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Re: Spybotics - A great disappointment
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Fri, 19 Jul 2002 20:56:43 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, sjbaker1@airmail.net writes:
> Laszlo Meszaros (ETH) wrote:
> > Hey, guys. LEGO is basically a toy for children, even if
> > ACCIDENTALLY we serious adults can make rather complex models
> > with Technic elements, even more complex ones with Mindstorms.
> > You are disappointed because you were expecting something that
> > is designed for your specific wishes.
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> No. The thing that makes Basic Lego a good toy for children is it's
> modularity. It's an open ended toy that they'll never reach the
> end of exploring. That's also true (although to a lesser extent)
> with the Mindstorms sets - but with this new range, the whole
> electronics package comes in one 'lump' - so your child's scope for
> inventing new things is horribly restricted. That makes it a vastly
> inferior toy compared to what it could have been.
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> > (I'm quite pessimistic -- I'm afraid Mindstroms was not a big
> > success for TLC and they are trying to widen the market with
> > such systems like Spybotics as a last chance. This pessimism
> > leads much further -- the market prefers stupid customers etc
> > that does not fit into the topic.)
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> I think that's the problem - targetting the product at the lowest
> common denominator.
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> I'd *so* much like to have seen something yet more modular than
> even Mindstorms. This is a retrograde step.
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> ----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------
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Whatever happened and what may suck--I just ordered a Gigamesh! I also
dropped too much money and ordered the 8475. After a quick build of the
8475, I'm gonna try to incorporate it into the 8466.
And I'm looking forward to it just to see what's up with Gigamesh. TLC
really hasn't disappointed me yet on, well, anything. There is a scale,
tho--the RCX is the finest achievement of TLC (in the Technic/'bot field)
and the DDK was the lamest thus far, but even that--picking up an R2 for 30
bucks at Future Shop, and getting all those pieces--you can't go wrong!
So, whatever, TLC got my money anyway ;)
I'm actually looking forward to building more Technic/robot models now.
Dave K
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| For those finding Spybotics such a great disappointment-- I would be happy to take a set off your hands (for a significantly reduced price, of course). -- Richard Clemens WV Wesleyan College clemens@wvwc.edu (URL) (22 years ago, 22-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) No. The thing that makes Basic Lego a good toy for children is it's modularity. It's an open ended toy that they'll never reach the end of exploring. That's also true (although to a lesser extent) with the Mindstorms sets - but with this new (...) (22 years ago, 20-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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