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."

Comments

Financial Trouble

[CyberSlugGump]

No wonder Lego is in financial trouble--Someone is stealing them all!

Re:Back to the basics

[Meagermanx]

Do NOT show this man eBay.

Battlebot

[sqeaky]

Someone made a "battlebot out of lego mindstorms, they didn't get past the qualifying rounds though, some about being smashed to peices?!

Re:IMNSHO...

[planetoid]

I remember when I was a kid, I'd build elaborate mazes out of legos, and then before closing the maze shut, I'd put a centipede in one part of the maze, and I'd find a big fat carpenter ant (I'd always name it Theseus) and put it somewhere else in the maze. Have lunch, watch a couple episodes of You Can't Do That On Television and Maya The Bee, and come back to see the results. I have concluded that centipedes will always win in a fight against a carpenter ant, but a carpenter ant still has a good chance of escaping from the maze so long as it negotiates a lucky route. God damn, I loved Legos.

I'd also build little cities and find a rock full of pill bugs, and put the pill bugs in the city, and then totally go Godzilla on the place.