While everyone is up and about trying to find gifts for their children, a consumer watchdog group, World Against Toys Causing Harm (WATCH) scrounged different stores looking for toys that are deemed unsafe for children.
WATCH has been releasing the list of "10 Worst Toys" annually for over for 30 years now, according to CBS Local.
This year's list of "Top 10 Worst Toys" includes an Air Storm Firetek Bow which ias a light-up bow and arrow, Catapencil, a pencil with a mini slingshot-style launcher attached, and Bottle Rocket Party, a set of bottle rockets powered by baking soda and vinegar.
Also included in the list are Radio Flyer Ziggle, a four-wheeled cycle, Alphabet Zoo Rock and Stack Pull Toy, Realistic SWAT Electric Machine Gun, Wooden Instruments for babies as potential choking hazard, Lil' Cutesies-Best Friends, a doll small parts potential choking and True Legends Orcs Battle Hammer, a hard plastic toy hammer.
James Swartz, the consumer watchdog's director said that they shop around different retailers throughout the year, especially during the holiday season.
"In toy stores they walk up and down the aisle quite literally, but go online more often," he said.
Some of the toys on this year's list have already been included in past years, and still make it year after year, "even for decades."
These toys a=have projectiles and small parts that can be choking hazards, as well as toys with long cords that can cause strangulation.
Swartz reported that some of the manufacturers of these toys defended their products saying that they have followed existing regulations.
However, Swartz said that though these manufacturers follow toy regulations, those regulations are "inadequate" because the Consumer Products Safety Commission has no money to begin with to impose stricter rules on these toy makers.
"For example the regulations require that something marketed and sold as a crib toy have a cord that's 12 inches long, but a toy marketed as a pull toy for the same-age child, can have a cord 20 inches or longer," Swartz said.
