Do you own an Etcha Sketch?

United States
November 7, 2006 8:30pm CST
I love the Etcha Sketch. I never owned one. Our family was poor. We would seek out other kids that had one and become their friends and get invited to their houses. Etcha Sketch heaven.
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@sweetcakes (3504)
• United States
8 Nov 06
yes i love the etcha sketch i dont know why i didn't know how to draw on it. lol
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• United States
8 Nov 06
I tried to draw, but sometimes it looked a little crazy. My kids loved to clear the entire screen and then shake it back.
• United States
15 Feb 07
Everytime I see an Etcha Sketch in the stores I am tempted to buy one for myself. Or, maybe I could buy one for the grandkids and keep it at our house!
• United States
16 Feb 07
I have no idea what this is. Can you please explain it to me. Is it the thin box, that you turn handles to make lines and things? If it is, I don't like it.
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@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
16 Feb 07
Etch a Sketch - The Etch A Sketch is a toy invented in 1959 by Frenchman Arthur Granjean and introduced commercially by the Ohio Art Company in 1960. Granjean originally called it "The Magic Screen".
The Etch A Sketch is a toy invented in 1959 by Frenchman Arthur Granjean and introduced commercially by the Ohio Art Company in 1960. Granjean originally called it "The Magic Screen". The toy is relatively flat and rectangular, looking somewhat like a small television screen. Introduced near the peak of the baby boom, the classically simple Etch A Sketch is one of the best-known toys of that generation, and remains popular to this day.
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@TerryZ (22076)
• United States
16 Feb 07
Yes I remember etcha sketch do they still have them out? I dont I had one either because we were also poor. They were alot fun. What made you think of that?
@mari61960 (4893)
• United States
16 Feb 07
I had an ethca sketch but I never really cared about it. I would use it for a while and then forget about it. I just thought it was kind of boring.
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@crazynurse (7482)
• United States
16 Feb 07
I don't currently own an etch-a-sketch which is probably a good thing. I would likely become frustrated (as I did when a child) and fling the thing into a wall and end up picking up the pieces and repairing the wall! Ha! I did have one as a child. I could never seem to be able to draw a thing with it. Thinking about it, I do believe that while attempting to draw something on my Etch-a-sketch is when I uttered my first curse words. Attempting to draw with an etch-a-sketch for me was the equivalent of having dyslexia, parkinson's disorder, and a bad arm tic all at once!
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@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
15 Feb 07
Etch-a-sketch was fun, but mine always looked awful. Have you guys looked at Magna-Doodle. My son liked etch-a0sketch but loved magna doodle. It was a favorite car game. They are both nice toys, require imagination, thought and are easy to store and pretty mess free.
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• United States
15 Feb 07
Magnadoodle was great too. But, the Etcha Sketch used the knobs that required finger dexterity.
@Polly1 (12645)
• United States
15 Feb 07
No I never had one, but I did like playing with them.
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@lauriefnp (5109)
• United States
15 Feb 07
I don't own one anymore, but the Etcha Sketch was always one of my favorite toys as a kid. I know that I wore quite a few of them out and had to have them replaced! Is it still a popular toy? I would think that the computers would have taken over for that, also.
@speakeasy (4171)
• United States
15 Feb 07
No, like you I was poor as a child and played with a friends. My son has one though, I was trying to get him interested in drawing and art. Didn't succeed. Now, the poor kids are the ones with the Etcha Sketch and the rest of the kids have video games and computers.
@tammyr (5946)
• Etowah, Tennessee
16 Feb 07
No but I use to and not as a kid either! I love to play around with them. They are great to take on car trips, appointments etc.. where the kids need a distraction to keep from becoming bored.
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@babystar1 (4233)
• United States
16 Feb 07
Yes we had a Etcha Sketch for my kids when they were young they all enjoyed it.In fact I went through about 3 of them because after a while they broke and all the insides leaked out.Now my grandkids have the Etcha Sketch and they really like them to.
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• United States
19 Feb 07
Etcha Sketch is a great toy for children of all ages. It requires no batteries and the kids get a lot of joy from playing with it.
@bigstret (484)
16 Feb 07
yes i still have one of those in a box under the bed somewhere! It belonged to my kids when they were younger, they used to love playing with it - so did i when they wernt around!
• United States
16 Feb 07
Yes, we own one now and I also had one when I was a kid. It's just as much fun today as it used to be! I like to draw houses with ours.
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