Betta Builder Toy Bricks

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Betta builder toy bricks. Plastic bricks with stud and socket connection between rows very similar to lego but with thin roof tiles connecting together by a stud and hole arrangement. Bricks came in red or white in various lengths but always one stud wide. Vintage toys weebles bundle sheep dog lion pig people retro figures airfix 1970s.

Vintage 1960 s airfix betta bilda building set no 2. Buy airfix construction building toys and get the best deals at the lowest prices on ebay. Betta bilda was launched by the uk plastic kit company airfix in 1961 replacing its previous and largely unsuccessful construction system it is based on 1x2 bricks and 1x beams of varying lengths as well as thin plates that are evident lego clones as are the windows.

Betta bilda from airfix appeared in around 1961 1962 and was was essentially another lego clone but like meccano s cliki it included a few technical innovations of its own we don t know if it survived the failure of the airfix group in 1971. Special wall parts include anged gable bricks curved bricks and arches. Also incorrectly known as buildabrix bildabrix buildabricks and bildabricks.

Very rare 1960s airfix betta bilda engineer set e1 mib unused. I remember seeing a model in woolworths of big ben that was about 8 foot tall. Bilda brix the 1950s australian plastic brick construction outfit manufactured by playmate moulded by moulded products australasia limited.

Although lego took over the universe i personally preferred betta builder as the small bricks enabled you to make more detailed models. Plastic scale model kit manufacturer airfix may be more synonymous with aircraft and warships than little toy houses but in the early 60 s they went head to head against lego and produced their own building kit series. Betta bilda often mistaken for betta builder or better builder was essentially a cheaper version of lego.

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