The commercials live on, though. Clackers — while fun — would occasionally explode and led to them getting banned by the US government in 1976. Clackers still exist, but not in their original ...

DOES ANYONE remember clackers? One of the most basic – not to say genitally suggestive – toys of the 1970s comprised two plastic spheres, each suspended from a string attached to the same ...

Whoever came up with clackers, A) had something against parents. B) was extremely passive-aggressive. I remember even as a kid, I found the clacking sound annoying. Two acrylic balls on strings ...

“Fires cap-loaded bombs and they explode.” A boy exults in his Sixfinger ... told us to stop playing with the Vac-U-Form or the clackers or the Sixfinger and get out of the house, we could ...

Whether you grew up in the 1960s with Clackers or didn’t go anywhere without Rainbow Brite in the 1980s, everyone has a discontinued toy they miss more than any other. Check out our list and see ...

Back in the day all they had were Clackers. Good, old-fashioned, potentially deadly Clackers. This clip is from Nationwide. Originally broadcast 5 October 1971. BBC Archive 1971: How safe are ...