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Re: Using Lego to build weapons? (was Re: The Lego Beretta just won't die)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:11:50 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Carsten Schmitz writes:
> > I don't think a single AFOL's model represents the entire AFOL community,
> > do you? I don't think people are going to look at a Lego gun and say "Gee,
> > if *that's* what adults do with Lego, they shouldn't have it!". And if they
> > do, they can live a delusional life. I mean, where were you when that German
> > artist modelled a concentration camp "theme" (under Lego's Logo, with
> > permission [sorta] I might add)?
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> Sorry .. i think you might understand I can't catch everything what someone
> might ever have built.
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> I am interested in that one. Who did that? I cant believe LEGO approved
> that!?
> Or was is some kind of working up the history?
http://users.erols.com/kennrice/lego-kz.htm
Actually, Lego didn't really "approve", they just gave the artist permission
to use the logo before realizing exactly what the project was going to be.
Apparently he approached them about modelling a "hospital" initially for an
artistic piece he wanted to create. I think they donated bricks? And allowed
him to use the Lego Logo to make the things he created look like "authentic
sets".
The artist later 'changed his mind' or, rather, modified his vision to be
something rather more gruesome than a "hospital". Or perhaps he merely said
"hospital" without specifying that it was a concentration camp's hospital.
In any event, his aim was to show a horrid, harsh reality through the eyes
of innocence, I think-- and decided Lego would be a great medium for it.
Lego found out after its completion and unveiling, and were pretty peeved.
But what was done was done. I think they prepared statements and officially
made it known that they did *NOT* approve of the nature of the model as
being "endoresed by" them.
At least, that's the story to my recollection. I think it's all on the site,
for more details. (or correct ones if I'm wrong-- it has been a couple years
since I read it)
DaveE
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