Hoorah and huzzah! Yes, it's the 1930s and those clever chaps and chapesses at self-build gurus Meccano have introduced to the market a simply splendid set of rods, girders, nuts, bolts and other such wizard wheezes that one can assemble into no fewer than four different high technology devices...

With fully retro look and feel including a stunning commemorative presentation box, this vintage special edition of the legendary boys' building kit turns the clock back over 70 years to imagine life as it was in the late Edwardian era. No telly. No web. No Wii. Just a roaring hearth an empty floor, a box of metal... and a world of possibilities. Oh yes. It will set the pulse racing, and perhaps even bring a lump to the throat. Golly.

With 166 pieces in red and green metal, including the wheels pulleys and thread needed to create moving models in a traditional 30s design, the kit enables one to construct a working crane, lorry, plane and pulley.

A new generation will thrill to intricacies and complexity of Meccano - and may even learn the finer points of nut-tightening in the process - while die-hard Meccanists can luxuriate in the sheer authenticity of the box; inside and out.

And who knows? With the able assistance of Vintage Meccano, the youth of today may even learn to take their hoodies off, sit up straight, respect their elders, and actually learn to concentrate. Super.