Construx by Fisher-Price were my construction toy kit of choice as a youngin' and, though there were 'kits' to make certain models, there were always enough pieces to build other things. Thankfully, unlike lego, this kind of set did not lend itself well to branded kits like "Harry Potter Construx" or "No Imagination so I'll Rely on Diagrams Construx." My mind was my blueprint.
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Just seeing this makes me want to build spaceships.
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Unfortunately, the brand was discontinued and disappeared from store shelves shortly after I discovered it, and was unable to amass a significantly large collection to build anything truly impressive. My parents still have my collection in storage, but without a sense of adventure, a love of dust, and some kind of three-dimensional map of the storage locker, my collection is inaccessible. What an interesting metaphor.
Now that we're grownups and needn't rely on our parents to purchase construx sets for us, we can search the Internetz to find as many extant sets as possible, and then build life-sized versions of ourselves (no Mini-Me here, folks) or maybe a reasonable scale model of the Death Star or other some such thing.
A note for all the toy haters out there:
- This is not merely an artifact of juvenilia; it is the byproduct of an adult who has grown to appreciate the finer points of educational childhood accessories;
- Stepping away from the books/paper writing/adulthood to interact with such construction kits heightens spatial logic* and further develop one's creative capacities and problem solving skills;
- You're only a hater because your parents would only buy you Dinky toys or knock-off Barbie Dolls.
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This is likely bunk, but if you say it quickly enough in an argument it's likely that no one will refute your claim.
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