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Re: McDonald's, LEGO and Ethics
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Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:41:24 GMT
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Christopher Tracey wrote:
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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?
Buy 3225 and part out/sell off the rest of it, including the other 4
train windows. No ethical problem.
> 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?
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> Any opinions.
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 your kids are little consumers, seems like that's your
issue, not mine. You may want to look into more effective parenting
techniques.
Do you work for the government directly or are you just a contractor
using a government email address? Just curious.
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| (...) I know about the six red windows in 3225, although I was going to order some stuff from s@h soon that would be enough to get me a McD's. So now that I know i can get something for free such as red windows, I want them. I am just just as human (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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