Lego upsets parents by producing guns for children's play sets

thisislondon ^ | riday 11.05.07 | thisislondon

[holymoly]

...its Star Wars Stormtroopers now carry guns so large they can hardly hold them, despite the previous ones having nothing more alarming than a torch...

A torch? Isn't that limey for "flashlight"?

[yldstrk]

Oh give me a frickin’ break.

[jdm]

It could be worse...

[tutstar]

I say buy more lego sets that have guns! Demand rules!

[Spirochete]

[Tanniker Smith]

My Planet of the Apes action figures all carried machineguns. (Well, until my 7-year-old nephew was allowed to play with them when I wasn’t home . . . but that’s another story.)

[elkfersupper]

I too am upset that there are such things as "toy" guns.

They all should be real. I got my first firearm for my 6th birthday.

[Shooter 2.5]

I still miss the website, Leggo Death. It was taken off the net a couple of years ago. I was hoping it was archived somewhere.

[WorkingClassFilth]

All the PC parents would really blow a gasket if their kiddies used their Legos to build this: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/custom-built-lego-machine-gun

[Very cool video of a custom-built, functional Lego machine gun]

[ronnie raygun]

The feminization and emasculation of the male population. Who will protect the women if the men are hiding behind them? BOY’S WILL BE BOY’S

[doc1019]

Wusification

[headstamp]

“The philosophy of the company is very family friendly, non-violent, play.”

What a bunch of pantywaists. Jihadies killing innocent people by the bushel all over the world and these jokers are worried about a plastic gun on a microscopic action figure. Maybe someday we'll get our priorities in order.

[LibFreeOrDie]

And for alternative lifestyles, there’s “Lego Brokeback Mountain”:

http://destinationdaniel.smugmug.com/gallery/1213678#56771253

[Sender]

I have to post again that today, this very day, my grandson and namesake was admonished by his daycare and made to turn his t-shirt inside out because it had the emblem of a popular band, Guns n Roses.

Apparently the very mention of the concept of "guns" is a terrible faux pas. The staff thought it was appropriate to humiliate my grandson by making him turn his shirt inside out to punish him for mentioning the word "guns".

What a bunch of pansie liberals is "nurturing" our children. They are teaching them that to resist or fight is horrible, unmentionable.

[CindyDawg]

I agree. I don’t want guns in them.

[HungarianGypsy]

Shh! My boys use duplos and legos to make guns.

[CindyDawg]

Yep. Legos are supposed to be for creativity. I want my kids to build their own guns.

[doc1019]

If our grandfathers had been brought up in today’s atmosphere, we would be speaking German and Japanese.

[bubbacluck]

That isn’t Ann Coulter, is it?

[mountainlyons]

Kids have been playing with play guns for hundreds of years and learned the difference between toys and guns. Now anti gun wackos want to confuse kids and cause a lot of accidents. We grew up learning right and wrong watching shoot-um-ups but I guess there was an American way that was different then. The bad guys used to loose, then.