K’NEX was pretty freakin’ awesome, honest to God.
It was basically taking the idea of LEGO and turning it into something ORIGINAL cough Mega Bloks cough,
My favorite K’NEX sub theme was ALIVE. The sets looked absolutely awesome. Clawing Chimera
^this thing,
remains my favorite K’NEX set ever.
What dy’all think about the marvelous?
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Oh my gosh, I remember K’nex Alive, they were awesome. I had all of them except the Shredding Manticore and Slashing Griffin
The Slashing Griffin I desperately wanted, but every store was like “haha, we’re sold out”
…the Manticore
Oh god, that face.
I’m totally changing my Avatar now!
I got some bins of K’nex from thrift stores. That’s about it.
I would enjoy them.
If the pieces matched the friggin color scheme.
I used to have one of the k’nex roller coasters. It was kinda fun.
I’m not into K’nex as much now, but I have the Crazy Ball Machine (or whatever its called), and my brother has the giant snake roller coaster as well as several amusement-park ride thingies.
K’nex seemed neat. But I never really got into it.
I used to have a regular roller coaster, a snake themed roller coaster, a pinball game, and a few others, but my brother and I got rid of them because we were moving to a smaller home, and didn’t have the room for them.
http://ak.buy.com/PI/0/500/200761691.jpg
http://www.scottware.com.au/theme/store/knex_arcade.jpg
I have two massive boxes of K’nex.
Never really used em much, aside from making weapons and armor when I was a little kid and my friend was over.
Ek’nex?
K’nexorak?
Why is this in the HSH?
One thing that modern K’nex suffer is the sheer focus on license theme to sustain it’s company.
I have check some original set use bricks in the past, but it seems more prevalent on license theme.
(I have collected a few sets during my childhood.)
I have some loose k’nex pieces, but I don’t know where they came from. My guess is that they came with the big box of toys that my neighbor gave my brothers many years ago. I remember doing a project in fifth grade where we had to build cars out k’nex. That was fun (especially since my teammate let me do most of it)
They’re neat
I like K’nex because it’s something entirely different from Lego. Every once in a while it’s fun to try building something, albeit my stuff isn’t very impressive… K’nex models in general always look much more skeletal and colorful than Lego, and mechanical functions are harder to incorporate, but in turn it allows you to build ginormous things really fast.
Here’s a huge motorized ferris wheel I made a few months ago (actually a ferris octagon lol):
Can confirm. Maybe they just take color coding more seriously than LEGO.
I like the Ferris wheel you built, is the motor variable speed or just one rate?
Yeah, afaik most pieces only exist in two or three colors each. Color coding is a core point of K’nex, some boxes even brand it as “the color coded building system”.
The ferris wheel only had one speed, I don’t have any variable motors. I didn’t really figure out how to build a two-speed gearbox or something, like I said I find mechanical functions rather difficult with K’nex. Just uploaded a video I recorded back then:
