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RE: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
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lugnet.loc.au
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Wed, 21 Jun 2000 02:57:50 GMT
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Probably a stupid question...What happens to the minifigs with the guns
printed on their torso's? [eg adventurers]...Do the kids get them?
Benjamin Whytcross
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Parsons [mailto:rparsons@hinet.net.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 12:54 PM
> To: lugnet.loc.au@lugnet.com
> Subject: Re: What do other parents do with Lego guns?
>
>
> In lugnet.loc.au, folks write stuff on their avoidance of
> guns as a worthy
> element of raising children, and ask "What do other parents
> do with Lego guns?"
>
> I'm a bit unreconstructed I'm afraid.
>
> I let the Lego men (and sometimes the Lego ladies) have the
> Lego guns. For
> the most part the Lego men just troop about carrying the Lego
> guns, yelling
> things like "lef' rie', lef' rie'", looking resplendant in
> their uniforms, and
> otherwise nonchalant and sturdy. Some of the more scurrilous
> of the Lego men,
> skulk about carrying their Lego guns secretively, and try
> very hard to be
> menacing (which, let's face it, is quite a reach for a
> gormless smiley).
> Obviously from time to time the Lego men shoot at each other,
> midst much
> yelling of "bang!" and "ouch!".
>
> My two sons tend to follow my example. They let their Lego
> men have the Lego
> guns also.
>
> Mind you, if the Lego men are not carrying Lego guns, they're
> just as like to
> be picking up the Lego spears, axes, halbeards, bows,
> pitchforks, or 1x4
> plates, and doing pretty much the same thing, really. Except
> the shooting
> each other thing obviously. Its more of a broader piercing, chopping,
> clubbing, stabbing or plain old hitting over the head, in
> addition to the
> shooting each other.
>
> And then there's the Lego cannons ;-)
>
> Oh, <<takes deep breath>> and the Attack Rowboats, Fast
> Attack Vehicles,
> Battletraks, HoverTanks, AATs, Self mobile VSGs, Frigates,
> Men'o'war, Pirate
> ships, X-Wings, Y-Wings, A Wings, B Wings, <<turns a bit blue
> for lack of
> oxygen>> N1s, Fortresses, TIE fighters, Flash Speeders,
> Speeder bikes, Millen
> <<pant>>..., Mill <<pant, thump>>
>
> <<This post ends. Richard has turned entirely blue and fallen
> off his chair>>
>
> Richard
> Still baldly going....
> 816 and closing like our pants are aflame!
>
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| (...) Not a stupid question. We have one of these, an adventurer fellow with one tucked in his belt. After some discussion with my husband I've left this in the accessible part of the Lego collection. It's not (yet) obvious to our son that it's a (...) (24 years ago, 21-Jun-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.general)
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