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RE: Mindstorms destroy my pocketbook!
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:35:41 GMT
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Walt Mattison <wmattison@lighthousecomm.!Spamless!com>
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wmattison@lighthousecomm.com <WMATTISON@LIGHTHOUSECOMM.nospamCOM>
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I understand completely.....
I now have dedicated a room of my house,
Bought a 4th home computer just for Lego,
Now have 3 RIS sets,
1 Droid set,
1 Sports,
1 Extreme set,
6 other lego sets just for key parts.....
Think I have a problem?
Walt Mattison
Chief Technology Officer
Lighthouse Communications, Inc.
Mine is a tale of woe....
My officemate pointed me to the Mindstorms website. I peeked, and
within 24 hours was at the local Discovery Center looking at a RIS 1.0
and the Games addon. A nice salesclerk came up and explained that the
Games set was just an addon... I needed the RIS just to play. I sighed
noncomittally, and continued to heft the kits in my hands. After 10
minutes of watching me look at the boxes, the nice lady returned with a
25% off store coupon! I immediately grabbed two of the RIS sets
(already I was not thinking clearly: there were three in the store.)
Not a bad deal thinks I... 2 kits for $300.
I began to build robots, and then I found my real character flaw: I
can't wantonly destroy a robot I've made unless I record a few pictures
of it for posterity. So, today, I had to buy a digital camera (DCR
PC-100) to memorialize my sad inventions.
Does anyone else have this disease?
-- Michael Naunton
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| (...) I believe Lego designers introduced an addict element in the product. :) This disease has 2 effects: -You fell pity on your poor creations and fell compelled to buy more sets so that you can build others without disassembling it. That doesn't (...) (25 years ago, 7-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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