10-year-old Nate made her first contribution to the collection of crafts made from this Knex regular sized kit. Don’t you want to build Soma cubes from the K’Nex construction set?
The K’Nex construction set was invented by Joel Glickman, who, while bored at a party, twirled cocktail straws in his hands and tried to connect them in different ways. This is how he got the idea of the set – flexible sticks and their possible rigid connections. The set first appeared in 1993 in the USA. You can read about the features of the parts on Wikipedia. Since 2001, the manufacturer added the Lego-type parts in the construction set for greater variability in models, especially to the models with space themes. Probably it had some connection to the release by Lego of the Star Wars series. You can check the entire variety of K’Nex for children aged 2 years and older on the K’Nex website.
We made this ornament from K’Nex pieces of regular size. This type of K’Nex is not very popular in our family. This is probably because started to introduce the older kids to K’Nex with Knex regular sized kit and they were not very interested. The mini K’Nex and kid K’Nex had much more success.
Where did you but this set?
I can say that K’Nex doesn’t sell some of the sets we own anymore, but the sets they sell on Amazon that are essentially the same. They have the same basic pieces and motors. By the way, I love these big handy plastic boxes they sell some sets in. Only 1/3 of these boxes are filled with the pieces, probably so you can store your models without dismantling them.
You can also sometimes find some retro sets on Ebay.
New sets are also good, but they may have different number of pieces than old ones.