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Kristen Fawcett<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b>Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>present 11 Well-Drawn Facts About The Etch A Sketch<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 4. TOY MANUFACTURERS ORIGINALLY REJECTED THE ETCH A SKETCH.<\/span><\/strong> 7. IT FOUND A MARKET VIA TELEVISION.<\/span><\/strong> 8. IT\u2019S A BEST-SELLER.<\/span><\/strong> Kristen Fawcett\u00a0and\u00a0Mental_Floss\u00a0present 11 Well-Drawn Facts About The Etch A Sketch.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 4. TOY MANUFACTURERS ORIGINALLY REJECTED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17794,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions\/17794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nThe Etch A Sketch was showcased at the 1959 Nuremberg Toy Fair, but toy companies didn\u2019t want to pay a steep fee for the rights. Eventually, Ohio Art\u2014who is said to have also passed on the Etch A Sketch\u2014reconsidered and acquired the invention.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nProduction of the Etch A Sketch began on July 12, 1960. America soon caught wind of the toy thanks to a televised marketed campaign featuring a little girl named Pernella who hides underneath a basket with her Etch A Sketch because everyone wants to play with it. She eventually emerges and announces that her favorite toy \u201cis magic!” The ads were such a hit that, come holiday season, Ohio Art was hard-pressed to fill orders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nIn 1998, the Etch A Sketch was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame, cementing its place in history alongside inventions like the Slinky, the skateboard, and Silly Putty. In 2003, the Toy Industry Association ranked it as one of the 20th century\u2019s hundred best toys. According to CNBC, more than 100 million Etch A Sketches have been sold since its introduction in 1960.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"