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Vintage late 60s Hasbro Lite-Brite, works, with pegs and paperwork!

$ 39.6

Availability: 84 in stock
  • All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
  • Refund will be given as: Money Back
  • Featured Refinements: Vintage Lite Brite
  • Restocking Fee: No
  • Condition: Used in good condition. Item works, includes original pegs, manual, box, and other paperwork, including one partially-used "clown" template.
  • Year: 1967
  • Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
  • Item must be returned within: 30 Days
  • Brand: Hasbro
  • Recommended Age Range: 5-adult
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

    Description

    Vintage late 60s Hasbro Lite Brite Lite-Brite, works, with pegs and paperwork!
    Ah, Lite Brite! I remember this toy as a child in the late 70s, back when pushing plastic pegs through a piece of construction paper and watching them light up was still the kind of thing that could keep a kid busy for hours. Nowadays we have things like Minecraft...where you make things with little blocks of pixels. Not that different, really. Maybe if we hadn't had Lite Brite then, we wouldn't have Minecraft now. Butterfly effect, but with pegs and pixels.
    This set has most of what came with it. If you look closely at the pictures with the pegs, you'll notice that some kid wrote down how many of each color peg there were, back in whatever decade this was originally owned. That kid was a good bookkeeper, by the way, and it looks to me like all the original pegs are present. Yes, I counted them.
    Set also includes a second black "grid" piece. I don't remember this as a kid, but I suppose you could sandwich a piece of construction paper between the two.
    The original instruction manual is here too, along with a hopelessly outdated order form for spare pegs, a sheet of available designs (along with information on which are for boys and which are for girls, because pointlessly gendering toys was a big thing back then), and even the original cardboard piece covering the bulb socket (note: the bookkeeping kid took notes on the back of it as well). Set includes one of the original templates, the terrifying clown, though this has been partially completed, which is to say that the kid poked through about half of it before just quitting. I imagine this is because clowns are terrifying.
    Shipping will be either Federal Express or USPS Priority Mail, whichever is more cost efficient.
    Thanks for looking!