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I discovered this company while looking for really good toys, something that is somewhat lacking at times. This is a building set but not just any building set. The pieces are not interlocking like Lincoln Logs, not click together like Legos, not stick together like Tinker Toys. Each plank is made out of pine and are 1 inch by 4 and a quarter inch by a quarter inch. These planks make up the sum total of what you have to work with. There are no nails, glue or any form of putting together except gravity and balance. It is definitely a skill exercise. The planks come in seven different colors so that the building is unique and interesting. When you are ready to dismantle it, you simply pull a few planks out until the whole thing topples.

What these sets can build is up to the person doing the building. They sell the sets in 40 pieces to 1000 pieces. A new set with 200 pieces is coming soon. All sets come in….a pine box, naturally.

I was unable to get the recommended ages for this. But it is very simple but difficult. These would not be for very young children.

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Called the toy makers dream, Lincoln Logs came on the scene shortly after Tinkertoys during the early 1900s. John Lloyd Wright, son of famous Frank Lloyd Wright, invented Lincoln Logs in 1916 during a time when the American builders were hard at work building cities. John had traveled to Tokyo where he watched construction on the Imperial Hotel. It was being constructed to withstand earthquakes by interlocking pieces. Wright came back home and applied that to make Lincoln Logs with interlocking wood pieces. The original sets were instant successes. After World War II, the baby boomers came along and the sets were hot again. Lincoln Logs were one of the first toys to be promoted on television, something else that was taking the country by storm. Ads were aimed at affluent people, the most likely to own a television set at the time.

Lincoln Logs were expected to be an educational toy then and are still that today. Many sets feature all wood pieces, have a variety of things that can be built, many types of sets available. Most are for children ages 4-8.

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