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Re: Is Bionicle violence?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 27 Feb 2001 18:58:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, James Simpson writes:
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> So's TLC. It's pretty clear these days that a toy company has to incorporate
> some element of conflict into its product if it's going to sell to the pre-teen
> market. There is too much graphic exposure to violence nowadays (i.e.,
> videogames), and kids who grow up with a taste for that sort of thing won't
> easily be persuaded by benign Lego. Lego may not have even wanted to go down
> the Castle path back in '78, and today, market-cultural forces in that direction
> are exponentially stronger
I think TLC had ALWAYS violence in their themes: Pirates vs. Kolonists
Adventurers vs. Dino`s
Rockraiders vs. Rockmonsters
etc. etc
(exept for technic, at least in the beginning)
so, why are the bionicle so 'violent'?
they only want to protect the turaga and the spitit of matanui
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| (...) So's TLC. It's pretty clear these days that a toy company has to incorporate some element of conflict into its product if it's going to sell to the pre-teen market. There is too much graphic exposure to violence nowadays (i.e., videogames), (...) (24 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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