 | | K'Nex enters the fray —Larry Marak
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| | | K'nex has started selling brick knex hybrid construction sets. They utilize a locking pin mechanism to join knex to plates and bricks (provided). The bricks are done on standard lego scale, and come in several forms not available from other (...) (18 years ago, 28-Dec-06, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | | | | Re: K'Nex enters the fray —Matthew J. Chiles
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| | | | (...) This really pretty big news and seems to have not got much press around here. I stumbed across a link to this site being advertised on BrickShelf: (2 URLs) For those who like K'nex or thought it may have possibilities in the Lego world, now (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: K'Nex enters the fray —Mike Petrucelli
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| | | | | (...) A lot of the proportions of K'nex line up perfectly with certain stud lengths so this could be even bigger/more important than that first glance implies. It certainly has my attention. After all certain things are better suited to the angles (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: K'Nex enters the fray —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | (...) From an LDraw standpoint, I'm hopeful that Ryan Farrington has the means/will/resources/time to enhance his excellent library of LDraw-compatible K'Nex elements by incorporating some of these new pieces. I'm not a great fan of K'Nex, but I (...) (18 years ago, 17-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: K'Nex enters the fray —Jason S. Mantor
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| | | | Pretty neat. Too bad we can't see more of the brick. BTW, Sploids let one connect Lego Bricks to Knex too : ) (...) (18 years ago, 30-Jan-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | | | | | Re: K'Nex enters the fray —Larry Marak
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| | | | (...) So far the bricks consist of 1x2, 2x2, 2x4, and a special 2x8 by 2x10 T brick. Plates are 2x4 and 4x10 with a large bow plate for vehicles. There are 3 sizes of contoured slopes in right and left pairs, and a 2x4 rounded slope. The heart of (...) (18 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | | | | | Re: K'Nex enters the fray —Mike Petrucelli
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| | | | (...) Thanks for the info. It all sounds like a nice direction for K'nex. I suppose what I am really hoping for is a K'nex roller coaster, like their old Screamin' Serpent set, that can seat mini-figs. Now that would be awesome. -Mike Petrucelli (18 years ago, 2-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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| | | | | | Re: K'Nex enters the fray —Larry Marak
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| | | | (...) Whoops. left out 2 other elements in the K'nex brix series. axels that look like real automotive axels...long black rods with standard knex hubs to receive knex wheels, but a row of studs in the center of the axel, and also another brick, a (...) (18 years ago, 3-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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