Jarts and Clackers

[Dave Reynolds]

They should be brought back.

Thin the herd, so to speak.

[Bunny]

1. I always liked my clackers.

And no one was harmed when I played with them. Bring them back!

[DanCa]

8. We had Jart's but no clackers :(

[MrSlayer]

2. I liked clackers better when they were called Ker-bangers.

Clackers are relatively safe. Ker-bangers were the same thing only with strings instead of the safe plastic supports. You paid a steep price when you fucked up with your ker-bangers.

[Debbi801]

3. i had these. i loved them :-)

No one ever got hurt when i used them. But, one day they shattered. By then, they were no longer being made. :-(

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. We called those 'knockers'

Which, of course, often led to locker-room hilarity.

:hide:

[Dave Reynolds]

12. I ended up with a knot or two on my head from them,

but I was never allowed to have my own, I had to kerbang vicariously.

[bleedingheart]

5. I loved those!!!!

[Dave Reynolds]

11. I miss my Jarts,

although my foot does not...

[bleedingheart]

21. we used to play with our neighbors...

they were an elderly couple who were like grandparents to me and my little bro...and of course safety was always first...

We had a lot of fun on summer evenings playing Jarts....but I know that it would have really hurt to have been hit by one...even if you dropped one...

[LA lady]

6. Deadly

As I recall, several children were killed by lawn darts. Sorry to be a spoiler.

[Dave Reynolds]

9. Welcome to DU, LA lady!

No problem about the spoiler thing. It was just a poor joke I made regarding the whole Darwin thing.

[DanCa]

7. I am amazed that my lite brite never caused a fire.

Just think your taking plastic pegs, over a hot lamp, and sticking the pegs thru paper. Yep real amazing a fire didn't break out.

[Dave Reynolds]

10. Yeah, mine had a 100 watt bulb in it.

Hot sumbitch, too.

[DanCa]

14. Weren't the creepy crawler makers also a fire hazard?

Where you take some liquid goo and bake a rubber monster?

[Dave Reynolds]

20. They got a bit warm,

I branded myself at age 6 with the sign of the worm...

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. The most fun dangerous toy: Shrinky Dinks.

EZ Bake oven also a good one.

[DanCa]

16. Lol we can have a color forms vs shrinky dinks debate. (nt)

[Canuckistanian]

24. E-Z Bake Ovens, too

I liked to put a 150W Infrared bulb in mine. Cooks in half the time!

[Dave Reynolds]

28. And the cupcakes were nice and crunchy.

Just the way we like 'em.

[NYC Liberal]

13. I had one of those. Those things could get hot!

Now that I think about it, I DO wonder how a fire never broke out! :shrug:

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19. I miss my Vac-U-Form... I love the smell of burning PCBs in the morning.

"Vac-U-Form enabled you to melt a sheet of styrene plastic and quickly make a mold of any item. This toy is not only desired by collectors, but by model makers to make molds of small parts. The original styrene sheets, called "Material Paks" are difficult to find these days.

The Vac-U-Form heating plate was also used for Mattel's Creepy Crawlers and other Thingmaker molds.

A type of Vac-U-Form called Vac-U-Former has recently been manufactured by ToyMax, using safe light bulbs for the heat instead of the sizzling hot 110 volt hotplate of the original machines."

http://www.spookshows.com/toys/vacuform/vacuform.htm

[mr_hat]

17. Super Balls! The original ones that had about

10 good bounces in them before they'd shatter into toxic shards.

[DanCa]

18. And don't get me started about the quality of todays model airplane glue

The crappier my models looked the happier i was. Ah I miss those memories.

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22. "Bag O' Glass"

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76jconsumerprobe.phtml

:rofl:

[Evergreen Emerald]

23. very funny!

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25. "Johnny Human Torch." and ""Invisible Pedestrian"

..."It's a bag of oily rags and a lighter!".

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/77/77dconsumerprobe.phtml

Classics.

[Canuckistanian]

26. Uninteresting fact! Jarts were called "Lawn Darts" in Canada

"Jarts" was probably a filthy name in French or something

[Dave Reynolds]

27. Ah. J'Arts, perhaps.

Did I just swear in French?

I hate when that happens.