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Crayola Celebrates Colorful Milestone
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| April 10, 2008
Posted on 04/10/2008 4:37:56 PM PDT by ShadowDancer
Crayola Celebrates Colorful Milestone
Company Introduces 8 New 'Kids' Choice' Colors
UPDATED: 12:18 pm EDT April 10, 2008
Crayola celebrated the 50th anniversary of its Crayola 64 Box with the introduction of eight new "Kids' Choice Colors."
The iconic box, complete with a built-in sharpener, first debuted on the Captain Kangaroo show in 1958.
To celebrate the anniversary, Crayola introduced eight new colors selected by children to tell a story about what's important to today's youth.
The new colors include Super Happy, Fun in the Sun, Giving Tree, Bear Hug, Awesome, Happy Ever After, Famous and Best Friends.
More than 200 million Crayola 64 Boxes have been sold over the last 50 years, according to the company's Web site.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: anniversary; chat; crayola; crayons
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To: Cecily
5. The flesh colored one - Putty or Beige? It's now called "Peach" after many complaints that this crayon was name was racist.
My favorite colors were copper and silver.
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:36:01 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Vicious Babushka)
To: SIDENET; ShadowDancer
I ditto.
But the orange-red... that was cool. And the midnight blue.
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:36:18 PM PDT
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: Eepsy
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:38:26 PM PDT
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: abishai
I always like silver and copper. Yes! Gold sucked, though. Too dull.
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:38:39 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(Vicious Babushka)
To: I still care
They cut way back on the lead on account of the lead scares that were going around. They replaced it with some kind of hard wax.
All of the lead/carbon based coloring pencil makers began making low and lead free lines, because schools began specifying what kind of low lead and lead free coloring pencils to buy, I guess because some kids couldn't stop eating them and got sick. If you wanted the good ones you had to go to the art and craft stores to get them.
To: tokenatheist
To: Nathan Zachary
And by that you mean ‘World Net Daily’?
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:45:10 PM PDT
by
ShadowDancer
( Losers always look for excuses. Winners never quit.)
To: Non-Sequitur
"Considering that Binney and Smith are a wholly owned subsidiary of Hallmark I kind of doubt it. " What do they have to do with school children being told what kind of names they can select? No little kid would think up the name "giving tree" on their own. The first thought they would have of a crayon the color of a Christmas tree is what else? Christmas tree! Kind of hard to believe that from a wide selection of schools that all the children participating in that contest would select "giving tree", and a bunch of those other names as well.
To: ShadowDancer
To: Cecily
When I was in college, I bought a box of 64. Before I opened it up, a friend of mine and I tried to see how many of the 64 we could remember. I think we did pretty well. I wish they had not done away with the color wheel names. I think that was a nice feature.
To: Nathan Zachary
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:53:08 PM PDT
by
ShadowDancer
( Losers always look for excuses. Winners never quit.)
To: Nathan Zachary
*ahem*
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:54:15 PM PDT
by
Eepsy
(The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
To: Nathan Zachary
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:56:34 PM PDT
by
tokenatheist
(Can I play with madness?)
To: Nathan Zachary
No little kid would think up the name "giving tree" on their own. Still very popular with kids.
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posted on
04/10/2008 5:59:14 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.)
To: SIDENET; abishai
Silver essential for coloring swords, bayonets
To: SIDENET; abishai
Silver essential for coloring swords, bayonets
To: donna
My parents always insisted that the box of 8 was enough. We could mix to get the other colors. I was always jealous of those who had boxes of 16 or 24. Finally, when my older sisters no longer needed crayons for school, I got to get a bigger box: 48!!!!! I am still tempted to put a new box of crayons in my daughters’ Christmas stockings. They are in their 20’s.: )
To: ShadowDancer
That built-in sharpener was the bomb!
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posted on
04/10/2008 6:04:16 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(Ladies do not start fights, but they can finish them.)
To: stayathomemom
We were so poor we couldn’t have actual crayons. We got the wrappers and had to rub them on the paper...and no coloring books. We got to use the newspaper and colored in the holes in the “O”’s
G, sniff...sniff....
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posted on
04/10/2008 6:08:30 PM PDT
by
GRRRRR
(2008- A Year That Will Live in Infamy...)
To: GRRRRR
You had newspapers?
yuk, yuk, yuk
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posted on
04/10/2008 6:11:25 PM PDT
by
workerbee
(Ladies do not start fights, but they can finish them.)
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