new thing for a boy who likes Legos

[Winston]

mikebw wrote:
[quote=Winston]
One, for which I can't remember the name, had clear globe-shaped modules which had gears, motors or other parts inside. We used it only a couple of times.

Capsela. It was awesome. I also had Construx which allowed larger scale constructions than Lego.
That's it. I thought Capsela was pretty neat, but my son never got into it. I think part of the problem was that one of the key modules was broken. This caused us a lot of frustration trying to find one of the planned creations from the manual which would work properly without it. The company was supposed to send us a replacement, but never did. In their defense, when I called back a couple of months later they sent us an entire new kit.

Capsela is in some ways limited, because you have to connect the modules in a specific order to get things to work. It's less free-form than something like Legos. My son might have been a little young for it at the time, but it strikes me as not quite fitting younger kids because of the structure you need to get a good result, and being too limited for older kids: the modules are large, there are too few of each type to attach them randomly, and extra parts are not readily available.

I think Construx and K'nex are similar to each other. Beams vs. blocks.


- W