Toymaker Burt Meyer, who designed iconic games including Mouse Trap, Lite-Brite, and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots, has died at age 99. Meyer passed away on Oct. 30 at a retirement community in Burr Ridge, Illinois. Born in 1926 in Illinois, Meyer served in the Navy as an aircraft mechanic between 1944 and 1946, before graduating from the Illinois Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in product design in 1952. Meyer, whose license plate read TOY KING, called Lite-Brite the favorite of the games he worked on as a partner at the Chicago firm Marvin Glass & Associates. Launched in 1967, Lite-Brite was a light box with colored plastic pegs that slotted into a plane to illuminate a picture. While most of Meyer’s games and toys were originally released in the 1960s, many have continued to

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