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| | | *** "Launching in late summer, the Bionicle line consists of six heroes, known as the Toa, and five villains, know as the Makuta. In addition to the figures, LEGO will launch two Bionicle video games. With vicious-looking villains and grim heroes, (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Grant White
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| | | | | (...) Makuta followed his brother, Mata Nui from there home. The islanders of Mata Nui worshiped Mata Nui because he had made the world into a paradise. Makuta was jealous and tried to get the islanders to worship him by using fear and pain, but (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Bradley Dale
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| | | | | | | (...) Sorry, I hadn't read the Bionicle.com story yet. I didn't expect to find anything beyond the 2001 TECHNIC brochure found in the LEGO boxes. So now we have a character that is definately evil- is it okay now? I still think that evil LEGO was (...) (23 years ago, 15-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Michael Horvath
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| | | | | | I agree with both of you. I do think it's disturbing. I'd just like to raise some points to clarify some things. 1. If a computer virus is programmed not to like being killed, it won't like being killed. Now, this may not be true, today, but it is (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Bill Farkas
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| | | | | | (...) This may stir up a firestorm (not my intent), but why is violence in a storyline so bad? Violence is a regrettably necessary part of life. If children learn to comprehrend the difference between violence that defends or protects innocence and (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | Trimmed bionicle from FUT (...) I agree with Bill. Violence in a story isn't bad, per se. It's *celebrating it* as an end in and of itself that's bad. I hold with a philosophy that doesn't initiate violence but that doesn't mean I'm against seeing (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | Trimmed bionicle from FUT (...) I agree with Bill. Violence in a story isn't bad, per se. It's *celebrating it* as an end in and of itself that's bad. I hold with a philosophy that doesn't initiate violence but that doesn't mean I'm against seeing (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Erik Olson
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| | | | | The Wall Street Journal article had a large-print sidebar quoting "They're not weapons, they're tools." Right..... As a side effect I've got a new understanding of "Codewarrior: Tools for the Professional Programmer." They're not weapons, they're (...) (23 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Tim Courtney
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| | | | | | (...) That reminds me of one of our running jokes for the summit :) Also reminds me of the scripture which says '..and they will beat their swords into plowshares...' or something like that. -Tim (23 years ago, 16-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Lindsay Frederick Braun
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| | | | | | (...) "New from Hasbro: It's Rough-n-Ready Mister Greenjeans, with Battle-Action Ploughshare and Corn Husking Power!" You know it's time. We'll make a mint! Does anyone have their phone number? Hey, it's no dumber than 'Pokemon.' best LFB XFUT -> (...) (23 years ago, 17-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Peter Kanters
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| | | | (...) If you look at the little movies on the small cd-rom`s and the promotion films on www.bionicle.com you will see that all the toa`s use their "weapons" as tools to get around (23 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Is Bionicle violence? —Paul Gyugyi
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| | | | So what is worse, Bugs Bunny looking non-violent but being violent, or Bionicle looking violent but being non-violent? I am now reflecting on Power Rangers, and other similar shows where morphing occurs. Characters stay in a non-violent form until (...) (23 years ago, 26-Feb-01, to lugnet.technic.bionicle, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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