Well, not really time-critical enough to be an alert, but I picked up a neat little building toy at the thrift store today- the Anatomics dynamic building system dinosaurs master kit, made by Inhabit Toys. It's a collection of struts and ball-and-socket joints which are thankfully molded in ABS! The manufacturer appears to be out of business, but keep your eyes peeled for one of these sets. I see landing gear, blasters, engines, struts, and even some spine parts for that Lunar Models Discovery. Best picture I could find (which isn't very good) is at:
http://discovermagazine.com/2001/oct/featreviews
Grab a box if you can, play with the pieces as a dinosaur toy, and pick out useful bits as required.
Useful Plastic Parts Alert/ Thrift store find
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Continuing this topic, I recently found some "Exo Bonz" at the thrift shop. Not the most obvious bunch of spaceship parts, but they are made of ABS/styrene. For 3.00 US I can't complain, and the 3 year old likes playing with the "bug blocks". Most useful bits may be the round joints with 270 degrees of articulation. If you are looking for organic shapes, these could work. Beware, though, that the plastic may have changed. The sets I got had a 2000 inventory sticker and came in a cardboard can. A picture of the current set is at:
http://www.purcifuls-toys.com/excritbuilse.html
and various other places around the web.
http://www.purcifuls-toys.com/excritbuilse.html
and various other places around the web.