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Subject: 
Re: Cats and pigeons...
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 14 Dec 1999 15:57:08 GMT
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Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:rVJVONmtD15I4D1dDczMyu8SRjZY@4ax.com...
> In lugnet.admin.general, rhendrix wrote:
> 
> > Don't know how new this one is, but if you go to Mindstorms (in the Euro
> > catalog on lego.com), you can look through the drop-down list and see the • mars
> > exploration set...
> 
> I could be wrong, but I think that has been there for some time.  The Mars • set
> was planned to be released as a Mindstorms add-on from the start, along • with
> Extreme Creatures and Robo-sports, but for some reason, the Mars kit never • came
> out.


I think the delay was caused by technical difficulties, mostly with the
camera hardware.  It's one thing to stick one of those eyeball cameras on
your monitor, but putting them on robots that move, crash, fall off tables,
etc. proved to be more difficult.

-John Van



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  Re: Cats and pigeons...
 
(...) I could be wrong, but I think that has been there for some time. The Mars set was planned to be released as a Mindstorms add-on from the start, along with Extreme Creatures and Robo-sports, but for some reason, the Mars kit never came out. (...) (27 years ago, 13-Dec-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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