"the technical kits 501 and 502, the three variants of Rasti Mobil (202, 203 and 204), the Motobox 45 and its more complete version the Motobox 90, and the larger set, ""Starbox 1000"". Rasti in Argentina Rasti Rasti is a construction toy made from plastic—similar to Lego, Tente and Mis Ladrillos—that was produced by the Knittax company in Argentina during the 1960s and 1970s. In 2007, manufacturing began again. The construction method allows a person to join pieces by using medium pressure, locking the blocks together with semi-rigid plastic pins which, unlike other brands, avoids the friction and wear between"
"Toy block Toy blocks (also building bricks, building blocks, or simply blocks) are wooden, plastic, or foam pieces of various shapes (square, cylinder, arch, triangle, etc.) and colors that are used as construction toys. Sometimes toy blocks depict letters of the alphabet. There are mentions of blocks or ""dice"" with alphabets inscribed on them used as entertaining educational tools in the works of English writer and inventor Hugh Plat (his 1594 book The ""Jewel House of Art and Nature"") and English philosopher John Locke (his 1693 essay ""Thoughts Concerning Education""). Plat described them as ""the child using to play much"
"Playskool Pipeworks Playskool Pipeworks with the unique 'click-lock' locking system is a construction toy consisting of white tubes and multi-colored connectors assembled and disassemble with a plastic wrench. Playskool dubbed it as ""a kid-sized construction system that's a new toy every day!"". It was first designed by John Choong Pipeworks first introduced in the 1980s were originally available as three different Pipeworks sets. The same manual was shipped with 1000, 2000 and 3000 sets but the only way to build everything in it was to purchase the Deluxe Set 3000 as it had all the necessary parts. Later, in 1987,"
"yet still interoperable with generic Lego, gave increased competition to EXIN. EXÍN Castles EXÍN Castillos (or EXIN Castles) is a construction toy. First introduced by the Exin Lines Brothers in 1968 in Barcelona, Spain, this plastic block toy was designed for the construction of castle-like-buildings. The company has most recently produced Castle lines toys for the Shrek movie franchise and others. The EXIN Castillos blocks are of a peg-and-socket design similar to Lego, though with larger pegs, and the most common size being a 1x2 design (whereas 2x4 is the most common Lego size). The blocks are usually a mottled"
"sets made for females). Licensed sets include The Terminator and Stargate SG-1 themes. Best-Lock Best-Lock Construction Toys is a brand of plastic building bricks that are compatible with Lego. Best-Lock Group Limited, which manufacture the bricks, is based in Colne, Lancashire, England. Best-Lock was founded in 1997 by Torsten Geller after he looked into the legalities of Lego and other Kiddicraft clones, which led him to look into Lego's past to find that Lego had copied their bricks from a British psychologist and inventor Hilary Page in the 1940s. Best-Lock has been involved with multiple legal cases involving Lego. The"
"machine in 1947. One of the first modular toys to be produced was a truck that could be taken apart and re-assembled. In 1947, Ole Kirk and Godtfred obtained samples of interlocking plastic bricks produced by the company Kiddicraft. These ""Kiddicraft Self-Locking Building Bricks"" were designed by Hilary Page. In 1939, Page had applied for a patent on hollow plastic cubes with four studs on top (British Patent Nº.529,580) that allowed their positioning atop one another without lateral movement. In 1944, Page applied an ""Improvement to Toy Building Blocks"" as an addition to the previous patent, in which he describes"
"Construx Construx is a brand of plastic building toys introduced by Fisher-Price in 1983. Unlike other building toys such as Lego, Construx feature beam-like pieces of varying lengths that snapped on to cubical connector knots in order to build large shapes. These are relatively secure even though no nuts or bolts were used. Panels allowed assembly of flat surfaces. Hinges, motors, wheels, and other movable parts expand the number of different shapes that can be built, and make moving creations possible. Construx was discontinued in 1988, briefly revived by Mattel in 1997, and then discontinued again. But Mattel resurrected the"
"K'Nex K'Nex is a construction toy system invented by Joel Glickman. Introduced to the U.S. in 1992, K'Nex is currently designed and produced by K'Nex Industries Inc. of Hatfield, Pennsylvania. The toy's building system consists of interlocking plastic rods, connectors, blocks, gears, wheels, and other components, which can be pieced together to form a wide variety of models, machines, and architectural structures. K'Nex is designed for older (5- to 12-year-old) builders, although a larger-sized version, Kid K'Nex, is aimed towards younger children. The toy has been released and marketed in various stores, as well as online websites. K'Nex has released"
