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Re: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
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Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:01:43 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Bram Lambrecht writes:
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

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 saturday's UK Legofest). I think you two should be banished
to off-topic, clone brands, purgatory for a spell. You can come back once
you've regained your allegience to the true faith that is Lego.

Steve Lane



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  RE: Call me a Lego pureist if you will but...
 
If you decide to make this thread any longer, please change the group... (...) K'nex and LEGO are meant for different types of building, IMO, so one does not exclude the other. (...) Hah! I've used clone bricks if I can't tell the difference at a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.technic)

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  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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