* the magic designer
Posted on March 26th, 2006 by maitreya. Filed under Paper Crafts.
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.
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March 27th, 2006 at 1:10 am
wow that is so cool…. wish i had one!
March 27th, 2006 at 4:10 am
it’s really cool! i want one!
March 27th, 2006 at 8:50 am
love this.
I still own a simple spirograph I had as a child; it was one of my favourite toys.
March 27th, 2006 at 9:39 pm
Very cool!
March 28th, 2006 at 6:51 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….
April 2nd, 2006 at 6:06 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.
April 8th, 2006 at 10:03 am
this is way too cool!!
June 13th, 2006 at 11:10 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.
September 2nd, 2006 at 5:30 pm
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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March 24th, 2007 at 8:45 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
April 13th, 2007 at 1:35 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!
June 23rd, 2007 at 1:30 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.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:41 am
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.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:41 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.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:42 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.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I still have my ‘Magic Designer’ also and absolutely loved it as a child and my daughter still uses it for some fun design work. Please let me know if anyone knows of where to get another one…Ebay did not show one….Thank YOU!
April 19th, 2009 at 8:41 am
I found one of these in my Mother’s garage and remember having great fun as a child with it. My 8 year old granddaughter has loved it and we have used all the paper discs that were available. Surely, we can find the discs at an art store. If anyone knows where to find them please let me know.
Thanks!
April 19th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
eBay does have these from time to time, they were the inspiration for the Spirograph.
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm
This website offers a computer emulation of this magic designer. There is a version you can download and install on a windows computer, and a browser version which works from the website.
Andy Katz