the new knex- good or bad?
recently after visiting a toy shop I noticed a strange new range of kits made of knex. they featured lego-like bricks and panels. so I guess the question is... whats going on and do we like them?
please feel free to leave your views and comments.
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Mar 13, 2011. 7:53 AMtankthelineman
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Sprout_less, I totally agree with you. Even all knex fans who hate the micro parts and bricks should listen to this. If you want knex to stop making dumb parts, then try to email knex. Their email address is..........
email@knex.com
Oh and by the way, I support the old knex pieces. And please check out my profile to see my instructables and slideshows. And please suscribe to me. :)
email@knex.com
Oh and by the way, I support the old knex pieces. And please check out my profile to see my instructables and slideshows. And please suscribe to me. :)
Oct 28, 2010. 11:44 PM0922997
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The bricks are taking over. I just bought the 550 piece K'nex value tub and it's half bricks. Out of 550 pieces, 66 are 2x4 bricks. This is what you get if you stack together all the 2x4 bricks from just the 550 piece value tub alone:
Oct 17, 2010. 9:56 AMk-n-e-x(leaved ibls)
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you must buy as many normal knex off ebay before everything is only bricks and micro
(sorry my english is xtremely bad i'm from holland)<:-(
(sorry my english is xtremely bad i'm from holland)<:-(
I personally really hate it. Knex is trying way to hard. Now they are coming up with Knex bricks, Micro knex, And premade specialty parts, such as the tubes used in big air ball tower and corkscrew canyon. I don't like it, but that's just me.
Aug 26, 2008. 6:30 PMdsman195276
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well, i find the tubes ok, as it was the only way to launch the ball up to the top using air.
I think that whole set is a fail. Little origonal knex, requires special tubing and a huge noisy motor, and is not as entertaining as a lot of other ball towers. Thats just my epinoin.
I don't like that set because I could never get it to work well. I always had to adjust the flexi-tubes, and the top section holding the path separators didn't have enough support. I wasted $100.00 on that set :-(
:-0 100 Bucks? LoL, I doubt I'd through $30 at that set. Hows Cataclysm coming about?
Good, I'm almost finished with the lift (I'm a very slow builder). I got it for 100 dollars because that's how much it was from Knex.com, and I didn't khow about eBay (I was 10 years old when I got it). Many Knex sets are overpriced, like Lava Launch Coaster; it's $75, and it has only micro pieces.
Aug 27, 2008. 3:32 AMdsman195276
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ya, i have two of them, one my dad got off of ebay for the pieces but if i wanted to i could make a cool one using the motors. i had the idea to use the air motor in there to create a pressure cannon. i don't think that the big air ball tower used tubing the coasters used but i could be wrong.
Big Air Ball Tower does use the tubing that roller coasters used.
Yeah, I thought of making a pitching machine with that when I first saw it... with a knex bat... :-)
Aug 27, 2008. 6:18 PMdsman195276
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thats a good idea, though you would need around 20 motors to get enough torque to hit the ball.
Yeah, mabey a gatling config? You load all the rounds beforehand.
Aug 25, 2008. 6:46 PMKnex_Gun_Builder
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no they still have some normal knex sets. and ebay does have alot of normal knex
Sep 26, 2009. 9:39 AMKnex_Gun_Builder
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Yeah I know the only one knex sells is the $500.00.
Aug 26, 2008. 7:20 AMshadowninja31
says:
good. you could buy the pieces separately on knex.com but that isnt good for your money.
Aug 4, 2010. 6:45 PMKnex_Gun_Builder
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And for anyone small enough to be interested in mini knex, it would have an extreme choking hazard, one of the rods could easily be breathed in. And on the other side of things, kids older, like us have no use for the silly pieces, as can be seen by these comments. You would think that if knex would try to branch of into a new business, like the mini/bricks, they would only test small quanities to test popularity, while keeping the proven product in production, instead of diving face first into a new business venture, and nearly stopping production of the proven design. Maybe it is possible to make a mold and to melt the mini knex down...
Aug 4, 2010. 8:02 PMshadowninja31
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Dood..... You should have waited for it to be 2 years.
Those are Technic pieces, which were introduced in 1984.
Sep 14, 2009. 5:18 PMsupitsgreg
says:
What a useless waste of time for the engineers on the K'nex team... I mean, come on, people are gonna think that K'nex is copying Lego! Dumb...
Sep 13, 2009. 12:23 PMThe_Lost_Carrot
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i think the idea behind the new bricks is so that you can build with all your construction kits but to be honest i really see why you would want to do that.
Sep 11, 2009. 6:15 PMmikstr2
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they are all over wal-marts every where and they really piss me off! not only are they not k'nex, but there useless too! seriously, what 13 year old would want a useless, ugly piece of $h1t laying around in their room! I want the original k'nex back and the only place I can buy them is online while they're seriously over priced!
Aug 27, 2009. 7:10 AMmagicmike5462
says:
I agree with every one else here!! However if they really did want to ruin there bussiness (i.e. Knex) they could at least keep the ald tubs in with just normal knex
Aug 8, 2009. 10:30 AMferrari484
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How low can you possibly go stealing idea's of the opponent. And it's very ugly to.
