The Lite-Brite toy is one of the all-time most popular toys and was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2022. It was originally marketed in 1967. It consists of a light box with small colored plastic pegs that fit into a panel and illuminates to create a lit picture, by either using one of the included templates or creating a “freeform” image on a blank sheet of black paper. Some say it looked like a preview of an LED panel, but it was actually using a traditional incandescent lamp as a backlight. Lite-Brite was invented by Burt Meyer, Dalia Verbickas, and Joseph M. Burck at Chicago toy and game design company Marvin Glass and Associates, which licensed the invention to Hasbro.
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