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Re: Lego Technic: R.I.P. ?
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:49:33 GMT
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The day Technic gets scratched off the board is the day I take LEGO out of
my vocabulary and start collecting Knex...
-Rob "my 200,000+ piece collection will be for sale" Hendrix
"The Gaff" <lego-robotics@crynwr.com> wrote in message
news:OE17naax1ITXmm2QirY00002315@hotmail.com...
> > Maybe the question
> > ought to be, what are we, the robotics friends of Lego, doing about
> > attracting interest from the younger generation?
>
> I don't think I'm a "friend of LEGO" anymore.
>
> I was one of the biggest boosters they had, encouraging friends into the
> hobby and moderating their official online forums. I stuck with them for a
> long time, even buying sets that were clearly inferior in the hopes of
> showing support for Technics/Mindstorms to encourage future products. What
> I've seen instead is a steady decline in the quantity and quality of
> available Technics/Mindstorms kits, and an upswing on their various
> movie-themed lines and non-brick products like games.
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> LEGO got plenty of my money and plenty of my time. If they want any more
> they're going to have to earn it.
>
> Issac.
>
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| Even if Lego withdrew 50% of Technic parts, Technic would still be a richer "medium" to work in than Knex IMHO. I'm not sure why people are so worried about Technic going away. The name is obviously obsolete - I think it's a poor name in the current (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) I don't think I'm a "friend of LEGO" anymore. I was one of the biggest boosters they had, encouraging friends into the hobby and moderating their official online forums. I stuck with them for a long time, even buying sets that were clearly (...) (24 years ago, 14-Nov-02, to lugnet.robotics)
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