PVC pipe toys
By Veronique Christensen — Monday, August 20th, 2007
Last night we had dinner with some dear friends. While the adults chatted, the kids found a box full of PVC pipes and connectors and had a blast playing with them. They literally spent over an hour constructing an elaborate watering system for my friend’s garden. I couldn’t believe what a great game they made of it! Tomas and I got dollar signs in our eyes as we imagined marketing such a toy. We’d have bright primary colors, widgets and whosits, bells and whistles to attach. It was a glorious moment.
This morning I did about five seconds of research and found another dad had the exact same inspiration and acted upon it over a year ago. He created Konstruk Tubes.
I’m not planning on buying the set just now, but I do think that when we have a bit more space I’ll have to bring the kids with me on an outing to the hardware store to get us a bucket-full of pipes and attachments. It’s just too much fun not to. Crazy-cheap, too 
I’ve thought of doing something like that for my son, but worry about the health issues concerning pvc and vinyl> if I new the pvc was made without some of the chemicals that are supposed to leech out of the product, I’d go for it.
I had a set very much like these in the 90’s they were awesome!!! i’ve been tracking some down for my children to play with. wish i had a picture of the Christmas i opened mine.. would have loved to know what they were called.
foudn what i used to have. they were playskool pipe works made in the 80’s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playskool_Pipeworks
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