This is another Tegu toy for toddlers. It is very simple to build and have big wooden pieces. In its principle, it is very similar to the Tuge toy cars, but the train has more pieces.
Tegu Rainbow Train
Clics Fire Brigade – Plane
This set is one of the Clics Fire Brigade series. It contains red and white basic pieces, stickers and extra details like propellers to build firefighter vehicles. The set is relatively small, but the manufacturer proposes 8 models, and you can mix it with any other Clics set. This plane has a propeller piece few other Clics set can offer.
ClicsToys, a Belgian company established in 2001, operates its very own factory located in Kempen, where they craft the popular Clics building blocks. These building sets mostly have square pieces, all sharing identical form and shape. What sets Clics apart is their ability to connect smoothly at the edges, allowing flexible joint movements.
Using these plastic squares, the creative possibilities are endless, even though Clics sets usually offer relatively few extra pieces and accessories. Some sets may include wheels and decorative panels, but few extra items. The true strength of Clics lies in the generous number of pieces in their sets, allowing you to make even biggest creations with ease. The pieces of Clics are too big to swallow and easy to hold, so they are safe, but some connections can be too tricky to younger kids. So the most sets are recommended for children who are 3 years old or older. However, these sets will be interesting even for the 10-years-olds.
The fundamental building blocks in Clics are square, which naturally leads to the cubic or brick-like structures. However, the great advantage of these blocks is the ability to connect them at various angles, making diverse shapes. Careful assembly can even give you triangular or sloping figures. Nevertheless, the most robust and tough structures in Clics are cube-shaped. Additionally, you can create flat mosaics by combining pieces of different colors.
Welcome to BuildKitPedia
As a mother of a big family, I was genuinely captivated by children’s toys when our little ones came into our lives. What initially seemed like mere sources of entertainment turned out to be a vast world of opportunities for our children’s development. Among all the toys, we discovered that children’s building blocks were the most productive in nurturing their creative abilities. Watching my own kids play and use their imagination has been really great.
Motivated by this realization, we embarked on a journey of exploration with our kids, purchasing various construction sets and building kits. As our children constructed their imaginative creations, we started capturing these moments through photography. It soon dawned on me that this experience might be of interest to others as well. Thus, I made the decision to create a website that would unite all those who share our passion for children’s building blocks.
Later, parents from all around the world joined us. They sent us their ideas and pictures of buildings. People from different parts of the world shared what they had found.
People from the countries that used to be part of the USSR were very active. The Encyclopedia of Building Sets has a lot of Building Sets and Blocks from the Soviet Union and other socialist countries, like Germany and the Czech Republic. We started making the website 20 years ago, but it wasn’t on its own platform. It was on a page of a very good toy store’s website.
Sadly, things don’t last forever. The store closed, and we got all our files. These files were lying on the home computer for many years without any movement. Only during the time of COVID, I finally organized this database.
I know that the pictures taken 15-20 years ago with old cameras aren’t of high resolution. Also, the platform that hosted our site made the pictures smaller because the internet was very slow back then. You might remember a time when you had to make phone calls to connect to the internet.
Even so, I felt really bad that this stuff might just get thrown away. So I decided to bring it back. I mixed these older pictures with ones of new, colorful building sets from Amazon. Most of these manufacturers are still around and working. For the ones that are really old, from the time of the Soviets, or if the manufacturers don’t exist anymore, I tried to find similar ones on Amazon.
It was important to me that the website could support itself. Referral links help with this. “As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.” Sometimes, I had to do a lot of research on Amazon to tell apart real building sets from fake ones. There are a lot of fake ones out there.
To me, pseudo-building kits are sets of pieces where kids are told to build just one thing, following the instructions. A real building set should let kids use their imagination and create lots of different buildings, figures, and models from the same pieces.
I invite you to add your memories, thoughts, links, and pictures to this encyclopedia. I am also open to suggestions for improving our catalog, as we strive to create a resource that meets the needs and interests of all engaged participants.
