Hasbro Lite Brite Flat Screen Purple

by Hasbro

Product Features

• Lite Brite Flat Screen - Purple
• Includes: Over 200 Pegs / (8) Design-Picture Sheets / (2) Free-Form Sheets / Lightbulb / Instructions
• Cordless Battery Powered / Automatic Shut-Off
• Requires (3) "D"Batteries (not included)
• Ages 4+

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 10.5 x 3.9 inches ; 2.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B000WV7FUA
• Manufacturer recommended age: 4 years and up
• Batteries: 3 D batteries required.
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #42,134 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

Product Description

Take your Lite-Brite screen with you wherever you go! This cordless purple console comes with more than 200 colored pegs. Place a design template on the screen and press the pegs into the screen. Turn on the screen and voila! You've got a colorful light-up creation. It's perfect for creative play at home or on the go -- even nighttime travel. You'll even conserve battery power with the automatic shut-off feature. A convenient storage tray to holds all your pegs. Screen comes with light bulb, 10 design pictures and more than 200 pegs. Requires three "D" batteries, not included. Adult assembly required. Measures approximately 10"L x 8"W.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 2 broken out of the box, November 4, 2009

By 

Chris - See all my reviews

= Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hasbro Lite Brite Flat Screen Purple (Toy)

Talk about cheap. We got one of these for my daughter's birthday and I was excited. I had one when I was a kid. It turned on when I put in the batteries (more later) but the on/off switch did not work. So I took it back and got another. Same problem, on/off switch did not work. Talk about quality control issues.

Another complaint. I would prefer the old school electric plug, but they've switched to batteries. Fine. The bulb they use is smaller than a night light bulb, yet it takes 3 D size batteries to run it. Are you kidding me? I think you could light that with 1 C in 1970. Inefficient, wasteful, bad for the environment, expensive to run.

Design could not be much worse. Find a 20 year old model on eBay.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great toy, bad price, January 24, 2008

By 

Elle Mac (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

= Durability:2.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hasbro Lite Brite Flat Screen Purple (Toy)

You'd be crazy to buy this toy here for $44.00. It's only $10 at Target and Wal-Mart at regular price.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Still a Lite Brite, but not the one from your childhood, December 29, 2009

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R. Suehle - See all my reviews
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= Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Hasbro Lite Brite Flat Screen Purple (Toy)

I suspect a lot of people have bought this for their kids, remembering their own sturdy (perhaps slightly hot) Lite Brites. This is not that Lite Brite.


Pros:
- Small, compact. Won't take up much space, and it would travel well.
- Case for pegs--excellent idea. (See cons)
- Battery-powered--don't have to put the kid near an outlet. Use rechargeables, of course.
- It's a Lite Brite!

Cons:
- If you don't open the peg case carefully, pegs go everywhere. It only took me a couple of tries to learn how not to spray pegs, but I don't think my four-year-old will take the same care.
- I *think* my old 80s Lite Brite had a place in the back to store the templates. If it didn't, it should have. And this one should too. Then it would all be self-contained.