Any Boomers recall this toy from the early 1960s?

[Bill in Oregon]

We had the usual Lincoln Logs and Tinkertoys, but no Erector sets. There were so many Boeing engineers' kids in the neighborhood that I would have gotten a complex trying to match their creations. But there was another "construction" toy a bit like the Tinkertoy idea, but with plastic straws and flat plastic sprockets with a hole in the middle. You could slide a straw over one of the teeth of the sprocket, or slide it through the hole in the center. Compared to the wooden Tinkertoy parts, these were absolutely useless when thrown at annoying little brothers, but they allowed the construction of simple, somewhat flexible structures. Ringing any bells out there?

[gcs]

Doesn't ring a bell, but then we never had a lot of toys growing up.

[hornetguy]

I seem to remember something like that, but I thought the round sprocket things were wood... could be wrong.... time for a goober search...

[Gunstore Commando]

No idea.

I was too busy playing with one of these.

https://www.guns.com/news/2011/08/19/th ... oy-cap-gun

[gamekeeper]

No idea.

I was too busy playing with one of these.

https://www.guns.com/news/2011/08/19/th ... oy-cap-gun

Unbelievable I had to confirm I was over 18 to view this link.. but yes I preferred cap guns too.....

[GunnyMack]

I remember seeing what you are talking about but I don't know what the name of them is!

[Bill in Oregon]

Found it: Rig-a-Jig.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1573848599 ... ch_click=1

[Pat C]

I built plastic models ,then melted the plastic with lighter and blue them up with fire crackers for simulated wrecks

[4t5]

Hornetguy is right , mine were wood. Also , can’t remember the name though !
Tinker toy is it !

[Old No7]

...these were absolutely useless when thrown at annoying little brothers

Yes, and even worse for annoying BIG brothers!

No idea. I was too busy playing with one of these.

Yup, us too!

I built plastic models ,then melted the plastic with lighter and blue them up with fire crackers for simulated wrecks

Between all the smoke from the melted plastic and the xylene from the model glue, plus all the "Don't sniff this" (but yeah, we would!) concoctions we'd whip up with our chemistry sets -- it's a wonder I can even breathe!

Old No7

[Ysabel Kid]

We would take the lite-brite pegs and melt them, fusing them into various object - most of which ended up being thrown at each other!

[Bill in Oregon]

It took some two-inchers to finally blow up my little brother's Texaco tanker.