Toy Fair: EnviroBLOX, puffy construction toys made from corn starch

While EnviroBLOX have been on the market for about a year, manufacturer Cadaco is now releasing new sets with tools that cut, smoosh, and emboss the corn starch-based building puffs into even more shapes. EnviroBLOX are made of the same stuff as biodegradable packing peanuts. To connect them, just dip them in water (or give them a lick). Think of them as Cheetos* with which you can build giant dinosaurs.

* This is an unpaid product integration Synergtunity™. While EnviroBLOX can be used to construct animals they are not compatible with most implementations of the Atkins or South Beach Diets.

[#1 posted by Doomstalk , February 15, 2009 11:00 AM]

I used to do the exact same thing with those bio-degradable packing peanuts you get with packages sometimes.

[#2 posted by stuiethegod , February 15, 2009 11:35 AM]

yeah, I remember playing with those all the time when I was a kid. We used to call the Lick 'em stick 'em's.

[#3 posted by Lea Hernandez , February 15, 2009 1:50 PM]

Wonder what they cost versus a similar-sized bag of packing peanuts?

I'm ready for one of those noisy commercials that starts with b&w shots kids failing at sculpting with clays, and goes to a shot of a kid standing next to that t-rex with the teeny disclaimer "will require additional sets."

[#4 posted by BaS , February 16, 2009 11:09 AM]

The best part about those was each sibling/friend/child forced to play together building their own intricate fortress, then seeing which one lasted the longest with everybody going after them with super soakers.

[#5 posted by greensteam , February 16, 2009 12:49 PM]

Dog looks like it has been skinned and we are looking at its muscles, as in an anatomical model. weird.