Remember that glow in the dark stars ceiling kit from the 90s

I put those glow in the dark plastic stars all over my bedroom ceiling when I was 8 years old. Got the kit at a Walmart in Ohio for like 12 bucks. Now I see kids with projectors that beam nebulas on the ceiling and it's cool but not the same. Anyone else miss how those cheap sticky stars actually forced you to learn a few constellations?

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joel_young28d ago

I mean, you're right about the constellation thing. That specific phrase "forced you to learn a few constellations" hit me because I remember staring at that exact Orion cluster stuck crooked on my ceiling every night for years. I never would have known what a constellation even looked like if I hadn't been trying to match the glow in the dark stickers to the little diagram that came with the kit. Do you think kids today get the same sort of prolonged bedtime staring contest with the ceiling when a projector just changes colors on its own? Like, part of the magic was that the stars faded after 20 minutes so you got this slow reveal of the dark again, that made you want to look up at them again the next night.

tyler_fox4127d ago

Wait @joel_young you seriously just made me realize something I never put together. The fading was half the point, right? You'd lay there watching them dim and it was like actually being outside watching the sky get darker. Those projectors just blast light all night, no mystery to it.