These Guys Tore Apart An Etch-A-Sketch To Find Out What’s Inside And It’s As Cool We’d Hoped

Etch-A-Sketch, man. Is there anyone out there who didn’t own one or at least play with one as a kid? I wonder how much money the company that makes them has raked in since the toy was first put on sale back in 1960? Has to be millions, right?

Anyway, back the original point of all this. As a kid I know I always wanted to tear one of these bad boys apart to see what the hell was going on inside. It was just one of those kid mysteries that I never figured out. What was I going to do? Take a saw and a hammer to it?

Now, however, thanks to ‘The King of Random‘ Grant Thompson of What’s Inside?, that mystery has finally been solved. How? Duh. He took a saw and a hammer to it.

The video is kind of long so feel free to skip ahead to around the three-minute mark for all the wonderful mystery-solving destruction.

Pretty cool, huh?

You know what’s even cooler? When Thompson tried to make Thermite using the stuff found inside an Etch-A-Sketch.

As the video’s description says, “So much fire. So much destruction!”

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