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Notched beams, no glue, no tools
Every set here is built the same way: square-section beams and half-beams with notches cut into their ends, stacked and interlocked corner over corner. Nothing is glued and nothing is screwed. It is how log houses are actually built in the Ukrainian Carpathians, reduced to a scale a child can handle.
The wood is untreated hardwood, with no varnish, paint or coating of any kind. The shortest piece in the house sets is 24 mm, the longest 192 mm.
The Fortress series builds one town
Four of these sets belong together: the Tower, the Fortification walls, the GateWay and the Castle. Each stands on its own, and assembled together they form a single fortified town, with the tower rising out of the middle of it.
They are also four of the largest sets in the range, from 213 pieces up to 296, and their age ratings run 6+ for the Tower, 8+ for the walls, 10+ for the gateway, 12+ for the Castle. That progression is deliberate. A child who starts with the Tower has somewhere to go next.
The houses, and where to start
Alongside the fortress sets are three buildings that work on their own. The Money Box at 37 pieces is the smallest thing we sell in this range and the only one where the finished object has a use: a house-shaped box for pocket money. The House with Garage at 75 pieces adds a second storey, a balcony and a bay sized for a toy car. The Cottage at 206 pieces contains four different floor plans rather than one, so it can be rebuilt rather than built once.
The recommended ages run from 3 upward, and they mean something here. A 37-piece set is a task a four-year-old can finish alone; a 294-piece castle is not.
The Eiffel Tower is the outlier
274 pieces, rated 14+, and the only set in the range that reproduces a real building rather than a generic one. It follows the tower's actual geometry: the wide four-legged base, the narrowing through the second platform, the spire. It is the most demanding build in this range.
What people do with them
These get taken apart and rebuilt, which is not true of most construction toys. Because nothing is glued, the finished house comes down as easily as it went up, and the instruction booklets include alternative models. The GateWay booklet has plans for a four-by-four and a tank alongside the gate itself.
Igroteco also state that their sets can be combined with one another, so a child with two boxes has more than two buildings to work from.
Who makes them
Igroteco is a Ukrainian manufacturer working in solid wood. These sets are one of the few lines we stock rather than make ourselves – they earned their place because interlocking-beam construction is a genuinely different thing from block stacking, and because untreated hardwood is increasingly hard to find in children's toys.