Art Toys: Classic or Dud

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YO YO YO, I AM SO GOING TO BUY:

A SPIROGRAPH IF I CAN FIND ONE
COLOR CHANGE MARKERS!!!!
A BULB FOR MY LITE BRITE

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

you really should have been born in 1974. i think i am going to write you a poem about all the stuff you missed that you seem to love (boredoms, brite lites, indy girls before they a dime a dozen)

& art toys are Classic

― kephm, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

CLASSIC
I LOVE FINGER PAINT!!!!!!!11!!!@

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.strangecult.com/crap/t_stuff/shrinky.gif

"It's all about the Shrinky Dinks, fool!"

― andy, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

my post came out sounding way bitchy. it wasn;t meant to. carry on with the madness williams

xpost: shrinky dinks!

― kephm, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/530000/images/_534931_williams_150.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Heath do-it-yourself copper enameling kit. I still use it...

Creepy crawlers were cool too - back when you could give yorself third degree burns. Now, it's "child-safe" .. feh.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 31 March 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.taftmuseum.org/Merchant4/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=ms&Product_Code=GAFP&Category_Code=GFC

― Phil Dokes (sunny), Thursday, 1 April 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Here's some "arty" toys....

http://www.friendswithyou.com

― ipsofacto (ipsofacto), Thursday, 1 April 2004 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I had the coolest lil' interior designer set. It had templates of bits of furniture and plants and things, and a book that taught you how to draw a room with the proper perspective. You'd do a room and then draw in all the furniture and snazzy design stuff.

It was like the Sims only with pencils.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 1 April 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to build a Lite Brite coffee table. I have the plans from a ReadyMade, but no place to put it.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Thursday, 1 April 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, I had that interior design kit! And Fashion Plates, and a little pottery wheel and Lite Brite and some kind of woodburning kit and I still have a Spirograph somewhere. Now I want to go to look through my parents' attic and see what I can find.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 1 April 2004 02:59 (twenty-two years ago)

oh fashion plates! i so had those when i was a kid.
spirograph too.
what was that thing called that where it was a picture of a mans face
and it was covered by plastic and inside were little magnetic pieces and you could use a little magnet pen to drag the pieces to make him hair or eyebrows and stuff?? ah my brane hurts! it was like Hairy Barry or Wooly Man or something right? right?

― stolenbus (stolenbus), Thursday, 1 April 2004 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Oohh...I had that, too. I can't remember his name. I think it was Woolly something.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 1 April 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, I loved those little plastic beads you could make shapes and stuff with and then iron them and put suction cups on the backs and make your parents hang them on all the windows.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 1 April 2004 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I had an ex-boyfriend who used to make proper AAAAAAAHHHHRT out of lite brites and pixelvision cameras and stuff. This was, like, 12 years ago, he was very ahead of his time.

What were those little stained glass things that you could bake in the oven and then hang on the window? I loved those. I made dozens of them, with the colours all wrong.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, I had those too. And a weaving loom! And lots of crafty things made by a company called Remus with a white-haired bald man on the logo. And FASHION WHEEL!
http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Content/Product/61077_m.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:29 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.jigsawjungle.com/images/ksg/dolfoil.gif

ScraperFoil!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes!

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.jollyjumpsinc.com/images/otherfunspinnerart_lg.jpg

― Madchen (Madchen), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I wanted the fashion plate thingys but my parents wouldn't let me play with gender differentiated toys. :-(

So I got a "young architect errector set" instead.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Sodding Damien Hirst, always ripping off kids' toys. Like that Li'l RottingCowHead we all loved so much back in the day.

My parents didn't mind gender differentiated toys: I guess they thought we could work it out ourselves. So I had an enormous collection of Sindy stuff.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It wasn't a bit loss; I mean, I wasn't that interested in dolls and stuff. But if I'd got to play with the Fashion Plates, I might have a clue about clothes and stuff...

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, those fashion plate things ruled, but I never got one :(
So I had to teach myself to draw properly!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

> Sodding Damien Hirst, always ripping off kids' toys.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/695000/images/_699641_anat_150.jpg

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 1 April 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, he should rip off adult toys like Barrel of Monkeys and... oh. Wait.

― Super-Kate (kate), Thursday, 1 April 2004 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

what was that thing called that where it was a picture of a mans face...

http://www.gingergeyer.com/smart_images/tabula3_wooly.jpg

― kephm, Thursday, 1 April 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i was obsessed with my lite brite. i did an installation 7 years ago using several of them, and they were just as fun to play with as i had remembered. i loved my fashion plates, too, but i don't think i'd find them very interesting now. what i'd really like, i think, is a big box of mr.sketch markers - the big, bright, fat, fruit-scented ones.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a box of those Mr. Sketch markers under the counter at work, and I was looking at it the other day and was struck by the illustration on the front of the box. There are brightly-colored depictions of all different types of fruit, all smiling and waving and stuff. Purple grapes, yellow lemon, red cherry...and there, in the background, is a brown bear, just kind of grinning nonchalantly and acting like it's not weird that he's hanging out with a bunch of fruit. It's really weird.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.hinghamschools.com/prs/teachers/donovanl/images/mrsketch.jpg

You can kind of see him in the back. It's a total mystery.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

that is weird. the brown marker was... cinammon? why not have a big happy cinammon stick?

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The brown one is chocolate, actually, and I think it has a drawing of a chocolate bar on it. The bear is just on the box. I don't know why this bothers me so much, but it really, really does.

― kirsten (kirsten), Thursday, 1 April 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm, and there's no licorice stick to represent the black one.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 1 April 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

oh god, wooly willy. thank you so much.

http://216.71.90.81/store/media/sketch_and_doodle.jpg
that one's kinda weird...

i always was really tempted to bite into one of those mr sketch markers but i was afraid i'd get kicked out of class for it. especially the blue one. actually - any of them. for some reason they just seemed really bite-able.
i may have said too much.

― stolenbus (stolenbus), Thursday, 1 April 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I GOT EVERYTHING BUT THE SPIROGRAPH

ALSO. STUFF FOR STENCILING

― Lil' Won Jilliams (ex machina), Friday, 2 April 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Having bitten into one of the blue ones, I can tell you that all you get is a mouth full of blue. Same goes for the green, oddly enough.

― Silas Beauford (Silas Beauford), Friday, 2 April 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, my misspent youth...

― Silas Beauford (Silas Beauford), Friday, 2 April 2004 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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