Talk:Etch A Sketch

message: It looks as if someone plagiarized the history section from someone else, necessitating a total rewrite of it. -HuBmaN!!!! 17:18, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History needs a total rewrite

message: Are the screens actually glass? Seems like a bad idea for a kid's toy. I thought it was plastic, or at least plastic-coated on the outside.
While a Pocket Etch-A-Sketch is pictured, it's not mentioned. Also, I'm guessing it doesn't use a glass screen.
-Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 01:06, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qs 

message: It seems to me the early ones had a plate-glass screen with liquid mercury inside. No mention of that in the article, so I wonder if it's true.Landroo 13:18, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I did a brief Google search for "Etch-A-Sketch" and "mercury" and found quite a few anecdotal stories about breaking the glass and having mercury leaking out, but nothing definitive so far.  I do remember when my sister put a chair leg on the screen, sat on it and broke it open.  I was convinced at the time that the silver liquid that ran all over the floor in little balls was liquid mercury.  I don't know any other substance that looks like that.Landroo (talk) 16:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  mercury content? 

message: Moved from the article page, from the 'History' section of the article, I thought the talk page would be a better place for a discussion about this, Key to the city 13:11, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't know why they say that, when so many other sources list Granjean as the creator. Here are another sources: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bletchasketch.htm, http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/etchsketch.htm—Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.0.35.179 (talk) 2 December 2007
I can understand other sources all having the same story, but who's to say it's the correct story?  I would think the company who actually purchased the rights to the product and perfected it for sale would have the more correct story.  I guess a contact will have to be made with the company to help sort this out.  I'll try to make contact myself.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.45.172.205 (talk) 16:52, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

text: I've had a stab at this - I summarised most of the above as "a complex series of negotiatons". The information here is very useful although we can't use it as a direct source, because firstly it could be fabricated, and secondly it would be original research. However, the company's official history most definitely names Cassagnes as the creator. I guess this means that the article on Arthur Granjean will need to be rewritten or perhaps even deleted (it would amount to "Arthur Granjean was a French accountant whose name appears on the original patent for Etch-a-Sketch. He was not however the inventor. He is not famous for anything else.") -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Inventor of the Etch A Sketch

message: I remember when I was a kid I had a model with a large white square button in between the knobs. When pressed down it would move the stylus back in the Z-axis so you could move it without removing any of the aluminum powder -- basically letting you "skip" over parts to start drawing at other places. Anyone have any information on that model? Like a name or something?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.116.109.221 (talk) 15:41, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Models?

message: Nice explanation but how exactly does that aluminum powder adhere to the screen without falling off?  Is there some electrostatic adhesion? -Rolypolyman (talk) 19:08, 30 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The powder sticks to everything, which is why it sticks to the screen. 
Jane, 24 February 2011  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.38.189.54 (talk) 05:47, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Aluminum powder

message: These are only Etch A Sketches by name only, especially the Animator 2000. They deserve their own page, because these electronic "Etch A Sketch" machines were developed to combat the competetors- Nintendo, Atari, Sega (which is why the 2000 played games, and technically was a PORTABLE video game system, debuting a year BEFORE Game Boy or Linx and 2 years before Game Gear!!--75.0.32.63 (talk) 02:09, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: True, very true. They're probably lumped in because they're electronic versions that you can draw pictures on. Yes, the 2000 played games, like you said to compete with electronic companies, but I think it just needs more info added to the main part, keeping it part of the original.2602:304:CFD3:2EE0:7C3D:5D46:E762:1F8D (talk) 05:30, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animators 

message: The paragraph is well done. Congrats, Charles Edwin Shipp (talk) 13:59, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Republican Race, 2012 

message: In the information box, the "Official Website" links to Shake It Up America, which is a political organization, rather than the Ohio Art website.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.145.136.172 (talk) 02:56, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with the official website 

message: on Agilent DSOX2000 series...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJB0Fsc2_nk
83.240.14.122 (talk) 14:02, 25 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Etch-A-Scope

message: This section is unsourced, barely relevant, and takes up far too much space in the article.  This entire cruft dump might be worth one or two sentences in an "In popular culture" section, but it is not worthy of its own section.
If no one thinks this is worthy of inclusion, that's great.  If someone insists it is worthy, please pare it down to the essentials, find some reliable third party sources, learn how to properly format titles of films, and replace it.  It does not belong in the article as-is. 73.201.123.22 (talk) 19:35, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving this here from article 

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message: this is hard to find But can someone give me a list of films and TV etch appears in (separate list movies and tv). Ethan169 (talk) 11:58, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etch Movie And TV appearances