You want to offer a building set for Christmas but you don’t know which one to choose? Follow our guide for young engineers in the making.
When you were a kid, there wasn’t much choice in the construction toy industry. Today, there are as many models as there are future small engineers. Oh, your nephew thinks he’s more of an architect? Don’t worry, there’s probably a building set that’s right for him!
2017 Construction Game Guide
- Flybrix : this construction game allows you to build a briquette drone without tools. Mechanics and other hackers, equipped with a smartphone, will be able to customize their invention before flying it. Even if it is provided with a plan, Flybrix is recommended for teenagers from 15 years of age.
- CoasterDynamix: a roller coaster at home, what child has never dreamed of it? With Coaster Dynamics, it is enough to assemble plastic blocks, chains, mechanisms and an electrical circuit to create one in your living room. From the age of 14.
- IKOS : launched via participatory financing, this construction set assembles 26 identical curved parts to create spherical designs of infinite variety. It is offered to children from the age of 6 years.
- Edo : inspired by the famous Danish bricks, Edo is a construction game made of recycled paper, guaranteed eco-friendly. Enough to build a giant and super solid fort in the bedroom of the future little architect… From 5 years old.
- Brixo : here, we push the construction game into the world of connected objects. Plastic cubes that conduct electricity make it possible to create moving, rolling objects that light up… with infinite creative possibilities. For children from 10 years old.
