19 Reviews
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- MadCatX rated 5 weeks agotoys
- I rode an oil drum/garbage can down a big slide once and cut my head open. I think it as extreme attempt at making an otherwise sterile playground dangerous again. It earned me 10 stitches and a new talent for lying through my teeth while still bawling my face off.
 Divadrummer rated 3 months agotoys - I cracked my head open when I was 2 on some dangerous playground equipment, and I still approve.
- CantaloupeSwing rated 4 months agotoys
- Yeah, that's the trouble with kids today: they don't face enough perils in the playground. Shove some of these spoilt brattish kids down a 20 ft high slide. Watch how the 20 mile per hour head-first descent down burning hot metal combined with the promise of butt strewn, piss-stained concrete meeting their faces rapidly alters behaviour.
Fuck therapy. Put them in a perilous playground of yesteryear.
- whomajigi rated 4 months agotoys
- The pussification of our children...
I remember my childhood playground before it got torn down and made into a plastic paradise. My favorite thing there was this carosel-esque thing. You would sit on the little seats on top and someone would spin you. The reason this thing was so awesome? You could go underneath it, where there were bars you could push (think of the classic ship, where people are pushing something to pull up the anchor) and make it go faster. Sounds great right? It was. Except that if you stopped pushing or got tired, you'd get slammed by hot and heavy metal directly into your neck. I never saw someone get hurt as we all had common sense, but looking back now, that feature was a complete deathtrap.
Oh and swings...I was terrified of swings for years, scared to death that I would flip over the bar. I'm pretty sure that modern swings are designed so it is impossible to even feel like you are going to flip over.
- eljaytee rated 4 months agotoys
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Kids are wimps today!!
- Sololop rated 4 months agotoys
- We had a playground with wooden and steel monkey bars, a tire swing, multiple sets of swings, steel slides, and a merry go round. It has all been completely replaced with new plastic monkey bars, plastic slides, and no more tire swing. It's so boring now.
- pawes rated 4 months agotoys
- I like this and agree that the playgrounds of yesteryear were much better.
- adamp237 rated 4 months agotoys
- Plastic slides suck though, because by the time you get to the bottom you've generated enough static electricity to run a home for an hour. Next time you touch something metal "BAM" electric shock.
- Razorbladez rated 4 months agotoys
- you know that they're actually making swings that only swing so high as to avoid kids jumping/falling off once you reach that spot where you float above the seat for a moment? despicable!
- memachelle rated 4 months agotoys, children, parents, overprotection, classic-playground-equipment
- aaahhhh the good ol' days ... where have they gone??? we protect kids from so much now that a simple roasted peanut chokes them because parents have been told they must chew the food and regurgitate it into their spawns open mouth ..
From the page: There was a certain Fire Pole Form too, a kind of arms-on, cross-legged-spider-wrap maneuver that was both awkward and majestic at the same time.
And of course, there was my favorite the Big Spinner, also known as a Merry-Go-Round, but not the kind with lights and plastic horses going up and down. This was just a giant metal circle that laid about a foot off the ground and could be spun, usually by someone standing beside it. If you were lucky youd get a pile of kids on there and somebody's mom or dad would kindly whip you into a World of Unimaginable Dizziness. A couple kids would fly off from the G-forces but most would hang on, teeth gritted, eyes squinted, cheeks flapping wildly against the wind, until the Big Spinner reluctantly came to a slow stop and finally let you off. Then you'd all walk away in different directions, some kids hitting tree trunks head on, others falling down nearby hills.
These days those classic playgrounds sure are hard to come by
day'mn ya just can't find a good stomach-wrenching merry-go-round these days ... unless you're lucky enough to find an old church that hasn't modified their equiment in 3 decades .... i sure do miss the old playground equipment ... slides so hot you made sure only the seat of your pants touched as you slide down .... swings going so high that you just knew you were going to flip over the bar ... and then, letting go at the apex of the swing to jump and land on ground as hard as concrete with broken beer bottles all about ... and yet, we lived through it all , without carseats, safety helmets, and other LAWS that big brother deems necessary to protect us from ourselves.
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