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McDonald's, LEGO and Ethics
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Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:32:02 GMT
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I came back from vacation this week and saw the news about the McD's
Drive-through promotional kit and hit an ethical dilemma. I used to be(still
am?) an anti-McDonalds activist. I sat outside restaurants passing out fliers
and stickers for hours when I was in college. Then I went home and played with
LEGO. The happy meal promotions never really bothered me, for they usually only
had BASIC pieces which I already had enough of. Now i find myself in need of
two red train window frames. What do I do?
How far will these promotions/tie-ins go? Everywhere I look nowadays products
are advertising each other. You can barely watch a new movie nowadays without
seeing at least one product placement within it. Maybe the same is happening to
LEGO. I had this dream last night that the only LEGO you could buy would be a
'McDonald's', an 'Exxon(or Shell?)' gas station, a 'Pizza Hut' delivery car, a
'Citibank' bank, a 'Dow' Chemical Plant, and a 'Monsanto' farm kit. And the
truly scary part is LEGO is marketed to kids. Is the TLG helping to teach our
kids to be good little consumers?
Any opinions.
-Chris
Christopher Tracey
Earth Surface Processes Team
US Geological Survey
Reston, VA
ctracey@usgs.gov
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: McDonald's, LEGO and Ethics
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| (...) Buy 3225 and part out/sell off the rest of it, including the other 4 train windows. No ethical problem. (...) Sure, here's one... what's the issue again? If cross promotion lowers the cost of goods to me I don't have an issue with it. And if (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: McDonald's, LEGO and Ethics
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| (...) with (...) only (...) I look at it this way. I am also not a fan of McDonalds and some of their practices. I also can't remember the last time I ate there. On the other hand if I were to by $75 from S@H I would not tell them to not send me the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: McDonald's, LEGO and Ethics
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| (...) products (...) without (...) happening to (...) be a (...) car, a (...) the (...) our (...) Yeah I'd be uneasy about this. It does seem unethical. My reasoning? We'd all agree that taking something that legitimately belongs to them by force is (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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