We like toys. We often think fondly of our childhood toys and wish that we could bring them into our adult world to be a part of our daily lives. If you’re anything like us, you spend a significant amount of time on your computer. <digress> If you don’t, well then you nothing like us. Not really, you see that logic doesn’t really work, you could be like us in other ways that don’t involve the computer. </digress>.

So we though it would be fun to combine the love of the childhood toys with the agony of being chained like an indentured slave to the desktop. Play With Your Toys is a new layercake feature that helps you bring virtual version of your childhood bedroom right to your desktop!!!

We’ll start with our favorite go anywhere toy that ironically, probably did more harm to our self esteem than being sent to the “special” PE class to fly kites. What? Kite flying is totally acceptable strenuous physical activity.

The Etch a Sketch

From the looks of our creation, you can see where the self esteem might have been damaged. We sucked. We still do, since we made that drawing just one month ago. Other kids didn’t suck, in fact they could make circles with their Etch a Sketch and draw entire picturesque scenes from the Flintstones their favorite cartoons. Stuff like this:

That lovely piece by Etcha can be seen on Flickr by clicking the pic. See more Etch a Sketch self esteem deflaters on the EtchaSketch flickr group which is basically just a bunch of really clever people who are really good at twisting nobs and making us feel bad about our artistic shortcomings.

Here comes the play with your toys under your bosses nose part. You can play with your very own virtual Etch a Sketch here, just click the game image and you’ll be whisked away to a place where unicor..ok, just to a place where you can practice your Etch a Sketch skillz.

This is insane and the reason we no longer play with our Etch a Sketch. Instead we’ve taped a black and white photo of the Golden Gate Bridge into our Etch a Sketch and are trying to pass it off as our own work. No really, we did.

Watch in awe.

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