Knex Bricks, anyone use them?

lazor 22 · #1 12-15-2009, 07:50 AM

Anybody use knex bricks here? I have had the "Building With Bricks" for almost 2 years, and barley use it. Infact, I have only used it one time. There not as good quality as Lego, but they are compatible with knex so ehh.. So yea, anyone use or have them?

**Kairah** · #2 12-15-2009, 10:38 AM

I don't use them. But I only have like 10 so... yea. If I would want to build with bricks I would use lego.

**Coaster105** · #3 12-15-2009, 12:21 PM

I think i have like 20 bricks, but they are really crappy. They don't stick together very well, and the connectors to knex are only micro. ^yeah, i will use lego if i want to build with bricks.

lazor 22 · #4 12-15-2009, 01:12 PM

They have standard connector also. There yellow I think, or they used to be anyway.

floris2burn · #5 12-15-2009, 02:13 PM

I don't have eny and I'm not interested in them (and neither am I in micro k'nex)

**The KNex Weasel** · #6 12-15-2009, 04:03 PM

I only use the Bricks for decoration...but that still counts as using them, doesn't it?

I'm going to try and jumble all three kinds of pieces together on one huge ball machine someday soon (Regular, micro, and brick).

Shadowman · #7 12-15-2009, 05:42 PM

I never use my Knex bricks; I'm satisfied with just Lego bricks. I have a nice little city of them in my room.

I cleaned my room for that picture, but it'll be messy again when I take the Knex buckets out.

lazor 22 · #8 12-15-2009, 07:31 PM

^Epic dude. I always want to build something with my bricks but I'm to lazy to get them off my closet shelf lol.

**Coaster105** · #9 12-16-2009, 12:33 AM

^^Thats awesome!
The only set of Lego that I have is lego soccer, which I was extremely disappointed with.

The level of detail with lego is so much better then Knex, where as the innovation and possibilities is so much better with Knex. I guess it would be cool to mix the two together.

lazor 22 · #10 12-16-2009, 01:16 AM

I would like to see some Knex Gummies, seeing as how they like to copy lego ya know.

BTW, those are really tasty

Shadowman · #11 12-16-2009, 05:00 PM

^Lol, I hate gummies. They make me gag.

^^The only thing I wish Knex made was robotics, like Lego does.

Someday Knex will come out with micro bricks, just like Nano (Nano is Mega Bloks, another company that copied off of Lego).

**The KNex Weasel** · #12 12-16-2009, 05:25 PM

I don't even use Legos. I just use the K'Nex bricks because they're there (but I have less than 100, so the best feature I can think of with them for the time being is some kind of ramp or such on a ball tower).

DJ_Jazzy_Jeff · #13 12-18-2009, 09:54 AM

I never use them, I'm only loyal to the original knex parts. Besides, it feels like a copy of lego, and if I want to play with bricks, I use Legos. Legos have a much bigger variety of bricks than knex anyways.

knex ballfreak05 · #14 12-18-2009, 08:45 PM

I have Knex Bricks, but I never use them! I'm thinking about selling them on eBay for $15 or $20!

My piece count was 124, so I think I might lower the price a little!

I'm not shure If I want to sell it at all, so I'll think before selling them.

I have mre parts also

lazor 22 · #15 12-19-2009, 12:09 PM

I have 825

larry marak · #16 03-25-2010, 09:23 AM

Well, at 825 pieces you're well on your way to having a decent amount of K'nex bricks. With new varieties and shapes coming out every few months the challenge is not what to do with K'nex bricks, but how to maintain the balance between brick, stick, and micro-stick in your builds. I find using the axel bricks is a must, because they are exactly the size of standard K'nex rods, and thus provide an alternative to using transition pins and transition plates for going from brick to stick in my builds.

The set designers at K'nex themselves seem to have problems dealing with the balance in their element choices. Nascar is nearly 100% bricks, while the Moto-Bots and Micro-Bots use bricks just as what K'nex calls "trim" and the new OCC line just uses specialty motorcycle parts and standard or micro K'nex pieces. They are all over the place.

Sorunome · #17 11-03-2010, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Shadowman

^Lol, I hate gummies. They make me gag.

^^The only thing I wish Knex made was robotics, like Lego does.

Someday Knex will come out with micro bricks, just like Nano (Nano is Mega Bloks, another company that copied off of Lego).

Something like that?