Just a friendly conversation of the Loz dinosaurs.
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Category: K’NEX
K’Nex, invented by Joel Glickman, is a building system that uses rods and connectors. It was introduced in America in 1992 and is designed and produced by K’Nex Industries Inc., located in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
This toy consists of interlocking plastic rods, connectors, blocks, gears, wheels, and other components that can be assembled to create a wide range of models, machines, and architectural structures. These sets promote creativity, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination. They are suitable for both individual and group play and can be used at home, in the classroom, or in after-school programs. Kid K’NEX sets introduce young children to building and construction in a safe and age-appropriate way.
Playing with K’Nex supports various aspects of a child’s development. As they connect the different parts and explore how the building system works, they enhance their hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, problem-solving abilities, spatial awareness, and imaginative thinking.
Just An Enclosure With Monkeys
We built the palm trees and the ladders, and they make the perdfect scenery for the small toys.
K’NEX Badger
This is our original model with a Loz motor. It can roll around and snap its jaws.
K’NEX Brontosaurus
And what is very important for our family is that these are vandal-resistant models 🙂 And this our own creation with a motor from Loz-dinosaurs – a badger, its snaps his jaws when ir rolls.
K’NEX Diplodocus
And in the bonus section of the Knex.com website you can find a Brontosaurus building manual. However, it also requires a middle gear. This dino waddles around.
LOZ Bloodhound Dinosaur
Another Loz dinosaur has a long neck, probably its a diplodocus. It walks worse than the first model because it always tilts to one side. Its head is too heavy for such a long neck 🙁
Domesticated Dinosaurs
But kids absolutely loved the Loz-Dinosaurs. The set has instructions for making two dinosaurs. The first one, the one you can see on the package, stands firmly and can walk. It wags its head and tail while walking, it reminds me of a hound. Our youngest, Dorothy, is obsessed with it.
K’NEX Imagine – Crane
This K’Nex has wheels that look more like wheels of a train than car wheels.
Feeding The Dinosaurs
We also got some K’Nex dinosaurs. But dinosaurs from mini K’Nex like the ones Jane has didn’t fit us. These models fall apart when my kids play with them. But our set is original K’Nex – Dinosaurs 20+Model Building set. It has a very variable (according to the children) thing – the screamer. It works by some logic no one but this thing can understand and sometimes makes scary dinosaur roar. Does Loz have something like this?
K’NEX Imagine – Box
This set, just like many other K’Nex sets, comes in a plastic storage box.
