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Re: Droid Dev. Kit, reprise
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lugnet.robotics
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Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:02:38 GMT
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RSANDERS@GATE.spamcakeNET
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Dennis Clark wrote:
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> Some interesting points. A blurb in the docs mentions upgrading your droid's
> abilities and shows a "Robotics Invention System" box that says Mindstorms 1.5
> - 1.5?
Well, A week or two back, when I was in Jacksonville, I had a nice
conversation with a TRU store manager. He pulled up Mindstorms on his
CRT and let me watch. Down at the bottom of the screen was a second
something listed as 'RIS' (or whatever). It showed no stock, none in the
pipeline and no date for stock (unlike the RIS [1.0] which showed
gadzooks of stock). He had no idea what it might be or when. Even then I
speculated that it might be a forthcoming upgrade to the RIS. BTW, it
also showed a list price of $199.
Which means that TRU may have an interesting situation about to happen:
How to handle existing stock when a product gets reved. Not something
they deal with every day. Mark it down ? Send it back to TLG ? Sell it
off to someone like Toy Liquidators ? I don't know, but would be sure
interested to find out.
Ray Sanders
rsanders@gate.net
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| (...) They'll probably do what LEGO wants them to do. LEGO appears to be fairly inflexible and uncreative and will probably stick to their normal policy. LEGO's normal policy seems to be to tell the store it has been discontinued and allow the store (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| Well, I've built a small "droid" from it now. And I have to admit, since it is a Technic kit, it was fun. It is only a little smarter than a Technic kit that only has a motor because of its programs (such as they are) and the light detector - but, (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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