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Lego Mindstorms: What Went Wrong?
latif writes "In recent years, Lego Mindstorms has generated more media buzz for Lego than
all of its other product lines combined, but surprisingly, Mindstorms seem to
be out of favor at Lego. The Mindstorms line has been cut down to a
single set and Lego is not interested in marketing even that set. Lego has been in
a lot of financial trouble in recent times and its neglect of a product line
with solid sales potential might seem odd but this is not so. I have done an
analysis of Lego's Mindstorms options and my analysis indicates that Lego has
solid economic reasons for backing away from the Mindstorms line."
Speaking of dumbed-down, why are we talking about LEGOS on SLASHDOT yet again?!
Granted, I never played with legos growing up, but now I'm an adult anyway. I'm all growed up with big boy hair and everything now. Seriously, who plays with legso anymore? I don't mean to stereotype, but I will - because the only grown men I've seen playing with legos in my life are those who probably attend star trek conventions and spend saturday night memorizing monty python scripts.
Seriously... These are GROWN MEN playing with toys made for children 3-and-up....
You'll mod me flamebait or troll and I'm okay with that, because this certainly isn't a soft fuzzy acceptable response. But christ, someone has to be the grown up in this thread.