Krazy Ikes

 Krazy Ikes

Buiding toys or just an amusment ?

My though is that it falls squarely into the realm of building toys, as you have several "body" parts and you assemble them into Krazy different animals and people.  They remind me of Tinker Toys, as you connect various pieces together to form a larger model.

I played with these toys when I was growing up in the 1960's.  My older siblings had a set of them, but never played with them.  I sort of "inherited" them.  Those toys are long gone now, but I remember having hours of fun snapping different pieces into one another to build different creatures, structures, etc, . . . whatever tickled my fancy.

Krazy Ikes were registered and created in 1930 by the Main Toy Company and made in later years by Whitman, Inc.  The original toy was wood, then in the 1950's, they were made from plastic when Whitman

The toys themselves consisted of a body, shoulder joint pieces, hip joint pieces, longer arm and leg pieces, feet and heads in the basic set.  Other sets had wheels, axles flat pieces for cart/vehicle base and other weird misellaneous pieces.

The shoulder and hip pieces slid into appropriate sockets on the body and all the other pieces fit together using a ball and socket type of connector

The heads came in different varieties.  Light bulb shaped human and animal heads.

Some of the later sets, in the '60s thru the '70s, were licensed by Warner Brothers and others by Disney

The sets were packaged in various forms from Box with X shaped divider, to small cannisters similar to Lincoln Logs and  Tinker toys, to blister plastic on cards.

The number of pieces ranged from around 20 for some of the carded sets to well over 100 pieces in boxes.