Christmas construction kit

In the summer, we rather joyfully visited the world’s best shop. It would be possible for any games, puzzle or model enthusiast to spend their life savings in here, so the enjoyment was somewhat tempered by the need to ensure that we would leave still possessing the necessary funds to feed ourselves for the rest of the month. Alright, that’s an exaggeration, but not actually a very big one.

After very, very careful thought and much mental arithmetic, we came back with all kinds of odds and sods we needed for a giant airfield circuit-style Scalextric layout which was then occupying about 30 square feet of our living room floor – the stuff we had actually gone there for in the first place and very appropriate when you consider the place is based at Snetterton Circuit. We also had to have a couple of magnificent Ravensburger puzzles – one a 540-piece three-dimensional kit that built up into a historical globe (“Here be Dragons”) and the other a superbly quirky flat 1,000-piece puzzle by the same manufacturer called “The Bizarre Bookshop” – the kind that you really have to get when you see it or risk never encountering again. We also felt unable to leave without the ice cube tray that produces Lego bricks – but more than that would have led us to penury.

This meant that some of the more easily-findable items stayed on the shelf for that day. Lego bricks – you can never have too many. However, that all-purpose bucket you always mean to get fell by the wayside, as did the K’nex fairground construction kit series. This modelling system consists of flexible plastic components and snap-together joints and you can buy off-the-shelf rollercoasters, ferris wheels and other rides.

Because Significant Other is a lovely person, the 478-piece ferris wheel turned up as a Christmas gift – and was built and in use by the end of Boxing Day. It’s great. Now all we need is several of the others, and a painted papier-maché landscape to stand them all in. Give us time…

Here are the pictures of it being built:

2 thoughts on “Christmas construction kit”

  1. > Now all we need is several of the others, and a painted papier-maché landscape to stand them all in. Give us time…

    Perhaps we can run the Scalextric in among them..?

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