K'nex vs. Legos

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 8:35 pm

Anyone have any fun with these as a kid (or even still?) I was always a big fan of K'nex, but I never liked legos too much. I don't like how legos require so many unique pieces. I love the mathematical/geometric precision of K'nex, plus I like how the K'nex creations are on a larger scale than Legos, but still have the same level of complexity and ingenuity.

Your thoughts?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 8:39 pm

My thoughts? Well... "WTF is K'nex?"

Never being in touch with these... alien K'Nex thingies, but instead living my childhood in middle of Legos from our dear neighbour Denmark, I must say Legos (Le Got, play well) > K'Nexuswhatever.

Legos rocked my world... Though they were expensive, and still are now that I'm buying them for my siblings and relatives, they were the best thing a small boy could hope for. Hours and hours of backup for your imagination.

Nicolai · Post by **Nicolai** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:29 pm

K'nex? ._o

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 9:33 pm

k-nex is a series of metal bars and joints with screws and shit. A lot more advanced than lego, very engineertastic.

I think I like duplo. More simpler than k-nex and bigger than lego.

Lunchmeat · Post by **Lunchmeat** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:01 pm

Aren't duplos just legos for toddlers?

Lynxer · Post by **Lynxer** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:05 pm

Playmobile are the masterrace.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:05 pm

Megatron wrote:k-nex is a series of metal bars and joints with screws and shit. A lot more advanced than lego, very engineertastic.

No, that's Mecano. K'nex is plastic rods with connector dealies and is pretty neato. It does have its advantages over Lego, but the Denmarkian dealie still wins because Lego sets look cooler when finished than K'nex stuff, which ends up looking like a skeleton of the object being mimicked.

The Gaijin · Post by **The Gaijin** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:07 pm

K'nex aren't metal (might've been thinking of ERECTOR), they're cheap shitty plastic that can be almost impossible to take apart and fucks up your seven year old thumbs. That being said, my k'nex weren't covered in bite marks from trying to pry them apart with my teeth, but my legos were...wait, did I just make a post about k'nex and legos? GAY.

Edit: In any case, legos were more fun. When built they inevitably did more stuff, were easier to take apart and build again, weren't all the same stupid six-eight colors, and they did have quite a few big sets...an old friend of mine got an 1000 piece space ship for his 9th birthday that was as big as he was.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:29 pm

Lunchmeat wrote:Aren't duplos just legos for toddlers?

yes? I played with them as a toddler, legos are to small for my BABY HANDS

I didn't play with lego, meccano, k'nex or any other building thing. Probably just messed around with plasticine, read and played with action figures? I remember building stuff outside in sand with twigs and shit, those took up a lot of time.

Anyway, I like lego. Any toy that leaves marks in your finger because you've been pushing too hard=not fun

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Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 10:55 pm

K'nex examples: Click Here

There's six pages there, this guy's pretty damn good with the K'nex.

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Sun Dec 07, 2003 11:42 pm

The American flag and oil rig is badass. But it gives you the impression that this guy is a friend of President Bush.....*

*A good thing? A bad thing? who knows.

ExtremeDrinker · Post by **ExtremeDrinker** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:07 am

I think I prefer the Erector Sets...But once you spend 3 hours bolting something together, you really don't want to tear it apart to make something else..I made a racecar with an Erector Set about 13 years ago...I've got the thing sitting in my book case completely intact..

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:16 am

I think I prefer the Erector Sets...But once you spend 3 hours bolting something together, you really don't want to tear it apart to make something else..I made a racecar with an Erector Set about 13 years ago...I've got the thing sitting in my book case completely intact..

Cool. I used to use 'em, but I was about 7 at the time, and always stripped the nuts from over-tightening 'em. I always built stuff with legos though, and I have a huge bucket with about $1,000 worth of the plastic.

K'nex was cool to. I could build much bigger stuff with 'em than legos. I once built a skyscraper that was taller than I was (about 5'. I wasn't the tallest kid on the block way back when). The thing was badass. Until it fell over and got smashed. One thing I remember about K'nex though, is that the little connectors would always break....

Forty-six & Two · Post by **Forty-six & Two** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:33 am

No discussion. Lego wins. And thats not just because im from Denmark

. I loved the stuff when I was kid. Still have 4 big crates stuffed with it, somewhere in my moms apartment. Hehe. Anyone of you guys ever been to Lego Land? I went there almost every year until I was 13, heh. Never got that lego drivers license though I think... hmm.

Temaperacl · Post by **Temaperacl** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:38 am

I think I enjoyed Construx more after they came out than Legos. Although I probably played with blocks as a kid more than either - those were great - we had a nice set from someone - 3 or 4 lengths of thick pieces, thin pieces, round and square columns, triangles, and probably more that I'm forgetting..

MurPHy · Post by **MurPHy** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 12:42 am

Anyone of you guys ever been to Lego Land?

I saw some photos of the place when I was 12, and I still think that it's pretty cool.

POOPERSCOOPER · Post by **POOPERSCOOPER** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 1:15 am

K'nex hurts the hands ALOT, you have to force the edges to snap together with your thumbs and after awhile it was annoying on the hands. I made a big crane and almost completed the rollercoaster model but it was too much and I gave up.

Legos got annoying in that they were hard to keep them together , because if you moved something like a whole chunk of lego would come off. Also it harder to fix mistake with legos than K'nex. And finding the unique pieces was a pain.

atoga · Post by **atoga** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 1:29 am

I played with a lot of lego. I thought it was a lot more creative, and less dependant on mechanics, than K-nex, which made it a lot more interesting. I don't like how they've added all those 'custom' pieces now and they have different lego 'lines' with action figures or something, which defeats the original purpose of lego. But oldschool, hardcore lego all the way.

Grey Fil · Post by **Grey Fil** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 3:49 am

I played with Legos a lot when i was a kid too. But my parents where poor (sniff) and scroogie too so I had only a few pieces to play with.
I rarelly used them to build instead i would use them as soldiers an make battles. Pretty original thinking HUH?

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Mon Dec 08, 2003 4:12 am

atoga wrote:I played with a lot of lego. I thought it was a lot more creative, and less dependant on mechanics, than K-nex, which made it a lot more interesting. I don't like how they've added all those 'custom' pieces now and they have different lego 'lines' with action figures or something, which defeats the original purpose of lego. But oldschool, hardcore lego all the way.

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All kidding aside, that's the problem with Lego. It works best when you follow instructions and build their sets. I find K'nex lends itself better to FREESTYLE! constructions. If I ever get heaps of money, I'm totally gonna build a ton of shit in K'nex, like a house and stuff.

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