The WIDI at Nationals has been made out of Googleplex for at least the last three years, and I believe even longer than that. It seems likely that they will continue to be used.sewforlife wrote: hey, does anyone know what they've used in Nationals before? I really want to know what to expect, because for states and regionals we've had to use/write about legos. I think that we should start practicing with more random things.
Googleplex, in case you're wondering, are a building toy that stopped being sold around 1999. The national supervisor for WIDI evidently has a stash of them somewhere lol- there are none for sale, not on eBay, not on Amazon, nowhere on the Internet (I guess somewhere there's probably a secondhand store or something that has some, but maybe not even that, since they were basically a "teachers' toy"). We've looked. Multiple times.
Googleplex consist of two kinds of pieces (and keep in mind this is my memory from two years ago, when I last saw them, so it's approximate lol): rods (thinner and shorter than K'nex rods) with a short little "branch" sticking out halfway down, and connectors with cylindrical slots for the rods (if I recall correctly, there were multiple types of connectors- straight ones with two slots pointing in opposite directions, and corner ones with two slots at a 90-degree angle. But I could be completely off on that).