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RE: Mindstorms in 1999
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 11 Feb 1999 23:12:18 GMT
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Paul Curtis <plc@rowley.co#nospam#.uk>
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Stuart,
> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Paul Curtis wrote:
>
> > [Paul Curtis] In the 1999 UK catalogue, where Mindstorms is
> > already available, there is no mention. Only Cybermaster. I've • been to
> > a number of places which sell Mindstorms, and they still have units • on
> > shelves. I think I must be the only person to pick up a Mindstorms • kit
> > from PC World -- they had about 40 units in my local store before
> > Christmas, and they have about the same now. Hopefully, they'll • reduce
> > the price of it so that they can shift the boxes, at which time I'll
> > purchase another two.
>
> If they do reduce the price, do please tell the list (a second RIS
> would
> make an ideal expansion set!) - although I think it's unlikely in the
> near
> future; they've only just received their expansion sets.
[Paul Curtis] I think the price drop will come. If they can't
sell them over the Christmas season, that ain't going to sell them now.
I visit quite regularly, and nobody is interested in the Mindstorms kit.
I guess they can't return them to Lego UK, so they'll stuff them on the
clearance table.
> One possible reason why RIS isn't in the catalogue is simply the price
> of
> the set - most toy retailers (apart from ToysRUs and "rich" places
> like
> Hamleys) don't stock things that expensive. Hence the distribution in
> PC
> World and Maplin - electronics shops rather than toy shops - where 160
> pounds is a relatively cheap item to stock.
[Paul Curtis] My local Debenhams had two MS, but no CM. And
Debenhams isn't exactly a toy store. I just need a good excuse to
purchase extra MS kits through the company -- I did plan to show off our
embedded C compilers which I'm now targeting to the H8.
> Note that this keeps Cybermaster and Mindstorms in fairly separate
> markets
> - nicely avoiding the self-competition problem described earlier in
> this
> thread :-)
[Paul Curtis] The price is too similar. I would puchase MS
rather than CM any day. But I have both anyway, and I use MS more than
CM.
-- Paul.
--
Did you check the web site first?: http://www.crynwr.com/lego-robotics
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