Tag: Tegu Building Sets

You can’t play with a crab, it falls apart when moving, despite strong magnets. So you can only admire it. The upper part of the black-capped cube head is not fixed – the orange trapezoid has no magnets at the base.

Yet another 14-piece Tegu sculpture.

When looking at the Nelson set through a computer screen, Admiral Nelson immediately comes to mind, setting off on a ship to the sea. Dark blue sea depths, gray-blue sky, green uninhabited islands, orange sunrise… “How romantic!” – I thought. And I was wrong – the set is named after a modern American designer from Connecticut, George Nelson. The colors in the set are really wonderful, and the quality is excellent. Sadly, I can’t say the same about the locations of the magnets in the pieces – they are catastrophically few. It seems that the details were well thought out, but they remembered about the magnets at the last moment, and hastily shoved a pair into each detail. We haven’t felt this dissapointed in a long time…

Tegu Explorer Set – Nelson. The parts have good size – they are large, and the dog is almost the life-size of a little poodle. The short plate is 3x6x0.7 cm. The medium plate is 3x12x0.7 cm. The long plate is 3x21x0.7 cm. The short support (pillar, prism) is 3x3x9 cm. The long support (pillar, prism) – 3x3x18 cm. If you add large ears, the head may fall off – you need to carefully consider the size of the pieces.

Another figure from 14-piece Tegu set. This color scheme is Tints – the set also comes in different colors.

When we saw a picture of a house from the Tegu constructor this spring, we were eager to purchase a new set of Tegu Explorer. We settled on the Nelson version – pieces of orange, green, light blue, dark blue. The roof superstructure with the pipe is simply lying on top. It is not fixed, since there are no magnets at the base of the trapezoids. This is what confused me when buying a set. I was completely sure that the superstructure is holding by magnetic connection…

This is the smallest of the “main” Tegu sets, which are too big to be “pocket” sets. It has only 14 pieces, but a lot of potential – you can build many different things from it.

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…