Hey, look! It’s time for another episode of “80s Toys Loved by Very, Very White Kids”!<\/p>\n

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Nice Mondrian print on the wall. Cubes. Get it? Yeah. I guess a Picasso would have been too subtle. <\/p>\n

Of course, I was one of the few very, very White kids to receive an Etch-a-Sketch Animator.<\/p>\n

Loba Tangent: I don’t know why I keep focusing on race with this…I’m sure that plenty of kids of other races were frustrated to death by their very own Animator. Really, I just enjoy making fun of the kid in this commercial, who just happens to be White and nerdy. And now we need to stop and watch this: <\/p>\n

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I have no cute story to tell about this toy. Actually, it was incredibly tedious and wore down my limited reserves of child patience very quickly. I could only work with it for a little while before the tedium of “Draw It. Save It. Draw It. Save It.” became too much. I still have it though, in storage and in its original box: <\/p>\n

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Yes, it’s still in its original box. IN ITS ORIGINAL STYROFOAM. I don’t have an explanation, denizens. I have a problem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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