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Hello List! It seems that Lego refuses to sell the Mindstorms Roboticcs Invention Kit to non-English-speaking countries, allegedly because they don't want to annoy us with an English manual?! The only robotics set available in Germany is this Lego (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Remember, this was supposed to be a kids product. (...) CyberMaster. And you are lucky because you are the only country that sells with an aluminium box, the other countries sell it in a card box. (...) Try these: Mondo-tronics' Robot Store (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) The same in Italy where I live. (...) Mindstorm is, IMHO, absoulutely worth to buy. You can find it at $219 (if I remember well) at www.legoworldshop.com. They're not cheap but accept credit card, ship worldwide and have a very good service. (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hello Heiko, (...) I got mine from Mondo-tronics' Robot Store (URL) shipped within a few weeks. -Stefan -- Did you check the web site first?: (URL) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Heiko, it's not just the manual (which is very thin, and easy to translate), but the software. You learn how to use your Mindstorms kit through an extensive multi-media tutorial. All the instructions are by voice. All the challenges are on the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Apr-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Lego Bots in Germany???
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(...) Highschool equals 11th through 13th grade in Denmark. By that time the public schools will have taught the students english since 5th grade, while some private schools teach english from 4th grade. the 10th year in Public and Private schools (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Well... (...) Because they misuse the English word in a different way from the way you misuse it. Speaking from a German background "High School" starts in 5th grade, and there are three different tracks, one of which one chooses before (...) (25 years ago, 24-Sep-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) So they don't - the way they treat the english language indicated that they not push it early in schools, or did not do that until fairly recently. (...) High-School in Denmark is actually called Gymnasium, but that would without explanation (...) (25 years ago, 13-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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