Remember the pain

And yet, they never banned the hair ties made of the same stuff! 🤣

I still have mine. Yellow. Hard. Really painful when you mess up. LOL!!!

I'm looking at my pair of these right now (yes, the same orange color as well) & I have a pair of green ones. Could never make them go around in a circle the way the salesmen at the Fair did tho.

Those were AWESOME!!!

Oh my gosh! I still have mine. They are green.

Great way to get a concussion when you accidentally cracked your head with these bad boys

I still have mine

Way more dangerous than an AR-15.

Stuff in the 70’s wasn’t fun unless it had a 10% or higher mortality rate.

Imma leave this right here. I'm almost a 100% positive that there's kids out there that found mom & dads a**l beads and played with them thinking that they were this toy.

My sisters and I would see how close we could get to each other's faces while in full motion, the noise was really loud, too.

I loved these things. Back in the '70's of course

Nice Knockers

I don't think these are the Clackers Sir Terry had in mind.

Hehe knockers. I'm an adult.

had some

Had Jarts as a youth - the real deal - pointed foot long darts that would stick in a tree - set one ring up in the front yard and one in the backyard and then would throw the jarts over the roof - somehow never impaled any traveling salesmen.

Hey, I had one of those! …Didn’t know how to use it, but you know. Didn’t think it would be dangerous. Of course, I was at the age when the world seemed like a giant bouncy house!

This form of them got banned, however as recent as 1999 to 2001, there was a version of these where the balls were attached to a firm plastic cradle that looped around a plastic handle. I should know, I annoyed the hell out of my parents with them.

There was a different variation I remember that were neon colored plastic and on a sort of swivel. Popular with 90s middle show kids.

The kid banging the drum never gets the headache -- those who played with these were those kinds of kids.

SORRY,I DON'T MEAN TO STEP ON A POST,BUT I GOT A VIRUS WARNING ON THIS SITE,SO I'M OUTTA HERE.

Loved mine.

Well, yeah! I begged my Mom for these. They seemed fantastic! But, she was a spoilsport and worried about them spraying shrapnel. I mean! I was a KID! I'm almost sure I was SUPPOSED to get hit by shrapnel.

clackers, lawn darts and super balls were examples of childhood's Survival of the Fittest! Us Boomers played with death every day...most of us survived!

"Wow. What knockers" -- Victor Frankenstein

My first thought were lollipops, then cherries, then the...you know whats

Some were really beautiful

Really? I remember getting these as a carnival prize in the early 90’s

My sister and I had these. We played with them for hours and they never broke.

Used to love these hours of pointless fun 🤣

You can still buy them online. I bought 3. Took 2 of them apart and used the balls to make a toy for my cockatoo and kept one to use as intended. Remembering their tendency to come off the string and go flying, I do not use the toy in my glass-filled living room; outdoors, only.

I think moms made grapes out of the same stuff.

I had some of those.

I don't remember clackers, even though I was a kid then. (Would clacker shrapnel be known as clacknel?)

My momma hated these things. Our wrists took a real beating. But we loved um.

My Mom bought a huge basket of clackers at a junk shop back in the 1970's. Loose clackers that you had to string up yourself. We gave them out to all our friends in our neighborhood. You heard them day and night. My Mom sure did get some rude phone calls!

I remember somehow crushing a fingernail between them... it was like getting smashed with a hammer. I lost my nail and it took forever to grow back.

They also broke many wrists

Damn, I think I had these. I was born in '83. I don't recall them ever breaking.

I had a pair of Ka-bangers! I was pretty good at it but i dont know how many times i hit my wrist bones! Never had any shatter but fortunately that includes my wrists.

my sister still has hers from that time.

My wrist hurts just looking at them

They really banned because of how annoying they are...the rest is a cover story 😃

Loved those.

I knew the toy they copied as conkers. Take two horse chestnuts (conkers) and drill a hole through each. Run a string through the hole and put a knot on the end to keep the nut in place. Once both are on strings, you take turns smacking the friend's conker with yours. The one that shatters first is the winner. Unlike the toy store version showcased in the museum there is no dangerous shrapnel when a conker shatters.

They were called wacky clackers and were free from Burger King. I still have mine. I thought they were fun. Took a bit to master, but I didn't think they were dangerous.

I had those... now I wonder what the attraction was in them!

This is fine. Encouraging children to associate with cigarette toys is fine. When this was made cigarettes used to be healthy. All the tobacco company scientists said so.

at least they didn’t sugarcoat it i guess...