Power. Henry Kissinger called it the ultimate aphrodisiac. Lord Acton declared that power corrupts. Malcolm X said it never takes a step back except in the face of superior power.

Well, not to cast aspersions on these learned men, but we doubt they’d ever had the power to compel a robot to do their bidding. Give them the Vex™ Robotics Starter Kit and we have a feeling they’d stop spouting glib aphorisms. Why? Because they’d be too busy constructing 1337 robots. Over 500 pieces from gears to wheels to chassis parts are included in this set, including three variable-speed motors and a programmable multicontroller, finally letting you create the ruthless warborg that will easily defeat all of your menial challengers. It lifts! It throws! It races! Or it will when you build it, anyway!

The Vex™ Robotics Starter Kit includes detailed instructions for a few different simple robots, but the possibilities are as vast and intriguing as the US tax code. Turn your home into a build-a-bot workshop and send your mecha-minions to reshape the world in your image, forcing your opponents to bow and scrape before you. Even Kissinger never had it so good.

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