Etch A Sketch inventor Andre Cassagnes dies near Paris

You know, I never could figure out how people could make REAL pictures on it! I finally had to throw mine away a few years ago. It was leaking the silver stuff. BUT...it lasted ALOT longer than the ones we got for the kids!

Merci, Andre!

Au revoir et a bientot

RIP! I love Etch-a-Sketch, and so do my kids.

Check these out. How the f--k did they do that?

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lol i'd try to come up with cool stuff and get pissed off and shake the hell out of it and try again lol

i'd waste hours on it

but yeah i was gonna buy one last year... and it was nothing like my second hand 80's model that i had as a kid. lol

thats is impressive! lol

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!! Sorry for yelling, but how DO they do that!!!

This is painful for me to admit, but...mine was from the '60's. My kids had their's in the '80's and they leaked after several years. I didn't have to throw mine out until a few years ago.

RIP Andre.

Great toy. Forces you to plan ahead; rewards the efforts.

lol

its kinda funny... mine from the 80's is the crap you are talking about... lol

now just imagine the new ones!! lol

mine is sitting in some container in my closet :)

yea it makes you think... something kids today need to do a lot of...

What I thought was cool, as a mom, when my kid's got their Etch-a Sketches, were the little plastic sheets to put over the screen. They were mazes and games. The kids liked them and they really made a difference in hand/eye coordination.

oh yeah i seen those! I never did get to play with any. But those were awesome!

and yeah its great for early childhood motor function development :)

Don't feel too bad about it. They didn't last very long at all. They came in a little envelope, but they never went back in right. They wrinkled up really bad and got ripped up.

Did you ever get to play with the travel ones? THOSE were really hard!!LOL

Feeling a bit angry right now. I never knew such things existed ;)

lol you talking about the ones on key chain?

those were nightmare difficulty! lol

I forgot about the keychain ones! The travel one was bigger than that. It was about 6 inches across, the screen was about 4 inches across.

hey! that sounds like the beta version of an iPad





I dont think i ever seen em

I guess it was in the late '80's/early'90's that all the travel games were around. They were great! Travelling with small kids for 3 days to get to grandma's with them made life easier.

They used to make travel Battleship, Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, Sorry, Monopoly, Trouble, pretty all kinds of the Milton Bradley games. The pieces used to get lost alot, though, even though most were magnetic.

I know it isn't the same as an iPad, but at least the dinosaurs weren't roaming the Earth anymore! My kids say they were when I was a kid!

Most of my friends have always been older... and every time they used the "young, dumb" card on me... i'd ask

"Say... what really was the color of the dinosaurs?"

lol

i was born in 85 and we didnt have a whole lot of money. lol i remember early 90's one of my friends had travel monopoly and i was like

how'd you get that?! I want I want lol


God what a depressing childhood

i wouldnt trade it for anything! :)

Baby boy, you have just made me feel better! You may be only old enough to be my son, but you are wiser than your years. Your parents should be VERY proud of you.

awwww shucks



thank you :)

An incredible amount of patience, unlike myself.

I like your Etch A Sketch, shiny and new. I wonder how the wheels would feel between my fingers and thumbs, the grips lightly touching my fingerprints. And the resistance and mechanics feel the small tip draw a metallic bead. Synching X and Y, Y an X. Have you tried it upside down. The wheels look like eyes. The shiny new gold, letters almost too thickly coated, just one tiny scratch, shiny red plastic. Silver talc.

I feel your pain and can't believe the guy JUST died.

RIP and thanks for all the fun

i liked shaking it too :)