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In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Larry Marak wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, Jason S. Mantor wrote:
> > Pretty neat. Too bad we can't see more of the brick.
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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 the system is in use of the adapter elements. All the plates and bricks are
> drilled partially or fully in the style of lego technic elements. A set of
> adapter pins slot into the holes and have a protruding k'nex knob for attachment
> to either standard or micro knex elements. There are also adapter plates, 4
> leaf clover plates with four studs that snap into the center tube of any knex
> connector, increasing the width of a knex connector to standard lego brick width
> and supplying four studs so that the adapter functions as a brick. If you apply
> the adapter plates to both sides of the connector you would have a 1 and 1/3
> tall double male brick.
>
> So far, Knex has followed up the 3 introductory sets with a motorized
> double ferris wheel set, where brick appear to be used as riding platforms for
> the ferris wheels. The company's emphasis here is not in competing head to head
> with Lego, but making lego elements part of the standard design components of
> Knex projects.
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
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 3-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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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 (...) (20 years ago, 1-Feb-07, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
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