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Matador building parts, ca. 1954; from the top: Various sticks; 10- and 4-board, 5-, 3-, 2-brick and slat, 1-brick; 19-bar; wheels and rolls Matador construction kit, ca. 1954 The same kit; top left, the special tool to extract sticks from blocks. Matador is a wooden toy set. The bricks are held together using special wooden sticks.
During World War II, the supply of balsa wood was diverted to the war effort for the manufacture of rafts and life jackets. Guillow's was forced to use alternative materials like cardboard or pine wood to manufacture the model kits. In the meantime the company also diversified into building target drone aircraft as training
Jenga was created by Leslie Scott, [3] the co-founder of Oxford Games Ltd, based on a game that evolved within her family in the early 1970s using children's wooden building blocks [4] the family purchased from a sawmill in Takoradi, Ghana. The name Jenga is derived from kujenga, a Swahili word which means "to build". [4]
The toy was a hit, following as it did Meccano, Tinkertoys and Erector Set introduced a few years before. Lincoln Logs are believed to be the first toy to be marketed to both boys and girls and appeal to a "simple" type of creativity. [11] In 1999, Lincoln Logs and John Lloyd Wright were entered into the National Toy Hall of Fame. [2]
The Tinkertoy Construction Set—commonly known as Tinkertoy, Tinker Toy, or plural forms thereof—is a construction set for children. It was designed in 1914 and was originally manufactured in Evanston, Illinois , U.S.
The toy's building system consists of interlocking plastic rods, connectors, blocks, gears, wheels, and other components, which can be assembled to form a wide variety of models, machines, and architectural structures. While K'Nex is designed for children ages 5–12, a bigger version, Kid K'Nex, is aimed towards children 5 and younger.