Abies

The Hicks Abi is special. You can see some Hicks Abies below. There are two small ones (red and white) and two large ones (blue-white-black and yellow-orange).

You cannot make the small Hicks Abi from Gen1 Abies, but it is possible to make the larger Hicks Abies from Abi-C’s and Abi-D’s.

Adding the Hicks Abi to the Abi family adds a range of new possibilities, making Abies all the more exciting. We thought this one (below) looks a bit like those little colorful frogs that you find in the rainforest. Its head is made with a Hicks Abi.

When we discovered the Hicks Abi we decided to add it to the family of Abies, perhaps call it Abi-E, and we thought it might be the last addition that would have  a life as a standalone Abi (but we discovered even more after that). That is why we named it after ‘the Higgs’.

After playing with Abies for many hours we now consider ourselves experts in having fun with Abies and in making all kinds of wonderful structures, but the first time, after we had accidentally discovered the Hicks Abi, it took us about a day to figure out how to make a larger Hicks Abi from Gen1 Abies.