Good god, that looks glorious. I wish I'd had those when I was a lad. Hell, I wish I had those now.

I remember! My dad got me a set for a birthday, it was glorious. He was the best Dad ever, I miss him. Fuck cancer.

I remember vaguely remember Capsela. That was the shit my friends' older siblings had. My generation had Construx.

Build spaceship.

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Oh man, nostalgia bomb! I remember when my mom bought a huge box of capsela parts home with her from a rummage sale she worked at (maybe $20? I got lots of great used building toys that way as a kid including robotix). There must have been parts from a half-dozen individual sets. It was an incredibly underrated building and engineering toy. I think it's largely forgotten now because it's not too visually appealing in the way that lego or kinex kits can be. I remember building enormous, propeller driven oil rigs and setting them loose in the nearby lake. It teaches kids great lessons in the physics of energy transfer, gear reduction, buoyancy, electrical polarity...

Almost like LEGO - but not quite - were Tyco Superblocks. The Mega Bloks of their day, Tyco Superblocks were compatible with LEGO. A standard full-height brick was the same thing, but where LEGO bricks are only divided into thirds, vertically, to derive thinner bricks, Tyco had half-bricks too. A 1/2 high Tyco brick on a LEGO baseplate is the same height as two 1/3 high LEGO bricks. Brick-hack.

Interesting facts.
Tyco was bought by Mattel in '97. Mega Bloks is a current Mattel product.
In '92, Tyco Toys bought Matchbox Cars. Mattel now owns Hot Wheels AND Matchbox.

Yeah I had some non LEGO build toys
>Kinex
>Magnetix
>etc etc