To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.technicOpen lugnet.technic in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Technic / 4706
4705  |  4707
Subject: 
RE: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.technic
Date: 
Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:27:44 GMT
Viewed: 
2440 times
  
Steven Lane writes:

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!)

Check out <http://www.intellecta.net/>. 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 learning materials, cheap is better from a school's point
of view, and KNEX is easily replaced in any store as there are not so
many specialized pieces.

Also, DACTA is notoriously slow in getting any new products out the
door, and they seem like a poor cousin to the rest of TLG's efforts...

Cheers, Ralph



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
 
(...) 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 (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)

64 Messages in This Thread:


























Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR