1979 Battlestar Galactica Toy Missile Exchange Program

If you’re unfamiliar with the situation, check out the 1979 newspaper article that we uncovered a few years ago. The short form: A child accidentally died when he choked on a Mattel Battlestar Galactica toy missile, so the company issued the following missile exchange program and warning. It’s sad that this happened, and we can point directly at this incident for why so many of our memories of missile-firing toys don’t include “and that Boba Fett backpack missile was so fun!”