https://www.yahoo.com/news/lego-toys-getting-more-violent-180859992.html
An interesting study, one that is hard to quantify, but I get what they are saying. The increase in licensed properties has no doubt increased the violent imagery and play patterns in Lego -- although to be fair, licenses like Doctor Who and Scooby Doo are not inherently violent or combat oriented. And even Bionicle, which started out specifically by saying that the Toa and Turaga did not use weapons but (again like Doctor Who) "tools" pushed them further down this path. When I was a kid, my favorite Lego sets were the Motorcycle Shop and the King's Castle. There were plenty of medieval weapons between my King's Castle and my brother's Knight's Castle, naturally. but that was small potatoes compared to the legions of GI Joe and Cobra, plus the Good and Evil Warriors of Masters Of The Universe, the Thundercats and Mutants, Super Powers and Secret Wars, and so on and so forth... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
