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March 26, 2006
the magic designer
Ww went to visit my sister-in-law and her family this weekend for my niece's first birthday. While we were there, we did a little antique/junk store shopping, and I picked up this dohickey called the magic designer. It's like a 1950s spirograph, but more complicated, with like 4 or 5 degrees of freedom. Crazy. Anyway, it's pretty fun, and me and Mark and my other niece and my nephew quickly used up all the spare blank papers that were left in the box.
Posted under Paper Crafts at March 26, 2006 10:45 PM
Comments
wow that is so cool.... wish i had one!
Posted by: lisa at March 27, 2006 01:10 AM
it's really cool! i want one!
Posted by: caylie at March 27, 2006 04:10 AM
love this.
I still own a simple spirograph I had as a child; it was one of my favourite toys.
Posted by: cimba at March 27, 2006 08:50 AM
Very cool!
Posted by: Cassi at March 27, 2006 09:39 PM
OMG! I totally forgot about these. They used to be my all time favourite thing when I was little. Thank you for reminding me!
Have to go looking for one now....
Posted by: Karen at March 28, 2006 06:51 PM
I was researching an item that I am listing today on Ebay...Magic Designer, formerly called Hoot Nanny. I have the original metal game, with the original directions, box and pencil! If anyone is interested, please check it out on Ebay, and thank you for the info listed here in your comments, it halped me out as well.
Posted by: Stella at April 2, 2006 06:06 PM
this is way too cool!!
Posted by: sarah n. at April 8, 2006 10:03 AM
If anyone is interested, I am listing a "The magic designer " on e-bay, I will start it low so if anyone is interested please check it out.
Posted by: Jen at June 13, 2006 11:10 AM
just found a The Magic Designer at a garage sale. Does anyone know what year this first came out? I remember them from when i was a young girl.The one I have has the warranty which says that this toy was started in 1929,and that some dealers may not have them to purchase because "toys are just for christmas". Also says that this toy has been in constant production,excepting for the war years(world war two).Please let me know any info.
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Posted by: vonda at September 2, 2006 05:30 PM
For anyone who reads this - I have the Magic Designer (1966 I got it) and I wrote a computer program (for MS Windows) which emulates and improves on this instrument (toy). Please contact me at Akatz712@gmail.com and I will be happy to send it to you.
Andy Katz
Posted by: Andy Katz at March 24, 2007 08:45 PM
I have a Browser version of my Magic Designer emulation on my website for those of you who do not have MS Windows. I recommend Firefox!
Posted by: Andy Katz at April 13, 2007 01:35 PM
I have the Magic Designer and many disks. I am 72 years old and was showing it to my grandaughter who is 11 years old. She loves it. I would like to find a source for the disks if anyone knows where to buy them. I have the box and everything that came with it. I think I received it back in the late 40's or 50's. I have no idea how old it is. I would like to buy my grandaughter many disks if I can find a source for them. The 3 notches on the disks would be hard to cutout to do it yourself. Thank you.
Posted by: Shirley Johnson at June 23, 2007 01:30 PM
If you need more discs, just scan them and print all the copies you need. It's easy to cut them out. Just follow the lines.
Posted by: Dennis at July 26, 2007 01:41 AM
If you need more disks, just scan them and print all the copies you need. It's easy to cut them out. Just follow the lines.
Posted by: Dennis at July 26, 2007 01:41 AM
If you need more disks, just scan them and print all the copies you need. It's easy to cut them out. Just follow the lines.
Posted by: Dennis at July 26, 2007 01:42 AM