Not much about it, just Spirographs! Nobody is too old to enjoy one. The standard model sold here for $2.99. I never knew they made a motor one!

If I was eph-ewe rich, I would buy a Spirograph for every child in the world. It's gotta be a good thing, to learn that mathematical patterns are cool and fun.

All it took was one slip of a gear 🤣 I loved my spirograph sets!

Nr 5. An automated spirograph. So a toy, that does the playing for You. Sit down, press the button and watch the toy play itself. And they are saying that today's kids are lazy.

This is what we did before computer graphics.

That, and etch-a-sketch.

etch-a-sketch

Morgan Freeman Narrator Voice, "In a world without diagonal lines, one child grows up to imagine we could someday make them..."

It was always great when I got to visit friends with rich parents who had this kind of stuff.

I just bought a modern version, for just a few dollars, this year. The design was changed, there has been an attempt to replace the push pins that held the stationary gears in place with sticky tack. I didn't feel like that was going to work, so I got some push pins and some cardboard to do it the old fashioned way. That sort-of works, but it's tricky without the dedicated, perfectly sized anchor holes the old sets had.

I wasn't able to get my kid too interested, but I had some fun with it.

I am only imagining, here, but I'm imagining that the "play" would consist of attempting to use household objects to engineer a supplementary framework of braces and weights to prevent your $6 battery operated plastic toy from skittering off the desk and messing up.

tricky without the dedicated, perfectly sized anchor holes

Oh that's too bad about the design change. I wonder if you could drill your own tiny anchor holes and restore the original method in its full effect.

I guess analog toys like this have a harder time competing for attention today than in the past.