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Building Bricks 'Stickle Bricks'
1985, Toy
Building Bricks 'Stickle Bricks'
Building Bricks 'Stickle Bricks'
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Item no
20776
Title
Building Bricks 'Stickle Bricks'
Description
A bag of flexible plastic 'stickle bricks'.
A bit like a hairbrush, each brick is covered in small bristles of various colours. There are nine rectangular green bricks, twelve small red coloured rectangular bricks, six blue square bricks, one green cube brick, four yellow square bricks with holes in the centre, seven coloured circular bricks, two thin yellow bricks, one white triangular brick, two blue curved bricks, one red and black coloured wheel, two red and black wheels attached to an axle, twelve plastic body parts including toy hands, feet, eyes and hats.
Date
1985
Size
3.3cm
Type
Toy
Location
Museum of Childhood
Accession number
MC418.2005
Stickle bricks came in a variety of primary colours and sizes. A popular toy of the 1980's. The little plastic bricks could make anything you wanted, vehicles, people, animals, anything that could be imagined.
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1980s - Five Decades of Toys (1950-2000)
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