Check out our collection of construction toys to treat your budding builders and creative little ones who love working with their hands. Build extinct animals from millions of years ago using Meccano’s real metal and plastic parts and real tools.

The top and bottom pairs of strips are eight holes long with each being built from two four hole Flat Strips butt joined using a third four hole Flat Strip. The current range of block pieces has introduced parts with integral threaded holes and the Locking Pins are now half threaded.For motorheads and car enthusiasts, our selection of LEGO Technic sets has got you covered with lifelike models of all sorts of vehicles you can build and assemble from scratch. We have something for all ages, including classic wooden building blocks for tiny ones and complex construction sets for kids, so they can build their very own spaceships, supercars and so much more. I thought it was really great that he loved a more traditional meccano toy rather than his video games or computer. Movements are walk forward, walk left, walk right, charge attack, lunge attack, ask a yes/no question (he nods appropriately), and room guard mode (he has a microphone and light sensor).

Both pairs of tops and bottoms are attached to the sides of the box section using a pair of Short Double Brackets. The better your problem and question is described, the easier it is for other Meccano owners to provide you with a good answer. It should also possible to replace many of the Locking Pins with Bolts which should increase the strength of the neck and tail joints.We use cookies and similar technologies to offer you a personalized, safe, reliable experience and to be able to measure page performance to continue improving our services. It was much bigger than I expected it to be and it kept him busy for hours - think all together it took him 24 hours! Give the children this dinosaur building kit and let their imagination run wild to create prehistoric stories for which they will be the only heroes. This dinosaur was designed and built to provide my then two year old daughter with something to play with.