Tatami

Tatami is a wooden building construction set, with a ground plates, columns, wall panels, floors & roofs. It is available since 2019 and manufactured in Argentina.

More info: tatamibox.com

History

Some words by Ana Ines Goñi:

"With fond memories of Mobaco - which was once brought to Argentina by her grandfather - Ana wanted to let her children play with it too. Unfortunately, the original box appeared to be missing. This gave her, her mother & twin brothers the idea to make a version themselves. But in such a way, to make the dreams of the past come true! After a year of designing and trying, the Tatami castle with a moving drawbridge was created. Since then, the attractive portfolio has been significantly expanded."

Boxes & content

There are 6 boxes/bags for sale:

1. Tatami bags: small (35 parts), medium (50 parts) & large (80 parts).
2. Tatami box: houses elements (130 parts)
   With option to personalise the box.
3. Tatami wooden box: castle (90 parts).

Beside that, you could also buy spare/other parts.

The box lid is quite clever. When turning around, the holes for the columns are visible. So it's easy to start building. The building could also be stored on top of the box, so it does not need to be disassembled, very handy!

Manual

Some system characteristics

Here a short list of some system characteristics and how it’s retrofitted into the virtual LeoCAD library:

Part types:	Original:	Virtual:
Base plates	Wood, cnc milled 15 [mm] thickness	Uncolored pieces
Columns	Wood Square 12 [mm]	Uncolored pieces
Panel elements	Chipboard, laser cutted ~3.3 [mm] thickness	Uncolored pieces Some textured
Bay size	60 [mm]	Scaled to match Mobaco: Bay size: 57.5 [mm]
Standard wall panel	50 x 102.5 [mm]	Scaled to match Mobaco.

Since it's scaled to Mobaco, the panels are interchangeable within LeoCAD.

Library

Unique parts per category:

Part groups:	Numer of parts:
Base plates	4
Columns	3
Wall panels	9+
Horizontal floor strips	n/a
Horizontal floor panels	9
Roof panels + gables	5 + 2
Other parts	..
Total parts:	..

LeoCAD → 3D Models:

A small Tatami village, bases on the construction-sets sold:

From left to right: Castle, 2 examples from the tatami-box, 3 examples for different sized bags.

Building & playing

Our kids like to play with Tatami construction set. Biggest plus: the closed base plate and the nice castle design. This set is often combined with the other Mobaco parts, creating a big 'playground / construction yard':

It seems that Tatami parts also fit the Mobaco base plate. That's handy. 😉

Further readings:

• Buy: tatamibox.com.
• Linked to: Mobaco & Pulko-Baukasten.
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