Scootaloodle 1,622 March 22, 2015 Share March 22, 2015 Hopefully I'm posting in the right place, wasn't sure where to put this. I saw this article on MSN news, and it caught my eye because of the picture of the old pony toys. Apparently old school toys including MLP ones have been found to contain toxic stuff like lead. I thought it was interesting so figured i'd post it... Link below http://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/parenting/toys-from-the-seventies-and-eighties-could-be-poisoning-your-children/ar-BBiyzgO?ocid=mailsignoutmd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Snyder 4,112 March 22, 2015 Share March 22, 2015 Hopefully I'm posting in the right place, wasn't sure where to put this. I saw this article on MSN news, and it caught my eye because of the picture of the old pony toys. Apparently old school toys including MLP ones have been found to contain toxic stuff like lead. I thought it was interesting so figured i'd post it... Link below http://www.msn.com/en-gb/lifestyle/parenting/toys-from-the-seventies-and-eighties-could-be-poisoning-your-children/ar-BBiyzgO?ocid=mailsignoutmd If they are foreign, then yes. But other than that, not yet sure. And i bet those mcdonald's EG girl dolls were as well. 1 //// My persona and OC: Candy Star //// Ask me anything: Ask Candy Star //// My Music //// //// My DA: (OC requests available) //// Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorn O Discord 118 March 23, 2015 Share March 23, 2015 Ah yes, ponies laced with nuerotoxins. Can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday night. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunia 332 March 29, 2015 Share March 29, 2015 Well, those are the type of ponies not to donate to Goodwill. Signature made by me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1111 1,284 March 29, 2015 Share March 29, 2015 I'm not too sure how old these toys are because the link is not working for me but there was a time in the last 90 years were kids could play with dangerous chemicals and even radioactive materials in science sets, and lead was considered harmless and company's would market lead products to kids. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fhaolan 4,483 March 29, 2015 Share March 29, 2015 There have been several recalls of toys due to lead paint being used. This was a serious problem back in the day, and lead paint was banned from toy manufacturing in the US in 1978, which predates even Gen 1 MLP toys. However, just because it's illegal, doesn't mean it doesn't still happen. There's been several recalls for lead in toys, the last one I'm aware of was some wooden toys manufactured in Peru last year. I've done a search for recalled MLP toys, and came up blank, but I might not have phrased the search right. The biggest lead-paint recall I can find was for a variety of stuff from Mattel (not Hasbro) in 2007 that were manufactured in China. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seiya-Meteorite 22 February 16, 2016 Share February 16, 2016 (edited) This honestly concerns me...I've been collecting some G1 ponies (I'm a G1/G4), but now I'm worried that I may have picked up some poisonous ones if I'm not careful.... I've got G1s Twilight, Ember, Cotton Candy, Scoops, Whizzer, Surprise, Baby Surprise, and Baby Firefly, and am planning to get more. I dunno what to do either...I mean, I've tested toys for lead before (and one must have had one, it was a Thomas toy set), but I don't want to lose any of the ponies I've collected... Anyone have any tips? Edited February 16, 2016 by Seiya-Meteorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just a luna fan 50 February 16, 2016 Share February 16, 2016 I would donate the recalls to goodwill(not) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seiya-Meteorite 22 February 16, 2016 Share February 16, 2016 (edited) I would donate the recalls to goodwill(not) But the problem is, I don't even know if any were recalled or not. One person said they tried to search it up and said they got blank results, but they may have worded them wrong.. According to this here: http://www.watoxics.org/files/Phthalates_Report.pdf, My Little Pony only got 0.4% of phthalates (is that what lead paint is or a type of it?) So I guess I'm fine....I've also found out apparently these recalls only happened in the 2000's...so I'm guessing the 80's toys may be safe...I hope... Edited February 16, 2016 by Seiya-Meteorite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just a luna fan 50 February 16, 2016 Share February 16, 2016 But the problem is, I don't even know if any were recalled or not. One person said they tried to search it up and said they got blank results, but they may have worded them wrong.. According to this here: http://www.watoxics.org/files/Phthalates_Report.pdf, My Little Pony only got 0.4% of phthalates (is that what lead paint is or a type of it?) So I guess I'm fine....I've also found out apparently these recalls only happened in the 2000's...so I'm guessing the 80's toys may be safe...I hope... you know I was just joking I wouldn't donate recalled toys I just have a dark sense of humor sometimes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seiya-Meteorite 22 February 16, 2016 Share February 16, 2016 I didn't know you were joking, sorry. But still, I just hope the ones I collected are alright... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seiya-Meteorite 22 March 20, 2016 Share March 20, 2016 One more thing I wanted to say, I wouldn't worry too much about the G1/G4 ponies figures, there haven't been any articles saying whether or not they've been recalled. Just wanted to point it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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