Nov 13, 2008. 12:50 PMOvertheriver
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What eveyrone else says about them being horrible pretty much sums it up. I got a 1000 piece tub for chirstmas/my birthday (Don't know which)and about half was filled with mini knex pieces and lego knex pieces. It looks like ebay is the only way now. :(
Nov 15, 2008. 2:46 PMOvertheriver
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And to add on to my other comment: How do they work? The normal sized ones are too big and the micro pieces are too small (they fall out). Do they only build on top of each other? If so, than there even worse! And even f they do fit (somehow) then they still are really bad anyway.
Nov 15, 2008. 2:52 PMOvertheriver
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I just found a special piece that fits. But if you've got to do that everytime to connect it to the rod and connectors then that is really stupid. Now you can't get any knex thing without knex minis and bricks. :(
Jun 18, 2009. 10:49 AMThe_Lost_Carrot
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i hate the bricks it's no longer strictly "knex". Also i can't now buy a nice big cheap tub of knex with out it having bricks and micro pieces
Apr 6, 2009. 12:56 PMWicky
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I guess it would be kinda cool to make some knex guns in mini form...but the bricks is why we have lego...right? =/
They should stop making new pieces...just let them go back to the classic sets for a bit =o
They should stop making new pieces...just let them go back to the classic sets for a bit =o
Aug 31, 2008. 5:23 AMKILL-BOT 1 (author)
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lol. now all we need is a petition to sign telling knex to stop making them.
Mar 22, 2009. 2:09 AMMillawi Legend
says:
arn't they like 3x stronger than the new blue motor?
Nov 15, 2008. 12:07 PMThe Jamalam
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i think bad. it is just a copy of lego that you can fit knex on
Definitely "good" - it will allow people to combine Lego and K'NEX much more smoothly.
I foresee great things.
(K'NEX brick range)
I foresee great things.
(K'NEX brick range)
no, it just makes knex look bad because it looks like knex is copying lego.......
Aug 27, 2008. 3:34 AMdsman195276
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definitely bad. the bricks combined with the mini knex just way to many random pieces. the rod lengths are different, not to mention that there different colors. the bricks will just come out with thousands of custom pieces.
Aug 25, 2008. 9:39 AMTheDunkis
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Kiteman Dictionary
great things- Anything non gun realted.
And yes I have to agree with him now we can combine the powers of lego and knex to make god knows what.
great things- Anything non gun realted.
And yes I have to agree with him now we can combine the powers of lego and knex to make god knows what.
Sep 14, 2009. 5:37 PMNYPA
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Lego bricks has been around for over 25 years. knex and lego are there own separate things. it should STAY like that.
no, knex copied lego, making the company look bad and viccies quote on what a lego spokesperson said about knex more true
Nov 12, 2008. 5:26 AMTheDunkis
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Lol knex look bad? Lego copied mega blocks the last thing they should do is scold knex.
lego didnt copy mega blocks, they modded the bricks to stick better, and they have parts that mega blocks doesnt own
Nov 12, 2008. 2:05 PMTheDunkis
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Woops thinking about something else. Lol well I could still say just as easily that knex has parts that neither lego or megablocks have. Personally I still prefer lego but I still see the possibilities of combining both.
Sep 7, 2008. 9:01 AMbuilder968
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i know. we will destroy everyone (besides us knex gunners)!!!!! lol
I think the Kiteman dictionary would be spelt correctly.
Aug 25, 2008. 11:04 AMTheDunkis
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Obviously because he is perfect and makes no mistakes on accident...
I hate it. It makes lego look better than knex because it looks like knex is trying to copy lego..........
Sep 20, 2008. 1:44 PMAeshir
says:
It looks weird, but it's combining Lego and K'NEX! That's awesome! I hope the pieces don't suck though. Mega Bloks pieces friggin suck. They never stick right.
yeah, they come off easy, you need to glue them to get them to stick.....and im talking about mega bloks
Nov 11, 2008. 8:26 PMDer Bradly
says:
I hate it... I have way too many knex bricks and mini's...
Aug 26, 2008. 6:33 PMdsman195276
says:
bad. really, it's not even knex any more with all the new stuff they have. and then they will have a million different "bricks" just like legos. i have some of both kinds,( minis and bricks) and i really don't like them. you have to buy all this stuff just so you can hook up the regular pieces to it. i also never see a time when i would need to use them, unless it requires it like my roller coaster.
Nov 11, 2008. 5:30 PMknexfan9182
says:
Well if you have alot of bricks you could use them for gun panels and stuff to make a gun that has a more realistic look. But it would be hard to make it look right.
Sep 20, 2008. 2:53 AMLoosewire; SOE Operative
says:
I'm not too keen with it, it has happened before with Meccano, they start making a few custom pieces and now they just make whole sets that are bent, molded and machined specifically for that one project. The point of the original Meccano was that is was a challenge to build from the panels, if they are going to make the kit entirely to construct one thing then why don't they just sell a metal car? The worst thing about it is you can only buy the proper parts second-hand, I think Lego is going the same way and now K'nex is too.
Aug 29, 2008. 11:34 AMKILL-BOT 1 (author)
says:
wow I didn't expect to get so many comments... anyway I do agree with most people here, its a very bad idea. and like others I have never needed bricks. sadly this mistake that they have made could even be the companies downfall.
that stinks, i bought a 550 piece tub and half of it was filled with bricks and mini-knex crap
Aug 25, 2008. 2:04 PMTheDunkis
says:
yeah that's the only reason I hate it. Most buckets substitute actual pieces with these.
Aug 25, 2008. 12:10 PMknex_builder_freak
says:
HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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