Lite-Brite
It's from 1967, before you were born.
- Maker
- Hasbro
- Type
- Light-up art toy
- Debuted
- 1967
- Note
- 'Making things with light!'
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About
As of 2026, it's 59 years old.
Lite-Brite switched on in 1967: a backlit black grid where kids pushed translucent colored pegs through paper templates to make glowing pictures that looked genuinely magical with the lights off. The jingle — 'Lite-Brite, making things with light!' — is permanently lodged in a generation's memory.
The catch was always the pegs, which scattered across the floor instantly and lurked for stepping on, and the templates, which you'd inevitably exhaust before designing your own freehand masterpieces. But that glowing grid in a dark room was pure wonder.
Glowing, colorful, and a menace to bare feet, Lite-Brite is the toy that proved poking pegs into a light box could feel like creating actual art.
