There are all manner of kiddies building toys on the market and it feels like at one point or another my kids have had them, whether it be Lego, MegaBloks, Clemmy bricks.............one of the many varieties they've owned, and one I also played with as a child, is Stickle Bricks. Stickle Bricks are brightly coloured plastic shapes covered in lots of little spines, when 2 of the bricks are put together the spines interlock holding the bricks in place, generally they come in brightly coloured buckets complete with carry handle and lid which are great for storage and can usually hold more than the supplied contents. The individual contents itself can vary from ...  Read the complete review

Stickle Bricks One of the many toys my youngster was given for Christmas was a large box of Flair Stickle Bricks. Stickle bricks have been going for many years and I even had some as a child so knew the amount of time a child would have fun playing with them (and the fun I could have alongside them!). The Stickle Bricks come in a few different varieties. This particular one is 'Junior Super Builder' and contains 75 pieces of differently shaped pieces of stickle brick, each slotting together easily whether it be side to side, back to front or side to front. Each of the bricks are different colours with interlocking edges and sides. The edges can be ...  Read the complete review

Flair Sticklebricks are one of the best early construction toys out there, yet they're really quite hard to come by these days for some reason. Perhaps that's because of the instroduction of Playskool Clippos, which are similar although not really the same. They use the same construction principals, but they're aimed at a younger market and lack the wheels and people that Flair Sticklebricks have. Also, these are an older toy which pre-date the likes of Magnext and Galt Octons - perhaps that's part of the reason why they are less common these days? Regardless, you can still purchase them from some places - primarily from educational stockists as well as ...  Read the complete review

When i found out my newly turned 2 year old son had a bucket of stickle bricks for his birthday I think i was nearly as excited as he was! It was a bit of a slow grower for him, on the day he was not really interested, prefering to play with those other classics - the tea set and the trampoline, but once the birthday fuss and fun had dies down the stick bricks have been a consistant daily success with all the family. They are nice and chunky and easy for little hands to hold and put together due to the great spikes, you can stick any two pieces together anyhow, there is no lining up of the prongs to make them fit together, he can just shove them at each other ...  Read the complete review