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Help identify this 90s outdoor toy

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MustDust · 20/10/2018 21:03

My friends had this amazing set which was lots of plastic tubes, connectors, wheels and platforms that would click together to make a playhouse/vehicle/stage... Whatever your imagination allowed. I remember building a vehicle that a couple of you could sit in and be pushed down the street. If my memory serves me right the tubes were blue and the platforms yellow. Does anyone else remember this? My son would love it!

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TulipsInBloom1 · 20/10/2018 21:06

Is it Quadroplay? My mum got given a set when a local playgroup closed that we played with for years.

Ava1988 · 20/10/2018 21:06

I remember that! but cannot for the life of me remember what it was called! I wonder if they do a modern equivalent?

Penisbeakerismyfavethread · 20/10/2018 21:10

They still make quadriplegic the next door neighbors got some recently
You can find it here?
quadroplay.co.uk

Penisbeakerismyfavethread · 20/10/2018 21:11

Fucking hell what an awful typo
I obviously meant Q U A D R O P L A Y

I’m so sorry if any offence was caused

MustDust · 20/10/2018 21:33

penisbeaker Grin so wrong but you made me laugh!

Yes, it was very like that quadroplay stuff, i need to research if you can make vehicles. It's funny in 14 years of parenting I've not come across it!

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MammyShark · 20/10/2018 21:34

It used to be called Gymbo if I remember correctly 🤔

BrieAndChilli · 20/10/2018 21:39

Can’t remember what it was called but we had this in the 80s it was brill - exactly as you say, blue tubes and yellow panels. We also had wheels, and a stripy shop tent thing to go with it, use to make all sorts - bike ramps, go karts, houses, slides etc.
I looked for it when my kids were a bit younger but could never find it!!

MustDust · 20/10/2018 21:59

MammyShark yes! That's it! Hope the pic I've found loads. Ds2 would love this stuff!

Help identify this 90s outdoor toy
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BrieAndChilli · 20/10/2018 22:09

My mums got a photo of me and my sister on the slide pretty identical to the one in that ad!!

Penisbeakerismyfavethread · 20/10/2018 22:10

@mustdust that catalogue page has just sent a wave of nostalgia over I bloody loved my “continental style paddling pool!”

Scotinoz · 20/10/2018 22:12

We had Quadro as kids, it was awesome. Ours had red poles and black connectors, with different coloured panels. And we had wheels too.

Just looked at the prices on that link. Jeez!

IncyWincyGrownUp · 20/10/2018 22:55

My primary school had a massive amount of quadro, and nobody was ever allowed to play with it. Ever.

Shame, it looks like cracking stuff.

Glitteryfrog · 20/10/2018 22:59

Yes! I remember building the slide.
I wonder if it ever pops up on eBay?

Titsywoo · 20/10/2018 22:59

My neighbours had loads of Quadro (the black and red one stuff). It was amazing. We used to make climbing frames out of it and big cars that loads of us would pile into and ride down the massive hill in their garden. I tried to find it when my kids were little but it is ridiculously expensive!

Titsywoo · 20/10/2018 23:01

Yes a fair amount of it on ebay www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Toys-Games/220/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=quadro

MustDust · 21/10/2018 07:59

I wish I'd remembered this stuff years ago now!

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KindergartenKop · 21/10/2018 09:37

We had some handed down to us and we tried it one summer with our toddler. It's not that stable, you can't really make a climbing frame out of it.

RosieTo · 31/05/2020 20:53

That is definitely Gymbo. We have the climbing frame and have just taken it out of our loft. It was bought for our daughters but now soon to be used by our grandson.

RosieTo · 31/05/2020 21:54

The picture is of Gymbo it even says so on the picture. We found Gymbo to be very stable and our children loved it. They built it into a climbing frame, a slide and a shop.

Mrpage · 22/05/2025 19:10

MustDust · 20/10/2018 21:03

My friends had this amazing set which was lots of plastic tubes, connectors, wheels and platforms that would click together to make a playhouse/vehicle/stage... Whatever your imagination allowed. I remember building a vehicle that a couple of you could sit in and be pushed down the street. If my memory serves me right the tubes were blue and the platforms yellow. Does anyone else remember this? My son would love it!

This set was called “gymbo kit” I had one when I was a kid. There was also a black spanner type tool to click on the poles to remove them.

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