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In lugnet.build.military, Will Chapman wrote:
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SNIP Bipods and Tripod mounts add tiny pieces that will probably just get
lost :(
---Will
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May I suggest the use of black minifig hands for a Bipod stand??
Somehow, though, the enthusiasm which greets your (admittedly well-crafted)
product disturbs me. Must we include violence in our dioramas?
Doesnt violence somehow stand in opposition to the Play well motto?
NOTE: These opinions do not reflect any official policy or stance of the
organizations of which I am a member. I dont know what the official stance is.
Paul Sinasohn
LUGNET #115
BAYLUG/BAYLTC
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Doesnt violence somehow stand in opposition to the Play well motto?
NOTE: These opinions do not reflect any official policy or stance of the
organizations of which I am a member. I dont know what the official stance
is.
Paul Sinasohn
LUGNET #115
BAYLUG/BAYLTC
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Hi, Paul,
Not speaking for Will, of course, I must say your comments are well-taken.
Please understand I am coming from a completely unbiased stance myself, and I
wont try to take a stab at the official take on this issue. All I know is
that I will try not to shoot myself in the foot, but I may take some verbal
potshots at a few people. Sorry, this reply is just a shot in the dark. Also, I
promise not to use bullets in this reply, although I am gunning for your
support. I have the general idea of this issue in my front sights, but Ill
still be shooting from the hip.
Sorry...I didnt come here to tell you that. :-)
I would point out, however, that LEGO did release some rifles and revolvers as
official elements; I believe someone in this thread already made an observation
to that effect.
In my view, Will wasnt aiming for a promotion of violence with these custom
elements any more than idSoftware was when they came out with the Doom PC
game. I am 38 years old, and when I was in school, school shootings were
virtually unheard of, yet we played Cops and Robbers (or some facsimile
thereof) all the time. It was for the thrill of the Western or 1930s serial
genres that we did so, not for love of violence.
I say it all boils down to how we educate our children - or dont. If a childs
parents have been replaced by the refrigerator and the PlayStation2, then its
small wonder that (s)he has a hard time differentiating fiction from reality --
because Mom is upstairs watching Murder She Committed and Dad is out drinking
with the boys, or maybe Dads upstairs watching TV and Moms out drinking with
the boys, I dont know; but I digress. Its too easy to pin the blame (for the
escalating rise in violence among our youngest generation) on Doom,
Transformers, Santa Claus Versus the Martians, or custom LEGO elements.
All this may be academic, however. If LEGO has a problem with it, Im sure
theyll be in contact with Will in due course. But I wouldnt bet the farm on
it.
Hope my comments are taken in the spirit in which they were intended. Its a
tricky issue to be sure.
Peace,
Pat
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Paul Sinasohn wrote:
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May I suggest the use of black minifig hands for a Bipod stand??
Somehow, though, the enthusiasm which greets your (admittedly well-crafted)
product disturbs me. Must we include violence in our dioramas?
Doesnt violence somehow stand in opposition to the Play well motto?
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Comooonnn, dont troll people like that....:-) Lego is violent, and was
violent,too. For ages.
All the classic castle, pirate, western sets have guns and weapons, in very
realistic forms. The two recent awesome a/c sets are artfully crafted replicas
of WWI fighter planes. I will not even talk about all the star wars line and
semi automatics/modern pistols in Batman sets. Dino 2000 and exoforce? I dont
think they represent animal rights activists and peaceful SETI people.
And those #@??># bionicles certainly didnt meant to be hugging each other and
make love.
And look at the all diaromas and MOCs all around...battle ships, space fighters,
starwars battle scenes, WWII vehicles...
commoooonnnn..:-)
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Selçuk Göre wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Paul Sinasohn wrote:
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May I suggest the use of black minifig hands for a Bipod stand??
Somehow, though, the enthusiasm which greets your (admittedly well-crafted)
product disturbs me. Must we include violence in our dioramas?
Doesnt violence somehow stand in opposition to the Play well motto?
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Comooonnn, dont troll people like that....:-) Lego is violent, and was
violent,too. For ages.
All the classic castle, pirate, western sets have guns and weapons, in very
realistic forms. The two recent awesome a/c sets are artfully crafted
replicas of WWI fighter planes. I will not even talk about all the star wars
line and semi automatics/modern pistols in Batman sets. Dino 2000 and
exoforce? I dont think they represent animal rights activists and peaceful
SETI people.
And those #@??># bionicles certainly didnt meant to be hugging each other
and make love.
And look at the all diaromas and MOCs all around...battle ships, space
fighters, starwars battle scenes, WWII vehicles...
commoooonnnn..:-)
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Violence and spaceships always work. Everyone knows that.
Legoswami
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