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A pair of new products from children's model company Meccano are set to further blur the line between toys and technology. MeccaSpider and M.A.X. were both on display at London's Toy Fair trade show ...

It's always cool when the big motorcycle manufacturers shake hands with toy makers and deliver spectacular items that please the eyes and the minds of both kids and adults. The latest to do so is ...

A model maker has used Meccano to create his own version of new trains that will run on the Tyne and Wear Metro. John Herdman spent three months making the remote-controlled miniature, which includes ...

A Meccano model of Teesside's Newport Bridge, which took an enthusiast a year of painstaking work to construct, is about to be dismantled. The Newport Bridge Model, comprising thousands of parts and ...

A museum is preparing for one of the most popular events in its calendar. Beamish Museum, near Stanley, County Durham, will stage the History of Meccano exhibition this weekend. Models on display will ...

A unique Tyne and Wear Metro train has been recreated in Meccano thanks to one man’s labour of love. It was built by expert model maker John Herdman from Whickham in Gateshead. John, 70, spent three ...

Further in, toys and models, not only by Meccano but from Lego and other competitors, litter every surface, all for Fleuet to tinker with as he dreams up new designs. In an average year he comes up ...

MECCANO models of planes, cranes and automobiles were on display at a County Durham rail museum over the weekend. The North East Meccano Society held its annual exhibition at Locomotion, the National ...

A model maker has used Meccano to create his own version of new trains that will run on the Tyne and Wear Metro. John Herdman spent three months making the remote-controlled miniature, which includes ...