I've never had much money for Legos, and certainly not the luxury of mindstorms, but the new EV3 model looks kick-@$$! http://brickset.com/browse/themes/?Page=1&theme=Mindstorms

Yeah get rid of it. I don't think they do super well as an investment anyway because the new ones are the same but better.

flip.

Its not going anywhere soon, you're almost better off trading it for a couple of Helm's Deep sets. I actually traded a 41999 to get an EV3 for myself.

Anyone have an angle on getting one of these discounted?  I see 287 shipped via amazon UK.  Anything better out there?

Anyone have an angle on getting one of these discounted? I see 287 shipped via amazon UK. Anything better out there?

205 @ amazon Uk - pretty good deal

To specify, my 287 quote was USD after conversion.

Think very.co.UK had these 3for2 earlier in the week but don't know what situation is now.

To specify, my 287 quote was USD after conversion.

Apologies, I forgot the golden rule... Presume everyone is from the US unless mentioned otherwise!

205 @ amazon Uk - pretty good deal

 

Yup! Got myself one and to make the deal sweeter my Ikano credit card is running a campaign giving 30 % off everything bought in a bookstore, including Amazon. Thought you might like to know... Well maybe not since I don't think there are a lot of Swedes here, with that exact card, but still.

And yes I used your affiliate link to shop for about 1000 GBP. 

Can anyone tell me if the motors on the ev3 are different from the motors on the nxt? Have the motors also been changed? We're doing the Lego FLL competition. We have an ev3 and we want to build a exact duplicate robot. So we'd have 2 robots. But we're short on ev3 motors but we have extra next motors we could use if they are identical. Thanks for your advise. Chris.

According to Bricklink...

 

(EV3 inventory)

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=31313-1

 

(NXT 2.0 inventory)

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=8547-1

 

They are not the same. EV3 comes with an extra motor and the "large" motor in the EV3 is a different shape than what shows for NXT and NXT 2.0. Now if you're wondering if the NXT motors are compatible with the EV3 system, yes they are:

 

http://education.lego.com/fr-fr/preschool-and-school/secondary/mindstorms-education-ev3/support/nxt-compatibility

With the announcement of 51515, should we sell our stocks of EV3s investment-wise?

19 minutes ago, znjndmawn said:

With the announcement of 51515, should we sell our stocks of EV3s investment-wise?

Errrr.... Yes.

Mindstorms is definitely not a long-term investment theme, it's simply a quick flip if you get it cheap enough.