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Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 22:48:46 No.5922546 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>5922667 >>5922680 >>5923716 >>5929002

You kids these days with your new-fangled toys. Back in my day we had THIS. And it was amazing. I always thought K'nex had better instruction manuals than Lego

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Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 22:53:53 No.5922555 Report

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Wew
Had a friend in grade school who had a knex amusement park. Had a merry go round, tilt whirl, and that thing that holds 2 people and spins around

Here's the vesion I had/have

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Anonymous Tue 20 Sep 2016 23:55:18 No.5922656 Report

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>>5922555
I made that giant ferriswheel too when I was a kid. All the vintage Knex products were great

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Anonymous Wed 21 Sep 2016 00:05:22 No.5922667 Report

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>>5922546
I love knex my sister and I would build together. Still have a roller coaster somewhere.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Sep 2016 00:10:28 No.5922679 Report

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Man, I had the serpent roller coaster when I was younger, it only had a single (or two?) loops in it, just looked up K'nex and this came up, holy shit makes me wish I was a kid again.

My friend had OP's pic though, as well as a lot of other larger K'nex ball machine kits from the 1990s... was always so jealous of them.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Sep 2016 00:10:31 No.5922680 Report

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>>5922546

>Worked at AC Moore, a craft store, several years back.
>We had this exact same Knex roller coaster set on display in our children's craft aisle.
>New Knex display comes in. Old roller coaster display comes down.
>Me: "Hey boss, what are we gonna do with the old display?
>Please tell me I can take it home. Please, please, please...
>Boss: "Corporate doesn't want this set to be sold, so we gotta destroy it and then throw it away."
>Boss proceeds to smash roller coaster with a hammer.
>Knex pieces go everywhere.

I quit that job a month later.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Sep 2016 00:34:03 No.5922709 Report

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>>5922679
The Big Ball Machine was the best kit, that thing was like 5 feet tall and sturdy. I built it and later populated it with figures and turned it into a giant military complex

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Anonymous Wed 21 Sep 2016 00:35:18 No.5922711 Report

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>>5922680
>>Boss: "Corporate doesn't want this set to be sold, so we gotta destroy it and then throw it away."
>>Boss proceeds to smash roller coaster with a hammer.
>>Knex pieces go everywhere.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Sep 2016 03:45:36 No.5922984 Report

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>>5922679

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Anonymous Wed 21 Sep 2016 04:55:54 No.5923081 Report

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K'nex is hiring for a handful of jobs ATM, they're especially looking for "toy engineering designers". They're nice as can be, sometimes they have tours as well.

God I love semi-rural suburb life.

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Anonymous Wed 21 Sep 2016 06:55:12 No.5923212 Report

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>>5922680
fuck corperate, ruining every job everywhere

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Anonymous Wed 21 Sep 2016 11:50:59 No.5923433 Report

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I do love me some K'nex. Also love Meccano!

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Anonymous Wed 21 Sep 2016 15:56:09 No.5923716 Report

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>>5922546
I had that set as a kid, I built in in my grandmother's den. she tripped over it, broke some of the pieces and ended up in the hospital.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Sep 2016 06:25:32 No.5929002 Report

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>>5922546
I had that exact roller coaster. The little cart rarely got through without falling off or stalling.

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Anonymous Sat 24 Sep 2016 13:57:38 No.5929417 Report

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>>5922680
....... so you could have just taken it. ok

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