Running log of Bridge Street Toys Girder & Panel News
Mon,
11/28/2005 11:13 PM
Nick,
We
are running around like crazy trying to get the bridge sets out this
week. Most of the parts are here, we just need to start assembling
them.
If
you google "news" and then type in "Bridge Street Toys", you will see an
article that appeared on the front of the center section of the Boston
Globe. The on-line version doesn't do the story justice. The paper
version was loaded with color photos of our products. The story took up
2/3 of the front page and two columns inside. As a result, I was
packing sets from 9:00 to 3:30 with no break for lunch. The UPS man
came twice for pick ups.
Regards,
Paul
Fri,
11/27/2005
The following article appeared in the Boston
Globe on 11/27/2005
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/11/27/gambling_on_girders/
Gambling on girders
Mom, Dad, and the kids team up to put classic
building kits back on the market
By Stephanie V. Siek, Globe Staff |
November 27, 2005
WESTON -- Paul Flack knew exactly what he
wanted to get for his son's birthday.
It was the same gift he and millions of
other children had pined for more than 40
years ago: the Kenner Toys Girder and Panel
Set -- the XBox 360 of the '60s.
The problem was, Kenner had stopped making
the construction kits at the end of that
decade, the year before man walked on the
moon.
Paul's wife, Carol, offered a solution: Why
don't they make the sets themselves?
The couple held a ''strategic planning
meeting" with their son and daughter in the
family dining room, and thus was born Bridge
Street Toys. Paul got to pass on his
favorite toy, and Carol got to pass on her
passion for business and manufacturing.
Now the quiet white clapboard house on the
hill is home to the family-owned business
whose sole mission is reintroducing the
Girder and Panel toys of the '50s and '60s.
Paul, 49, and Carol, 44, , run the business
with Ruth, 12, and Paul Jr., who is 10.
Originally conceived as a family hobby,
Bridge Street Toys (named for the street
they used to live on in Medfield) has
consumed their spare time, their savings,
the parents' day jobs, and the dining room,
living room, basement, garage, and third
floor of their house. They are management,
labor, quality testers, and product
developers, all rolled into one.
The Santa's Workshop
atmosphere of the home factory is classic,
but other aspects of the business are pure
21st century. The sets are sold exclusively
through the company website, http://www.bridgestreettoys.com.
A computer is used to design the sets and
pieces and the blueprints that come with the
instructions.
As vice president of marketing and sales,
Ruth helps design packaging and brochures.
She came up with ''Engineer Dude," the hard
hat-wearing stick figure who serves as one
of the company mascots, along with his
friend ''Engineer Dudette." She also
maintains a blog on the company website,
explaining how the company got started.
''She's our own acid test," said her mother.
''We give her something, and everybody's
kind of like, 'Will she like it? Will it get
past Ruth?'
The younger Paul -- ''small Paul" as he's
known around the house -- is vice president
of product development. His job? Child's
play. He conducts quality testing and
devises new structures to be built with the
plastic bridge and girder parts. His models
are photographed for manuals and promotional
materials. Small Paul has also learned how
to use AutoCAD software to design pieces and
models in 3-D.
The kids have learned a lesson in time
management, turning their business work into
school work. Ruth built a nine-foot tower
for a science fair. She had to have a group
of friends guard it so curious onlookers
wouldn't accidentally knock it over.
Girder and Panel consists of dozens of
plastic beams that snap together to
construct the frame of a building or a
bridge. Plastic panels snap onto the outside
of the frame for walls. The pieces are
interchangeable and, depending on the size
of the set, can be assembled into entire
cities, complete with skyscrapers, highway
overpasses, factories, and houses. They are
scaled to be used with HO-sized trains and
cars.
A Canadian toy
company briefly
revived the
Girder and Panel
line in the
'90s, but other
than that, the
toys have been
out of
production.
Bridge Street
Toys employs a
full-time
graphic
designer, Inna
Aronzon, to work
on packaging and
the website, and
a full-time
engineer, Jeff
Modell, to
design the
pieces.
The family
doesn't watch
much television,
so there's
plenty of time
for the kids to
work in the
garage putting
together the
kits. They use a
scale to weigh
the parts, so
that they don't
have to count
them out
individually.
The Flacks
estimate that
they get about
150 orders a
week from their
website. They're
sticking to
online orders
for now,
although small
Paul is quick to
add that retail
stores and
catalogs have
expressed
interest. They
have enough
trouble keeping
up with the
business they
have now.
