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Re: 1.0 to 1.5 upgrade - why after x-mas in the US!
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 1 Jan 2000 10:55:09 GMT
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Hehe, for once, Europe gets stuff before the US :-)
I got a 1.5 RIS for christmas, and I live in Sweden, we haven´t even got the
2000 catalogue out yet!
--Tobias
> > > Below are some products offered by http://www.legoworldshop.com
> > > What I do not understand is that the upgrade kit from 1.0 to 1.5
> > > can already be ordered, but the complete 1.5 will be available in
> > > January 2000. Can somebody explain?
> >
> > Maybe they want to get rid of the 1.0 sets, and to encourage
> > that, they are
> > not selling the 1.5 sets just yet. Instead, they will sell you a 1.0 set
> > with a free upgrade.
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> Considering what I recently have learned about the demand for Mindstorms
> product in the US last Christmas - and Lego's failure to supply enough sets
> for the stores - my best guess is that since they are doing a MAJOR
> promotion all across Europe for the RIS sets - I'd say they need ALL the
> sets they can possibly manufacture for this years Christmas - that's why • the
> US seems to have been let 'out' this time.
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> Producing a minor upgrade set with a few new Lego's, a CD-ROM and a
> Constructopedia shouldn't be a problem though - compared to a full set of
> 717 pieces plus the extras ;-)
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> Instead it looks like you guys got the expansion sets and RDS which I can't
> find anywhere here in Denmark....first expansion set here will be
> Exploration Mars (246 pcs) which is announced for Spring 2000. I have a
> special 8 pages Lego Mindstorms catalog on my desk that confirms this - not
> a word in this about the Scout set - I'd say Europe get's the 'new' Scout
> later in the year 2000.
>
> regards
>
> Jesper
> mailto:jesperkj@vip.cybercity.dk
>
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