Sparkle Spirograph
A reader, Paul, asked a question on another post:
I found my son’s Spirograph glitter set that we purchased as a Christmas gift in the the early 90s (I think). His daughter is trying to learn how to use it. Does anyone know what size pen tip works for this set? Also, I believe there was a glitter glue pen with this set. Does anyone know where a replacement can be purchased? Thanks!
Here’s a video of Kenner’s 1992 “Sparkle Spirograph”. It looks like regular Spirograph pieces with a glue pen and glitter sprinkled on. More below about glue pens below.
Did anyone have this set? I suppose any glue pen that came with it would have dried out by now.
A quick search on Amazon for “glitter glue pens” shows a dizzying array of possibilities.
Some of these pens would work with the new Spirograph by Kahootz, but may or may not fit in the old versions, which had smaller holes that were further away from the paper. I’d like to try it though.
Glitter can be found in craft shops.
In any case, if you had one of these sets, you could use it with regular pens – especially the fine-tip felt pens – on ordinary paper.
Nowadays, we also have sparkly gel pens available, but I find that they tend to smear because the gel takes longer to dry than does felt-tip or ballpoint ink.
If you have any experience with this set, with or without a glue pen, or using glue pens and glitter with other Spirograph sets, please share your experience in the comments below! Thanks.
I had never seen a Spirograph set like this… interesting indeed, although glitter can be a royal pain at times, the way it constantly falls off the surface on which it is intended to stay and gets on everything…
You might be interested to know that the link to the glue pen at Amazon came through in my email, but does not show up here on the blog.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FWAX2G?creativeASIN=B002FWAX2G
Here’s a shorter form of the link in case others are having the same phenominon…
Thanks. It’s working on my computer … but maybe there’s a glitch somewhere along the way.
A glitch is a very real possibility, as I have had whole days at a time where some web pages will not fully load… but when that has happened before it was on multiple sites that same day – or rather most of a week, the last time. I haven’t seen it happen anywhere else today.
I had to look at the video again… it looks to me as if there are some Super Spirograph pieces in the Sparkle Spirograph set. The square ring, and the piece that has three arms don’t come in a regular Spirograph set – at least not that I ever saw before. You can see both before the video runs, and again during commercial.
Yes, they’re interesting, except that in a Super Spirograph set they would be in several pieces that you’d put together. These appear to be one piece. The shaped wheels are there, though. It’s also quite late – 1992 – I think the heyday of Spirograph had passed already. Maybe they were trying to revive it with something novel – that bombed, I guess.
I have an old Parker Spirograph set which has that square ring and the ring with three arms. Perhaps they have the same origin.