Marvins Magic Drawing Board

Pros: Creates colorful pictures with no crayons, no paints and no MESS!
Cons: learning curve involved

I saw the board advertised and bought it for my boy of 7 around 2 months ago.

On opening it and using it, as others have voiced it does not perform like in the commercial.

However, there is actually a large printed instruction...

Pros: Creates great pictures, easy to clean, no mess, non toxic.
Cons: To hard for most children and/or adults to erase.

I remember doing art similar to this in school. It was a bit harder though. First you take a bunch of different colors. I always chose blue, yellow, green, red and orange. You randomly color a whole sheet of white paper, pressing firmly with each...

Pros: If you get them to show up, it has pretty colors
Cons: Very hard for a child to use

I saw Marvin's Magic and I thought that it would make a great toy for my son. When he saw the advertisement on TV, he seemed interested in it. So I decided to purchase it and I called the 800 number. I was placing the order and then they told how much...

Pros: cool colors
Cons: can barely draw with it

From the first time my brother saw a commercial for this on TV, he decided he had to have it. We didn't order it from the commercial, but around Christmas Mom started looking in stores. Everywhere she went, she was told that either they'd never had it or...

Pros: No Mess
Cons: not as great as seen on tv

My husband and I thought it would be a great toy for in the car to keep them calm while we drove for a quick vacation 6 hours away. But every couple of min I had to erase the board because it is not so easy when all the ink is on one side of the board....

Pros: It's not messy
Cons: It doesn't work

Okay, so I like to play with artistic toys now and then. Marvin's Magic Drawing Board looked so easy and creative when I saw it presented last year on QVC.

How do those guys do it? What is different about the Magic Drawing Board...

Pros: Looks really nice
Cons: Doesn't work as expected. Bores children easily.

Don't you love seeing all of those really cool things on television ads and knowing you have to purchase one for yourself or someone in your family that will just love it? That's how I felt about Marvin's Magic Drawing Board. It looked totally...

Pros: Looks fun on TV
Cons: Doesn't perform as advertised

My two kids just had to have this for Christmas. After all, it looked really neat and effortless on the commercial. I should have realized something was wrong when I went to the store and they only had one tiny display box of them for sale. This product...

Pros: Less messy they doing it the old fashioned way with crayons and a bobby pin
Cons: Doesn't work well unless it is warmed up and even then it is iffy

This was our big Santa surprise this year. As far as my daughter knew you could only get this off of tv and we would not order it for her. I found it a Michael's Arts and Crafts store and used a 50% off coupon making it around $10.00 for both the board...

Pros: Pretty Colors
Cons: Too hard to draw on

My 7 year old wanted one of these magic drawing boards really badly so we bought her one. This magic board was supposed to change colors when you drew across it with this little scraper thing. As you draw across different colors magically appear. My...

Pros: The color changing pens it comes with
Cons: Hard to draw on, hard to erase, can easily lose the drawing piece

My daughter got this as a gift from my grandfather who saw the advertisement for it on TV and thought she would like it. My daughter is 6 and is really into drawing and arts and crafts right now. We got the drawing board which comes with a red piece of...

Pros: comes with cool color-changing markers, hasn't leaked black goop yet, 4-year old finds it entertaining (and it WAS a gift to HIM, anyway)
Cons: doesn't perform as advertised, isn't worth the price

My son got Marvin's Magic Drawing Board as a Christmas gift.

Cute idea, but very poor execution

As described, it's a plastic frame, a psychedelic-colored background, and a layer of transparent material filled with...

Pros: free gift is fun
Cons: overpriced, hard to draw with

The commercials are really slick at getting the kids to beg for it. It looks so easy and fun on the commercials. My 8 year old had been begging for it, and I kept saying it was too much. So when 'Santa' found it on sale at Eckerd for under $15 I...

Pros: neat markers
Cons: not worth it at all

I bought this toy for my daughter this Christmas. I honestly feel like I wasted my money. At first it seemed like a great gift .. that was until I noticed she couldnt work it. And I tried to do it. NOPE! It looked so easy on t.v. but it was hard to...

Pros: A quiet toy
Cons: Hard to erase

My son and I kept seeing the commercials for "Marvin's Magic Drawing Board". We both thought it looked pretty neat. My son loves to draw and doodle so this looked like a good toy for him. It would be a good toy to take in the car on long...