Budding Brutalist?
That boy assembling a modern building with his Brickplayer rubber-bricks-and-putty outfit looks much too intense for an average 12-year old. J.W. Spears took out this half-page advert in the January 1960 Meccano Magazine. Sales were lacklustre, falling sharply after the more user-friendly Lego appeared on the market. Board games were a more profitable market for Spears, so Brickplayer faded from the scene later in the 1960s. But maybe our budding builder here was duly motivated to pursue a career in architecture. He might just have been old enough to inflict some nightmarish Brutalist buildings on us during the 1970s.
Budding Brutalist?
That boy assembling a modern building with his Brickplayer rubber-bricks-and-putty outfit looks much too intense for an average 12-year old. J.W. Spears took out this half-page advert in the January 1960 Meccano Magazine. Sales were lacklustre, falling sharply after the more user-friendly Lego appeared on the market. Board games were a more profitable market for Spears, so Brickplayer faded from the scene later in the 1960s. But maybe our budding builder here was duly motivated to pursue a career in architecture. He might just have been old enough to inflict some nightmarish Brutalist buildings on us during the 1970s.