A locomotive-like thing. Made by Afonya from Edtoy wheel set and cubes with some Tegu pieces.
Edtoy + Tegu – Vehicle With A Pipe
PicassoTiles 1″ Magnetic Cubes Size
These cubes are bigger than “pixel” magnetic cubes by PicassoTiles. There are smaller numbers of this cubes in sets, but they are safe for small children to play with.
Playmobil Fire Truck
Playmobil City Action and City Life series look very similar to LEGO City. They also have police, ambulance, rescue and firefighter vehicles of different sizes. The biggest sets are building of the same theme – like police station or a hospital. However, Playmobil sets, unlike LEGO, are focusing on play, not building. They have very little to no building options – but Playmobil also have more interesting extra pieces and options.
Baby Wolf Bike
Idea, construction and name by Anny (6 years old).
Magnet Block – Magneto Block
The magnetic building set for toddlers, known in Japan as Magnet Block. Hovewer, it sold in Europe under the name Magneto Block.
Geomag PINK Panels
A photo of a Geomag Pink with its panels. As in other similar geomag sets, panels of Geomag Pink come in different colors.
Bicycle
The bike is made from wooden magnetic parts (Korean building set Genii Creation). As a steering wheel, we used a magnetic curved rod from a Chinese magnetic constructor Bornimago.
CLICS PUPPY
Another Clics mozaic – puppy on a blue background.
ClicsToys is a Belgian company that was founded in 2001. They operate their own factory located in Kempen, where they manufacture the well-known Clics building blocks. These building sets consist of square pieces, all of which share the same form and shape. They easily connect at their edges, forming joints that can be moved.
Since the fundamental components of Clics are square, the basic forms you can build are typically cubic or brick-like. Nevertheless, thanks to the movable joints, you can connect them at various angles, resulting in diverse shapes. With careful assembly, it’s even possible to create triangular or sloping figures. However, the cubes remain the most robust and dependable structures this set can offer. Additionally, you can explore the option of crafting flat mosaics by combining pieces of different colors.
Using these plastic squares, you can construct flat surfaces and transform them into 3D shapes. Despite having relatively few extra pieces and accessories, Clics offer limitless creative possibilities. Some sets may include wheels and decorative panels, but these are the primary add-ons. On the plus side, Clics sets generally contain numerous pieces, enabling you to create complex structures with a single set.
Plastwood – Piccoli Mondi – Castle And Dragon
We assembled the front wall from gray and middle bronze parts, as well as a drawbridge. The balls for connection to the side walls and windows were installed by the manufacturer. There are also two red towers. You place them on top of a special cross-shaped ledge, but they fall off very easily. Since the walls are held together by only four magnets (two on each side), this entire structure falls apart into five parts under attack (3 walls and two towers). There was also a large cardboard box, which did not survive to this day.
The set also included little people and animals. I don’t know how many there were originally, because we bought few new pieces later. Read more about the structure of a figurines below.
There is also a horse and a dragon (torso, four legs, head, tail). Plus, there is a saddle (again, it is not magnetic). Moreover, in the case of a dragon, the saddle and the wings are one piece, so the dragon is either wingless or saddled. Of course, you can change bodies, heads and legs, but ypu can’t remove the helmets from the head of the knights. All this holds together well, you can move it back and forth, even lift it by the head, nothing falls off, however, sometimes the legs part.
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…