"Best-Lock Best-Lock Construction Toys is a brand of plastic building bricks that are compatible with Lego. Best-Lock Group Limited, which manufacture the bricks, is based in Colne, Lancashire, England. Best-Lock was founded in 1997 by Torsten Geller after he looked into the legalities of Lego and other Kiddicraft clones, which led him to look into Lego's past to find that Lego had copied their bricks from a British psychologist and inventor Hilary Page in the 1940s. Best-Lock has been involved with multiple legal cases involving Lego. The company moved in 1998 against Lego's exclusivity claims to toy-block design. Best-Lock won"
"Loc Blocs LOC BLOCs was a plastic block construction toy set. Never reaching the popularity of Lego bricks, they did have a loyal following of fans. They were marketed in the 1970s and 1980s by Entex Industries, and manufactured in Japan as Dia Block by Kawada Co., which still produces sets to this day. They were also sold by Sears, Roebuck and Co. under their house brand ""Brix Blox."" Today, similar blocks are still manufactured in Japan as Diabloks and sold in the U.S.A. under the name ""Disney Build-It"" blocks. The modern, Disney-branded blocks have also improved the incompatibility situation"
"Jovo JOVO Click 'N Construct is a brand name of a construction toy system invented by Josef Volgger and produced by JOVO International of Helsinge, Denmark. The toy consists of equilateral triangle, square and regular pentagon plastic pieces that click together on their edges, and the edges then act as hinges to allow them to be folded up into three dimensional shapes. The pieces were designed to model regular-faced polyhedra, such as the Platonic solids, Archimedean solids, and Johnson solids. While JOVO hasn't enjoyed the peak popularity of Zaks, JOVO has outlasted its sister building set. The two are mildly"
"Spacewarp (toy) Spacewarp is line of build-it-yourself, marble run toy ""roller coasters"" first made in the 1980s by Bandai. Users cut lengths of track to the correct size from a single roll of thick plastic tubing, forming curves and loops held in place by plastic track rail holders which attach to metal rods held vertical in a black plastic base. Steel balls roll around the track and on to a battery-powered Screw conveyor that takes them to the top to start all over again. Production of Spacewarp toys ended around 1988. Replacement parts were sold until 1995. A redesigned Spacewarp"
"Tinkertoy The Tinkertoy Construction Set is a toy construction set for children. It was created in 1914—six years after the Frank Hornby's Meccano sets—by Charles H. Pajeau, who formed the Toy Tinker Company in Evanston, Illinois to manufacture them. Pajeau, a stonemason, designed the toy after seeing children play with sticks and empty spools of thread. Pajeu partnered with Robert Pettit and Gordon Tinker to market a toy that would allow and inspire children to use their imaginations. After an initially slow start, over a million were sold. The cornerstone of the set is a wooden spool roughly two inches"
"Magnetix Magnetix is a magnetic construction toy consisting of a combination of plastic building pieces containing embedded neodymium magnets, and steel bearing balls that can be connected to form geometric shapes and structures. Designed to be a cheaper version of the Geomag magnetic construction set, Magnetix's image suffered severely when an early manufacturing defect caused a death, and was subsequently sold under several different brands after the defect was corrected. The spheres are to in diameter (larger than Geomag), approximately in weight, and are prone to surface corrosion, unlike most other magnetic construction toys. The bars with magnets at each"
"Playskool introduced the final and largest set called the Super Wheel Set 4000 consisting of 150 pieces and a new manual with instruction for 45 new projects. Recently reintroduced, and a top toy of 1988, Omagles are similar to Playskool Pipeworks. In 2016 Tubelox started manufacturing and selling a similar toy to Pipeworks & Omagles. Playskool Pipeworks Playskool Pipeworks with the unique 'click-lock' locking system is a construction toy consisting of white tubes and multi-colored connectors assembled and disassemble with a plastic wrench. Playskool dubbed it as ""a kid-sized construction system that's a new toy every day!"". It was first"
"Construx name as Mega Construx in 2017 (which created by Mega Bloks). For a short time near the end of the Fisher Price run, a version targeted at younger children was released called Basix Construx. It used bright primary colors and did not contain the more complex pieces such as axles and pulleys. This version as well as the other boxes released in the 1997 revival included several new pieces. Construx Construx is a brand of plastic building toys introduced by Fisher-Price in 1983. Unlike other building toys such as Lego, Construx feature beam-like pieces of varying lengths that snapped"
"related to Zome and Geomag construction toys, except that they focus on the faces of the polyhedra instead of the edges. JOVO pieces come in six different colors. Jovo JOVO Click 'N Construct is a brand name of a construction toy system invented by Josef Volgger and produced by JOVO International of Helsinge, Denmark. The toy consists of equilateral triangle, square and regular pentagon plastic pieces that click together on their edges, and the edges then act as hinges to allow them to be folded up into three dimensional shapes. The pieces were designed to model regular-faced polyhedra, such as"
