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Spirographs (date unknown. 1970's?)
(thelemmy.club)
Not much about it, just Spirographs! Nobody is too old to enjoy one. The standard model sold here for $2.99. I never knew they made a motor one!
If I was eph-ewe rich, I would buy a Spirograph for every child in the world. It's gotta be a good thing, to learn that mathematical patterns are cool and fun.
I just bought a modern version, for just a few dollars, this year. The design was changed, there has been an attempt to replace the push pins that held the stationary gears in place with sticky tack. I didn't feel like that was going to work, so I got some push pins and some cardboard to do it the old fashioned way. That sort-of works, but it's tricky without the dedicated, perfectly sized anchor holes the old sets had.
I wasn't able to get my kid too interested, but I had some fun with it.
Oh that's too bad about the design change. I wonder if you could drill your own tiny anchor holes and restore the original method in its full effect.
I guess analog toys like this have a harder time competing for attention today than in the past.