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Re: Has Lego begun producing "war toys"?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:29:12 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz wrote:
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It’s funny how it’s ok for kids to play at cowboys and indians (well, not so
much the indians part any more) and pirates, both of which are genres that
glorify killing and lawlessness. On the other hand, war (especially WWII
which LEGO has had the most resistance to), which sure isn’t very pretty,
does have some positive sides to it (ok, so it does take an agressor, but we
usually don’t celebrate the aggressor the way we do with pirates).
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Playing war is fantasy. It is, boiled to its essence, acting out the struggle
between good and evil. Generally speaking, fantasy works well the more removed
it is from reality. Space wars work great. The distant past works well, too.
What doesn’t work so well is contemporary scenarios of conflict-- they just
strike too close to home. The pain of WWI & WWII for Europe is not removed
enough from reality for comfort and therefore taboo, especially for the Danish
toymaker.
My .02,
JOHN
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| (...) Thanks John, I think you put to words what many folks feel, but can't articulate. In the US, WWII, has already reached the level of "myth" for most kids. This is of course an unfortunate by product of a collective refusal to honor history, but (...) (16 years ago, 26-Jan-08, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) It's funny how it's ok for kids to play at cowboys and indians (well, not so much the indians part any more) and pirates, both of which are genres that glorify killing and lawlessness. On the other hand, war (especially WWII which LEGO has had (...) (16 years ago, 25-Jan-08, to lugnet.general)
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