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Who had a Lite Bright?
I must say...I remember getting my first Lite Bright set and to me it was absolutely magical. Just looking at the unlighted pegs would get me buzzing as I would punch them though the black paper through the grid. I couldn't WAIT to then turn off the lights to see my creation!!
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my friend still has one that he trips out to when he's on drugs
I would gander that they don't make them anymore, but i had a lot of fun playing with it when i had one a REALLY long time ago |
They still make lite brights, but from what I remember of the boxes, they are radicaly different from the primitive 'christmas tree' light bulb systems we had as kids.
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That's what made is special though was the X-mas tree like lightbulbs. Hmmm...i'll look it up on the net and see what I can find out about the new ones. I wonder how they work and if they still sell like they did back when I was a kid about 30 years ago.
And LOL to the dude who uses them for when he trips. I can really see that!! HAHAHAHA! |
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LOL i had one of those.. oh man. more fun than legos and hot wheels.
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Yep!!! I remember unwrapping it for X-mas numerous times. I also remember running out of the black paper and then it sitting in the closet until we got a new one instead of just getting more paper. NEver knew where to get that paper back then anyway.
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I'm surprised that they still sell these -- you would think that some stupid kid would have choked to death on the "bulbs" years ago, and their parents sued them out of business.
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I miss mine so much. My parents got rid of it when they didn't see me play with it for two days in a row- they were good at getting rid of my stuff that took up too much space. I would still find pegs buried in the carpet years and years later, too!
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I used to love mine. I used to turn off the lights and just stare at the pictures I made with it.
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That's exactly what I did pinklily! It was practically mesmerizing!!!
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ooh, ooh, I did! For my birthday one year, my mom "borrowed" it, wrote "Happy Birthday" then set it up by my bed before waking me up...I thought that was so cool.
I loved that satisfying little "pop" when you pushed the bulb through the paper...ah, the little joys in life. I'll have to buy one when I get back home :D |
I had one of those as a child. Best. Toy. Ever.
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I had one an loved it. And this year I got my daughter's one for christmas and it is a Lite Brite Cube you can make pictures on all four sides. And now they make many different patterns with many different cartoon characters.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0...CMZZZZZZZ_.jpg |
Yup, they still sell them, and the one I bought for my youngest daughter for Christmas 2002 was EXACTLY like the one I grew up with.
I think I played with it more than she did. :) |
Wow. Very very very nice!!!
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Didnt we all have one? Thought it was more a law to have one, similar to how we all had to have had a slinky at one point in our life. ( I still do, and I am 21 :P Mines in a wooden felt layered box, and the slinky is gold played. )
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I loved mine. One of my favorite things to play with.
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Man they were awesome.. I had one when I was innocent.. so no dirty words or bad pictures were put on it.. it was just clean fun... I had about 8 million of those little bulbs hehe
Some pics (I love GIS): http://www.drtoy.com/2000_c/hasbro_2000c.gif http://www.whatsbetter.com/static/images/2208.gif http://www.bowesproductions.com/imag...ightbrite2.jpg |
Ahhh...those pictures brought me back. I never made anything that elaborate but my pics were still cool. I think I made a UFO once that I was very proud of. LOL
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I completely forgot about the good ole lite bright. Thanks guys:)
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the lite-brite edged out the etch-a-sketch only because the pegs fit in my toy pistol, and unlike the plastic bullets it came with, were sharp...hehehe...
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Me! That, Etch-A-Sketch, Linkin' Logs, and Lego were the bomb. Hell, I still have two enormous tupperware tubs of Lego hanging around in my basement. :D
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Lite Bright and Etch-A-Sketch were THE toys to have back then, only to be surpassed by the Slinky.
Ah, memories... |
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*raises hand*
Of course, I ran out of paper in a day or two :( |
:( I never did as a kid, neither did I get a GloWorm.
It's funny now, because they are a trend again and my kids have them! |
Mine broke the first time I got one :-(
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My brother got one. He also got a "Magical Musical Thing" and I got a "Merlin, Electronic Wizard".
Bastard. |
/raise
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*raises hand*
yeah i was a sucker for lite brite. :) |
I never had one, but I remember them. I did have a huge bin of legos though, and still look for that giant car technical set on ebay everyonce and awhile as I could never afford it as a kid.
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MIne was a hand me down from my teenaged aunt at the time.
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Christmas-tree lights? Mine used colored plastic pegs, and a light bulb inside. Really low-tech, but it worked. Too bad there was no way to save/restore. :( (edit) It just hit me that I got that thing just over 35 freaking years ago. |
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I wonder if they still make the refills. (edit) Oh God, they still make the refills, but, er, the TOPICS they're using: I dunno if I could do these. ('nother edit) Okay, it's not a total loss: this list contains some better stuff. |
I loved that thing! My bro and I used to set up the cushions from the sofa as a castle wall and shoot each other with the Light Brite pegs using a rubber band. Little buggers hurt!!!!!
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I never got one when I was younger. And then when I turned about 13 or so I went out and bought myself one. I would have had more fun if I was younger... but I still look at it on my shelf everyonce in a while... and I might just take it down to play. lol
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Note the age range on it. :D
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refill paper? just use black construction or art paper...
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Yeah but then you had to cut it to the proper size and measure it to make sure it fit and blah blah blah. Much easier to get the refill. hehehehe
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The only problem with getting the refill is the amount of time it prolly takes to receive it.
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Very true. And....I never got the refills so I wouldn't kow anything about it. We always just bought another one a few years later. LOL
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Between my lite bright, lincoln logs and erector set I had plenty of things to do when it rained outside....
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Coffee Table Version?
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Link goes to the fruits of my GIS, a craft forum where a poster has put up the plans for this home made version. There is also a more recent portable version made by HASBRO, I just got one for one of my cousins. |
I don't think that Lite Bright's THAT popular anymore because home video games have taken over all of the physical games. What do you guys think? Perhaps I could be wrong.
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We had several over the years and I kind distinctly recall the sound the "bulbs" make when getting sucked up in the vacuum cleaner.
I remember finding them under the edges of the carpet years later when long green shag went out of style. |
Had one and hated it! I would always lose the colored pins and could never make the pictures that I wanted to. I wonder how manyof those things I accidentally swallowed...
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! How young where you when you got it? LOL!! I never swallowed any but I did run out after awhile because the pegs would get lost.
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I had one when I was a kid. It's in my basement still.
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Dig it out man! Dig it out!! hehehehe
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ohh how I miss those younger days, free to play with little pieces of plastic that my parents payed for, all day if necessary. Now all I do is work work work, no more plastic lights for me :(
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I had one of the direct precursors to lite brite and loved it.
It was a plastic board with holes for lite-brite type pegs but they didn't light up - they were just colored in a myriad of cool colors. I can't recall its name. Anyone know what it was called? |
Couldn't find it, ART, but I did find these interesting pieces.
This toy is from the 1930's. http://www.timewarptoys.com/toytown.jpg A Lite Brite-like coffee table. http://images.snapfish.com/337%3C%3A...%3A84893nu0mrj http://www.leahkramer.com/craftster/...itebright2.jpg |
Thanks Fremen, cool stuff.
Yeah this thing was responsible for my interest in pointillism and color. The plastic pegs and board were shaped just like a little Lite Brite and the colors included pastels and exotic hues. |
I really like that last picture. The martini really adds to it.
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I sooooo need to build one of those coffee tables.
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So update the design, or paint it dark grey.
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Well the table I don't have a problem with. It's the pegged lights in the center that I would consider to be a little out of date.
In a bar...I could see something like this if it's one of those "neon-y" type of bars but not in a house. |
How would you do it? Some kind of framed wall object?
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i had a lightbright...rocked out with it in the 80's expecially when they had a GI-Joe themed set...that was fun. GO JOE!
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My older sister had one of those and I used to love playing with it. Legos were more fun, though.
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My girlfriend got me one for my birthday last year. It was a great gift and I'm somewhat embarrased to say I still play with it every now and then.
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Yep, I had one.... back in the day.
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legos all the way baby
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we recentely busted out my old one for my nephew. i wonder if i could sell it on ebay for a good ammount of $$$......if they stopped making them, that is
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I had one and probably still do in my parents' attic. Even though I am on my fourth house, every time I go in my parents' attic, I still find my stuff from when I was a kid.
I gotta get one of those coffee tables for the basement. |
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