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There were a lot of other brick toys around, but it's hard to find dates as to who was first. As a 70s kid I played with my father's Bayko sets and what I thin
by dwd 7y ago
There were a lot of other brick toys around, but it's hard to find dates as to who was first.
As a 70s kid I played with my father's Bayko sets and what I think may have been American Plastic Bricks (maybe with a different name) that were in a big box at my grandma's house. These products did specialised pieces years before Lego though you were restricted to building houses.
- NeedMoreTea 7y agoBayko were Bakelite, and relied on bars to hold the bricks together, I think metal and straight from a Meccano set. They may have even bolted to the base. (Bayko were another early product from Frank Hornby, maker of Meccano and Hornby trains). I think the sets were solely designed for making buildings with essentially all the pieces specialised. There were plenty of others along the same lines that were building, house building or brick toys, but none had the self-assembly of the gripping pegs in the plastic bricks that became the Kiddicraft innovation, later copied by Lego. Earlier sets used, like Bayko, different materials and approaches to assembly and go back into the inter-war years, perhaps even pre-WW1. Kiddicraft and Lego stem from injection moulding.