Last Friday, I came across a bag full of building blocks in my colleague, Rueben’s apartment. It was gifted to his son, Rehaan, by a Japanese lady who used to stay in the same building.
[1]The blocks looked like this. There were a few wheelsets, too.
There was a worn out instruction manual that made reading the actual name of the product difficult. The company that made it, Gakken, has a website [2] but has such a diverse set of portfolio that I couldn’t find anything regarding the product at all.
[3]The instruction manual was preserved. The original plastic box wasn’t there.
I later discovered that this product belongs to a division called Gakken Station Full (abbreviated as Sta:Ful) and has a dedicated website [4].
With some bit of help from another friend, Ravish, I made an aircraft.
[5]I was amazed at the design of the bricks. They were so well thought of in terms of their protrusions and slots.
[6]Here is Rehaan, who is either trying to work on a foldable wingtip or increasing the dihedral.
I was able to track it on Amazon India. The box costs a whopping 12,000 INR. There is a newer version of the box called New Blocks Volume Set [7] that costs about 290 USD but it isn’t available in India.