''One thing
we're learning
is that there's
no such thing as
time off," Carol
said.
The current
kits, which
range from $25
to $75, include
the makings for
a fire station,
a bank building,
an office tower,
and an office
plaza. The
biggest kit has
500 pieces.
By the time they
started shipping
in October, the
company already
had several
hundred orders.
Many came from
baby boomers
looking to
recapture their
childhood
construction
exploits.
Not that the
Flacks would
make fun of
that. After all,
it was nostalgia
that got the
business
started.
The elder Paul
credits the
Girder and Panel
kits with
leading to his
career as an
architect and
environmental
engineer
designing
chemical
factories.
''Whenever I go
downtown and I
look up at a
bridge, I still
see the sets I
built as a
little kid," he
said.
He still recalls
the set he
''would have
died for" as a
child in the
early 1960s: The
Hydro-Dynamic
DDT factory.
While the
pesticide was
declared toxic
years ago and
banned, the
factory was a
wonderland of
tanks, tubing,
dyed water,
pumps, and
siphons. The
same pieces
could be used to
assemble a
detergent
factory, an
atomic energy
lab, or a water
purification
facility. Bridge
Street Toys
wants to
introduce
something
similar, though
without the
design flaws
that gave
parents heart
attacks when
colored water
leaked onto
floors and
furniture.
Carol, who quit
her job as a
chemical
engineering
executive last
August, said
they would like
to do a line
specifically
aimed at
technically
inclined young
girls. Unlike
Paul, she didn't
have ''cool
toys" like the
girder and panel
as a child.
Girls of her era
were expected to
play with dolls
and model
kitchens.
It was with
girls in mind
that Bridge
Street
introduced
''Make Your Own"
wall panels,
which can fit
into computer
printers. Kids
can draw on them
or use software
like PowerPoint
or
Microsoft
Paint to create
patterns.
The Flacks'
factory occupies
three bays in
the garage, with
one outfitted as
an assembly area
and the other
two stacked
floor to ceiling
with boxes of
parts. It's
painted yellow
with bright blue
trim. Other than
wooden shelves,
there are few
frills. (''Our
factory is the
coolest place
now that we have
a heater," Ruth
observed wryly).
Most of what
goes into the
sets is made in
New England: the
plastic panels,
roofing panels,
and wood bases
in Rhode Island;
the plastic
carrying totes
in Massachusetts
and Illinois;
and the project
booklets in
Waltham. The
family makes the
signs and flags,
using a laser
printer and
laminating
machine. A
plastics plant
in China makes
the girders.
Last week the
family was
preparing to
welcome two
additions to
their line: the
Tekton Truss
Bridge Set and
the larger
Bridge Mania.
''I can't
believe it will
all come
together," said
Carol. ''It's
beautiful. It's
awesome."
Stephanie V.
Siek can be
reached via
ssiek@globe.com.
Child's play
10
Age of Bridge
Street Toys VP
for product
development
9'
Height of
tallest building
built by VP for
marketing and
sales (age 12)
524
Number of pieces
in the $75
Tekton Plaza kit
585
Number of orders
placed as of
Nov. 20
2
Number of paid
employees at
Bridge Street
Toys
1957
Year first
Girder and Panel
Set produced
© Copyright
2005 Globe
Newspaper
Company.
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Mon,
11/21/2005 8:09 PM
Hi
All,
I
just finished adding the roadway pieces to our website. They are now
for sale as spare parts at the following address:
http://www.bridgestreettoys.com
Our
roadways are different from the original Kenner parts. Ours are plastic
injection molded from polypropylene and they are strong and flexible.
Our roadways are also wider - to allow two cars to pass without
crashing. We've noticed that this may cause a small hassle with the
on/off ramps for the bridges. You'll need to design your framework to
accommodate the wider roadway.
Overall, we are very happy with the quality and appearance of the parts!
Best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving.....
