i know im a lot younger than most of you lot but the i remember something kind of like this when i was younger (must have been about 9/10) there was a kind of modern meccano thing called K'Nex (i think) im not sure, either it was made by maccano, or it was trying to rival it and failed. can anyone correct me there?
it was all different coloured bit of plastic with wierd hegagonal shape bit to connect them all togeather.
In Weetabix you sent off tokens for part which would make a small model, there were bout 10 small models to make and once you had all of them you could make a huge model (think it was a ferris wheel)
who can remember that?
my brother and i managed to get them all but god knows what happened to it all. I remember being able to get in woolys as well!
edit:
it is still made, found it on hundreds of websites, ebay, amazon...etc
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...055656-5284736