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Re: Lego seems to be copying Mega Blocks
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Sun, 23 May 2004 00:24:11 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ahui Herrera wrote:
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The models you pointed two are WW I. My take on it was that TLC did not want
to deal with any issues veterans and their family might have with the toy and
its depiction of the conflict.
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I think it’s more an issue that they don’t want to produce toys that look like
they can be used to emulate the modern warfare that they see on the news and
such. Nobody fights with bi-planes anymore, but fighter jets are pretty much
fighter jets - regardless of era. Same thing goes with tanks or battleships.
Spencer
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Lego seems to be copying Mega Blocks
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| (...) The U.S. Navy has apparently decommissioned all of its battleships: (URL) any other navies have battleships, or is the battleship pretty much obsolete nowadays? Mark Note: Still no generic lugnet.off-topic group to send this to... :-( (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Lego seems to be copying Mega Blocks
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| (...) The way I've heard it is that they don't produce any weapons developed in the 20th century or later, and that the only reason why we have the Sopwith/Red Baron pair is because LEGO Direct operates under slightly different rules when developing (...) (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Lego seems to be copying Mega Blocks
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| "J. Spencer Rezkalla" <srezkall@peoplepc.com> wrote in message news:Hy554B.13Fw@lugnet.com... (...) want (...) toy and (...) like (...) and (...) much (...) battleships. Note that set 4403 (Air Blazers) includes instructions for what would best be (...) (20 years ago, 23-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Lego seems to be copying Mega Blocks
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| (...) While this is true. 2 years ago at Brickswest the then VP of LEGO Direct stated something to the effect that TLC was not ready to deal/create toys dealing with conflict from WWII and onward. The VP personally liked the models that AFOLs had (...) (20 years ago, 22-May-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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