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You are giving your age away if you can remember Bayko!




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Not entirely: it was around for thirty years - and it lasted quite well. I'm more of a Minibrix kid myself, but being much the youngest of four brothers, I did encounter Bayko as a child. I'd almost forgotten about it, but the subject cropped up on another thread quite recently.

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Oh yes. Almost forgot....

I was always losing those rods that held the bricks up!!

(actually many of the longer ones got bent over and were used as catapult ammunition!!!!!)




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I'm sure you're right, although my recollections are hazy. I think there must have been quite a few pieces missing by the time the set was handed down to me. But my brothers were great improvisers and probably used cut down sparklers or something as rods.

I still had a small boxful of the stuff up to about 10 years ago. Then I spotted an ad in the Lancs Evening Post from a guy who was collecting the stuff so that he could build a village or something.

Anyway, he offered me £50.00 for my boxfull (about 1ft cube) including bases, roofs, minarets, domes etc. I was that shocked by his offer, I said 'yes' straightaway......

Maybe I should have held out for more??? Dunno!!!




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