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Re: Anyone bought the "my bot" yet?
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Date: 
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 01:16:43 GMT
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In lugnet.duplo, Dan Boger writes:
yah, we got it... and I was having quite a bit of fun to play with it.  comes
with 3 "light" bricks and 3 "sound" bricks...  each makes the brick act
differently...  react to light, or movement, etc...


Could you please describe how your light sensor works?  I'm not sure if mine is
malfunctioning or not, I rang Lego Australia and they couldn't tell me but they
said I could send it to them (at my expense) and they would get it checked out.
I'd rather not do this if it actually works as it should, obviously :)

Anyway, the instructions state that you can play tag by pointing a torch beam
at the sensor.  Mine will only sense light if it is in a totally pitch black
room and then it will sense any light anywhere in that room, directed at the
sensor or not.  How you can play tag like this beats me.  Also, when the 3 (or
was that 4) "lives" are used up I can press the yellow button to reset the
lives, they reset on the display and it makes the startup sound, but then the
light sensor does not work at all until the Mybot is switched off and on again
(removing and replacing the pilot).

So, does yours do this or is mine a lemon?

As for the original question of "is it worth it?", I paid $AU 139.95 for mine
and it is definitely not worth it.  Sure it's fun, but it is essentially an
expensive fancy light and sound unit with a few Action Wheeler accessories.
My 5 year old thinks it is wonderful but that's the novelty value at work, I
can tell that once he has discovered all it does he won't be interested any
more.  The box states 4+ but I'd think ages 3-4 is more like it.

Deidre
drb@tasmail.com



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  Re: Anyone bought the "my bot" yet?
 
(...) no, mine works more like you'd expect... if I'd fly it around the room, and Jenn light a flashlight at from all the way across the room, it'd detect it and lose a life... lights on, and all. Also, the yellow reset buttom worked just fine... I (...) (24 years ago, 24-Oct-00, to lugnet.duplo)

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  Re: Anyone bought the "my bot" yet?
 
(...) yah, we got it... and I was having quite a bit of fun to play with it. comes with 3 "light" bricks and 3 "sound" bricks... each makes the brick act differently... react to light, or movement, etc... Dan (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.duplo)

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