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Re: Introducing LEGO Direct
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lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
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Wed, 22 Dec 1999 07:45:58 GMT
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Selçuk <teyyareci> <SGORE@SUPERONLINEspamcake.COM>
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Mike Stanley <cjc@NOSPAMnewsguy.com> wrote in message
news:slrn85va6k.4aj.cjc@zelda.ns.utk.edu...
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> TLC lost its moral high ground on not modelling war toys a LONG time
> ago.
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> Otherwise we wouldn't have six shooters and rifles (that are
> essentially the same today as they were a hundred years ago) in the
> Wild West theme.
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> Spear = sword = musket = six shooter = rifle = light saber = ...
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> You can't be a little pregnant and you can't only make "some" war
> toys and not others and claim to (or be praised for) only make
> nonviolent toys.
Just to support that, Look at the pages from brickshelf:
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1997/c97tr/c97tr-24.html
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1997/c97tr/c97tr-26.html
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1997/c97tr/c97tr-27.html
http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1997/c97tr/c97tr-28.html
Those are pages from 1997 Turkish catalog. And these below are the
translation of the speech in the bubbles:
"We will attack him from both sides!"
"Alarm! We are under attack!"
"Target locked"
"Target destroyed"
"We've been shooted"
"Mission is finished, spaceship has been destroyed"
Seems pretty non-violant and anti-war, isn't it?..:-)
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> Sorry to nitpick - I personally love the weapons and such, but I
> have to laugh when I see people say they don't want to see tanks or
> M16's but don't mind swords and knives (or rifles).
I just can't stand .."Me too"..:-)
Selçuk
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| (...) TLC lost its moral high ground on not modelling war toys a LONG time ago. Otherwise we wouldn't have six shooters and rifles (that are essentially the same today as they were a hundred years ago) in the Wild West theme. Spear = sword = musket (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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