It would appear that while having never actually left out shelves, the etch-a-sketch is making something of a come back, with adverts featuring adults who are insanely good at drawing on them. I requested one of these for my birthday, half as a joke, but as luck would have it I got one, and I LOVE it. The product comes in one of those really difficult to open plastic sleeves that require a large amount of scissoring in order to actually get into it, but when they are on the shelf, this packaging allows you to play with the toy a bit. The idea is that by turning two knobs, one for the horizontal lines and another for the vertical lines, you can create ...  Read the complete review

I have an etch a sketch that is a few years old and it gets played with daily. My son has autism and likes to twist the knobs and watch the lines going in different directions. When I try to draw anything on it, well basically I can't, I find it very difficult and those that manage to produce such good art work on them are really talented people. One of my grandsons came to visit last weekend and was fascinated by it and played with it continually over the weekend and really enjoyed just making lines and squiggles and I like the fact that it was a very entertaining toy that also made no mess or noise. He has his fourth birthday next ...  Read the complete review

Etch A Sketch always seemed to be one of those toys which looked great fun in the adverts when I was a kid. You get a board with two little knobs. Twiddle the knob, and guide a little dot up and down and sideways and draw brilliant pictures. When you get bored, shake it and the picture's gone. It looked great in the adverts, and yet real life was harder. No matter what VerySmallMe did I could never produce anything more than a mess of lines. Possibly it could be a tangled knotof of wool or something. Eventually the thing ended up relegated to the back of a cupboard in disgust. Apparently it survived the eighties, and on visiting a friend with kids I ...  Read the complete review