"that some of the pieces from Atollo can unintentionally get stuck together, but Atollo has created a tool that can separate them without breaking any pieces. The kits that were available for purchase include: Atollo ATOLLO is a construction toy invented by Scottish architect Donald Macdonald consisting of hinge and socket pieces. Its appeal lies in the flexibility of the three-dimensional shapes it can create. Atollo is sold by Tomy. It is also somewhat compatible with other construction products, such as LEGO or Uberstix. It was distributed throughout the world throughout the years of 1993-2003. It won awards such as"
"Anchor Stone Blocks Anchor Stone Blocks () are components of stone construction sets made in Rudolstadt, Germany, marketed as a construction toy. Anchor Stone pieces originally were and are still made of a mixture of quartz sand, chalk, and linseed oil (German Patent 13,770; US Patent 233,780), precisely pressed in molds so that they fit together perfectly. The stones come in three colors in imitation of the red brick, tan limestone, and blue slate of European buildings. They are not recommended for play by children under 3 years of age because of their small size (CE No. 0494). Anchor stones"
"a list of toys for ""next-generation inventors"". Roominate Roominate is a construction set introduced by Maykah Inc., a company founded by Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen, in 2012. The product, marketed at girls aged 6–10, consists of modular plastic building pieces that can interlock to create models and includes circuits that can be wired. Originally funded through Kickstarter, the company received an investment from Mark Cuban and Lori Greiner during the sixth season of ""Shark Tank"". In 2016, Roominate was acquired by toy manufacturer PlayMonster. Alice Brooks and Bettina Chen, the founders of Maykah, Inc., met in the master's degree"
"wheels and teddy bear shapes. Several companies manufacture similar toys, not all of them compatible. Names for these toys include ""Nopper"", ""Bristle Blocks"", ""Fun Bricks"", ""Clipo"", ""Krinkles"", ""Multi-Fit"", and ""Thistle Blocks"". Stickle Bricks Stickle Bricks are a construction toy primarily intended for toddlers invented by Denys Fisher in 1969. The brand is owned by Hasbro, and as of 2016 is sub-licensed to Flair Leisure Products plc. An individual stickle brick is a colourful plastic shape a few centimeters long which has a ""brush"" of small plastic ""fingers"" on one or more surfaces. The fingers of adjacent stickle bricks can interlock,"
"City LUG], a Lego User Group for Adult Fans of Lego (AFOLs) in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania. https://triblive.com/local/allegheny/14096102-74/montour-elementary-kids-make-giant-terrible-towel-out-of-legos https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2018/09/22/stem-fest-lego-terrible-towel/ www.brickmodeldesign.com Jason Burik Jason Burik is an American Lego artist who builds custom replica models with interlocking plastic bricks. He has received numerous commissions from professional sports teams, colleges, companies, and individuals all over the United States. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burik has been building Lego blocks since the age of seven. He turned his long-time hobby into a business while he was in college. He played Division I basketball for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His first project was"
"Cleversticks Cleversticks is a plastic construction toy manufactured in the UK. The original design manufactured in polypropylene used sticks with pairs of jaws on each end and rings, the jaws connect onto the body of the sticks or rings, The jaws also connected the sticks end to end. The resulting toy was best suited to young children; with these few components a wide range of models could be assembled. Squares, triangles, rectangles and hexagon shapes were later added to allow the toy to be used for sorting into sets; the toy could now be used in primary education. Technical shapes"
"Stickle Bricks Stickle Bricks are a construction toy primarily intended for toddlers invented by Denys Fisher in 1969. The brand is owned by Hasbro, and as of 2016 is sub-licensed to Flair Leisure Products plc. An individual stickle brick is a colourful plastic shape a few centimeters long which has a ""brush"" of small plastic ""fingers"" on one or more surfaces. The fingers of adjacent stickle bricks can interlock, allowing them to be joined in various ways. Standard sets of stickle bricks contain triangular, square and rectangular pieces. Many recent sets also include other types of pieces such as heads,"
"The name CLEVERSTICKS was registered under the No 1557320 as a GB trade mark in December 1993. Cleversticks Cleversticks is a plastic construction toy manufactured in the UK. The original design manufactured in polypropylene used sticks with pairs of jaws on each end and rings, the jaws connect onto the body of the sticks or rings, The jaws also connected the sticks end to end. The resulting toy was best suited to young children; with these few components a wide range of models could be assembled. Squares, triangles, rectangles and hexagon shapes were later added to allow the toy to"
