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Sep 14, 2024 1:53 AM
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kerms
CAUTION: ELECTRIC TOY
lukavago13
Remember them? They're on sale at Lowes right now.
ToolmanTR
They still exist. My girls have one.
dorkowastaken
turn on he magical shining light
ToonamiT0M
These are still in stores. They just use LEDs instead of incandescent bulbs.
tuxedobob
Remember them? From when I saw one for sale in Walmart yesterday?
wylkyn
We used to use it as the control panel for our cardboard box spaceships.
MadamPuddifoot
I have a mini one sitting about ten feet from me
MaxxHadron
And now I have that jingle in my head. Thanks a lot!
ScorpionSage
Sensory heaven
PickledHerring
"Remember?" There are currently three in stock at my local Target.
Weird manufactured nostalgia.
https://www.target.com/p/lite-brite-ultimate-classic-learning-toy/-/A-15361107
nefroye
Yeah was going to say - pretty sure they still make these. However of course they're now LED version and thus remove the attractive dangers of burning yourself or getting high on fumes of heated plastic. Good times.
inthepines
I used it for playing Star Trek as a device on the bridge
hjrs63
Yes. My 9th birthday gift. The one that triggered my first existential crisis. I liked it very much. It got me thinking that I was getting older and next year I would be 10 and maybe this toy will not be around by then. And that time just keeps rolling and eventually, given enough time, nothing will be around anymore. Not even me.
susancreature
Also on timeline "What if I'm the only real person and everyone else is a robot?" Sometimes I wonder that while on Imgur..
PipWhipple
Yeah, I do! Almost never used the paper!
unluckyandbored
I used to have one of those as a kid, I loved it. Fun fact: They still make them!
nbritsky
We just sold ours at a garage sale.
elbowdeepinawhateverthatis
Remember it? They’re still selling it at my local pharmacy lol
donutposse11337
I loved the original back in the 70s. The new replacement is not the same.
BehGehBeeeehh
LOVED Lite-Brite! Such a simple yet fun idea.
spooktree
had one in 1987
i found a piece the other day
DeadOnionSaysWhat
That's funny, my mom still lives in my childhood home (70s), can't wait to check the nooks and crannies, see what kind of similar things I find.
bnuihj
In your foot?
StrandedonEarth
Yup, had one, yup, never got more papers for it...
icannotthinkofanyrationalname
Were the pegs really different flavors or not? Asking for a friend.
nefroye
Depends on who was the last person to suck on them before you do.
KMSigma
That light bulb could have cooked a Thanksgiving turkey. Put the EZ Bake oven to shame.
BubbaWunk
I can smell this post
AlienJeffries81
Bought one for my kids in the 80’s.
Damn! I’m Old AF.
MadCat221
That is a terrorist IED assembly kit in the eyes of the Boston Police Department.
TheSpindrifter
[I understood that reference]
LittleChickadee
Best thing ever! I loved the smell (prob toxic) of the plastic pegs heating up from the heat of the bulb
PantsOfGlory
Yes like the smell of Color Forms. 2 favorites.
TheSpindrifter
I can still smell them. The jolly, candy-like polyethylene...
SpikedDoggos
Mmmmm, warm plastic
Soberyn
I fuckin loved this as a kid. Taking the pieces out was tedious and depressing lmao
nefroye
Yeah - kind of like destructing your lego creation. Sad as hell, but if you want to make something new you have to tear apart the old.
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
I'm mixing up the lite brite jingle with the fish-heads song
2bequicklikeu2
Lololol
iggylights
Light Bright making things with light. Out of sight making things with light Bright.
TheSlouchOfBethlehem
lite brite, lite brite, roly poly lite brites
metroid2
Ya. My parents were cheap to buy any replacement papers. Once it ran out none were bought again.
unluckyandbored
Same. But they'd buy plain black construction paper, so we could make our own designs. Which turned out to be way more fun.
TheMightyMollusk
We just lost all the pegs like god intended.
labirmane
I had my siblings' used papers full of holes for a long time. Still worked. And then, I think we got a new pack with different colours.
This was my favourite toy growing up
scoutMoonDiver
I just bought black construction paper for my kids and they used that.
HighSorcerer
Yeah that's what my parents did, just bought a big multipack of construction paper. We used it for a bunch of things, so it was a good deal. Though there was the time I spilled water on a piece of it and left a massive red stain in the middle of my mom's kitchen table.
Snausagebort
2bequicklikeu2
We went and bought white paper and used black jiffy marker to color paper black..it worked and we made our own pictures...
metroid2
Nice. I think by the time I would have figured it out I was well into videogames.
2bequicklikeu2
Yes..me too .atri....collecovision to Sega...to playstation
metroid2
I was born in 80 so it was nes for me > snes > Playstation 1 > ps2 > GameCube > wii > ps3> wii u > ps4 > switch > nothing new
mrpink83
For me: nes, snes (rented), ps1, n64, ps2, ps4 (sold it), and now just PC gaming. Looking forward to the new Farming Simulator 25! I've played them all since FS11.... probably 5000 hours in total.