Editing Lego Mindstorms (section)

===Launch===
Promotion of the Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System began 6 months before the product was planned to launch.<ref name=Tormod/> The product was first soft launched with the opening of the Mindstorms Discovery Center at the [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Museum of Science and Industry]], where children could interact with the Mindstorms Robotics Invention System to complete set tasks, getting them familiar with the product.<ref name=BBpart3>{{cite web |url=https://www.brothers-brick.com/2020/02/03/a-history-of-lego-education-part-3-mindstorms-over-matter-feature/ |title=A History of Lego Education, Part 3: Mindstorms over matter [Feature] |last=Hocker |first=Matt |date=3 February 2020 |website=The Brothers Brick |access-date=15 August 2021}}</ref> The Mindstorms product was launched concurrently with the Cybermaster, another Lego product spun off from the MIT programmable brick technology that was more in line with the traditional product philosophies of the Lego group.<ref name=Oliver/>{{rp|1067}}

The Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System (RIS) was released September 1998<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.legomindstorms.com:80/press/releases.html |title=Retailers Brace for Overwhelming Consumer Demand for Lego Mindstorms Robotics Invention System |location=[[Enfield, Connecticut]] |access-date=3 July 2022 |date=26 August 1998 |publisher=[[The Lego Group]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981206001507/http://www.legomindstorms.com:80/press/releases.html |archive-date=6 December 1998 |url-status=dead}}<br>"Lego Mindstorms announced today that the very first units...will arrive...during the first week of September."</ref> at a retail price of $199. Instead of being sold at toy stores, the product was sold at electronics stores like [[BestBuy]] and [[CompUSA]], due to the relatively high cost of the set.<ref name=Tormod/>
The entire production run (of between 60,000 and 100,000 units<ref name=Note01>The exact number of sets in the first production run varies between sources</ref>) sold out within 3 months.<ref name=Robertson>{{cite book |last=Robertson |first=David |date=2013 |title=Brick by Brick: How Lego rewrote the rules of innovation and conquered the global toy industry |url=http://www.RobertsonInnovation.com/books/Brick-by-Brick |location=United States |publisher=Crown Publishing |pages=184–185 |isbn=9780307951618 |access-date=27 January 2021 |archive-date=29 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129005055/https://robertsoninnovation.com/books/Brick-by-Brick |url-status=live}}</ref>{{rp|181}}<ref name=Beland/>{{rp|30}}

The second edition of the RIS, Robotics Invention System 1.5, was released in the summer of 1999,<ref name=Robertson/>{{rp|187}}<ref name=GoldenRCX>{{cite web
| title = Going for Gold: The Story of the Golden RCX and NXT
| url = https://bricknerd.com/home/going-for-gold-the-story-of-the-golden-lego-rcx-and-nxt-9-9-21
| website = Bricknerd.com
| date = 9 September 2021
| access-date = 23 October 2023}}</ref> with a third edition, RIS 2.0, launched in 2001.<ref>{{cite web
| title = 3804: Robotics Invention System V2.0
| url = https://brickset.com/sets/3804-1/Robotics-Invention-System-V2-0
| website = Brickset.com
| date = n.d.
| access-date = 23 October 2023}}</ref>