Tente not Lego
September 16th, 2008Someone left a post the other day asking me about Tente. If you don’t know what it is, you’re missing out. Tente was a Lego-like building system that was mainly available outside the US. I got mine while living in Colombia, SA.
Anyway, the system had very similar blocks to Legos and the kits were thematic, like space or transportation. And like Legos, you could build them into whatever you wanted. I didn’t have a lot of them, but they were ahead of Lego in many ways. While Lego still had pretty generic pieces in the 70s and early 80s, Tente had a lot of specialized wheels and parts in their kits. But they made a lot fewer sets…
Tente Building System
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:42 am
Tente was my thing in junior high, I have been scouring eBay for ages looking for their space sets. Superior to Lego in every way, I thought! - mh
October 14th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Too bad. I just tossed a few hundred 30 year-old Tente bricks in the trash yesterday. Most of them haven’t held up as long as my 30 year-old Legos, although they were much more detailed than their Lego contemporaries at the time.
October 14th, 2008 at 10:37 am
I still remember as a boy living in Chile, when my parents gave me the TENTE Estación Polar “Artic 2″ for christmas, I played with that for years and took very good care of it. TENTE was a great way for me to play using my imagination.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:44 am
I had a lot of them in my childhood also. They were/are great. Today about 7 .auctions from myself are running out on ebay. e.g. 260304942299, or contact me via ebay name “becomeadad” it might be that I have some more
December 21st, 2008 at 9:45 pm
I WILL BUY ALL THE TENTE PIECES YOU HAVE JUST CONTACT ME AND PUT THE PRICE THANK YOU………………………..
December 21st, 2008 at 9:46 pm
LEAVE ME A MAIL AT NIVE750914@HOTMAIL.COM WITH THE PIECES YOU HAVE AND HOW MUCH YOU ASK FOR THEM THANK YOU
December 25th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
WOW … I had some Tente, Loved them … but obviously Lego won.
December 30th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
sell me you tente tekjock
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:26 pm
I would be interested in buying Tente that people have laying around particularly if they involve Tente ship models, particularly military.
Eric
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:27 pm
You can contact me at eric_in_it@yahoo.com. Sorry for the extra post.
Eric