Another figure from 14-piece Tegu set. This color scheme is Tints – the set also comes in different colors.
14-Piece Tegu Set Bird
Category: Tegu – wooden cubes and planks with magnets (Honduras)
Tegu is a brand of building kits from Honduras that offers a delightful and engaging play experience. These kits feature wooden blocks and tiles with embedded magnets. The blocks come in basic shapes and may include accessories like wheels. The unique feature of Tegu is that the blocks can be freely assembled in any direction, allowing children to create a wide range of structures, such as houses, vehicles, and animals.
Apart from sparking creativity and providing entertainment, Tegu also helps develop fine motor skills. One of the notable advantages of this toy is its safety for children, as there are no small parts or details that could pose a risk. Parents and caregivers can have peace of mind knowing that Tegu offers a secure and enjoyable playtime option for little ones.
Tegu House
When we saw a picture of a house from the Tegu constructor this spring, we were eager to purchase a new set of Tegu Explorer. We settled on the Nelson version – pieces of orange, green, light blue, dark blue. The roof superstructure with the pipe is simply lying on top. It is not fixed, since there are no magnets at the base of the trapezoids. This is what confused me when buying a set. I was completely sure that the superstructure is holding by magnetic connection…
14-Piece Tegu Set
This is the smallest of the “main” Tegu sets, which are too big to be “pocket” sets. It has only 14 pieces, but a lot of potential – you can build many different things from it.
Location Of Magnets In Tegu Explorer Parts
The Tegu Explorer Set has new parts – high and low pillars (prisms with a square at the base), large and small trapezoids, long planks. Unfortunately, the locations of magnets in them are terribly ill-conceived. To make it clearer, we attached colored magnetic balls to all the magnets available in these Tegu parts. For example, in large prisms of only 2 – at the ends, and none (!!!) on the sides. This immediately limits the use of these same prisms by 50%, they can only be used as columns and that’s it … Trapezes also have only one magnet each, on the sides. Large planks, however, have 3 magnets. The set is expensive and we expected to get new interesting parts to diversify the magnetic construction. But in the end, we got a set of beautiful wooden parts with limited magnetic functions…
Tegu Explorer Set – Cons
In the new Tegu set – Explorer Set – we found a lot of disadvantages. Which is dissapointing, since the Tegu constructor isn’t exactly cheap… The composition of the set is wonderful. But with the location of the magnets, the inventors obviously did not finalize. So, for example, small and large trapezoids in the sets contain only 1 magnet each on the sides, and its only + and – . Because of this, when assembling a triangular roof from trapezoids, you can’t put it together completely, no matter how you connect the pieces (we experimented with them all). It will always be a discrepancy somewhere, either 2 minuses or 2 pluses will be put against each other. Or it will stand crooked, as in the photo. Very annoying…
Tegu Truck
A car made from the Tegu wooden constructor. We used parts from different kits. In the center there is an orange pillar prism from the Explorer Nelson set. Its huge minus the absence of magnets on the sides. The arrow shows that there is no connection between the cube and the orange pillar, they just fit snugly together. The car rolls well.
The Portrait
Perhaps this is a portrait of a owl with a mustache – happened out somewhat unexpectedly… The sculpture stands on a trapezoid from the Tegu Explorer set.
Another Travel Pal Tugboat Shape
Iven with Tugboat as a basic theme, and Tugboat colors and decorations, you can easily build animals (or, really, anything) from this set.
Tegu Fire Engine
These are Tegu blocks on wheels, which exist since 2012. We liked the wheels – they sit tight and spin well. We made a lot of cars. At first, small, simple ones, consisting of just a few cubes, and then bigger, more complicated cars. Like a fire truck, that quickly rolls around the apartment.
Hungry Giraffe
This summer, I fell in love with the Tegu constructor even more, and not only for its amazing ability to keep active 5-year-old Alesya busy during a long car trip. But also for a strong box that can withstand of rain, sand, and Alesya’s feet. Both cubes and cardboard are good in Honduras!
