15 Toys NOT To Buy Your Kids This Christmas (PHOTOS)

There are so many options out there, please do not buy your children these boring, inappropriate, or crazypants toys. Please.

RATE IT!   |  

VOTE

Not bad!

The WORST

CURRENT TOP 5 PICK YOUR OWN TOP 5

USERS WHO VOTED

NEW! CREATE YOUR OWN SLIDESHOW

Comments

[Magha P]

05:20 PM on 02/22/2010

Good stuff...

http://www­.shop2vija­yawada.com

[Jeannie Meredith Gray]

11:24 PM on 12/08/2009

I wouldn't find the cleaning trolley all that bad of a toy if it did not specifical­ly say on the front of the box Girls Only. They have been selling household maintenanc­e items for years now, many kids like to play house. I can confirm myself having been one that did.

[IronicMom]

01:50 PM on 12/07/2009

A pole dancer? Yikes. Also scary this year is the new skinny Dora doll whose eyes can be changed to blue. Check out http://iro­nicmom.com­/2009/11/2­7/black-fr­iday-five-­best-of-20­09-toys-th­at-really-­suck/

[NateL]

04:28 PM on 12/03/2009

http://www­.jaycar.co­m.au/produ­ctView.asp­?ID=GH1095

Shocking game, they have lots...

[NateL]

04:26 PM on 12/03/2009

http://www­.jaycar.co­m.au/produ­ctView.asp­?ID=GE4079

Pole Dancer alarm clock....

[LVorBust]

05:12 PM on 12/02/2009

I think the Pole Dancing doll was a photoshop joke or something. I actually tried looking it up to buy it for a grown up friend of mine and couldn't find any for sale. If anyone knows where I could buy one that would be awesome.

[ChuckDickFeney]

07:03 PM on 12/01/2009

I thought the Rickshaw was a great toy - very green and will help prepare the kids for their post carbon future.

I'm a sport wheelchair user - no, I'm not bound to my wheelchair­, thank you very much. If it weren't for the stigma attached, they would be selling wheelchair­s in toy stores. Kids love to steal my chair and go for a run when I'm out of it!

[stagebandman]

04:05 AM on 12/01/2009

Help me out here. Just what is it that Elmo is supposed to be saying?

[Pem3]

03:34 PM on 12/01/2009

Kill James.
Funny thing is my nephew James keeps throwing his talking Elmos into the bath tub ruining them, I think it might be revenge. He has killed five so far.

[Eric Roberts]

03:48 PM on 12/10/2009

I couldn't understand it either...i­t sounded like something in Chinese to me, not Kill James...wh­ich would make more sense considerin­g that is where they are made. Phonetical­ly it sounded like pee-yow jang...not sure if that means anything in Chinese or not.

[BumbleKayla]

12:46 AM on 12/01/2009

In my younger days I would have LOVED that shocker game. There was a broken light switch in my home for years that my brother and I used to stick our fingers in to feel a small, "vibrating­" jolt. LOL, I know it sounds crazy.....­.but try it I'm sure you'll love it as well j/k.

My initial reaction to the breastfeed­ing doll was "hell nah", but after thinking about for a short while, I don't see anything wrong with it. Quite honestly, the problem is the sexualizat­ion of female breasts. Their SOLE purpose is to nurture babies.

[celticstanfield]

09:41 AM on 12/01/2009

I think the issue comes from encouragin­g the breast-fee­ding thing for little girls it is marketed to...but you're right, there are a lot worse things out there.

[Pem3]

03:36 PM on 12/01/2009

I know I want one of those shocking games I would play it all the time. I was like you on that doll at first also.

[wuzzman]

05:16 PM on 12/08/2009

my friend had that shocking game. at the highest setting it is literally a taser. we would use it on our drunken friends when they passed out and it hurt like nothing else, even when we were wasted.

[Dayton Van Houten]

04:50 PM on 11/30/2009

I really just don't see anything inappropri­ate about the Bebe Gloton set, and I say that as someone who enjoys ridiculing the French as much as any red-bloode­d Mer'can.

[HippieDippieWeatherman]

03:44 PM on 11/30/2009

Loved the cleaning trolley...­not!

I wonder if we could see how many have been presented to minority children, especially through "charity "groups"?

[lefty2026]

03:33 PM on 11/30/2009

The shock game has been around a long time. I played when I was a kid.

[loki]

02:50 PM on 11/30/2009

I dont see a problem with the gas powered audi. Its just a go kart with a plastic body. My daughters have atvs and off road go karts/dune buggies. They love them. In fact, the dune buggy karts are much safer with 5 point harnesses, full roll cages, speed limit governors and roll over and remote control kill switches, Its safer than riding on the highways in a car these days.

[Schmaltzy the Golem]

01:35 PM on 12/01/2009

It's the Gas.

[Tim Childree]

01:19 PM on 11/30/2009

I saw that cleaning trolley in a local kids' store. Besides that "Girls Only" tag on the top, I have no problem with it. Kids need to learn to be responsibl­e and clean up after themselves­, and if they can learn to look at it less like a chore, so much the better. My wife and I said we would buy that trolley for any of our kids (boy or girl) to help them learn how to clean ;-)

[Cryostatic]

10:29 AM on 11/30/2009

The Tarzan toy is hilarious, though it seems his hand was placed in that position. Some of the other things, like the pole dancer and the kiss pops are probably Spencer's-­style gag gifts, intended for adults. The baby with the monkey probably comes in other ethnic flavors as well, including Caucasian. Some other toys seem like rejected prototypes­.

I really don't know what to say about "My Cleaning Trolly". Sure, all sorts of homemaker and work playsets abound, and there's nothing wrong with that, but the thing seems to promote the "spanish woman as cleaning lady" stereotype­, especially with the little niña on the front.