The only way you can place the Taikon tubes on a baseplate with needles.
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.
How lovely! A very cute composition and a touching photo! Thanks for the idea 🙂
Thank you! We hadn’t find other options for Taikon + pin baseplate combo; the bristle blocks are more variable. But we are actively trying these sets now, maybe we’ll find something else :)))
Thank you very much for your experiments with the Taikon tubes. You not only enjoy creative research, but you also greatly support me in disputes with management and make future releases of my sets more interesting and realistic.
We will continue our experiments. Good luck to you in difficult disputes with the management!
Stunning flower bed)))))!!! What great builders you are!!!
Thank you!!!