- but we hit the balls with our hands, not with the provided mallet, because its noise freaks Isaac out. And according to WATCH, the mallet is the dangerous part, so I feel okay about keeping the toy. ;) I actually threw the mallet out, after we used it in the bathtub one time and it started leaking some icky-colored fluid. (I'm assuming it got bathwater in it and something inside rusted and the leak was rusty water. In any case, ew.)

Ironically, we got the toy as a gift from a coworker whose wife works in a toy store and picked it out for us. Hmm.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

For whatever reason, that site rubs me utterly the wrong way. I'm not sure what it is.

[frightened.livejournal.com]

Dude! That sounds like a fantastic toy! Would've been hours of endless amusement when I was little.

(I see what they mean about them trying sword-swallowing with that handle, but as long as you're not using the mallet and/or supervising him, should be fine, right?)

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, until Isaac got interested in it, I had a fair amount of fun playing with it myself. :) And yeah, I'm not worried about it at all. The mallet is gone and I do supervise him in general anyway. Duh!