Popular construction toy brands include Lincoln Logs and LEGO.
Autistic children who played with building blocks were motivated to initiate social contact with children their age, able to maintain and endure contact with those children, and were also able to surpass the barriers of being withdrawn and highly structured.
[3] Red and yellow Lego building blocks, which were manufactured between 1963 and 1981, can release carcinogenic cadmium when exposed to stomach acid in amounts exceeding today's limits about 10-fold.
[4][5] Construction sets can be categorized according to their connection method and geometry: Renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright credited his childhood building blocks designed by Friedrich Fröbel as a major influence, and his son John Lloyd Wright invented the widely-known Lincoln Logs building set.
[7] In addition to teaching architectural concepts such as modularity and load-bearing construction,[8] many architects credit construction set play as influencing their later design.