Room Guardian
There are big guardian spirits of the big places, and this is a tiny one, he guards just one room. First Alesya made a stick, then a second one. We them together. It looked very much like a ladder, so we decided that we needed to add more step. So we made a ladder and put it opright to the closet, then Alesya said that we needed legs so that the ladder would stand better. But when we attached the legs, we realized that, like Papa Carlo, we made someone. Now he stands there, guarding the room. All the pieces are from Zoob Jr. construction kit.
Back in 1997, inventor Michael Grey introduced Zoob, a toy inspired by the science of motion and organism development. Zoob represents an acronym for Zoology, Ontology, Ontogeny, and Botany. Each set has rod-like pieces with joint balls and sockets on their ends. Each of these balls has small bumps on its surface, so the joints can both move and stay in a certain position if you need them to.
Zoob building sets have won awards because they’re different from regular building blocks. They use plastic pieces that snap together, like gears and joints, to build all kinds of objects, limited only by your imagination. After you build something with Zoob Jr. construction kit, you can actually play with it – the pieces were designed to move after being assembled, so you can have fun with the toys you create.
Zoobs are great for helping children improve their fine motor skills. The pieces are small enough to easily manipulate and put them together, but they’re not too tiny like some other toys, so it’s easier for kids who find small objects tricky.
Playmobil Horse Farm Set
This Playmobil set is a relatively big one – it has a whole farm building along with figurines and small objects. There are many small details, like a smaller animals or items for horse care. However, even in this big set, there are very few building options.
Clics Fire Brigade – Truck
This truck is a model from one of the Clics Fire Brigade sets. It contains red and white basic pieces, stickers and extra details like propellers to build firefighter vehicles. The set is relatively small, but the manufacturer proposes 8 models, and you can mix it with any other Clics set.
ClicsToys, a Belgian company established in 2001, operates its very own factory located in Kempen, where they craft the popular Clics building blocks. These building sets mostly have square pieces, all sharing identical form and shape. What sets Clics apart is their ability to connect smoothly at the edges, allowing flexible joint movements.
Using these plastic squares, the creative possibilities are endless, even though Clics sets usually offer relatively few extra pieces and accessories. Some sets may include wheels and decorative panels, but few extra items. The true strength of Clics lies in the generous number of pieces in their sets, allowing you to make even biggest creations with ease. The pieces of Clics are too big to swallow and easy to hold, so they are safe, but some connections can be too tricky to younger kids. So the most sets are recommended for children who are 3 years old or older. However, these sets will be interesting even for the 10-years-olds.
The fundamental building blocks in Clics are square, which naturally leads to the cubic or brick-like structures. However, the great advantage of these blocks is the ability to connect them at various angles, making diverse shapes. Careful assembly can even give you triangular or sloping figures. Nevertheless, the most robust and tough structures in Clics are cube-shaped. Additionally, you can create flat mosaics by combining pieces of different colors.
Play Build Straw Constructor
This is a classic straw constructor set by the Play Build brand – with thin, flexible plastic tubes and hard connectors. The tubes bend easily, but they can’t hold any shape on their own. Once you release them, they will immediately return to their normal, straight form. They also are just smooth hollow plastic straws without any details to attach to each other.
So, you will need special connectors to connect and hold the straws together. Main connectors have small pins that go inside the straws’ hollow ends and then hold them in place. These things can connect straws in different positions, but they obviously attach only to the edges. Because of this, many modern straw building sets also have connectors that can wrap around a plastic tube and hold it in place. These connectors greatly increase the number of building options the set has.
The straw sets are very different from building blocks. Instead of the solid, sturdy constructions, they produce a bunch of lines forming a 3D shape. These crafts are lightweight, flexible, and a bit abstract. This set have some extra pieces like wheels, but you will be able to lightly bend and twist the craft you made.
Nets Tribe Soft Blocks – Coffee Chair
These soft blocks are big enough to became a small kids furniture. Sadly, one set have too little number of blocks to create something truly complex, like the chair on this picture.
Throne
Its very beautiful and imposing, as long as you ignore thu hole in the set.
K’Nex Weirdo 1
One of the weird K’Nex creatures we made. This one has six limbs, but only one eye.
