This toy went with the strategy of taking darts, a game clearly unsafe for children, and deciding it would be safer if it were 10 times larger, and if the rules were changed so that the target was basically your entire lawn.
And, since it requires the kid who pulls the chord to stand within a foot of it, there's always a good chance it will be the kid bending his face directly in its whirring propellers of death who will feel the brunt of its fury. However, when activated by a pull cord, it becomes a hyper-kinetic missile searching for the vulnerable parts of anyone within a 3-foot radius. It's got foam propellers that look about as huggable as a propeller can look and it's too big for a toddler to stuff halfway down their esophagus. To the untrained, uninjured eye, this toy might not seem so harmless on the surface. Six years later, Hasbro scooped up Galoob and found itself ordering a massive recall when it was learned the magic fairies would randomly fly in any direction at a high rate of speed and bitch slap children and even their parents like a white trash Tinkerbell after a bottle of lukewarm Jack Daniels. The company went on to re-release the toy several times as flying dolphins, flowers and ponies-all with different, presumably increasingly gay, names. Children would put the helicopter toy on a mechanical base, pull the cord and watch its foam propeller pull it high into the sky. It was an unholy alliance between the pretty girlishness of a Barbie doll and the magic of a whirly bird. Galoob unleashed Sky Dancers in November 1994.
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