Magnetic triangular tiles make wonderful tower roofs.
Experimenting With Triangles
Author: TatianaZh
Playcube Horse Monument
A Playcube monument with a beautiful horse figure on top of it.
This is a vintage set of interlocking cubes by the French Playcube brand. The set has a bunch of big cubes with rails and openings on their sides. The cubes can interlock with any of their sides. The direction of the rails sometimes limits the number of possible positions. But it’s not a big problem, since all the pieces are cubic and all their sides are equal.
The set also includes soft plastic figures to decorate the crafts. These figures are flat, they are just silhouettes with no further details. They are thick enough to hold between the rails on the cubes’ sides without falling out. They come in different shapes – there is a shell, a teddy bear, a horse, and so on. They also have different colors.
This set is simple and fairly basic. It has very few pieces and no extra pieces like wheels or alternative shapes. There are many things you can build from this set, but it has way fewer possibilities than the building sets for the older kids. However, it’s a good toy for younger children, with big pieces that are also pleasant to touch. And the connection method is somewhat unique, there are very few building sets that offer something exactly like it.
Pythagoras Red Riding Hood
Our little Pythagoras Red Riding Hood – Arishka. It’s amazing how you can build wearable things from this set.
Pythagoras, Tiko, and Tako are vintage building sets. They have big panels of different colors and shapes, that connect by the edges. Each piece has sockets and balls that can snap together, connecting the pieces. You can also connect the pieces of different shapes, as long as their sides match. This connection is strong enough to hold even the biggest structures together.
Because of the sockets’ form, Pythagoras and Tiko panels can form both flat surfaces and 3D shapes. The flexible joint connection means that you can connect the pieces at different angles. The bigger panels are huge – they are a few inches long, so kids can create toy hats or items to hold, and not just toys. They are sturdy enough to wear and to play with. There also are smaller pieces that can help connect the bigger pannels together or make smaller crafts. The pieces of this set have all kinds of shapes – there are different triangles, rectangles, squares, pentagons, and so on, all in different colors.
Sadly, Amazon seemingly has no sets exactly like Tiko and Pythagoras, but some very similar concepts also are interesting enough.
The Owl From Honduras
Made from the Tegu Jungle set. The children decided that such a small tree-green owlet must live somewhere in the tropics between North and South America, basically, where Honduras is located – the birthplace of Tegu cubes. In fact, in Central America there really are owls – so-called neotropical owls. Some of them live in abandoned termite mounds.
Magneblocks Building Kit
Crafts made from Magneblocks building kit.
Playcube Princess With A Fan
These are cubes of French origin – Playcube. The edge size is 2,5 in. The material is either rubberized plastic or very dense rubber. And they also have some kind of sweet smell, similar to vanilla. In addition to the cubes, the set includes extra figures for decorating crafts – they are a little denser to the touch than Tedico games.
This vintage set has a bunch of big cubes with rails and openings on their sides. The cubes can interlock with any of their sides. The direction of the rails sometimes limits the number of possible positions. But it’s not a big problem, since all the pieces are cubic and all their sides are equal.
The set also includes soft plastic figures to decorate the crafts. These figures are flat, they are just silhouettes with no further details. They are thick enough to hold between the rails on the cubes’ sides without falling out. They come in different shapes – there is a shell, a teddy bear, a horse, and so on. They also have different colors.
This set is simple and fairly basic. It has very few pieces and no extra pieces like wheels or alternative shapes. There are many things you can build from this set, but it has way fewer possibilities than the building sets for the older kids. However, it’s a good toy for younger children, with big pieces that are also pleasant to touch. And the connection method is somewhat unique, there are very few building sets that offer something exactly like it.
Orange And Snake
Its either a very big orange or a very small snake. Made from Iotobo French mosaic.
Magneblocks Building Blocks Flower
A flower made from Magneblocks building kit.
Alesya’s Sailboat
Genii Creation – Transportation. In thick large blocks there are large magnets, in small parts – very tiny magnets. They are more like dots, so the sails of this proud ship sway like real ones. The pieces are small, but the interest in this set is huge.
Starfish Man
One of the bigger magnetic sets – Jumbo Magz. Large balls (diameter – 30 mm) and sticks (length – 75 mm) with a thinner middle.
