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LEGO MINDSTORMS 51515 Robot InventorLEGO MINDSTORMS 51515 Robot
Inventor
News 

LEGO is discontinuing MINDSTORMS in 2022

26/10/202226/10/2022 Chris Wharfe 197 Views 0 Comments 51515 Robot
Inventor, LEGO, LEGO Education, LEGO Mindstorms, LEGO.com, Mindstorms
, Retiring Soon, The LEGO Group 2 min read

The LEGO Group has announced that it's discontinuing its LEGO
MINDSTORMS line-up at the end of 2022, with app support only
guaranteed for another two years.

First launching in September 1998, the MINDSTORMS platform has been
central to the LEGO Group's coding experience for nearly a quarter of
a century. However, the company says its priorities now lie in 'LEGO
Education and other Build & Code experiences', and it's subsequently
retiring the current MINDSTORMS set 51515 Robot Inventor (and the
platform's individual components) by the end of this year.

"We have decided to focus our resources and future plans by
redirecting our MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor team and their expertise
into different areas of the business," the LEGO Group shared in a
statement. The app for 51515 Robot Inventor, which offers
instructions for five different motorised robots and vehicles, will
remain live 'until at least the end of 2024', with updates to support
new operating systems across iOS, MacOS, Windows, Android and FireOS.

  * 51515 robot inventor mindstorms box51515 robot inventor
    mindstorms box
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While this is apparently the end of LEGO MINDSTORMS, though, the LEGO
Group isn't abandoning the concept altogether. "We still have strong
belief in the Build & Code proposition and will continue to support
it through platforms such as SPIKE Prime, and we are continuing to
hold on to the trademark for the MINDSTORMS brand and assessing our
future plans together with LEGO Education," the company added.

That said, SPIKE Prime is effectively LEGO Education's implementation
of MINDSTORMS, so it's tricky to envision how the two platforms could
co-exist under a single banner. The major consequence of retiring
51515 Robot Inventor (and associated components, such as 88016 Large
Hub) is that the LEGO Group's 'Build & Code proposition' won't be as
readily available to everyday consumers.

LEGO MINDSTORMS 51515 Robot Inventor is still available at LEGO.com
(in the UK and Europe - it's 'temporarily out of stock' in the US),
but with app updates only promised for two more years - in line with
standard practices for digital apps tied to retiring physical
products, such as VIDIYO - there's seemingly a hard limit on how long
that investment will be useful for.

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Chris Wharfe

I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but
we all know that's not really the case. Journalism does run through
my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood - the sort
that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart
malfunction. It's like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to
write about LEGO until then. You can follow me on Twitter at
@brfa_chris.

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