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Re: ThrowBots elements are cool
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:43:14 GMT
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In article lugnet.general, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
> Something I thought of while cruising www.lego.com: using a
> fuzzilogical POV, which has a higher affinity for being Technic,
> Mindstorms or Throwbots?
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> My brain says Mindstorms is highly Technic, maybe 95%. It uses standard
> Technic pieces, both old-line (1xN beams) and new-line (corrugated
> tubes, angled beams). It (should) appeal to older children, with
> interest in making constructions that do something, rather than look
> like something. I'd say that Mindstorms should fill the same niche in
> today's market that Expert Builder filled in its time.
>
> Throwbots, on the other hand, have a low affinity to Technic. They use
> some of the same pieces, but so do System sets. They really depend on
> brand-new elements, which wouldn't fit in other Technic models (yet,
> maybe they'll be incorporated in the future).
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> Yet TLG says Throwbots is Technic, and Mindstorms is a wholy separate
> line. This puzzles me. Target-market-wise, Mindstorms falls in with
> Technic. Throwbots doesn't.
I think it's in a wholly separate line because LEGO MINDSTORMS is a separate
division/unit of LEGO (supposedly as separate as LEGO MEDIA and LEGO DACTA,
for example).
Still silly for us fans, though, I totally agree. I'd also put MindStorms
as about 95% Technic, and ThrowBots about 25% Technic (currently).
--Todd
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| (...) Something I thought of while cruising www.lego.com: using a fuzzilogical POV, which has a higher affinity for being Technic, Mindstorms or Throwbots? My brain says Mindstorms is highly Technic, maybe 95%. It uses standard Technic pieces, both (...) (26 years ago, 2-Feb-99, to lugnet.general)
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