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Re: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
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Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:12:51 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Ray Kremer writes:

Znap was another radical new direction, and those failed

I always thought ZNAP was Lego's answear to K'nex (spit!), which is probably
why it failed, nobody want's either. Of course K'nex is a huge failure,
shame the people who make it (and the people who buy it) haven't realised
that yet! :-).

Steve

(I think K'nex is foisted by shop assitants onto feeble minded senile
grandparents as a gift for their grandchildren, who else would buy it!)



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  RE: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
 
(...) Check out (URL). This is an Australian company that has built a sizeable market in providing science workshops to school children using, among other things, K'NEX Sure, they might have tried LEGO, but they way kids in classrooms treat any (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
  RE: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
 
(...) For $99, you can buy an 8x4 foot roller coaster or a 5 foot tall Rube Goldbergian ball machine. (I have both, and they're both quite cool) K'Nex definitely has it's pros, especially for large constructions. And the parts are even more of a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)

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(...) MOC. (...) Yeah, actually it does. The techbots are more like Lego-spinoffs than actual Lego sets. Not-Lego sets that happen to be made by Lego corp. I don't think Lego themselves minds that though. They wanted to see if they could be (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)

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