Did you have a Lite-Brite?

@BarBaraPrz (51438)
St. Catharines, Ontario
November 26, 2025 10:32am CST
Or Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots? I didn't, I was already "too mature" for such childish things, but I knew of them. They were invented by Burt Meyer, who has now gone to that great playroom in the sky. He was 99.
https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/world/united-states/toy-inventor-burt-meyer-who-dreamed-up-lite-brite-and-rock-em-sock-em-robots/article_caeac886-df64-51d9-b0dd-78b1dd9a9541.html?source=newsletter&utm_content=a08&utm_source=ml_nl&utm_medium=email&
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Anne Marie Guyer
@LeaPea2417 (39596)
• Toccoa, Georgia
26 Nov
I had a Lite Brite and I loved it.
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51438)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
26 Nov
Did you make pictures or signs with it?
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51438)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
28 Nov
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Anne Marie Guyer
@LeaPea2417 (39596)
• Toccoa, Georgia
28 Nov
@BarBaraPrz pictures
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much2say
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
26 Nov
I did have a Lite-Brite but didn't use it the right way. I just loved holding all the pegs - they were like jewels to me . I knew about the Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots (I seem to recall the commercials) but didn't have that.
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51438)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
26 Nov
Jewels! You were abolutely correct.
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much2say
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
26 Nov
@BarBaraPrz Pretty, pretty !
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Amber
@AmbiePam (113905)
• United States
26 Nov
I had a Lite Brite when I was three, and I loved it. How imaginative he must have been to create such toys. I hope his life was a good one.
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51438)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
26 Nov
I think it was, if he called himself the Toy King.
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Anna
@LadyDuck (494424)
• Italy
26 Nov
I never bought those because I was too "old", but I thought they were pretty.
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51438)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
26 Nov
Yeah! We weren't kids! We were young ladies...
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Anna
@LadyDuck (494424)
• Italy
27 Nov
@BarBaraPrz Young ladies sounds perfect!
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DE
@DaddyEvil (169212)
• United States
26 Nov
We had Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots when I was a kid... We'd start playing with them and mom would come in, tell us to put them away and go outside to play.
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51438)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
26 Nov
Where you could rock'em sock'em each other?
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DE
@DaddyEvil (169212)
• United States
26 Nov
@BarBaraPrz No. Only two of my brothers were violent and they fought each other. The rest of us rode bikes, rode horses, rode the cows, explored the woods or wandered all over the farm and surrounding countryside. As long as we were home in time for supper, mom didn't care what we did or where we went outside.
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (215267)
• United States
27 Nov
I didn't have either one.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (372958)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Nov
I hadn't actually heard of these but they could well have been on sale here.
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