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Hi…
As a kid growing up in the late 50’s and early 60’s, I remember a plastic toy kit which had lots of pieces which snapped togeather to make things like animals etc. Parts consisted of bodies, feet, heads etc. I think the majority of the connecting pieces were male / female snap in with the joints allowing flexibility through design. The major colour used was yellow.
I am interested if any reader may know the type of toy I am trying to describe…….and a long shot if any exist for sale some place.
Thanks for any help.
Cheers
Popoids?
Having read some of the comments farther down, I feel a little foolish. Clearly, I am not alone in remembering Shapees…
In the 60s, I had a building set similar to what you describe. The pieces were various geometric shapes molded in different colors of plastic. The edges of each shape were double-grooved (two channels), allowing pieces to “clip” together, slightly overlapping edge-to-edge; the pieces also had a single “tab” on one face/side and double tab on the other, allowing pieces to clip together edge-to-face as well as face-to-face. The name of the toy was, I believe, Shapees.
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Thank you
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Try Hotwheels.!?
I agree with Liz – it must be Hot Wheels – http://www.skooldays.com/categories/toys/ty1027.htm
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Not Hotwheels. If your talking about large cars that ran around on orange tubing and changed direction using air I had those myself. I can’t rem the name but they were pretty large.
these were called switch n go sets, they had race cars and tanks
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Any one remember SHAPIES??
YES!! I loved them! I have been trying to find anyone who remembers them. Somehow I remember them being spelled “Shapees”, but memory fades with age…
Wow!!! Thanks — everyone else thought i was crazy! You could be right on the spelling – I really don’t remember that part.
They are spelled Shapees. I still have mine, along with the original box. I loved them when I was a kid. I would be happy to post a photo, but I don’t think there is a way to do that. The (plastic) pieces came in different colors for the different shapes. The box has photos of figures that you can make with the pieces.
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sorry to say,but,big wheels didnt come out in the sixties.seventies,not sixties.
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