tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648545.post5810489606276103731..comments2023-10-22T07:42:55.369+00:00Comments on Skip's Acorn Treasury: The War On LegoSkiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15153208735469088823noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648545.post-19710158884428408662010-06-09T17:53:31.969+00:002010-06-09T17:53:31.969+00:00I think it's deliberately subsetting yourself ...I think it's deliberately subsetting yourself as "Kids Army Toys", which, come on, at the very least, says "Contains No Princesses".<br /><br />There's also something different between play Lego violence (Castles and Space Battles and Pirates) and realistic depictions of American and Iraqi and Nazi weaponry (they even used to have a fego Scud missile launcher set).<br /><br />For now, I'm ticking the "unsettled" box... although if the range crosses over into absurdity (a Hitler's Final Hours Bunker set), then I am so there.Skiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15153208735469088823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648545.post-42495637756328733242010-06-09T17:22:07.223+00:002010-06-09T17:22:07.223+00:00I remember a piece in the Lego Builder's Club ...I remember a piece in the Lego Builder's Club newsletter explaining why Lego had a policy of only doing non-militaristic sets (despite kids writing in asking for tanks etc.).<br /><br />I only mention this as a way of bragging that I used to be in the Lego builder's club. I got my photo in the magazine once.Jonny Morrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08376145372318937306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5648545.post-78607643135719053532010-06-09T16:56:41.129+00:002010-06-09T16:56:41.129+00:00I know I'm supposed to be horrified. I know wh...I know I'm supposed to be horrified. I know what we all think is the "agenda" here. I get it, really.<br /><br />But... I played with nothing else, as a child, than guns, bombs and tanks. It never crossed even my six-year-old mind that doing any of this shit <i>for real</i> would be a remotely clever idea. I grew up into the same kind of draft-dodging, lilly-livered liberal as all the kids whose hippy parents wouldn't even let them hold a banana by the curved end. TBH, I'd rather boys (and girls, if they want to) played with historically-accurate toy engines of death, like I did, than the sanitised, generic "UN Eco-Peacekeeper Skateboard iWarrior XTreme!!!" they get today.Rob Stradlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02622504337859973159noreply@blogger.com