Construction Toys

"f86sabre" (f86sabre) 02/13/2020 at 15:35 • Filed to: toys

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What were your favorite construction toys?

Jim Spanfeller > f86sabre 02/13/2020 at 15:40

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Once a Lego lad, always a Lego lad. The thing in the picture is something I made a little while ago.

foghat1981 > f86sabre 02/13/2020 at 15:42

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Any Construx fans?  I’m not sure why exactly, but my parents bought us tons of these when we were little.  Maybe my dad thought they were cooler than Lego (and/or perhaps cheaper).  Either way, I still love them.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > f86sabre 02/13/2020 at 15:44

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The cups of creamer on the table at the diner.

My wife gets a bit embarrassed that her son AND husband are building stuff out of them 

user314 > foghat1981 02/13/2020 at 15:46

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Oh yeah, I loved Construx!

I picked up some for my cousin’s boys, but mine will be going to my nephews once they’re a bit older. 

Brickman > f86sabre 02/13/2020 at 15:47

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LEGO :D

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > f86sabre 02/13/2020 at 15:55

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I always had younger siblings, so it was ages until I could get into serious actual LEGO. I had to make do with big construction projects (including a three-mast clipper) out of buckets-worth of Korean duplo knock-off we had (long story).

We did eventually get into LEGO, LEGO Technic (and Bionicle, obviously) as well as k’nex, and this:

f86sabre > user314 02/13/2020 at 15:56

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I had those. They were great!

3point8isgreat > f86sabre 02/13/2020 at 16:02

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Tinker toys, lego, and duplo. Specifically had the plastic tinker toys.

Grandparents had a container of American Plastic Bricks.  They were like a flimsier lego made specifically for making brick buildings.

facw > foghat1981 02/13/2020 at 16:15

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I had these (at least the 586 set skyfire pictured?) . I preferr ed Lego though.

facw > f86sabre 02/13/2020 at 16:18

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My building toys ranked:

Lego

Capsela

Erector (I liked sticking the wires into outlets, nice spark and a cool ball of melted metal formed on the end. Possibly I shouldn’t have survived childhood)

Cons trux

Lincoln Logs

K’Nex

Duplo

Tekamul > foghat1981 02/13/2020 at 16:18

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Yup. For some reason my mother went all in on construx  over legos. Probably why I'm weird.

user314 > f86sabre 02/13/2020 at 16:57

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Besides the aforementioned Contrux, I also had (among others)

BaconSandwich is tasty. > user314 02/13/2020 at 17:04

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I think I had that same last set as a kid. That brings back some memories.

Edit: maybe it wasn't that exact set, but one similar to it.

TheRealBicycleBuck > f86sabre 02/13/2020 at 18:28

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We were poor, so all I got was Lego’s cheapside cousin: Brix Blox.

Still, I love that my mom was able to get these for me.