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Re:Capsela, the game that changed my life by jacquesm on Friday December 26, 2014 @09:19AM (#8798866)
Here is another one, used to be very popular when I was a kid (but too expensive for me), friends had it and I played with it at their house:

http://www.fischertechnik.de/en/Home/products.aspx

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Re:Capsela, the game that changed my life by dasil003 on Friday December 26, 2014 @12:31PM (#8799419)
My step father had a bunch of these that he brought back to the States from Germany in the 70s. They were seriously high quality with steel bits that would stand up for large load-bearing designs which wouldn't work with plastic toys like Lego Technic.
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