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A 4-Year-Old’s Death Forced Mattel to Change This ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Toy

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A 4-Year-Old’s Death Forced Mattel to Change This ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Toy
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After Battlestar Galactica debuted in September 1978, Mattel quickly got to work cranking out toys based on the popular sci-fi series. One of the toys they released that holiday season was the miniature Cylon Raider spaceship featured in the video below, which was capable of firing tiny, spring-loaded plastic missiles.









By December of that year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) revealed that there had already been three reports of kids inhaling or swallowing the toy missiles

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