construction kits

[doorknob]

Help, can anyone remember the name of a toy/construction kit from the 60s/70s. It consisted of square, rectangle, or hexagonal pieces of coloured perspex with slots cut in the sides so they could be fixed together to make different shapes/things.

[Jules001]

Meccano?

[LoftyLottie]

I can remember it well, and I just can't remember what it was called!! This is really annoying me now.

Like this!

http://www.timewarptoys.com/playplax1

And they had different sets with different shapes like you say!!

[LoftyLottie]

Try again

http://www.timewarptoys.com/playplax1.jpg

[redcrx]

i remember it,

it was similar to this http://www.timewarptoys.com/rigajig.jpg

[redcrx]

oooh lottie thats the sort i recall, but different shapes.

[redcrx]

http://www.virtualtoychest.com/playplax/playpl ax.html

[LoftyLottie]

Beat me to it Red - I was just going to post that link!! Well done

[ethandron]

zacmaster, i had one of those baco building sets, it was great, i'd forgotten all about it till i looked at the link you gave, so many thanks for a trip down memory lane!

[doorknob]

Just picked up all your answers, thank you very much, I'll get some sleep tonight now.

[ruthann58]

oh i remember them lottie the boys had them, still up in the loft i reckon