A huge K’Nex sledge. This thing looks fragile, but it’s actually strong enough to support a big plush toy.
K’NEX Sledge
Category: Plastic Building Kits
Plastic building kits are construction sets designed for children that primarily utilize plastic components. These kits consist of various interlocking pieces, connectors, panels, and accessories that allow children to build and create a wide range of structures, vehicles, and other imaginative designs.
Plastic building kits are known for their versatility, durability, and ease of use. The pieces are often designed to fit together securely, enabling children to construct stable and sturdy creations. These kits usually come with a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, allowing for endless possibilities and encouraging children to think creatively and problem-solve while constructing their designs.
Many plastic building kits also incorporate specialized parts such as wheels, hinges, and gears, adding an extra level of functionality and enabling children to create movable and interactive models. Some kits may even include motorized components that bring the creations to life with spinning gears or moving parts.
These kits are popular among children of various age groups and provide numerous educational benefits. They promote fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness, and logical thinking. Additionally, plastic building kits foster creativity, imagination, and cognitive development as children design and build their own unique structures and scenarios.
Overall, plastic building kits offer a stimulating and engaging way for children to explore construction, design, and engineering concepts while having fun and unleashing their creativity.
Playmobil Zoo
Close-up of some Playmobil Zoo figures and animals.
Playmobil Fire Truck – Contents
Everything this Playmobil set contains. The truck actually comes in a few big pieces, but the picture shows it after the assembly. Transparent spear-like things in the bottom left corner are the water projectiles the water cannon will shoot.
Clics Parking Lot
We haven’t even received our packages, and our first Clicomania epizod have ended already. I found some photos of the crafts from our first Clics building blocks.
ClicsToys is a Belgian company that was established in 2001. It makes the well-known Clics building blocks in its own factory in Kempen. Clics building sets have square pieces of identical form and shape. They easily connect at their edges, creating joints you can move.
With These plastic squares, you can create surfaces and fold them into 3D shapes. There are endless possibilities, even though Clics have very few extra pieces and accessories. Some sets have wheels and decorative panels, but this is pretty much it. On the other hand, Clics sets usually have many pieces, so you can create something truly complicated from just one set.
Since the basic pieces of Clics are squares, all the basic forms you can assemble from it are cubic or brick-like. However, thanks to the movable joints, you can assemble them at different angles, creating different shapes.
There are ways to create triangular or sloping figures if you assemble the pieces just right. The cubes, however, are the most sturdy and reliable structures this set can offer. There are also a possibility of creating a flat mosaic, combining the pieces of different colors.
Poodle Under Umbrella
Candy the Poodle under an unbrela. It’s a pity that K’Nex ubrellas don’t really stop any rain…
Owl By The Manual
Our contribution to the owl-building mania 🙂 This one is a standard K’Nex model our manual had in it.
At The Bottom Of The Sea Of Japan
Some scene we made from Japanese waffle building blocks – Gakken.
Unlike Plus Plus waffle blocks, Gakken blocks have pieces of many different shapes. They have round and curved pieces, long beams and H-like pieces. The empty spaces inside the blocks also can have different sizes and shapes, so you can stack inside different pieces in different positions. All this allows even more building possibilities than the waffle blocks sets with similar pieces. However, some pieces have less connection opgtions, because they don’t have pegs on the sides, or have only one hole.
Gakken brand appeared in Tokyo back in 1946 when it became an important component of Japan’s post-war efforts to rebuild the nation. Back then, it became incredible important to properly raise a new generation that will be able to create a better future.
The founder and educator, Hideto Furuoka, created first Gakken waffle buidling blocks. He later told that his inspiration was traditional Japanese wooden houses. There he saw an idea of flat blocks people can took apart and rebuild again when they need to. So he decided to create a toy which repeats this principle. Children can connect these Japanese waffle building blocks, stack them, lay them, plug, or tuck blocks in different orientations, for example, horizontally, vertically, and diagonally.
K’Nex Pal
One of the smallest sets of baby Knex – 16 parts in total. From all the details, we made this completely not-scary monster. The set is called Monster Buddies. We bought solely because of the closing black eyes and swirling horns. This is Knex’s policy – different sets have different interesting details, so you have to buy additional horns, ears, fins…
K’NEX Playground: The Ladder And The Spinning Climbing Pole
A view from a different angle at our K’Nex playgroud. This is a better view of the ladder and a climbing pole which also spins (on the right).
K’NEX Playground: The Trampoline, The Sandbox And The Spinning Barrel
Another set of K’Nex playground model: a trampoline (on the left), a sandbox (on the right) and a spinning barrel on a bar (on top of the picture).
