Since he was a child, Dutch designer Tomm Velthuis has been obsessed with Meccano, a toy set consisting of colorful metal plates, angle girders, and pulleys that can be assembled and reassembled with ...

It's always cool when the big motorcycle manufacturers shake hands with toy makers and deliver spectacular items that please the eyes and the minds of both kids and adults. The latest to do so is ...

Remember Meccano? Once it was a household name for generations of New Zealand children. When Frank Hornby established the first Meccano company (originally called Mechanics Made Easy) in Liverpool in ...

Meccano is all set to unveil a WiFi-controlled, Erector-branded robot kit at CES. The Spyke certainly improves on Meccano's earlier metallic attempts at robot sets: this little fella is capable of ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Some construction toy tie-ins--like the recent partnership between Lego and Minecraft--are no-brainers. Others are a bit more of a stretch. One such ...

I'm a huge fan of both Lego and Erector/Meccano Sets -- I think they provide great tools for young builders to express their imaginations as well as simply have fun building and tearing down ...