You’ll never guess what it is. It’s a Pythagoras high rise building! Apparently, a project of the future (the children explained to me in detail where the elevator goes, and what special compartments of different shapes the building has). The high rise is made from a big Pythagoras set.
Pythagoras, Tiko, and Tako are vintage building sets. They have big panels of different colors and shapes, that connect by the edges. Each piece has sockets and balls that can snap together, connecting the pieces. You can also connect the pieces of different shapes, as long as their sides match. This connection is strong enough to hold even the biggest structures together.
Because of the sockets’ form, Pythagoras panels can form both flat surfaces and 3D shapes. The flexible joint connection means that you can connect the pieces at different angles. Each panel is huge – they are a few inches long, so kids can create toy hats or items to hold, and not just toys. They are sturdy enough to wear and to play with. The pieces of this set have all kinds of shapes – there are different triangles, rectangles, squares, pentagons, and so on, all in different colors.
Sadly, Amazon seemingly has no sets exactly like Pythagoras, but some very similar concepts also are interesting enough.
Great! It’s wonderful building toy. The most interesting and attractive thing about it is that starting to do something simple and uncomplicated, gradually adding new details, you get very original structures with a wide variety of shapes. You can easily end with something that could not exist in the original project.