Epic Win: Lite-Brite
Submitted by SK
From Wikipedia:
Lite-Brite allows the artist to create a “glowing” picture. The picture is created by placement of multi-colored translucent plastic pegs through opaque black paper. The light from an illuminated light bulb is blocked by the black paper except where the pegs conduct the light through. When lit, the pegs have an appearance similar to that of LEDs. Most Lite-Brite toys come with a series of pre-prepared patterns. Classic patterns include the “Wizard of Light” (a picture of a wizard with the “Lite-Brite” name above), and the clown.
Ah Light Bright. This was probably my second favourite toy.
Light bright
Light bright
Shines so bright
Beautiful pictures come to life
Anyone remember that commercail?
I do!
Lite Brite making things with light.
Outta sight making things with Lite Brite!
But did you ever step on one of those pegs in your bare feet? OWW
S-Oh, sweet mercy, I sure did. OWWW.
minus the s. i guess the pain is all still too real.
that’s the last time i didn’t clean my room when my mom told me to.
My mom sure stepped on them a lot. Tee hee.
Oh, yeah! Turn on the magic of shining light. Between this thing, and glo-worm my good night friend, I was all set.
Speaking of glo-worm, I had mine since birth. The ones they have now don’t even compare.
I had and loved both! (is 17)
My glow worm stopped glowing about 20 years ago, but it was probably one of my favorite things.
Aww, glow worm. Mine stopped glowing about 20 years ago so it didn’t get hand-me-downed like most of my things when I was a kid, but it was one my favorite toys!
I loved this toy. But I mean, seriously, this page updates like every three days. I wish they’d do it more often.
Dear God the box in that picture is O-L-D!!!
Omg! I remember begging my parents for one for Christmas, and then I got it and loved it. The only thing was, it was hard to use the patterns more than once, so I didn’t want to ruin them by using them. Lol.
Us Mac users can still play with this. There is a Light Bright Widget!
Hey! The first reason I’ve ever seen that almost makes me want a Mac.
I still have the first Lite Brite I got, from my first boyfriend when I was like 12 haha *we’re married now, and he makes cheesy little hearts and txt-style messages on it and turns it on in the morning when he leaves*
Aw, that is so sweet! I still have mine, too. Somewhere….
You sound like a fun couple to hang out with!
FAIL!!!!! It is clearly spelled LITE-BRIGHT, and right above it the editor of this website, Mr. fail blog himself types the wrong name
I loved this toy so much that I left one of my patterns on all night because it was so F***ing awesom. the next morning i woke up and the plastic grid had melted. *sigh*
FAIL!!!!! It is clearly spelled LITE-BRIGHT, and right above it the editor of this website, Mr. fail blog himself types the wrong name
Wow, vindictive and bitter much? It’s Lite-Brite, yo. I have a box in my room. *runs and checks* yup. Quit being pugnacious, esp when you don’t have your facts straight, it makes you look infinitely more ridiculous than the people you insult
clearly i must have gotten my facts right because about an hour or so after i posted this comment the editor changed the title to the correct name which i stated earlier: LITE-BRITE which is different than i pointed out he had, which was light-bright, glad i could help,
Actually what you stated earlier was Lite-BRIGHT, which is also wrong. You got it wrong earlier, all while flipping out about how much fail it was that someone else got it wrong. You didn’t help, you got picky and got it wrong while getting picky, which is a beautiful illustration of irony.
I love you ham. I will glaze you, slice you, and NOMNOMNOM you
The picture of the original box is right there…
LITE
BRITE
alt. spelling: FAIL
I still have mine. :] It’s sitting in the closet, in the box, ready to use. I just need more of the pattern things.
whoa. had one, loved it. even bought the cheapo “animation” add-on… a little extra grid with a lever at the bottom.
special templates allowed the user to place the complete scene along with the “animation” portion.
Pushing and releasing the lever made the picture appear to “move.”
yeah, lite-brite was all good and all…untill you ran out of those black papers it came with. you then find yourself tearing up regular ole white paper tryingto fit into the square fitting, only to have the light penetrate the paper easily.
OMG I LOVED MINE…I think my grand nieces play with it now…
once I went through the patterns, I would just plug the pieces in at random…and I used black construction paper when needed
oh…black construction paper, thats how you do it.
i was doing it all wrong
(from post above yours)
I liked to spell words with it, and my brother would always make pictures of vampires eating something, or spaceships exploding. Weird.
Does anyone know if they still make this? I’ve got I little one on the way and this is one toy I really want him to be able to experience one day. I had one when I was little and I LOVED IT! Especially when you used it in the dark!
Yup they do but it’s not the same
Hard to explain all the changes but it is NOT what it was like when I was little
I alwayas wanted one for Christmas, but never got this. For some strange reason my mom finally got my one in high school. (Sometime between 1999-2002.) My boyfriend convinced me to get rid of it last July. Sigh…
Additional note… this one had color paper! oooOoooo…
I also got a lite-brite keychain…
I played the hell outta this toy, it was almost certainly my favourite, if not my top 5. I used to play near the floor vents, and when we got the vents cleaned, they pulled up this huge multicoloured mass of melted pegs.
I got very mad at my cousin for wrecking some of the sheets when he decided to freestyle. Freestyle on your own Lite-Brite buddy!
When I was little I used to try to fill up the entire board with colour, especially on the circular boards. There were never enough
Haw yes.
