Another Budding Builders creature. It is pretty basic, but it shows some building principles and the most important pieces of the set.
KID K’NEX Budding Builders Set – Bicycle
Tegu Sticky Monsters – Pip
Sticky Monsters are a series of sets which allow you to build funny characters. They have small number of pieces, but you can still crate all kids of shapes from them. And you always can mix them with any other Tegu sets for more pieces and more complicated characters.
And More Boats
Even more ships from Genii Creation – Transportation manual.
Lucky Doug Solar Robot – Yellow Version
With this solar building set by Lucky Doug, you can build 12 different robot types. These toys operate solely on solar power, without the need for batteries. When placed under direct sunlight, the robots can crawl, roll, and even “sail” in a paddle boat. This set comes in 3 different colors, this is the yellow version.
At first, assembly may seem a bit challenging, but the manual instructions make it easy to follow. The manufacturer suggests that parents and children work together to build the first solar robot. It makes sense, because the pieces are sometimes hard to connect, and the set may be confusing for the younger children. The recommended ages are 8-14 years.
The set has 190 pieces, offering many possibilities beyond what the manual suggests. It includes many different pieces to build a fully functional robot from scratch, including pistons, shafts, gears, tires, and more. The main piece with a motor is somewhat bulky, and you often have to build your robot around it. The solar panels are relatively small, so you can place them around your robot in many different ways. This set is a good educational option, but it will be too small for many children to build at once.
Of course, there are not enough pieces to make many different working robots at once, so you will have to dismantle one robot to build another.
Our Waffle House
Waffle blocks are very popular type of plastic building blocks. In these sets, each piece have pegs and square holes, and you can connect pieces in multiple ways to build both 2D and 3D crafts. The bricks connect to each other seamlessly, almost like in a jigsaw puzzle, so you can make endless combinations in any order you want. There are many brands of waffle building blocks, Gakken and Plus Plus are the most popular and well-known ones. This, however, is a rarer waffle building blocks set.
Blocks by different manufacturers may look different. In Plus Plus sets, for example, all blocks are exactly the same, the only difference is color. This old ex-USSR waffle building blocks set, however, has pieces of differnet shapes, and some extras, like figurines or wheels. There are also a number of long, bar-like pieces that help connect waffle blocks together. You can stack many waffles on one bar, which helps to create thick and solid crafts.
The waffle blocks themselves are small, each side of a block has only one or two pegs. Some blocks has H-shape and no pegs at all on some sides. This is a downside, because you can’t connect anything on these sides. Sometimes, however, these pieces are very handy, because you can stuck them in small openings to support the craft around it. It all other regards, it is a typical waffle block building kit with small pieces.
Discovery Toys Mosaic Mysteries
This is a magnet mosaic set made by Discovery Toys. It offers you to build geometrical patterns in a hexagonal tray, using identical pieces. It looks limple at first, but allows kids to build some truly fascinating and beautiful patterns.
Geomag Kor Smile
This is how these magnetic creatures smile.
Transparent Pieces Of EDTOY Magnetic Building Kit
Transparent multi-colored plastic – Da Vinci Creator Block series.
Experimenting With Triangles
Magnetic triangular tiles make wonderful tower roofs.
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.
