Does anyone remember clackers?

I had them, had got hurt a few times, but never seriously. They were very annoying to the adults. I did break them once it was quite a shock having a half sphere flying across the room at 90 miles an hour…..

Oh, I remember clackers. I played with them. It was quite enjoyable. We heard that “clack, clack, clack” everywhere, and sometimes double time when people hit on top and bottom.

I never saw one shatter, nor heard of any of them shattering. Never knew anyone to get hurt.

I don’t know what Clackers were exactly, can you elaborate a little more? How could they hurt anyone? (This from someone that had a jart bounce off the top of his head with no damage.)

My sister was an ace at them, I couldn’t them to clack more then just a few times. I don’t know anyone that was seriously hurt by them, but I remember they hurt like hell when you got hit by one LOL
these are clackers @Adirondackwannabe They were hard as rock balls you’d smack together, make them bounce off each other and if you did it right they would collide top and bottom really fast. The faster the better.

@EnchantingEla Thanks very much!

@Adirondackwannabe yw : ) they were a hoot!

@EnchantingEla You just banged them together? At least you could throw jarts at each other.

Wasn’t one of their ads about a “man-eating clackers”? I remember them. Reminded me of my earlier childhood and playing Konkers (sp?) on the school playground.

@Adirondackwannabe They are kind of hard to explain. Here’s the wiki deff “The player holds the tab, with the balls hanging below. Through a gentle up-and-down hand motion, the two balls swing apart and back together, making the clacking noise that give the toy its name. With practice, it is possible to make the balls swing so that they knock together above the hand as well as below.”

My sister could get the momentum going so fast they clacked like every milli-sec it seemed. LOL

@EnchantingEla Got it. That would be kind of cool to bang them on the upswing and the downswing.

I had this kind of clacker in the early 90’s. I loved it, but I don’t know how my mom tolerated the constant clacking. She hated noisy toys.

I had one of the earlier models that looked a lot like glass, to me. They were heavy enough to be real glass.My set had glitter moulded inside them. I never really got the hang of them although I could get them going maybe ten “clacks” before they missed. The last time I was allowed to use them was when they got away from me and went whipping across the room like a set of bolas and blew the phone off the wall. Good thing it was one of those old Bell wall mounts that were built like tanks.

No but I remember lawn darts. What a fun game; a giant weighted plastic dart that tempted you to throw straight up as far as you could and then run before it lands on you. Great fun in the days of metal dashboards with metal knobs, solid steering wheel columns, and no seat belts. The only kids I knew that wore helmet played football. The fact that we lived through all of this and riding in the open bed of pickup trucks was Darwin’s way to make sure that only the smartest of us survived. I don’t know how I made it!

I was only born in 1992. We had these as kids. They were made of plastic and sometimes metal. Sometimes they also had a stick attached as well as the string.

Super-sneaky ninja-edit: Forgot to mention that there wasn’t much potential to hurt people with them.

@KoleraHeliko I think the strings were shorter and when attached to sticks you’d have be a real dweeb to hurt yourself LOL The original ones srings were about 12” and were rock hard. they not only cracked each other but whatever they came in contact with.
(Often heads and knuckles or in some cases @woodcutter phones)

@KoleraHeliko I though we invented the stick thing. We would attach them to a stick and fling them over our house trying to hit the kids in the back yard. We did the same with green apples. I never got hit with the darts, Dad took them from us, but the apples really hurt.

@Ron_C Our lawn darts were called Jarts. See my comment above.

@Adirondackwannabe Jarts are what replaced lawn darts LOL Those are toys, what we had (lawn darts) were weapons! LOL
LMAO @Ron_C i’d forgotten about over the roof attacks!

@EnchantingEla Ours were the same. Big heavy piece of metal around the bottom and and iron or steel dart on the end. My head still has the bump.

@Adirondackwannabe Did they have points penetrated the ground and flesh? or a rounded end that bopped off things? You could kill someone with a lawn dart LOL : (

Pointed. These were the one’s that were banned.

This is what I got for Jarts when I binged them. These are the Lawn Darts I’m referring to. Are these what you mean @Adirondackwannabe?

@Adirondackwannabe they had dull tips, they were supposed to stick in grass. There was a ring that you placed on the ground and the idea was to stick them inside the ring. We lost the rings after a couple days, the darts about a week later after dad figured out what we were doing with them.

@Ron_C @EnchantingEla I was referring to the Lawn Darts, but I think they were originally called Jarts when we had them. Maybe somebody bought the name and redisgned them to the plastic ones.What hit me was the metal one.