Comments on: 5 Times Crayola® Fired Their Crayons

By: Loramir

Loramir — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:01:10 +0000

My box of 96 was pride and joy in elementary school. With the fancy sharpener in it, and some new colors at the time including Purple Mountains Majesty and some others. Flesh was definitely Peach when I came along, although I never liked it for skin colors.

Has anyone noticed how hard it is to find plain old coloring books nowadays? They’re all fancy “activity” books and have stickers and word searches and other nonsense. I grab them when I find them, though. I have the biggest coloring book collection of any 23 year old I know! I think it was always sort of a compensation thing for me. I can’t draw at ALL, but dang it, I can color!

By: Orson Zedd

Orson Zedd — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:02:54 +0000

I’ve been a Crayola fan all my life. I remember submitting a list of names for consideration, at the tender age of 6; none of which were picked up when I got my Giant Box of 96 that Christmas. Still, purple mountain’s majesty had a new fan, as did robin’s egg blue. I had a lot of my mother’s old crayons, so I had such hues as lemon yellow and maize (which I loved) at my disposal.

I really wish Crayola would make the Telescoping Tower of 150 the normal largest product, unretire all the retired colors, standardize and rename most of the metallic crayons, and add one more, that a child doesn’t name. Seriously. I love the shade of mango tango, but they really could have just used mango. (Or if they wanna go the fluorescent route, they could call it manic mango or something).

Really though, aside from jazzberry jam, the weird names of these colors isn’t a bad thing. I’m an English teacher now, and I realized recently just how much of my vocabulary was taught by Crayola. Thanks to them, I was the only Kindergartner with a working definition of pizzazz, vivid, radical, neon, or shocking. For similar reasons, I wish they’d rename midnight blue, Prussian blue. I only knew what Prussia was, because of my mom’s ancient Box of 48.

By: Chrystani

Chrystani — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:17:08 +0000

I love burnt sienna how else was I suppose to find a color that matched my family so perfectly…

Brown… No.
Black…. Um big no.

By: JP

JP — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:30:46 +0000

@ Kari – Yes, Crayola did indeed make scented crayons. My favorite was new car with dirt being a close second…

By: Kari

Kari — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:35:19 +0000

I can’t exactely remember but didn’t Crayola make crayons that gave off a scent.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:28:03 +0000

I am deeply saddened by the loss of Magic Mint. I made my first friend in Kindergarten due to a shared love of it’s unique green shade. These new generation Kindergarteners…

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:15:25 +0000

I always thought there should be 2 blacks in every box (maybe replace the white).

By: JOSA

JOSA — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 06:01:54 +0000

Actually I have a box of 120 crayons.

I’m sad because the retirement of Blizzard Blue, now there are no flourescent blues! It was my favorite color!

Hope they create a new flourescent blue.

By: butcherbaby

butcherbaby — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:08:26 +0000

i was born in 1967 and can remember using “flesh” and “peach” (and we only ever had real crayola brand.) raw umber & burnt sienna were my least favorite colors, periwinkle, lemon yellow & robin’s egg blue were favorites. and blue grey was really pretty as well, sorry to see it go. and now i want to go out and buy the biggest box of crayons they make :-)

By: nh344

nh344 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:08:31 +0000

I saw paint in a paint your own pottery place called “skin tone”. In Wisconsin, they are a bit slower on the political correctness. No mean to offend, I just noticed that people don’t seem to mind as much as say, Seattle.