It had that distinct lightbulb-and-plastic smell. >>
I had one of these when I was little. I remember the lightbulb inside it melted the plastic in the center of the board along with the little colorful pegs that were in the nearby area. I was so sad…
The only epic win Litebrite ever had was on January 31st, 2007 when a DIY
Lite Brite shut down the city of Boston
Lol I think I’m the only one here who’s parent’s asked if they wanted santa to bring them a lite-brite, said no, but still received it anyway, and didn’t play with it because they didn’t want it to begin with, and all the pegs ended up lost and thrown away because mom stepped on them sticking out of the carpet.
I dunno, it just didn’t float my boat when I was little. My brother and dad got more use out of it than I did lol.
My thumbs always hurt after playing with mine, all that pushing the pegs in would make my thumb sore for days
The new ones are soooo disappointing. They just don’t work, the pegs don’t stay in, the screen is too small.
I had gotten one of these for my stepson a couple years ago i found at a garage sale woohooo!!!
But damn. I forgot how you ALWAYS seem to run out of the dotted paper.
And yea, it was one of the newer ones, with the little peg-holder in front? Using the peg-holder doesn’t last long…
LOVED my Lite Bright!! I think Mom was finding those damn pegs 19 years after i moved out!! LOL They could always be found in the couch cushions, in the vents.. sometimes in a nostril.. ahhhh the good ol’ days when we didnt know about choking hazards.. who else has been gagged by a FisherPrice “Little People” circa 1974???
XD
Does anyone else feel a My Little Pony Epic Win coming on? Ladies? Anyone besides me own the pony salon? Truly EPIC.
No Salon for us. My sis and I begged for the Paradise Estate, but we never got it. I was always truly surprised my parents never got it for us. We dropped plenty of obvious hints.
She and I saved a huge bin with all of our Pony stuff in it. I’m the only one who had girls and they’re getting the big box for Christmas.
Inside is tons of ponies, clothes and brushes, the Baby Block Nursury, the pink Castle, the Shoe Ice Cream Parlor, and the Bonnet Dance Studio.
I can’t wait to see their faces when they open it!!!!
omg you have no idea how many of those little lite-brite pieces I ate when I was 5-ish
Oh gawd yes – I had one. My mom hated it – was always vacuuming up a peg and making her stop and clean the hoover out….LOL I loved it!!!!!
I won one of those on the Bozo show!!!
Ooooh, jealous!
I always wanted to go on the Bozo show.
RIP Bozo……
Oh my God, I so loved my Lite-Brite when I was a kid… I’d keep the little pegs in a cup or something and have so much fun messing with it… but always be really careful with the patterns. Haha, I do know they got a bit harder to use the second time around, but I did get to reuse some of the nicer patterns.
I used to know where it was… This almost makes me wanna dig mine out if I can find it just for the hell of it.
Oh my god. I never had one myself, but every time I went to my papas I’d play with my dads old one and the old Lego that was still in his room from 40+ years ago. Man this brings back awesome memories.
I’m afraid of the dark because of one of these and my two cousins. When I was like..2 or 3 we were in the bedroom playing with one and of course lights out…they unplugged the lite brite and knocked me off the bed..i hit something…they wouldn’t admit to doing it and after that i was always afraid something was in there going to get me again….now i know its them…but its scarred in my brain and each time i go out in the dark by myself i have to have a flashlight or someone with me…
I was accused of sticking one of those up my brother’s nose….but I swear he put it there himself.
I got ISS in Kindergarten for punching a girl who unplugged my litebrite.
Oh wow. I got a package with Muppet Babies pictures for the lite-brite. Good times. I was lucky, each of my brothers had owned one, so I got twice the pegs. And my mother, in a fit of OCD, saved baby food jars for each of the colors to be stored in. I sat there for hours in the faint rainbow glow.
my mom sold mine when i was about 15 along with my candyland game. i recently found a lite- brite for my daughter at a garage sale. i havent let her use it yet though for fear that shell break it (shes 3). maybe in another year or so
My younger brother had to go to the urgent care center b/c managed to get a lite-brite peg stuck up his nose.
It was a green one.
I had a Lite Brite in my dorm room in college and we used to make dirty pictures on it…it was good fun…
They had one at my elementary school. The bulb burned out one day and unfortunately it wasn’t a standard light bulb so we had trouble finding the right type.
I got one for Hannukah when I was 7. Although my family had a tradition of opening one present each night then opening all the rest on the 8th night, the night I got my Lite-Brite was the absolute best for me. I’d be entertained by it for hours on end. When I ran out of the pre-made picture sheets, I’d make my own pictures with sheets of black construction paper. Loved it!!!
We moved around a lot when I was little, but I remember finding those Lite-Brite pegs in with my stuff long after I got rid of the actual device, lol!
I had one. I couldn’t make it lght up though (I’ve never been the brightest smartie in the tube).
very fun toy but it sucked if you lost some pieces
I loved my lite Bright. I used to chew on the colorful little pegs- they looked like candy. Jeez I was a stupid kid.
Omg, i still have mine and i still take it out time to time to play with it even though the pictures are wore out on some, still so fun and kinda therapeutic to sit down and do.
lite bright makin’ things with light!!!
When I was little, before my sister was born, my mom worked nights so it was just me and my dad and one of the activities we always did together was Lite-Brite. We’d probably do a new one once a week – I think I was one of the few kids whose parents actually went and bought refill pages for LOL. God I miss those days. Nowadays he just gets on my case about my student loan payments being late and wondering when I’m going to move out :*(
weren’t these things filled with toxic things?
OMG, anyone remember the Lite Brite CUBE?!