All
the staff at Bridge Street Toys
Fri,
11/18/2005
The following article appeared in the Boston
Herald on 11/18/2005
http://www2.townonline.com/parentsandkids/news/view.bg?articleid=371484
Family desires to
inspire kids' interest in architecture
Friday, November 18, 2005
Kids are VPs
Bridge Street Toys is a privately-held company founded by Paul
and Carol Flack of Weston and their children, to provide products that
inspire children to pursue careers in engineering, architecture, and
technology. Started in 2005, the company was created specifically to
re-launch the classic building set, Girder and Panel(tm). The Flack
family is reintroducing this classic building set through their web
site, http://www.bridgestreettoys.com
. The Flacks' dream of rejuvenating the
Girders and Panel(tm) building sets was conceived in 2003 when Paul and
his wife discovered that his favorite childhood toy was no longer being
made. Carol saw an opportunity to put this awesome toy back into
production. This, in turn, created the opportunity for her to share a
life-long love for manufacturing and business with their two children.
A strategic planning meeting was called at the dinner table, all
four family members were in agreement to form the toy business and
Bridge Street Toys was born. Each child was encouraged to take a role in
the business that matched their interests and skills. As a result,
twelve-year-old Ruth is the vice president of marketing and sales and
nine-year-old Paul is the vice president of product development. The
children are actively involved in running the business, participating in
decisions ranging from product design and testing, marketing, web-site
development, product costing and quality.
Girder & Panel sets are designed to appeal to kids
of all ages from 6 years old and up. Current offerings include four
Girder and Panel building sets: the Tekton(tm) Bank ($24.95), Fire
Station Set ($24.95), Tower ($39.95), and Plaza ($74.95) Building Sets.
Coming soon are the Bridge & Turnpike and Hydrodynamic building sets.
The Girder & Panel line is sold through the Bridge Street Toys web site
at http://www.bridgestreettoys.com
.
Girder and Panel(tm) Building Sets
Girder and Panel building sets consist of realistic HO
scale parts that allow children to create structures that are built
similarly to real buildings. These construction toy sets are powerful
tools for teaching children basic principles of designing structures,
cantilevers and bridges, and fluid dynamics.
The sets include plastic columns and beams that are interlocked
together to create the basic frame (just like real buildings are built
using iron beams and columns). Thin plastic panels are added to the
outside of the frame, creating solid walls, windows and doors. The
building can then be completed with a roof, decorative flags and signs.
Because the parts are scaled to the common HO or 1/87 scale, many common
accessories such as cars, trucks, trees, and trains can be added to
create a model city. The parts included in each set are interchangeable.
© Copyright 2005 Boston
Herald
Tue,
11/15/2005 9:56 PM
We
are pleased to say that we have a
forum up and running on our website.
We
just launched it yesterday and we're anxious to get it going.
The
way it works is that everyone can read what is posted, however if you
wish to post you need to register. The registration process is
Automated and it takes about 30 seconds to receive confirmation.
The
forum is located under the "Community" link on our home page. (Look
halfway down the left side on the navigation bar). There are currently
three topics, it's easy to add more. To view the comments just click on
the title of the discussion and all postings will be displayed for you
to read.
I'll be contacting some of you over the next couple of weeks to ask if
we can use excerpts of the e-mails that you've sent to us over the past
several months. We've really enjoyed receiving your letters and I
believe that others would enjoy reading parts of them as well!
Best regards,
All
of us at Bridge Street Toys
http://www.bridgestreettoys.com
Wed,
10/26/2005 11:28 AM
Hi
everyone...
We
are pleased to say we are shipping product! All of the following items
are in stock and are shipping the same day we receive the order. You
can place an order on our website (
http://www.bridgestreettoys.com
),
by phone, by fax or by mail.
Tekton Plaza
Tekton Tower
Fire Station
Bank
Pen
& Business Cup Holder
VW
Bug
Make Your Own Panels Kit
and
of course, all the spare parts
Regards,
All
the Staff at Bridge Street Toys
Phone: 1-781-237-5005
Fax: 1-871-237-5445
Tue,
9/13/2005 12:44 PM
Nick,
Attached are
photos of two sets that we hope to sell soon. These two sets are small,
but very nice introductory sets.
The
preproduction roadways arrived yesterday. They are a huge improvement
over the old ones! I like the color and feel. Plus, they are much
stronger and not brittle. Finally, the roadbed is wide enough now for
HO scale vehicles to pass one another!
