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 ...

The first Erector sets were a marvelous array of sturdy metal pieces and parts, nuts and screws, girders and gear boxes that came in equally sturdy wooden or metal kits. The gear boxes were for ...

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.

Today's Erector Sets are slightly different than the ones ... sharp edges of the metal beams and especially the tiny square nuts -- remember those? Today's advanced sets still contain fasteners ...

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.

Building Ikea furniture is like playing with an Erector Set that gives you splinters ... and gears that you connect together with nuts and bolts. Meccano Home is a more grown up take on that ...

Erector Set is the latest toy property that may build its way onto the bigscreen. Helix Films, an independent film outfit formed last year by Steven-Charles Jaffe, Kevin Foo and Gaukhar Noortas ...

Gilbert and his trusty Erector sets also saved "rainy afternoons from ... From 1913, when he released his first boxes of steel girders, nuts and bolts, till his death in 1961, A.

It’s not the end for Meccano or Erector Set, but it’s clear that they are ... of those perforated metal sheets and myriad nuts and bolts might seem a little limited for the 2020s child ...