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Post by yggdrasil on Aug 17, 2023 15:14:07 GMT
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 18, 2023 18:46:19 GMT
These were still going when my kids were kids.  |
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Post by Carl LaFong on Aug 19, 2023 13:48:54 GMT
These were still going when my kids were kids. Must have been after my time. Great thread though!Thanks. |
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Post by amyghost on Aug 19, 2023 14:34:15 GMT
Loved this one especially:  These had their fifteen minutes in the US, too. Wonderful horror urban legends about the things cracking and exploding and permanently blinding tykes with the shards, lol. |
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Post by yggdrasil on Aug 19, 2023 15:42:47 GMT
Loved this one especially: These had their fifteen minutes in the US, too. Wonderful horror urban legends about the things cracking and exploding and permanently blinding tykes with the shards, lol. I remember my sister having them and nearly breaking my wrist when I had a go, although hers were solid and like giant marbles, bloody painful. Must have been about 1975 ish? |
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Post by yggdrasil on Aug 19, 2023 15:43:27 GMT
These were still going when my kids were kids. They were the only thing I didn't remember, what are they? stones in paper? |
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Post by amyghost on Aug 19, 2023 17:14:39 GMT
Loved this one especially: These had their fifteen minutes in the US, too. Wonderful horror urban legends about the things cracking and exploding and permanently blinding tykes with the shards, lol. I remember my sister having them and nearly breaking my wrist when I had a go, although hers were solid and like giant marbles, bloody painful. Must have been about 1975 ish? About right, time-wise. I recall the big department stores all having them in their knick-knack and 'adult toy' areas, but they were much more a kid thing. The ones I recall best were made, I think, of some lucite type plastic, heavy but not as much so as the ones your sis had. They called them 'clackers' over here. Maybe they could have actually shattered on hard enough impact, but I think the whole story was imaginary. I can imagine some kid bopping himself or a playmate a good one in the head with them, though. |
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 19, 2023 18:28:50 GMT
These were still going when my kids were kids. They were the only thing I didn't remember, what are they? stones in paper? They had a small amount of explosive (like old fashioned caps for toy guns) mixed with small bits of gravel and would make a satisfying crack noise upon hitting the ground). |
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Post by yggdrasil on Aug 20, 2023 10:20:51 GMT
They were the only thing I didn't remember, what are they? stones in paper? They had a small amount of explosive (like old fashioned caps for toy guns) mixed with small bits of gravel and would make a satisfying crack noise upon hitting the ground). Don't remember them, we had these though...  |
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Post by yggdrasil on Aug 20, 2023 10:31:18 GMT
I remember my sister having them and nearly breaking my wrist when I had a go, although hers were solid and like giant marbles, bloody painful. Must have been about 1975 ish? About right, time-wise. I recall the big department stores all having them in their knick-knack and 'adult toy' areas, but they were much more a kid thing. The ones I recall best were made, I think, of some lucite type plastic, heavy but not as much so as the ones your sis had. They called them 'clackers' over here. Maybe they could have actually shattered on hard enough impact, but I think the whole story was imaginary. I can imagine some kid bopping himself or a playmate a good one in the head with them, though. That's it "clackers", think they ended up getting banned in the UK due to injuries. |
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 20, 2023 10:58:06 GMT
They had a small amount of explosive (like old fashioned caps for toy guns) mixed with small bits of gravel and would make a satisfying crack noise upon hitting the ground). Don't remember them, we had these though... I forgot about those. Also good for throwing at people. Here’s the Wiki page for the other things en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_snaps |
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Post by amyghost on Aug 20, 2023 15:28:34 GMT
About right, time-wise. I recall the big department stores all having them in their knick-knack and 'adult toy' areas, but they were much more a kid thing. The ones I recall best were made, I think, of some lucite type plastic, heavy but not as much so as the ones your sis had. They called them 'clackers' over here. Maybe they could have actually shattered on hard enough impact, but I think the whole story was imaginary. I can imagine some kid bopping himself or a playmate a good one in the head with them, though. That's it "clackers", think they ended up getting banned in the UK due to injuries. I think in the US we had schools and such putting local bans, but for the most part they just faded away as fads generally do. |
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 20, 2023 17:35:02 GMT
About right, time-wise. I recall the big department stores all having them in their knick-knack and 'adult toy' areas, but they were much more a kid thing. The ones I recall best were made, I think, of some lucite type plastic, heavy but not as much so as the ones your sis had. They called them 'clackers' over here. Maybe they could have actually shattered on hard enough impact, but I think the whole story was imaginary. I can imagine some kid bopping himself or a playmate a good one in the head with them, though. That's it "clackers", think they ended up getting banned in the UK due to injuries. We had this DIY weapon/toy at school but in the 1970s UK version the pen nib was replaced by a pin. These would be fired into the victim’s leg and, I can tell you from experience, it bloody hurt. In the end it became serious enough for our deputy head to lecture the whole school and let us know that he fought the Japs in WW2 and they never came up with anything that nasty. We joked about that last bit afterwards. |
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Post by yggdrasil on Aug 21, 2023 8:41:48 GMT
That's it "clackers", think they ended up getting banned in the UK due to injuries. We had this DIY weapon/toy at school but in the 1970s UK version the pen nib was replaced by a pin. These would be fired into the victim’s leg and, I can tell you from experience, it bloody hurt. In the end it became serious enough for our deputy head to lecture the whole school and let us know that he fought the Japs in WW2 and they never came up with anything that nasty. We joked about that last bit afterwards. "It's always funny 'til someone loses an eye." |
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Post by Stammerhead on Aug 21, 2023 11:06:47 GMT
We had this DIY weapon/toy at school but in the 1970s UK version the pen nib was replaced by a pin. These would be fired into the victim’s leg and, I can tell you from experience, it bloody hurt. In the end it became serious enough for our deputy head to lecture the whole school and let us know that he fought the Japs in WW2 and they never came up with anything that nasty. We joked about that last bit afterwards. "It's always funny 'til someone loses an eye." I got the cane from him once for throwing a paper plane out of a 3rd floor window into an empty yard. Apparently I could have taken someone’s eye out. |
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