# Anyone else remember Capsela? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 23, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-capsela/766682 "2016-09-23T23:48:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pathrunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@pathrunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pathrunner)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-capsela/766682/1 "2016-09-23T23:48:54Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-capsela/766682/2 "2016-09-25T02:16:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-capsela/766682/3 "2016-09-25T02:20:54Z")
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!). ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2016, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-capsela/766682/4 "2016-09-25T06:11:18Z")
Yep, I had a Capsela set, yes it was fun , yes I ended up breaking all the best bits ☹ 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: ) > **[IQ KEY](http://www.iq-key.com/en/intro_en.html)** > > UNITRUST,IQ.KEY,Kids Furniture,D.I.Y, Educational Toys, Playground Equipment, Kids Furniture ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-capsela/766682/5 "2016-09-26T04:10:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-capsela/766682/6 "2016-09-26T13:35:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-capsela/766682/7 "2016-09-26T13:37:46Z")
> [@pathrunner](#): > > 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. Two of my kids had it. Stepping on the small pieces was right up there with Lego bricks and Barbie shoes. 🙂 > [@DocCathode](#): > > IIRC Capsela plays a prominent part in the Eddie Murphy film Best Defense. _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_. _M_A_S_H\* for the tech industry, long before Dilbert and _Office Space_ (may have influenced both, actually). ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2016, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-else-remember-capsela/766682/8 "2016-09-26T16:26:38Z")
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.