Jenny's Crayon Collection: 1990's boxes

Crayola Glow in the Dark Crayola Crayons

Crayola came out with the glow in the dark crayons in 1994. The concept was all thee crayons would glow in the dark. The back of the box says it comes with 7 colors and 1 colorless crayon. All the crayons glow yellow in the dark. The crayons need to be charged by placing it under light for 15 seconds. It is interesting to note that Crayola encouraged secret messages to friends. They said "create surprise message and picture cards for your friends! On the inside, write a message or draw a surprise picture with the colorless crayon." I was so excited to pick up this pack of crayons.

The 1997 box added yellow glowing crayons and also a black outliner.

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1994

1997

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Crayola Pooh Crayons

Crayola came out with the Washable Pooh crayon line in 1995. They all feature characters from Winnie the Pooh. The pictures on the crayons make the most sense when they are vertical. Crayola decided to uniquely name these crayons with fun names; Red Balloon, Huggable Bear Orange, sunshiny Yellow, Springtime Meadow Green, Blustery Blue, Pouncy Purple, Whoo Brown, Storm Cloud Black. These crayons are also labeled as No-Roll crayons with a hexagonal shape.

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16 Count Crayola Crayons including Indian Red: What's Inside the Box

The 16 count box from Crayola has been around since 1910. This box is from 1997. These colors were put in this box as a collection. I bought this box on eBay. I was very disappointed when it came and two colors were broken and were not broken on the listing. I told the seller and they were going to replace the colors, but I guess I didn't get back to them in time (2 weeks) and they said they weren't going to replace them. Guess I will be more careful when I buy on eBay.

I bought it because Indian Red was included in the box and I did not have that color in my collection yet. It is a very important color in Crayola's history and has since been retired.

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Crayola Changeable Crayons: What's Inside the Box

Crayola came out with a series of crayons called Changeables which consisted of 6 crayons that could change color with a color change crayon. Crayola later made OverWriters and Color Switcher markers in the 2000's which did a similar thing with markers. The markers used different ph's to change the color. The crayons probably change in similar ways. The patent is not listed on the back. I will have to find it.

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US Box

Canadian Box

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Crayola True Blue Heroes Crayons: What's Inside the Box

I have been wanting to get my hand on a True Blue crayon for a while now. The True Blue Heroes Crayola Crayons came out in 1997. It was a national contest for kids to nominate a Hero in their lives, write an essay, and color a picture about them. The colors to name appeared in the 64, 96, and 120 crayon boxes. The box I have here are the ultimate winners for the contest. There was also a wooden box that contained the true blue color. I have pictures of all the artwork and essays at the bottom of the post in the booklet section.

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Crayola Techno Brite Crayons and Markers: What's Inside the Box

The Crayola Techno Brite Crayons box came out in 1997. It is very similar the Hot Fluorescent box that came out years earlier, but the names are all centered around technology. On the back it says, "Try these bright high-tech colors for all your high resolution graphics!! (and your pictures too!). The crayon names are so funny, floppy yellow, point & click green, www.purple. They came out when computers were starting to play a major part in everyone's lives, not quite their daily lives yet. I think we had internet, but it was the super slow aol.com. It would take forever to load and would say "You've Got Mail" when you signed in.

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Techno Brite marker pictures in this post by Stacey Hodges.

Crayola also came out with a box of Techno Brite markers. Crayola likes to make boxes of matching crayons and markers. The main difference with the markers is they were called Cool Shades after Techno Brite. The colors contained in the box would later be used for another box of markers. I am unsure what the box is called at the moment, but will research it.

These two boxes were introduced in 1997. I think they were introduced to promote the new Crayola website. The website was developed in late 1996. All the boxes made in 1997 included the text, "For more information including Fun Project Ideas, visit the Crayola INTERNET site at: http://crayola.com". It is so interesting they made the text in red and they also called it INTERNET instead of website and included the http:// instead of www.

I never bought the Crayola Techno Brite crayons when I was a kid. I was in high school by that point and probably worried about high school things. And I did not have a lot of money. I wish I would have bought them though and so many more boxes. There are some truly great boxes that came out around that time. Crayola was experimenting a lot with of different effects with crayons. I picked up this Canada box from a fellow collector who is selling his entire collection. I wish I had the money and the room to buy his whole collection.