Regards,
Paul
Mon,
8/08/2005 11:28 AM
We
decided that the extra cost for the plastic box was worth doing. The
problem with the cardboard box was that it looked very cheap. But, the
cost to print the cardboard would be expensive for something that was
fairly low in volume. (1000 for our first run.) We thought of using a
white cardboard box that had a nice colorful label. But, the prototypes
didn't look very nice. So we took the colorful label and put it on a
nice colorful, sturdy, reclosable tote bin and it looks great. One of
the biggest costs in using the tote bin is the shipping cost. The totes
don't stack one inside the other, so there is a lot of air being
shipped. The supplier's plant is in Chicago, so we paid a lot to ship
air from Chicago. Imagine what it would cost to ship air from China!
Paul
Wed,
8/03/2005 4:03 PM
Nick,
Attached is a copy of our
July newsletter.
We only received one response from a mailing list of around 200. We don't
know if the spam filters filtered it out or if it was too professional and
therefore nobody thought of reading it.
Regards,
Paul Flack
Bridge Street Toys
1-781-237-5005
1-781-237-5445 Fax
Thur, 7/28/2005 4:11 PM
Nick,
Many things have happened in the last few weeks. We hired a full time
graphic artist to produce professional quality labels and artwork. Her
artwork was included in our first newsletter which we sent out recently to
a growing mailing list.
Our cars are now parked outside and we are changing our three car garage
into a mini factory. One bay is for raw materials, the second is for
assembly and the third is for final goods storage. We just hired a full
time engineer to help produce drawings, inventory parts, find suppliers,
and to help set up the assembly area in our garage.
We are planning to produce about 1,000 of six different sets for Christmas
2005. I don't think that the garage is big enough to hold all the
inventory so we will probably be using one or two rooms in the basement
and the guest bedroom for parts storage. (The new totes look great, but
they take up a lot of space!) We had a problem with the beams and columns
being 0.02" too short, but we should be checking off on the new dies any
day now. We hope to air freight a few thousand beams and columns so that
we can put together about 100 sets. The remainder of the girders will
arrive by boat six weeks later.
We hope to have the web site
www.BridgeStreetToys.com up and running by
August 15 whereupon we will offer some of our new panels for sale.
Attached is a photo of the future assembly area of Girder & Panel building
sets. The children enjoyed painting the door!
Cheers,
Paul Flack
Bridge Street Toys
1-781-237-5005
1-781-237-5445 Fax
Tue, 4/05/2005 12:44 PM
Nick,
I am please to say that we have a basic web site up and running. My
wife and daughter have spent a lot of time on the site and it will look
really good when we get a decent camera and the new sets to photograph.
www.BridgeStreetToys.com
Attached is a photo of a chemical plant that I have been dreaming about
building for the last forty odd years. I finally sat down with my son and
built it so that we would have a photo for our web site. Hopefully, we
will have a decent photo in a few more days.
I would like to provide a link to your site. If it is still OK with you
to do this, I will have my wife e-mail you for the technical details
required to link your site to BridgeStreetToys.com.
Enclosed are two PowerPoint images of the panels that will be included
in our office set. We chose blue for our first building because it is the
same color as the blue in our company logo. We also liked the blue panels
of the Prudential Building in downtown Boston. So we came up with this
design to build an office building. We have included doors and floor to
ceiling glass for the lobby level, air inlet vents for the utility level,
and windows sized for a 14.5 foot ceiling to floor. (2" in HO scale) The
white areas will be clear. We considered tinting the windows (as shown on
the office front) on the upper floors, but finally decided that tinting
should be done with a marker for now. Later, we will come out with tinted
and reflective glass windows. Right now, we need something basic to get
out to the market that will appeal to a wide range of people. We believe
the clear windows allow for the most customization.
Regards,
Paul Flack
Bridge Street Toys
Wed, 1/26/2005 11:35 AM
Hi Nick,
We just packed up our house and moved closer to Boston. It took quite a
bit
of time and energy, so not much happened with the toy company in the last
three months. But, we plan to charge ahead now and get a product to
market.
What we are planning now is to sell packages of beams, columns, and stubs
in
red, blue and black. This will get us out into the toy market and allow us
to visit a trade show next month in New York city. The trade show will
give
us contacts and a feel of the size and nature of the toy building products
market. To do this small product introduction still requires legal
investigation into trademarks, finding packaging, choosing a logo, setting
up the web site, producing and boxing the parts. We hope to be able to
sell
columns, beams, and stubs by the end of February.
