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Re: Future Mindstorm Releases?
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:31:38 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Ralph Toepper wrote:
> Rumors say, danger exists, LEGO could take the robotic products, like the RIS,
> out of their production line. Indicated by no successor to RIS 2.0 is in sight.
LEGO (and Jake) have been very clear. The Mindstorms line is not going away.
> They serve an education market. Education markets have relatively slow rates of
> selling items. But they are throughout constant, because new folks are growing
> at a relativly constant rate.
LEGO, like the educational market, moves very slow. There is too much $ in the
edcuational market to just drop the line.
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| (...) My take on what I have seen and heard is; Mindstorms is not dead, as Jake confirmed at BrickFest. I suspect that the legacy of RIS compatibilty will force RIS 3.0, if that is what its to be called, to be an enhancement of RIS 1.0/1.5/2.0. I (...) (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Rumors say, danger exists, LEGO could take the robotic products, like the RIS, out of their production line. Indicated by no successor to RIS 2.0 is in sight. But i think the Mindstorm System is perfect, why do you need a successor? To give more (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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