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I bought the Angry Birds Star Wars pc game just for the helluvit, didn't even scratch my wallet getting it. Not too impressed by the resemblence between them. As far as all the AB crap out not, it's just another company over working to get on top. K'NEX can go jump in a hole and die as far as I'm concerned. They started out as a good franchise, making a more modern "Tinker Toy" themed building toy. I actually own a few of the early sets like the ferris wheel (not the remake) and will occasionally mess around with them. They lost my vote after they added brick pieces. That crossed the line. K'NEX couldn't handle the fact that kids liked LEGO and building with little bricks that are 100% interchangable, so they found the perfect way to ruin their product by taking a brick and drilling a hole in it big enough for a K'NEX stick to fit through it. I will give you props with MEGA BLOKS. They have gone too far in the wrong direction with their themes. As you may know, I collect the Halo themed MB, just so I have a collection hobby that works for me. Other than the Halo theme, the best theme MB had was their old Pro Builder sets. I liked those, and so did my grandpa. The reason the Pro Builder sets were good was because they paid great attention to detail to their irl models. We gave my grandpa the Aircraft Carrier and the detail was spot on. I must say the lack of good themes is really dragging down not only MEGA BLOKS, but LEGO as well. Their themes seem to be a bit lacking than what they used to. Also the fact that my local stores have stopped selling Technic sets on the shelves, the only sets left I really have interest for, is really outrageous. All in all, the lack of ideas for kids toys is beginning to become really noticable. My theory? All these companies tell workers to write down the dumbest idea they can think of, put them in a hat, and draw from said hat at the beginning of each week for their next product.

I appreciate classic K-nex, it has a framework style that can efficiently fill a niche that LEGO can't with roller-coasters or pinball machines, unlike all the LEGO clones. It can also operate at larger scales with cheaper and viable costs, a trait that syncs well with the Mechwarrior line of K-nex sets. At least that was back when I bought a few sets. Now I've stopped paying attention because... well, no more Mechwarrior.

K'nex using bricks in their sets. You dissapoint me K'nex, you used to be original. I bet those sets use cheap low-quality plastic bricks; after all you have to make unstable structures for the birds to destroy.

PatchIt! Version 1.1.1 Stable is not yet released (though it will be soon), but I do have an announcement. Rioforce (who, if you don't know by now, is my brother and personal 3D artist ), has created a nice website for PatchIt!, and it is now live! He's wanted me to make one for a while, but I haven't. All day, after a bit of inspiration from RobExplorien this morning, has been constructing this, and it finally published. It also replaces Read-Me-First.html and PatchIt-Compatible-Icons.html, as all content has been merged into it. Finally, though it is a website, it started out as a new Readme (so it is a readme-turned-website deal), this will be packaged into the Version 1.1.1 release. We are still trying to solve some issues with a rogue spoiler not wanted to obey, but we will solve that. The link is on the Topic Post, or can just click this text right here. In other news, I've removed the x64 build of PatchIt!. It wasn't an easy decision, but I did it because no x64-only features or the extra system memory x64 has available was being used, and it made the download kinda large (though not as large as other software). If you have any concerns, suggestions, or questions about either of these announcements, feel free to voice them. :)