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Submitted by Colleen S
Magic Slate was a peel-back dry erase board, kind of like a poor man’s, goody-bag friendly Etch-A-Sketch. I was never able to draw anything especially impressive on a Magic Slate pad, but then again, I was thankful that it was so easy to erase — I’m sure my third grade teacher would’ve been upset about the portraits I was doodling of her.
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These are awesome!
The best part was getting rid of the red stylus they included and using something else, like your fingernail or a coin.
magic slates were epic wins indeed. can you still buy them?
Yes, you can! I used for for six weeks while my jaw was wired shut. (Long story.) It was a lot easier to use and less wasteful than using lots of sheets of paper to communicate.
Wow…I had that exact Magic Slate when I was a kid. Nifty!
Those were so cute. I loved how you could erase the picture and start all over again.
Until the evil older brother used some industrial equipment to scratch hades out of it and render it useless. GGrrrrr!
Remember all the swear words you could write and erase. Thinking your parents had no clue. Then come to find out sometimes you scratched a little too hard and it was embedded in the background of the slate…..
I forgot alll about these! Epic win indeed!
These were great for long car rides and we always had one in my dad’s truck. My grandpa got throat cancer when i was really young and hijacked one of these to write on when they removed his larynx. Kind of ghetto I know, but it was a lot les scary to us kids than the thing he put to his throat that made the crazy robot sound (forget what it’s called). Compared to that, writing on a hot pink magic slate was pretty cool!
I remember those. I had forgotten about them until I saw this, though.
I never liked them, I mean, because those slates were erasable and I didn’t like that, I liked my art to last, at least for a week before my mom took it off the fridge or something.
Though I did have one, those were really cheap quality.
O_O OMG I loved these! :3
I liked how you could partially erase your drawing to make other things. Epic win, indeed!
I believe that the human race will eventually evolve to have these on the palm of the hand. Just think how useful that will be.
These were awesome on car trips! These and the the magnet boards. The ones with slivers of teeny tiny pieces of metal with a face on the back. I liked making beards and what not!
Remember the version of these with the man’s face and you could draw a mustache or hair on him?
This reminds me of that toy where you can drag hair on a drawing of a face/head to make a mustache or a hairdo.
You mean Wooly Willy?
These are so ghetto. After a day they always seemed worn.
Yes! Just looking at these I could hear the sound when you pulled up the sheet to erase. Who needs complicated stuff, these were the best! May have to find one somewhere.
Oh, I hear the same sound as you!
I had the Oscar one too!
I used to use magic Slates at University *blush*…
They were the best way to write out Greek, practising all the letters until they looked right. I did my Greek homework on them as well…
Mine were Paddington Bear, I may have had a Jem one as well
Those were indeed useful for writing stuff on that wasn’t entirely “nice” at the time, (James is a doo-doo head, etc.) and then when somebody walked by you just lift it up, and you and your friend would giggle for the next 10 minutes because you had a secret and you were the only ones that did and would ever see the drawing/words. Too bad after using them for a while, they began to not work as well. Thankfully, they were cheap.
I remember if you wrote a “secret word” on it and then “erased it,” sometimes the indent stayed on the board! Uh oh.
And they often came in Cracker Jacks, and smelled like it! Yum!
I liked a similar cheap board with the metal shavings and the magnet, that let you draw a beard on a face.
Oh wow, I forgot about these! I think I was 6 the last time I saw one.