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Re: Has Lego begun producing "war toys"?
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:35:25 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Karl Paulsen wrote:
> I am curious to hear folks opinions on this one. I happened across a pics in
> brickshelf showing the boxes for new sets for 2008. It is my understanding that
> we do not allow links to leaks, so you will have to find it yourself.
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> Long and short, for the first time in LEGO history, Sets are being sold that are
> neither "historical" (pirates, western) or a licensed product (star wars,
> indiana jones) with modern looking weapons.
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> The sets are the "agents" series. In the series is a fighter jet, a
> "techinical" Jeep with mounted machine gun, and attack helicopter and the Batman
> series pistol and the star wars sniper rifle are included in these sets. Box art
> features minifigs shooting at each other.
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> Slightly mitigating these features are the lack of military uniforms,
> non-military color scheme, and somewhat playfull james bond 'esque nature of the
> playsets.
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> Between these sets and the German and Soviet military that we see in the Indiana
> Jones sets, are we seeing a trend toward TLG being more willing to make the "war
> toys" that the company delcared it would never make?
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> If so, does anybody care?
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> Personally, I am torn between my like for the Indy sets and my dissapointement
> at this possible trend for TLG.
If I recall, TLG renounced the "we do not make weapons" philisophy a few years
ago, or something to that effect (most notably, prior to the Batman sets).
There's a TLG press release about it somewhere (don't have time to find it right
now). As someone once pointed out out to me.. "If a bunch of boys get together
and build from a pile of LEGO bricks, invariably, at least one of them is going
to build a gun from those bricks". So, a bunch of bricks with no initial hint
of war or weapons winds up being a simulated weapon. The kids are still using
their imagination, right?
One thing's for sure--it's a fine line, as interpretations are not exact, and
can range from narrow to broad on this particular topic.
Scott
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| (...) With all the support material (decals, paints, painting guides out there for the military modeling hobby, its an easy jump to Lego doing a military line. I suspect we are only a few years away from it. (17 years ago, 26-Jan-08, to lugnet.general)
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| I am curious to hear folks opinions on this one. I happened across a pics in brickshelf showing the boxes for new sets for 2008. It is my understanding that we do not allow links to leaks, so you will have to find it yourself. Long and short, for (...) (17 years ago, 23-Jan-08, to lugnet.general)
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