Need your help: Old toy info (Updated: Found)
 

Ok I am currently 33 years old (ewwww). When I was much younger (assume the years 1979-1982) their was a popular toy collection out I need some help with identifying.
Now I can swear it was called "pixel sticks" and I know (or pretty sure) it was made by a major toy company as one of the sets was based on Marvel/DC comic characters.
Here is what it was: they were colored sticks (like red, green, yellow, etc) that you could attach to each other and build a number of various things. For example, lets say you made a building. The toy pipes looked like a skeleton version without the actual walls being placed on, kind of like an erector set.
At anyrate this was popular at the time and they had some sets with Marvel characters. The Characters themselves were stickers applied to a small sqaure plastic piece (similar to a board game token). Some of these pieces though had clips which would enable them to hang onto the pipe structures you made.
The set I had was called "world of Masu" (or something very close to that). This was a space monster set and you contructed Masu who resembled a giant turtle. The head and claws were a real monster and just attached to the pipe frame body.
Does anyone recall or remember anything about this toy line at all? I am sure I might have the name wrong of either the set I had or the actual line itself, but it has been driving me nuts for a number of years. If anyone can help out I will forever be in your dept. thanks again--

Tinker toys?
See http://www.hasbro.com/tinkertoy

I had them too, but they were wooden. Lots of themed ones available.

They were called Kinex :P They still make them :)

Yeah, that could be it too. And it's K'NEX
See http://www.knex.com/

Oh frigin bite me gramps lol

They have a Knex roller coaster thing for like 100$ at KB Toys I think.. It might not be knex, but its made like them, and expensive like they were also lol.

Thanks for the replies (except for grandmas post HAHAHA, just kidding Christine, I still love ya) but no, the ones you gave are not them but similar. I don't think K'nex were around at the end of the 70's-early 80's but looking at the design it wasn't them. No dice with tinker toys (though I had the wooden ones as well).
To describe them best, take a regular drinking straw but have it one solid bright color. These are what the pipes looked like. I know I was very young so I am still guessing 1978-79 to no later than 1981

I still do not think they were K'nex. I do not think they go back that far, however I just sent them an email asking such information. Keep you posted

big staws and neon colors.. sounds like those huge pixie sticks

too bad they were not filled with wonderful sugar..

perhaps Lordsmurf was correct. I just found a pic of plastic tinker toys and these look very similar to what I remember. So I have been doing more searching. Either another known company made similar knock-offs to these or perhaps playschool kind of branched out the tinker toy franchise by making playsets that would somewhat give a newer life into that toy line (and perhaps calling them something else). The search is still on. Below is a link to the plastic tinker toys pic
http://h1.ripway.com/mazinz/images.jpg

two years later I finally got a reply that points me to the correct name of this toy series and shows me the superhero set that I recall my friend having (link is below)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fiddlesticks-251...QQcmdZViewItem

the toyline was called fiddlesticks and this was the super hero set.

Now I just have to find masu the space monster

UPDATE: FOUND
set was called world of mazu
http://cgi.ebay.es/1980-KNICKERBOCKE...QQcmdZViewItem

hi, glad you found what you were looking for. aint ebay great for finding stuff. thanks stoogedog

if it were not for me bumping a two year old post I made on plaidstallions.com, I would still be in the dark. No forum or anywhere else for that matter, had a clue as to what the hell I was talking about. Then like a dream two replies come through. My twenty plus year mind raking search is over. I now know what it is and that I was not imagining it (like a few people had claimed)

Awesome, I'm glad you found it. :)

and bumping an almost 3 year old post, I wanted to say I finally aquired a MIB version of him the other day from ebay.-- Pics below

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http://www.box.net/shared/static/sqhlfnbl9s.jpg

WOW! MIB on something that old?
I guess it can happen.
Congratulations on the nice find.

Thanks! I picked him up as "old store stock" ( the toy is from 1980). The wrapping looks about right for the age of the toy. Still a bit reluctant to open him up though

be even more miraculous if I could find the tv commercial for him which strongly resembled a horror film (showed the two astronauts on a "foggy" planet surface). Mazu popped out of the fog to grab them

where is the pic? i dont see anything

It wasn't attached to the forum, and the other site may be blocking hotlinking.
Or it's just not hosted very well.
I've edited the post, it's attached to TVP now.

I remember those lol