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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 01:00:48 No.5703810 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>5703817 >>5704995

What went wrong?

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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 01:05:13 No.5703817 Report

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>>5703810
do they still make lego things?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 01:16:59 No.5703827 Report

Quoted By: >>5704882

I always felt like the way K'nex was designed it always played second-fiddle to Lego. If they went with a more modular system it could've been a bigger competitor than Mega Bloks is.

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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 18:00:18 No.5704882 Report

Quoted By: >>5704890 >>5704893

>>5703827
Which came out first, the Lego technics stuff or K'NEX? K'NEX was always more about model building and Lego was more of a building toy. I think it just fell short compared to Technics Lego stuff, probably due to the colors being more for children. I don't remember the pricing, I think they were similar.

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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 18:03:36 No.5704890 Report

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>>5704882
>Which came out first, the Lego technics stuff or K'NEX?

Technic, obviously.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 18:04:56 No.5704893 Report

Quoted By: >>5704991

>>5704882
I remember K'nex coming out in the early 90s, while Technic was around at least since the 80s (possibly even late 70s?)

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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 19:07:28 No.5704976 Report

Quoted By: >>5705500 >>5705996

tfw you wanted the orange or black box but you only got the yellow

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 19:20:25 No.5704991 Report

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>>5704893
Wikipedia says late 1970s (1977 at least).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Technic

The technic stuff was in more neutral colors and seemed more modular. The K'NEX stuff was all bright colors, which made it worse for building models if you were an older teen. In my experience K'NEX was also less modular and it was more difficult to build with. With Legos you had tons of options and could stack pieces easily to get the dimensions just right.

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Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 19:22:44 No.5704995 Report

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>>5703810
>what went wrong?
people like art. knex is not art.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 19:51:20 No.5705043 Report

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I enjoyed K'nex and legos as a kid. I'd say K'nex fell out once Lego made Bionicle. K'nex was great for the motors it gave you and all the fun automatic stuff you could create, though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 May 2016 23:38:42 No.5705449 Report

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I never liked K'nex as a kid, Meccano erector was cooler, even
Construx. I prefer Lego tho.

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Anonymous Wed 01 Jun 2016 00:03:26 No.5705500 Report

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The appeal to me for K'Nex was larger models with more mechanical options and motors, and the lower popularity meant clearance more often. Like a poor man's Mindstorms.

>>5704976
>tfw gave blue to a garage sale

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Jun 2016 01:24:35 No.5705631 Report

Quoted By: >>5706005

They didn't keep making the giant pinbal, rollercoaster, or MechWarrior
Seriously, those were fucking awesome

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Anonymous Wed 01 Jun 2016 04:35:34 No.5705996 Report

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>>5704976
>tfw had orange
>tfw sold everything in 2008 to keep family afloat during sudden recession

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Jun 2016 04:40:32 No.5706005 Report

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>>5705631
Yeah, those were super awesome. Every K'nex superstructure was god-tier, bar-none.

But I remember them being numbingly expensive so I never go any.

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