Great. I just got up, it’s 4:20 am, and I want a Spirograph.
I had one as a kid, and it was actually kinda boring after about 10 minutes.
Here 'ya go. Same day shipping … Amazon.com : spirograph.
That’s just mean.
So I am following along and enjoying the thread, just don’t have much to add.
I didn’t want people to think I had abandoned my own.
As the main question has been thoroughly answered now, I just wanted to observe that the updated-retro Battleship game box in that picture has made a notable change to its original design.
But Spirograph remains fun for the actual whole family.
That’s pretty awesome. I’m a little surprised because even back then, I don’t think there was an idea that girls didn’t play board games.
Wait, they killed the women and supersized the dad. Retro indeed!
(for the record, I got the ‘assume the pen is a sphere’ joke in the title)
The “Classic” sets use “Spirograph putty” instead of push pins. I insist on push pins.
While we’re at it can I have my Lawn Darts back? You can’t have a proper Lawn Dart catching contest without pointed Lawn Darts.
“Assume the pen is a sphere.” Why? Is it a cow?
As long as we can play with it in the back of the station wagon unrestrained by anything resembling seats, much less belts, I’m all in w you! 
Part of the problem w the modern world is that too many of the weak have been surviving; more selective pressure FTW!!
When I was growing up we used to spend summers at my Uncle’s place on the lake. So there were five boys (my two brothers and two cousins; zero girls in my generation). It was a near daily occurrence for the five of us to ride in the bed of the pickup. This was the 80s.
We were all together recently and talking about how a parent would be arrested for that today.
It’s been done.
(I went looking for that film to share it in the “putting a ball on a rotating green” thread, but it works here, too.)
Thanks for the memories. I haven’t seen that PSSC Physics film since high school physics in the 1960’s.