When you subscribe to LEGO's Brickmaster Magazine, not only do you get a magazine that has more pages than the free version of the LEGO Club Magazine; you also get a small exclusive set every 2 months.  Some of the sets aren't that great, like

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but sometimes there are pretty neat ones such as

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Today I was taking apart the first Brickmaster set I received when I originally subscribed.  The set is a little blue and black robot:

   Take a look at the inventory of this set.  (My apologies to those who did not go through the on-site Pick-A-Brick at Brickworld 2009, as this will not make much sense.)  See anything familiar?  Do you see several familiar pieces?

It makes you wonder.  Did LEGO have plans to make many more of these little robot sets, but never did?  Or did they tell some set designer, "Hey, you...yeah you.  Make something cool out of these pieces, but just these pieces," and then he had to had to come up with something decent using around 100 of the parts?  My guess is the second option.  It's just one of those little coincidences that makes you wonder.