LEGO discontinues Mindstorm kit: Mumbai-Pune fans reminisce their younger days
Updated On: 03 November, 2022 06:54 PM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto
As the Danish toy company is set to discontinue the iconic robot inventor kit, fans who grew up with it are sad but yet hopeful. Mid-day Online spoke to three such fans for whom LEGO has become an important part of their adult lives – not only because they have passed it on to their children but also because they have built usable robots with it
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Nikhil Fernandes and his team built an Alexa-powered beach clean-up rover with LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3, Amazon Alexa and worked with an Echo Device through the Alexa Gadgets Toolkit over the Internet. Photo Courtesy: Nikhil Fernandes
“It is completely disheartening,” says an unhappy Pune-based Nishad Bhatawadekar, an adult LEGO fan, who has been closely following the news of LEGO discontinuing its Mindstorm Robot Inventor Kit. “There will be no Mindstorm at all after this for the first time in over 20 years. The rationale that LEGO has given is that they will be focusing more on different educational products,” he adds.
According to a report by Brickset.com, in late October, Denmark-based toy making company LEGO announced that it would be discontinuing its most recent and last remaining LEGO Mindstorm Robot Inventor kit. Though expensive, the very same kit that has been an important part of many children`s childhood in India. The blocks have led many of them to fall in love with toys more than ever before and some to continue working on them even today, when they are adults. The Punekar is only one of them.
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