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Re: CyberMaster in North America ??
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Fri, 11 Dec 1998 16:05:35 GMT
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Peter Ljungstrand <PETER@INFORMATIK.spamcakeGU.SE>
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At +0000 12/11/98 15:44, you wrote:
> At 15:36 11-12-1998 Friday , you wrote:
> > I would like to purchase a CyberMaster for my kids (and
> > maybe for me). Are they sold anywhere in the US or
> > Canada?
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> Someone said that the US and Canada don't sell the CyberMaster because of
the FCC rules of radio interference that CyberMaster might create (I never
noticed any interference with anything, though).
> My guess is that you'll never see one of those sold anywhere in America.
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> You have to make like us in Europe to get a MindStorms:
> We go to the Sates to buy one, you have to come here to buy one.
Try to find a place, preferable in the UK (because then you get the
software in English), that sells the CyberMaster through mailorder, and
ships internationally. Perhaps someone from the UK could help us out on
this one?
I am not 100% sure if it really is the FFC regulations that stops Lego from
selling CM in the USA, or just the Lego Group making a market experiment,
with different products on different markets, at least for a while.
Mindstorms will be sold all over Europe next year, when all translations of
the software is done.
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Peter Ljungstrand, Viktoria Institute
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Message has 4 Replies:
 | | Re: CyberMaster in North America ??
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| (...) Don't ask me why, and I don't even know if it's normal, but I bought my CyberMaster here in Portugal only a few days after it appeared in the shelves of Toys "R" Us and it's in ENGLISH!! I certainly was not expecting this, but it was a nice (...) (26 years ago, 11-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: CyberMaster mail order in UK ??
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| (...) I'm going to warn you on something you might not be aware of: LEGO in the United Stated is far cheaper than in the Europe. For instants, in the UK MindStorms is sold at $270 (£160) at Toys "R" Us. That's why we go to the States to buy a (...) (26 years ago, 12-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: CyberMaster in North America ??
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| (...) Yea, I would be happy to ship CyberMaster to anywhere in the world if you pay me slightly more than the RRP. The RRP for CyberMaster is GBP160. Regards, -- Kin W. Lau Teaching Associate, Communications And Signal Processing Group, Electrical (...) (26 years ago, 14-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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