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RE: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:51:01 GMT
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<bram@po.cwruSPAMLESS.edu>
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Steven Lane writes:
> (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!)
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 pain to separate than LEGO :)
--Bram
Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
http://home.cwru.edu/~bxl34/
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| (...) I'd be the first to admit that I should give up anti Bionicle and anti K'nex rants and go a get a life but I can't beleive you and Ralph Hemple defending this cr*p. (Incidentally I intend to get a life once I've got some more bricks at this (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) Or $35 each, at after-Christmas sales. :) :) Actually, one thing that K'nex (the company) is doing right is to reissue their 'classic sets'. The Roller Coaster and the Big Ball Factory reappear on store shelves every year, right around (...) (24 years ago, 26-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)
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