What a sight! Makin' things with Lite-Brite!

I loved that toy when I was a kid. I used it until the pegs broke.

I think that's one of the things that made me enjoy light-based art when I grew up. I love Dan Flavin.

thanks for this

Love it!

And I did have HOURS of fun playing with it.

There were some really great toys back in the day. (Some would be banned now, but what the hell.)

the fun lawn game

we had those--and hours of fun playing. no one ever got killed in our backyard!

(really--a metal tipped and weighted dart point that you throw across the yard to where your opponents were standing? lucky no one ever got killed in our backyard!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts
(see safety and bans)

remember snl's dan aykroyd & the BAG O GLASS ?
https://screen.yahoo.com/snl-iconic-skits/bag-glass-000000237.html

One hit my dad in the leg and left him with a nasty scar. Another fun thing we did -- played with them in the dusk-dark, and stood close to the ring as they were incoming.

Other "fun toys" I had:

Woodburning kit. I accidentally touched the tip of the stylus (or whatever it was called) to the cord. It burned through the plastic sheath on the cord down to the wires, and touched off a spark that threw up and hit my glasses. Left a big pock mark on the lens. If I hadn't been wearing them, I most likely would have lost an eye. I remember being hysterical and my mom trying to calm me down.

Flower Power and Creepy Crawler plastic mold kits. You poured hot plastic into molds and made groovy, psychedelic flowers and creepy insects. It was also a cool way to ruin carpet when you accidentally spilled the hot plastic on it.

Good times. Good times.

i bought a wood burning kit for my best friend's younger brother for xmas. he was around 10 or 11.

i don't think i ever had those plastic mold kits--but i remember them. my mom probably said: "what a mess! you're not getting that" and that was the last word--simply b/c i just didn't care that much if i had one or not.

yeah, jarts in the dusk. standing by the incoming. i seem to remember summer evenings like that too.

times were simpler then.

nowadays, we are made aware of how practically everything can kill you.

back then we never thought about it too much.

into the mold was was then 'cooked' on the hot plate. I had the Mini Dragons set and played with it for many years.

I had a Lite Brite too, but I ruined it with a 100 watt light bulb.

According to my parents, that was the only present I played with that Christmas.