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Re: Mindstorms in Entertainment Weekly
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Tue, 3 Nov 1998 05:51:25 GMT
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During the Vikings/Tampa Bay football (America:) last sunday (11/1),
there was a Lego Mindstorm ads. Pretty funny, a robot sneaking up
on a bathtub, and when the wife sticks her head out, the robot snaps a
picture and scurries off.
-Lee.
Tim Rueger wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> This week's Entertainment Weekly (dated 11/6/98, with
> Alanis Morissette on the cover) has in its Multimedia
> section a brief writeup on Mindstorms.
>
> It's pretty basic stuff, written up in EW's typically
> glib fashion. Also shown is a photo of the card-
> dealing 'bot.
>
> A brief excerpt:
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> For every parent who's ever spent Christmas morning
> cursing under his or her breath trying to put
> together's Johnny's new toy, Lego has a new
> nightmare for you. [...] At $200 this is a big
> ticket item, but with only 100,000 sets
> manufactured for the U.S. holiday market - well,
> can you say "Tickle Me Lego"?
>
> I like the "this toy's gonna be hot" angle, but I
> don't like much the implied "parents have to build
> it 'cause kids are too dumb to" aspect.
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> At any rate - it's good to see some more mainstream
> press for Mindstorms.
>
> -Tim
>
> --
> Tim and/or Shelley Rueger - rueger "at" io.com
> WWW page: http://www.io.com/~rueger/
--
Lee Jorgensen -- Custom Programmer
mailto://profm@hotmail.com
Ban-Koe Systems (Inc?)
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| The LEGO Mindstorms site ((URL) had AVI/QT movies of both of their video advertisments, as well as a schedule of when they would appear on TV. I prefer the other one (it had a mindstorms bulldozer which pushes dishes off of a table to "clean up"). (...) (28 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general)
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| Hi, all, This week's Entertainment Weekly (dated 11/6/98, with Alanis Morissette on the cover) has in its Multimedia section a brief writeup on Mindstorms. It's pretty basic stuff, written up in EW's typically glib fashion. Also shown is a photo of (...) (28 years ago, 3-Nov-98, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.general)
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