Awesome Blocks

These playful playing cards from Kings Wild Project feature a design inspired by kids’ alphabet blocks. The square cards have a woodgrain background with large numbers and colorful faces. They come with red, yellow, blue, green, or black backs as well as a gilded edition with gold edges. Collect them all!

If building a gaming PC is out of your budget at the moment, manifest that machine with this neat kit from LEGO knockoff brand Pantasy. The kit has a surprising amount of detail and distinct parts, including a motherboard, GPU, and storage drives. It even has an RGB light. Pantasy also has equally impressive 90s PC and 80s PC kits.

If you’ve played Minecraft, you know to steer clear of Creepers. These bespeckled hostile mobs will blow you to smithereens. The Slow Mo Guys dropped by the Colorado School of Mines with a real-world version of the explosive enemy and detonated it in front of their high-speed camera. After a small test, they got a much bigger boom from a charged Creeper.

This set of 20 colorful wooden blocks helps kids and adults learn about science and chemistry. 118 of the block faces are printed with the name, symbol, and atomic number of the elements of the periodic table. For fun, see what words you can make by combining elements like “CoBRa” and “BeCoOl.”

The always awesome Chop Shop Store teamed up with The Planetary Society to create 20 wooden blocks, each featuring a planet, dwarf planet, or moon from our solar system, and printed with useful data. They’re also offering space-themed add-ons like posters, tees, and stickers. Shipping starts 11/2019.

EverBlock’s interlocking plastic blocks are like giant size LEGO bricks, but are sturdy enough to create temporary or semi-permanent partitions, walls, and furniture. They’re also perfect for building playhouses for kids and pets. Play with their online 3D builder here.

Get a taste of Mini Materials‘ awesomely realistic construction miniatures with their latest product bundle. It comes with mini cinder blocks, different kinds of breeze blocks, and red bricks, all with matching pallets. That’s a total $140 in value.

Ansty Labs’ Pixl is a unique and fun take on building block toys. Instead of pieces with grooves or studs, each Pixl block has a magnet inside that automatically rotates so that it will always stick with another Pixl block. Pixls comes in four sizes and 52 colors.

This fun 1:12 scale construction kit includes 24 miniature cinder blocks, mortar to hold them together, and a tiny wooden pallet. Just think, a few thousand of these, and you can build your next home. Save 19% in The Awesomer Shop.