Regards,
Paul Flack
President, Bridge Street Toys LLC
Wed, 12/08/2004 5:09 PM
Nick,
Thanks for posting my e-mail address on your web page. I have received
several notes of support for producing Girder & Panel sets again. I have
created a folder of all the inquiries and notes of support so that I can
e-mail them when a product is ready to sell.
Thanks to your input about the color of the girders. Initially, I was
planning to produce the red girders to match the original sets. Once
established, it shouldn't be hard to change the color of the girders if
there is sufficient demand. I know Lego's has thrived by having several
color parts available. Changing the color of the part is small compared to
the cost of producing the dies. The minimum order quantity for a
production run of any given color is probably on the order of 100,000
pieces.
I really haven't looked into the panels yet. But, I agree with you that
the original panels were too brittle. I like the panels of the 72000
series too. They look nice and the flat panels are easier to produce than
the vacu-formed panels of the original panels. The reversible panels
produced by Irwin is another good idea because builders have more choices
with the same number of parts.
Thank you for producing a list of the most popular sets. It is something
that I will keep in mind when deciding what to include in the next set. I
notice that the Sky Rail is high on the list. I never had one, but it
looks like something that my son would really like. Therefore, other
children would like to have one too. I looked on e-bay and saw a few of
them for sale. I will buy a Sky Rail set after we have moved to our new
house in order to see the manuals, project plans and what parts are
included.
I agree that the pumps and electric motors for the
elevators/cranes/conveyor belts are an important part of the Girder &
Panel building experience. They are in the plans for the second phase of
development. The first phase is to produce small starter sets in each:
Girder & Panel, Bridge & Turnpike, and Hydrodynamic. Adding motors and
pumps increases the complexity and cost of manufacturing. I believe that I
have to have the basic building blocks of the company on a sound
foundation before branching out into motors and pumps. I had motors and
pumps with my Girder & Panel sets as a child. I certainly wouldn't want
the next generation of children (the post electronic generation?) to miss
the opportunity to build with motors.
Regards,
Paul Flack
Thur, 11/26/2004 2:31 PM
Paul,
I wanted to ask you a few questions:
Aside from the Red girders you sent me are you having any other color
girders produced? I always preferred the silver girders myself from the
Kenstruct sets, they were the sturdiest as well. The black girders were
also sharp.
How about panels? What style panels are you
having made? What material have you chosen? The plastic from the sets from
the 60’s were way too brittle, I think that the panels from the 72000
series sets from the 70’s were much better, they were flexible and looked
better too. The nicest panels of them were the black panels from the 72001
Sears Tower set and the two tone panels that came with the Kenstruct sets
72100, 72130 and 72140.
As for the most popular sets… sets that I think
you could make a killing on right out of the gate, these are the sets in
the most demand, I would recommend making sets similar to them first (in
this order): Look under my photo gallery for pictures of each.
# 72001 – World Famous Buildings (Sears Tower
Set)
# 72010 - World Famous Buildings (Sears Tower Set)
# 11 – Hydro-Dynamic Set with 1 pump
# 12 – Hydro-Dynamic Set with 2 pumps
# 17 – Skyrail Set with 1 skycar
# 18 – Skyrail Set with 2 skycars
# 72050 – Skyscraper Set
# 72090 – Bridge & Skyscraper Set
# 72100 – Kenstruct Building Set
# 72110 – Kenstruct Bridge Set
# 72130 – Kenstruct Skyscraper Set
# 72140 – Kenstruct Super Set
# 16 – Build-A-Home & Subdivision Set
# 7 – Combined Girder & Panel and Bridge & Turnpike Set
# 8 - Combined Girder & Panel and Bridge & Turnpike Set with 1 Motor
# 9 - Combined Girder & Panel and Bridge & Turnpike Set with 2 Motors
# 55101 – Gas Station Set
# 55130 – Deluxe Skyscraper Set
# 55135 – Roadside Café Set
# 55201 – Police Station Set
# 55202 – Fire Station Set
# 55301 – City Center Set
# 55302 – Emergency Center Set
Any chance of releasing Hydro sets with working
pumps? I think that the kids really enjoyed having something electronic as
part of their sets. That’s why the motorized sets, hydro sets and Skyrails
all did so well.
Thanks for your time,
Nick
www.girderpanel.com
Fri, 10/29/2004 11:17 AM
Here is a
photo of our prototype Hydrodynamic set. As you can see, the starter
Hydrodynamic set is really a very "bare bones" set. It is mostly to get
the ball rolling and to let everyone know that "Girder & Panel is back".
