Toys of the Eighties, Kerbangers
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"Kerbangers on the left, Kerbangers on the right, Kerbangers, Kerbangers, Kerbangers out of site." That was the jingle for this toy which had two balls, each connected by string to the plastic handle. The idea was to move the handle up and down with a flick of the wrist and get the balls to smack into themselves above and below the hand. How kids survived this without broken knuckles is beyond me. Those things hurt!
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Love them. They bring back great memories, but they hurt when you mess up.
I remember playing with them! OUCH! Wasn't the original design banned due to possible injuries when you "messed up"? I vaguely remember the newer design that utilized rigid plastic instead of the loose string. Anyone remember?
These were great. I've always heard that they were banned because kids would break their knuckles or wrists while playing with them, and that the balls would shatter causing possible injuries. These were the ones with the solid balls. The ones I had had triangular holes in the tops & bottoms of each ball, and they never broke (or broke any of my bones!). I would LOVE to get a set of these again. If you have any info as to where I can get a pair, let me know! zerolowb@aol.com
I remember walking down to the beach in St.Ives Cornwall (where I lived) and hearing the sound of literally hundreds of sets of these being played with. I loved them and had a set of orange ones-they were banned later and there was a lot of fuss about them in the papers.
I just love this toy I had so much fun with them. God, Remember how we could sit forever with these. I want a pair!!!! I have the new kind on the hard plastic wanna be string.
kerbangers used to leave me bruised, and me being a very sick child my mom and dad would take it from me for a while and i would go bac and have more bruises, though it hurt like heck i loved that toy
Aaaahhhhh,The banging noise and all the bruises. Oh what fun! I also would love to get a set of these! :)
I loved these and yeah they hurt. I remember there was a "safty sleeve" you could send away for. Kids today would be less annoying if they had toys like this that would beat them back.
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