Toy buildingsticks

When I was a kid we used to have access to a wide variety of toys that we could use to construct things - Lego, Meccano, etc. What was better then than now (in my opinion) is that they didn't come with pre-conceived limitations of what you should build (like the kits you buy today). You just had many of the same thing in different colours to build whatever you imagined.

I remembered a few days ago that one of these types of toys we had, were building sticks. I can't remember what they were ca