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Subject: name of a toy
I'm not having any luck at all finding the name of a toy that I saw in the 80's. I was told it is still made today, but I don't buy toys.
Basically it was like a small notepad that I think was gray and had a thin clear plastic sheet over it and included a small plastic pen. You wrote on the notepad with this pen (no ink obviously), and when you wanted to clear it, you just lifted up the plastic as if changing sheets, and it cleared off the writing. Then you just dropped the plastic over the gray board and wrote again, then lifted it again to clear it.
This might be a bad description but this is all I can remember about it. I think the pen was usually red and it was just a piece of plastic.
Anybody know the name or manufacturer?
Subject: Re: name of a toy
Could it be Magnet Doodles?
Subject: Re: name of a toy
I found out your answer. I found a toy message board and someone there was kind enough to help. He said they were called Magic Slates, and sometimes Super Slates. Different companies made them..Laramie, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Western Printing and Litho, The American Tradition Company, Saalfield and he said a few more companies too.
April
: I'm not having any luck at all finding the name
: of a toy that I saw in the 80's. I was told
: it is still made today, but I don't buy
: toys.
: Basically it was like a small notepad that I
: think was gray and had a thin clear plastic
: sheet over it and included a small plastic
: pen. You wrote on the notepad with this pen
: (no ink obviously), and when you wanted to
: clear it, you just lifted up the plastic as
: if changing sheets, and it cleared off the
: writing. Then you just dropped the plastic
: over the gray board and wrote again, then
: lifted it again to clear it.
: This might be a bad description but this is all
: I can remember about it. I think the pen was
: usually red and it was just a piece of
: plastic.
: Anybody know the name or manufacturer?
Subject: Re: name of a toy
: I found out your answer. I found a toy message
: board and someone there was kind enough to
: help. He said they were called Magic Slates,
: and sometimes Super Slates. Different
: companies made them..Laramie, The
: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Western Printing and
: Litho, The American Tradition Company,
: Saalfield and he said a few more companies
: too.
: April
I see the response I wrote yesterday never posted. Strange... anyway, that was right. Just before I found your answer, the other person I had looking for it found the name.
I still don't understand why I had so many replies telling me where to buy it considering that wasn't my question.
Thank you for your help!
Subject: Re: name of a toy
: I see the response I wrote yesterday never
: posted. Strange... anyway, that was right.
: Just before I found your answer, the other
: person I had looking for it found the name.
: I still don't understand why I had so many
: replies telling me where to buy it
: considering that wasn't my question.
: Thank you for your help!
I think people were probably telling you where you could buy it so you could go there and find out the name of it. Not many people would go the extra mile the way April did.