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Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch
Date: 
Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:12:08 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, danny staple <orionrobots@gmail.com> wrote:

I would love Lego to actually leave behind all of their movie tie ins.

I like the tie-ins, except "Harry Pooper". Star Wars has made Lego "cool" in
some quarters. They're a great reason for people who already have sufficent Lego
to buy more. They just need better tie-ins. "The Matrix" Lego would have been
cool.

I would have loved a proper mindstorms/pneumatics Lego set.

Me too.


I think a business approach that can never fail is to take a popular product ie
"Mindstorms" and just re-invest some of the profits to develop the basic idea,
eg, an improved RCX every five years or so. Just keeping up with current trends
ie blue tooth (or better). And in between add a few new sensors to the range. A
cool programming environment (think bricxcc) but done by Lego and an online
forum would be the icing on the cake.

Steve



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  Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
 
(...) How long has the current version of the RCX been around? (...) What would you want to see in an online forum? What would it include that's not available here (LUGNET) and/or on LEGOfan? Steve (19 years ago, 29-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch)

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  Re: Mindstorms on Slashdot
 
The problem is guys, while that may not mean many lugnet regulars and afols, the majority of their sales are gonna be kids who only put together the described models. I was once in Hamleys (being a Londoner) and heard a mum objecting to buying Lego (...) (19 years ago, 28-Nov-05, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.mediawatch)

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