Remember..... Pipeworks !

Remember Playskool's Pipeworks ? Easily the greatest but most dangerous toy of all time. It was like a life size version of legos or K'Nex but with plastic pipes. You could build club houses, stationary bikes, slides, wagons, side walk cots, wheel barrels, rocking chairs and anything else you could come up with. When I had mine, I made all of the above but I also loved Ninja Turtles so I often made weapons out of the pipes, I was an only child until 1989 so I'd create a literal wall to hit, so my parents wouldn't yell at me for hitting the real one. I'd pretend it was Shredder.

The only reason I call Pipeworks dangerous is because you made the structures yourself and that means there was no guarentee that you wouldn't build a replica of the Eifeil Tower, pretend to be King Kong and fall off while climbing to the top. I mean there weren't a lot of accomplished 6 year old architech's in the late 80's and truthfully most parents stop helping you play with toys after the first 2 times. SURE Playskool gave you a manual showing you how to build the stuff they wanted you to make safely, but there's no instruction manual for imagination. Still I miss these things. I wish I had them to share with my nephews when they were younger.

Below is a video of 80's ad's the Pipeworks commercial comes on at 3:00 exactly... it'll give you a good idea of how the things worked in real life, ignore those kids who look bored, they're just bad actors: