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When did Lite-Brite come out?

Lite-Brite

Introduced
1967
Made by
Hasbro
How it worked
Push colored plastic pegs through black paper into a lit box; the picture glows
Still made?
Yes

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A light box, a sheet of black paper with the picture printed in letters, and hundreds of small plastic pegs that ended up in the vacuum. Lite-Brite was the toy you did on the floor in a dark room with the jingle going in your head.

The pegs were the whole problem and the whole appeal: sorting them by color, running out of the one color the picture needed, stepping on one barefoot. The clown picture is the one everyone made first.

Sources: Wikipedia — Lite-Brite

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