"visits school and museums across the country. A computer game """" was released in 1998 by EAI Interactive for Windows 95. K'Nex K'Nex is a construction toy system invented by Joel Glickman. Introduced to the U.S. in 1992, K'Nex is currently designed and produced by K'Nex Industries Inc. of Hatfield, Pennsylvania. The toy's building system consists of interlocking plastic rods, connectors, blocks, gears, wheels, and other components, which can be pieced together to form a wide variety of models, machines, and architectural structures. K'Nex is designed for older (5- to 12-year-old) builders, although a larger-sized version, Kid K'Nex, is aimed"
"faces on an octopus tank, only to have the glass break, and is subsequently saved by Seamus Levine who throws the octopus on the wall. Wacky WallWalker The Wacky WallWalker was a toy molded out of a sticky elastomer. It was shaped similar to an octopus, and when thrown against a wall would ""walk"" its way down. It was a hugely popular toy in the early 1980s. Before its introduction in the United States, Ken Hakuta received in the mail several sticky octopus-like toys from his mother, who lived in Japan. They were intended for his children, but Hakuta found"
"Jason Burik Jason Burik is an American Lego artist who builds custom replica models with interlocking plastic bricks. He has received numerous commissions from professional sports teams, colleges, companies, and individuals all over the United States. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burik has been building Lego blocks since the age of seven. He turned his long-time hobby into a business while he was in college. He played Division I basketball for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His first project was a replica model of his parents' house. After working on many different types of projects, the next progression was to"
"2, 2006. The merger has since yielded co-branded building block toys. Toys are still sold under the separate labels Best-Lock and Cobi, but many Cobi sets appear in North American retailers such as Toys R' Us and Amazon.com under the Best-Lock brand. In 2011, Character Options announced that it would team up with Cobi to make ""Doctor Who"" sets. The sub-brand was called Character Building and it lasted until 2014. Cobi (building blocks) Cobi is a Polish toy company with its headquarters in Warsaw, Poland. Cobi's most prominent toys are building blocks with an interlocking stud and tube system similar"
"best toys for our next generation. <br><br> Popbo Blocs is a sister brand of K's Kids, the brand focuses on soft and hard plastic building blocks specifically designed for infants and toddlers. They come in many vibrant colors and are compatible and connectable to one another. The series also consists of animals, vehicles, figurines and more. Popbo Blocs' unique linking system makes it easy for babies to pop the blocks on and off and is a great training tool for their motor skills, hand-eye coordination and creativity. Popbo Blocs is the best building blocks for the little ones. Popular items"
"Magnext Magnext is a magnetic construction toy consisting of plastic building pieces containing embedded neodymium magnets, steel bearing balls, and a variety of additional parts which can be connected together to form anything from skeletal geometric shapes and structures to more robust and functional toys. Magnext is modeled after the original Geomag magnetic construction set, and features an expanded offering of accessories marketed specifically toward older children. Magnext is sold by MEGA Brands as the successor to the discontinued Magnetix series, and retains backward compatibility with the parts. Rather than the rods of Geomag, Magnext has 'triangular' and 'square' pieces"
"with 3 and 4 embedded magnets. The balls are 0.59 inches in diameter (larger than the 0.50 inch balls of Geomag). Being one of mega's last attempts at the magnetic toy business the company made small figures in some sets out of a strong and lightly stretchy rubber. Magnext Magnext is a magnetic construction toy consisting of plastic building pieces containing embedded neodymium magnets, steel bearing balls, and a variety of additional parts which can be connected together to form anything from skeletal geometric shapes and structures to more robust and functional toys. Magnext is modeled after the original Geomag"
"Bilibo Bilibo is a ""shell-shaped, hard-wearing piece of plastic"" used as a toy. It is produced in six different colors. It was developed in 2001 by Swiss designer Alex Hochstrasser in consultation with experts for child development. The form has been designed for children of various ages to sit comfortably in the shell whilst controlling their movements by touching the ground with their hands and feet. According to a child's age and interests Bilibo is used as an accessory for role- and fantasy-play, it can be filled with objects, sand or water and emptied again or stacked. Rocking, spinning and"