Innovation First, Inc and Revell Monogram LLC - Vex partnership

[artdutra04]

The new Vex kits look much better for aiming to competitively sell Vex to the general public. In addition to the cheaper price, the ability to build a robot straight out of the box that can go and pick-up objects (such as the one above with the claw), will drastically help Vex gain widespread acceptance among the masses.

Since Innovation FIRST will continue to sell the traditional Vex kits, and with Revell marketing the new "consumer-friendly" Vex kits, everyone wins. More people buy Vex, and the people who already have Vex kits, as well as the FVC teams, can continue to use the more advanced/original kits. I personally cannot wait to see the new kits, in addition to all the new parts that IFI will be offering in the coming months.

Viva la Vex!

[KathieK]

Hobbico purchased Revell-Monogram in May.

[Jared W]

I talked with one of the guys at Revell at the FVC Championship in Atlanta and he said this new line of vex parts was mainly for consumer enjoyment.

Their goal was to have a robot out of the box and assembled and driving in less than an hour. Its merely for vex to get its foot in the marketplace again in a cheaper, simpler form.

As for backwards compatibility..I'm pretty sure that this new stuff won't be FVC legal..atleast he made the point that he thought it wouldn't be.

Jared

[Alex Cormier]

So when will it be out? Or is it no longer going to happen?

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

So when will it be out? Or is it no longer going to happen?

BotMag had a Vexplorer update last week:
http://botmag.com/articles/06-07-07_vexplorer.shtml