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Re: Top Secret 2002 releases from Anonymous Source
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lugnet.year.2002, lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:47:40 GMT
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In lugnet.year.2002, John Rudy writes:
> In lugnet.year.2002, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.year.2002, Matthew Teets writes:
> >
> > > Is this an actual question or the start of a whine-fest?
> > > If it's a question, ask about a specific question and maybe it will jog my
> > > memory.
> >
> > OK, here's a question or two for you:
> >
> > Where did you get this information, why should we think it's authentic, and
> > if you do assert it's authentic, is it information that TLC wants revealed
> > at this time?
> >
> > Todd once said he didn't want to see LUGNET turn into a "leak club".
> >
> > ++Lar
>
> Larry et all,
> I'll poke my head in here and tell you all about some 2002 info I got,
> it's a long story, bear with me.
> As some of you know, I attended the National Scout Jamboree in VA for 12
> days last and this week. (Returned Wed. Night) My Region was the northeast.
> Included in that region was one Troop 211, centered in Enfield, Conn.
> Troops from across the country are sponsored by local industry. My troop
> was sponsored by the Adirondack Park. Troop 211 was supported by a certain
> home-town industry.
> My troop leader, who knew of my hobby, alerted me to this fact, and I went
> for a visit. What to my wandering eyes should appear, but a shiny
> MINDSTORMS Poster and a small kiosk. "LEGO!," My 7 day toy deprived heart
> screamed.
> I introduced myself to the man at the kiosk whose name I don't remember
> (forgive my swiss-cheese brain). He said he worked in Marketing. We had a
> heated discussion about mindstorms, which included the two of us explaining
> to my buddy from the troop how they work.
> We then started talking about the product lines. One kid said behind us
> that the demo-bots looked like something from battle bots, which brought up
> gaming-bots.
> My new found source told me to look around this time next year for
> "Peaceful, Gaming Robots," which he described as, "a sport." The next
> tidbit gets me, he said that the robots are ready to play with "right out of
> the box," for use by the younger set, but are customizable "for a kid [my]
> age," (16). Sounds like Juniorization. At this point I told him I was into
> system, and we talked about Harry Potter and others, uneventfully.
> As a gift to all that visited the booth, he was giving out keychains:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=60168
> A nice gift! He handed me a few as I told him we were starting a LUG in
> Syracuse. He told me that the LUGs have been very helpful to his department
> and LD, and he hopes that we can work together more.
> He scooted off, having an appointment someplace else in camp.
> I stayed for a few, playing with an ingenius little remote control, made of
> bricks, that controlled a robot. Mindstorms are amazing.
> Now, the "leak club" issue, he seemed to be very lax with the security. I
> told him I was active on LUGNET before he told me about the bots. It was
> implied that anything he said would be posted.
> I do have pics of the stand, they'll be in that folder as soon as I get
> the film developed and scanned.
> I'll close for now.
> -John Rudy
> www.geocities.com/TJJohn12
I'll answer the rest of this too. Yes, I've seen the robots, being a big
fan of battlebots I'm only 1/2 satisfied but I realize Lego has it's own
mindset on the issue so I'm okay with it. I think there is a grabber, a
pusher, a "puncher" and a couple others. Nifty stuff.
As for my source, he told me that he had actually been told it was okay to
tell people and even show pics. He just sheepishly told me that if nobody
beat me to the punch on this, then don't mention his name :) I honestly
think it's because he is well known enough he didn't want 40,000 people
calling him. I'm actually surprise I'm the first one telling people about this.
BTW, I personally think that Mace Windu was absolutely the right thing to
do, now the ewoks....
Matthew Teets
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