Outta site, makin’ things with Lite-Bright
…brings back memories, although I had the version with the angular pegs, not the round ones.
And the virtual one doesn’t let you put in a 60-watt lightbulb or a black-light (both of which will produce spectacular effects, and will not only make the paper smolder, it’ll melt the cabinet. Not that I’m speaking from personal experience of course…:rolleyes:
Fenris
Whoo-eee!! We had one of these. Angular pegs?!? Isn’t that like those plastic Fisher-Price peg people (wood all the way for me, baby!)?? Didn’t know they even made angular pegs. Were they squares and triangles and stuff, or were the holes L shaped and you had to insert the pegs around the corners?
Squares and triangles, on a grid made of squares, not circles. I think it was “Lite-Bright De LUX” or some such.
Fenris
De-LUX, eh? And here I was gettin’ all cocky like. Now I feel deprived…
Very cool link Fenris!
Thank you!
My daughter is gonna love it.
ya, I’ll play with it too…
Bwahahaha! I totally started singing that when I saw the thread title.
I personally didn’t have one (awwww!) but several friends did and I remember constantly finding Lite-Brite pegs in their shag carpeting. Heh!
I started singing too – and added some other well-loved toy commercial jingles from my childhood, a la –
Marvel the Mustang! He’s almost for real.
Just saddle him up, with spurs on your heels.
No winding! No batteries!
Marvel the Mustang, we love you.
Sigh. I didn’t have Marvel, or a Lite Brite either. But Hoppity Hop and Super Elastic Bubble Plastic? CHECK.
(They’re still selling this crud on television. I use it as an opportunity to teach my children the meaning of the term ripoff.)
Bah! yer all just a bunch of spoiled rotten kids, why in **my ** day, we didn’t have such fancy schmancy toys like lite brite, when we wanted to make pretty pictures with lights, we did it the old fashioned way, with matches!
[sub](yea, yea, and we walked barefoot in the snow 10 miles to school, uphill both ways)[/sub]
PS thanks for the link…
HA!
Nobody knows that but a few months ago, when I was home visiting my mother, I snuck down to the basement, punched in some pegs and ooooohed and aaaaahed all by myself in hushed tones.
Nope, nobody knows!
Heh . . . I started singing it, too. I loved Lite-Brite! Great link!
A Lite-Brite inspired moment that sticks in my mind occurred when I was doing college radio in the mornings with my pal Scott. One morning, while on the air, we were doing a scan of the AP newswires, reading interesting tidbits. Scott started reading one concerning a bar fight in which the people involved were armed with knives. I interjected, “Knife fight! Knife fight!” and without missing a beat, Scott sang, “Making things with knives!” I busted up right there on the air, and we had to go to music because I couldn’t get it together. Still makes me laugh to this day.