Anyone else remember Capsela?

The Game Room
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When I was a kid, I hd asked for a Capsela set. Christmas day, I had 7 sets. I must have spent hours every day building everything from motorized boats, to cranes. When I was 10 I built a catapult and shot my sister with a lego ball.

My parents took away my set and sold it in a garage sale for $10.

I was trying to explain Capsela to my wife, but she never had a set and hadn’t even heard of it.

Just wondering if anyone was as creative/destructive as I was or was I one of the few who ever had one?

2

I remember Capsela. The ads were cool. But, the set I got never worked.
IIRC Capsela plays a prominent part in the Eddie Murphy film Best Defense.

3

It’s one of the few toys from my childhood that I remember playing with, and I just bought my kids something that looked somewhat similar because of how much I enjoyed Capsela (it’s motorized!).

4

Yep, I had a Capsela set, yes it was fun , yes I ended up breaking all the best bits :frowning:

Apparently it’s still on sale in japan under the original name, and in other countries has been re-branded and re-issued (incompatible parts :mad: )

5

I had two sets as a kid. One was a smallish set, and then a few years later I got the programmable set with the remote.

6

I never had them, but a friend did. I could see how it worked and thought it was cool in principle, except that it didn’t work.

7

Two of my kids had it. Stepping on the small pieces was right up there with Lego bricks and Barbie shoes. :slight_smile:

shudder Absolutely awful movie that had Murphy’s part shoehorned into for BO draw. Absolutely fabulous and forgotten source novel, Easy and Hard Ways Out. MASH* for the tech industry, long before Dilbert and Office Space (may have influenced both, actually).

8

I loved Capsela. I credit it with helping me easily understand gear ratio and torque ratio concepts in my later engineering and physics college years.