Blox

I said this morning that there was time for more block play, and indeed there was.

Or was it Blox play?

3 things 2 things

This morning I posted in 3 Things 2 Things:

2 things you looking forward to today:
Anchor Blocks
Ball Mosaic

And here it is still early in the day and I've done both.

There's still time for more Block Play.

Wedgits

Today seemd like a good day for Wedgits, so I got out the design cards and started at the beginning. This design is well into the first card set.

Wedgits are good block play.

[created 5/1/06; modified 5/13/07]

Reliable Easylock Tower

When I previously talked about Reliable Easylock, I said that they and American Plastic Bricks were the 1940s'-1950s' primary counterpart to Lego.

But that is only partially true: these very brick-like products were only really suitable for buildings (even if I did make cars, trucks, buses out of ours), while Lego from very early on was intended to more widely applicable, and has been extended over the decades into wildly divergent areas.

The flip side is that American Bricks and its alternatives did indeed have some advantages for many types of North American structures. Even if I keep sneaking in such digressions as bead mosaics and firetrucks, structures are still for me the core of Block Play.