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Like a bolas, when you see clackers, it’s not hard to imagine the damage they could do to a human skull when clacked at supersonic speeds — the only speed at which kids clack for some reason.

Some of this might be for the better, like discontinuing Clackers, but others toys are still sorely missed, like Pound Puppies. As long as there have been kids, there have been toys: in fact ...

A time when one of the hottest toys were the clackers, or perhaps clicker clackers, depending on the brand. They were those glass-like hardened plastic balls on a string that the kids would ...

Kids were free to roam their neighbourhoods unsupervised, looking for fun. ... Clackers went by many hilarious names in the late '60s and early '70s: Clankers, Click Clacks, ...

The Man may have confiscated your clackers (it's health and safety gone mad!) but fret not, Blue Peter has the solution. Originally broadcast 14 October 1971. 1971: Alternatives to dangerous ...

Clackers appeared around 1968 and soared in popularity by the early '70s. They were fun until shards flying like tiny plastic grenades, sending hundreds of kids straight to the ER.

Strictly speaking, Clackers are still around but not as 1960s and 1970s kids remember them. Proving that sometimes the simplest toys are the best, Clackers consisted of two hard acrylic balls ...

"Meet Clackers the class bear, Gabriel’s got him for the weekend,” said my friend Amanda, as we trudged up the hill to the Iron Age fort with the kids early on Sunday morning.

Kids who played with Jarts, clackers or Vac-U-Form back in the day risked hurting more than just their feelings. Mr. Potato Head? Not a problem — but these toys were - Chicago Sun-Times ...

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 ...