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Tegu Skyhook

Tegu Skyhook. Cabin and tail in red tones, 3 triangular prisms, 2 blue cubes. 2 short planks in blue and red with aviation-themed decorations, 1 parallelogram, a cord with magnetic parts at the ends (most likely this is a hook), 4 wheels , 1 propeller and face – a cylinder with eyes – 17 parts of the new set. Tegu is a little ahead of the developers of one of the largest heavy-lift helicopters – SkyHook JHL-40 . The launch of this hybrid aircraft and helicopter was scheduled for 2014. It never took off, hovewer, due to lack of financial support – the project was short of 100 million dollars.

Tegu Skyhook
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MAGBLOCK Magnetic Wooden Blocks Set

This is wooden magnetic building set, containing birch blocks with magnets in them. The shape of the pieces is very similar to pieces of Tegu building sets. Just like Tegu, Magblocks has cubes, planks, columns and wheels, and they are also close in size. The main difference is the magnets – in Tegu, magnets are hidden inside the wood, but in Magblock, they are inside rotating plastic sockets on the blocks’ surface. Because of this, magnets in Magblocks may connect directly to each other, and already-connected blocks rotate more smoothly. However, in theory, Magblock magnets have bigger chances to detach from the pieces, which may be dangerous to children.

MAGBLOCK Magnetic Wooden Blocks Set
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Edtoy + Tegu – School Bus

Using 2 magnetic construction sets together (globalization in action) – Edtoy from South Korea and Tegu from the USA, although it is made in Honduras.
Tegu planks fit well with Edtoy blocks, the bus rides on a pair of wheels from the Korean set. Thanks to the strong magnets of the Korean manufacturer, the vehicle turned out to be robust enough. Tegu’s magnets are hidden under the wood, so their strength is somewhat reduced.

Edtoy + Tegu - School Bus
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Tegu Future – Magnetron – Robots And More

New Tegu – Future series in shades of blue and natural. The largest set in the series – Magnetron – consists of 32 parts of 14 types. It implies the construction of not only numerous robots, but also machines, guns, cranes, oil rigs, space stations and other objects of mechanical engineering of all kind.

Tegu Future - Magnetron - Robots And More
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Tegu Travel Pals Kitty Set Box

A “basic” model for Travel Pals Sitty set. Decorations repeat among different Travel Pals sets – for example, Hummingbird set also has pieces with this “snowflake” pattern on them. However, colors of Travel Pals sets are unique, and no other Tegu sets have these patterns on them.

Tegu Travel Pals Kitty Set Box