To save on production and development costs, we are going to use a turkey
baster (shown in the photo) rather than a pump. A turkey baster doesn't
need batteries, the kids love it, and the moms won't worry about electric
shock! This was an idea I got from my 10 year old daughter! (Current VP of
Marketing and Development)
The tray in the prototype photo is made out of wood, but will be made
out of plastic for the production building sets. The trays can be linked
together so that several starter sets can be combined to make a larger
set.
I have sent a list of parts and their sizes to a package development
company. They are working on logos and package design. I want a resealable,
stackable, plastic box rather than the cardboard boxes which were used in
the 1960's. This is important for the Hydrodynamic set since cardboard
boxes crush or fall apart when they get wet.
Paul Flack
President (and everything else!)
Bridge Street Toys LLC
Fri, 10/01/2004
Bridge Street Toys LLC received ten sets of parts to test the first
production molds for beams columns and stubs. The dimensions look good, so
production of beams, columns and stubs for new Girder & Panel sets can
begin! Your website, Girder & Panel, Bridge & Turnpike Heaven, was very
inspirational to me in starting a company to recreate these vintage
building sets. I thought you might want to add these enclosed test parts
to your collection of Girder & Panel items. Hopefully, these parts will be
the first parts of a whole new era in Girder & Panel history.
Regards,
Paul Flack
Bridge Street Toys LLC
Tues, 9/21/2004 12:06 PM
The good news is that I
received ten parts each from each cavity of the three dies that we had
made in China. (Columns, beams, and stubs) The dimensions look fine.
The parts fit well with the 1960 sets from Kenner. I used ABS to produce
the parts instead of PolyEthylene, (as were the original 1960 parts) but
the ABS used is to brittle for my liking. If I bang the parts with a
hammer, the crowns and posts will break off rather than bending. So, I
need to either change the plasticizer, or change the plastic before
producing our first big order for parts.
Since you seem to have the most complete collection of Girder & Panel
items, I thought that I would send you a set of test parts to include in
your museum. Hopefully, these parts will mark the start of a new era in
Girder & Panel toys.
Regards,
Paul Flack
President - Bridge
Street Toys
Wed 8/10/2004 9:02 PM
How will the sets be
numbered? Will they be a continuation of the Kenner sets which ended in
72140 or a continuation of Irwin’s sets which ended in 55302, or a
continuation of the Popular Mechanics numbering which ended in 301? In
any case I hope you do not duplicate any current set numbers since that
would make collecting the sets confusing. The following is a list of all
the current set #’s to prevent that (In order of release):
Peter-Austin Manufacturing Sets:
500,
510, 511, 512, 513
Kenner Sets:
1-12, 14-18, 21-28, 30-33, 72000 72001, 72011, 72030, 72031, 72050, 72062,
72071, 72080, 72081, 72090, 72100, 72110, 72130, 72140
Irwin Sets:
55100, 55101, 55102, 55120, 55130, 55135, 55201, 55202, 55301, 55302, 300,
301
I am not sure of the numbering system yet. We will probably have the
year of reintroduction somewhere in the numbering system. But other
than that, we are not yet decided. I certainly don't want to confuse
people with the old sets or to confuse the collectors on e-bay, etc.
Regards,
Paul Flack
Thur 8/5/2004 9:54 PM
An update from Bridge Street Toys
Molds for columns, beams, and stubs have been produced and are awaiting
final approval of the first parts before production of these parts
begins. The first production run will be 200,000 columns, 200,000
beams, 100,000 stubs. The material will be red ABS rather than the
original red polyethylene. (K'Nex and Lego's are made of ABS) The
columns, beams and stubs will be interchangeable with the original
Kenner building sets. The only thing that I changed in the design was
that I lengthened the posts that hold on the panels. I remember as a
child that the panels would often pop off, so I hope that a slightly
longer post will cure that problem.
We have started looking at packaging. There will be three introductory
building sets offered for sale at approximately $20. Girder & Panel for
building buildings. Bridge & Turnpike for building highways and
bridges. Hydrodynamic for building small chemical plants.
We will start working on our web site in September. Sales of new sets
will be through our web site. BridgeStreetToys.com The first sets
should be ready for sale in the summer of 2005.
Girder & Panel and Bridge & Turnpike Sets are BACK!
