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Re: Military Lego Sets
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Sat, 1 Sep 2001 18:50:03 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Pedro Silva writes:
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> Maybe a different reason to TLC's attitude (and I'm only speculating) is due
> to the fact that Denmark was ocupied by Germany during WW2, and neither the
> danes nor the germans like to remember those days (would you like to
> remember that your nation had been occupied once?). And knowing the
> importance of the german market, I'd say this is one of the historical
> reasons. Noone in Germany would buy sets from a theme where germans would be
> portrayed as the "evil" guys. Same for Japan, Italy, and some countries in
> Eastern Europe (axis' allies). In fact, I'm pretty sure hardly anyone in
> continental Europe would like to remember the Wars fought here in the past
> century. We are trying to build up a European Union, for heaven's sake!
That would be my guess. I believe they want to avoid anything
that is classified as "In living memory". They're really pushing
the boundaries by producing the Sopwith Camel, but of course that's
not available via mass-distribution. And "ILM" varies from conflict
to conflict. No doubt sets depicting centuries-old conflict in
the mid-east wouldn't go over too well since everyone there still
seems intent on bangin' and whoppin' away at each other.
On the flip side you could make an extension of the Castle/Pirates
themes for the conflicts between the British/Canadians and USAians
in North America. Not many people are aware that Canadians
torched the White House (which was white-washed afterwards to cover
the smoke stains, thus "White House"), so it may no longer be
considered "ILM". However many French-English and Anybody-Native
conflicts here are much touchier subjects..., and I won't even
comment on the Anybody-Native conflicts in the South and Central
Americas...
Ultimately it's probably best for LEGO to stay away from historical
conflicts. The moment they produce a real identifiable item
(such as the Sopwith Camel), it is immediately identifiable with
a real historical conflict. However things like generic pirates
and gov't fleet ships are much more anonymous. The Wild West
army theme may have been a little too close to reality. Since
LEGO's themes are populated with the concept of goodguy/badguy,
using historical conflicts is not going to be well received from
a toy company.
KDJ
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LUGNETer #203, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
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| (...) I dunno. If a crusaders set were available, I'd consider buying it. There isn't a clear distinction about good-guy/bad-guy in that conflict, both sides had similar reasons ("Jerusalem" should appear in the dictionary below "reason"...). As (...) (23 years ago, 1-Sep-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| In lugnet.dear-lego, Marc Cook writes: (snipped) (...) The Knights and swordsman theme portays the kind of "romantic era" that we are faced with when we hear fairytales. The times of chivalry, you know... The difference is quite obvious, the 20th (...) (23 years ago, 31-Aug-01, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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