The very first in the world.Made from EDTOY blocks by Willy (6 years).
Vehicle No 1
Connect-a-Straws Bicycle
A bicycle from Connect-a-Straws building set.
Building straws, also known as building tubes, are a popular type of construction set with unique possibilities. They allow you to create silhouettes and contours of different objects and animals. All crafts from these sets can bend and move, so kids can actually play with their creations.
Instead of blocks, these sets have flexible plastic tubes, that look and act like soft cocktail straws. They can bend in any way and hold any position you want. The tubes usually attach to each other with special plastic connectors. The connectors can look and work differently in the different sets, but there are always many ways the straws can connect. The most common version is hard pins that go inside the straw’s hollow end, fixing it in place. Some connectors of this type have only one or two pins, some may have eight or ten. They also can have different forms, like sharp corners or straight rods. However, this connection type usually means that you can connect the straws only with their ends, and never with their middles.
These straws have great building potential, but, sadly, they can’t hold their shape under pressure (unlike, say, block towers that can hold something on their top). The straws’ building possibilities also depend on how long they are.
GEOMAG Masterbox Package
Pieces of GEOMAG Masterbox sets in its package.
Geomag My Castle – Large Set – 163 Pieces
Geomag My Castle set – part of the box.
Genii Creation Playground – What You Can Build
We considered this set for a long time, but it was still out of reach for a number of reasons. It appeared in our house on New Year’s Eve, and during the winter holidays, the girls mostly built according to the proposed samples. During school days, the set rested. And looked from a shelf at the still unconscious junior builder of 1.5 years old, trying to gobble up a couple of beautiful pieces, and hide the rest somewhere. But now the junior builder and great lover of magnetic construction sets has grown up and matured, summer holidays are coming and we will finally be able to create a large magnetic town of Genii Creation together and with common efforts.
Blockaroo 50 Piece Set – Contents
This set has pieces of many different shapes. Some you can find in the certain smaller sets, some are unique to this or bigger sets.
Wooden Mosaic By Djeco – Geocharacter
The mosaic is French, so it also has a French version of the name – Geo Personnages. Tablet in the form of a book 30×30 cm, 35 large bright wooden parts, 20 sample cards. The characters look very effective on a black background. Handicraft-savvy parents can easily make these backgrounds from colored cardboard.
Geomag Kor Proteon Taurex
Geomag Kor Proteon offers you to build fantastic creatures with heads, moving limbs, horns and spikes. The extra pieces are unique for these sets, but they are still part of Geomag Kor series, and have the same building principles. So you can mix pieces with other Kor set.
K’NEX Scorpion On The Lawn
This is another model we made from K’Nex Mobile set.
Genii Creation Playground
A huge box behind which 7-year-old Alesya is hiding is a set of Genii Creation Playground. Hidden inside are 173 pieces and 3 colorful boxes that you can use on their own. A wonderful set that we have been dreaming about for a long time, and finally got it. It is good on its own and with other Genii Creation sets, it also complements Tegu well.
