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Star Wars Lego Mindstorms

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter dept.

An anonymous reader proved what happens when you combine to of mankind's greatest achievements (Legs Mindstorm and Star Wars) into one excellent geek toy. I want that lego R2-D2. They've also got a digital camera lego mindstorm. Hope your German is better then mine though. Update: 02/17 06:04 by CT : Web site go boom. Anyone have a copy in their cache?

23 comments

  1. Old News by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This was exciting several months ago.

  2. Lego made this not programmable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah, that's right, Lego stiffed us geeks with a preprogrammed control module. This thing is totally ROM preprogrammed, no IR port, no RAM. Basically, Lego's selling the gullible public a Furby in an Astromech's clothing. *Bleah*

    Of course, if you want something really programmable, you could pay another ~US$120 for a "real" control brick, or ~US$200 for the whole Mindstorms set.

    -disgruntled Lego robot fan

  3. I hope my English is better than yours by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    'Two', not 'to'

  4. What?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "Legs Mindstorm"??? Sounds like a porn actor...

  5. Mirror Please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It wasn't just down, it was GONE. What kind of ISP removes a website when traffic spikes?

  6. New site for pictures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You can see the pictures of the new lego star
    wars toys at:

    http://www.dailysci-fi.com/news/1191.html

    look for the two legos links.

  7. Legs Mindstorm-- now that's a geek toy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    On the shelf next to the Hotpants Stormtrooper action figures!

  8. Killer ISP funny home page by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I liked the ISP's home page. They seemed proud of their web statistics. So they "found out where" the accesses were coming from and the destination vanishes? Hah.

  9. Killer ISP funny home page by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Try this
    link then

  10. Killer ISP funny home page by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Try this
    link then

  11. Dork Toys by mholve · · Score: 1
    Hmmm, at $200 for the basic set, not only are these toys for dorks, they're toys for rich dorks! The Star Wars crap on top of that and you're all set for an afternoon of playing with yourself. ;>

    Lego would be much better off dropping the price on this cool stuff so that the people that should have it - THE KIDS - can have it.

  12. slashdotted... by zonker · · Score: 1

    anyone have a mirror site up? this site has been /.'d...

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    Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away

  13. No, this is new news. by nelsonrn · · Score: 1

    Sorry, dude, but this is brand new news. If you think you saw it before, you simply haven't been paying attention.
    -russ

  14. ack! by zempf · · Score: 1

    File Not Found

    The requested URL /~huw/lego was not found on this server.

    Anyone got a mirror?

    -mike kania

  15. yeesh by hime · · Score: 1

    An anonymous reader proved what happens when you combine to of mankind's greatest achievements (Legs Mindstorm and Star Wars)...

    I'm a geek, but damn... you guys really need to get out more.

  16. /.'ed and a half... by Apuleius · · Score: 1

    Hey, Rob, how about you queso a server
    before linking to it, so we can see
    which servers handle the /. effect better?

    This one's pages were done with MS software,
    so anyone care to queso it?

  17. Best "dept." award has been won, though by MagicMike · · Score: 1

    ...old news or not :-)

  18. More exciting BREAKING news! by Khyron · · Score: 1
    I hear Lucas is making a new Star Wars movie, the first Episode of the saga! It's gonna be out like, sometime in 1999 from what I heard! Amazing!

    Sigh.

  19. /.'ed by danec · · Score: 1

    i think we've killed it.


    dane-o

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    danec. http://www.carlsoncarlson.com/dane/
  20. R2D2 == Dalek Lite by Aggrazel · · Score: 1

    And C3PO is just a gold Cyberman.

  21. /.'ed and a half... by kijiki · · Score: 1

    nmap sez: solaris 2.3-2.4

  22. Lego made this not programmable by vik · · Score: 1

    Only if you're in the US. Trying to get hold of Mindstorms outside the US gets you a wall of stony silence from Lego distributors.

    In New Zealand we have a law permitting parallel importing, but outside suppliers daren't ship for fear of offending Lego. It's like Microsoft in Toyland.

    Vik :v)

  23. oops by flirzan · · Score: 1

    When I tried to lok at this site at 12:52 PM PST, it was down...slashdot effect anyone?

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