#Toys 90s nostalgia movie#

How cool! I’m sure every kid who saw Harry Potter wanted to get a magic wand and a broomstick A-S-A-P.īut parents seemed to see something entirely different in this toy. One such item being the Nimbus 2000 vibrating broomstick.

#Toys 90s nostalgia movie#

A classic movie moment, and one I will always remember.Ī popular franchise like Harry Potter is bound to spawn a ton of great merchandising opportunities. I went and saw it with my friends (we were all about 19 at the time), and I remember how freakin amazing it was when Harry steps out into Diagon Alley and a whole new world opened up to him.

The first Harry Potter film hit theaters in 2001. Speaking of cases… one family won a lawsuit against the company for about half a million dollars for the medical damage it did to their child.Ĭheck out this USA Today article about the Aqua Dots debacle. Unfortunately for them that was not the case. Needless to say, Aqua Dots were voluntarily pulled from shelves, and the manufacturer prayed that the memory of them would disappear into obscurity. A little compound made notorious for being involuntarily ingested while on dates.Īnd it turned out GHB wasn’t good for kids either. What did that specific chemical agent do when ingested, you ask? Well, it created Gamma-hydroxybutyrate. The thing about that is that the Chinese manufacturer of the tiny liquid filled dots actually filled them with a chemical agent not prescribed by the inventor of the toy. Well, the Aqua Dots did, in fact, have something added to them. Which is never really a good thing.īut companies do typically warn against this, and even go as far as to create deterrents (such as adding a bitter tasting coating to their toys). Just one small problem with the Aqua Dots… not an uncommon problem with children’s toys… kids were eating them. I remember going to the store with my young cousin and him begging our grandma to buy some. Insanely popular for their short lived time on the market. Little colorful dots filled with liquid that you can arrange into pictures.