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| Last week I called S@H about getting a 9719, the Robotics Invention System: version 1.0. No problem, they said they had plenty. This week when I talked to them; they said that they were out of them, that they were now discontinued! I told the lady, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| I suspect there is a combination of things going on here: 1. Christmas rush for the kits that are out there. 2. No further production of 1.5 since 2.0 will be out shortly (anyone know when, exactly?) 3. Possible recycling of kits still in TLC's (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) My mother-in-law runs a toy store chain, and she got a stock-balancing note from TLC requesting the old 1.5 kits back. It stated that the 2.0 kits will be out in Q1 of 2001. No mention of upgrade kits. I suspect that the component bags WILL be (...) (24 years ago, 12-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) The difference in parts seems to be minor, look here: (URL) of course the RCX 1.5 doesn't have a power adaptor, so they won't be able to recycle them. Also, as far as I could see, DACTA always sold bricks with the power adaptor. Jürgen "should (...) (24 years ago, 13-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) The FLL kit received this August was from DACTA and DID NOT have the power adaptor. -Peter Coach, FLL Team #1096: The Unibots (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| (...) Just to clarify, did it have a power *jack* on the unit and not the ac adaptor, or did it have neither? KL (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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| Sorry, I should have said "jack". No jack, no adaptor... -Peter "Kevin Loch" <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:G5oHCt.GqJ@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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