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Re: Has Lego begun producing "war toys"?
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:25:05 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Scott Lyttle wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > Slightly mitigating these features are the lack of military uniforms,
> > non-military color scheme, and somewhat playfull james bond 'esque nature of the
> > playsets.
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > If so, does anybody care?
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.
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| (...) 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 (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jan-08, to lugnet.general)
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