Looking to buy a retail Lego Mindstorm 2.0 NXT kit

[Greg McKaskle]

I have given demos of the new EV3 models and they are totally awesome. The elephant, the snake, and gyroBoy are my favorites.

One evening I'm at a university emceeing an event with sixty engineering students. While talking, I lean down, pull the models from behind the podium curtain, and turn the robots on. I stand back up to to face the audience and find that every last one of the students is now standing and has pulled out their cell phone and is filming and taking photos. Kinda surprising.

The next morning I take the models to a 2nd grade class and the kids went bonkers over the same models. The boys did seem to prefer the snake and the girls the elephant.

Anyway, my point is that if the EV3 is more available than NXT, you may want to upgrade. Both are great products, IMO.

Greg McKaskle