A team of 50 engineers spent three months building what looks like a car-sized Erector Set, fitted with eight spinning blades (each six feet from tip to tip), and weighing in at an auspicious 747 ...

Indie production company Helix Films has formed an exclusive partnership with the Meccano Toy Co. to develop an original 3D feature film based upon the Erector Set line of construction toys.

The Toy Fair 2010 is underway in NYC, ergo this announcement that there are plans for yet another movie franchise based on a toy. The indie Helix Films announced today an exclusive partnership ...

If we were to talk to engineers about the childhood toys which most inspired them, it’s likely that the older among them would mention either Meccano or Erector Set. These similar construction ...

Print advertisement for Erector Set, circa 1922 Wikimedia Commons Christmas of 1918 was just months away, and the United States — immersed in the war effort — was considering calling off Santa.

The Erector Set, however, had real metal bolts and nuts, a small motor, lifelike girders, and allowed kids to really build things that imitated the constructions they saw in their real lives.