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tl;dr - researchers are a scared of increasing trend of 'violent' Lego toys mostly because of movie sets - Star Wars, Lord of the Ring, etc.
by zihotki 10y ago
tl;dr - researchers are a scared of increasing trend of 'violent' Lego toys mostly because of movie sets - Star Wars, Lord of the Ring, etc.
- imron 10y agoAnd here's me, more concerned by movie set Lego and what it does to creativity.
- yellowapple 10y agoSame. The nice thing about older Lego sets was that they were more-or-less generic; while I did have a few Star Wars and Indiana Jones themed sets while I was growing up, having access to things like deep sea and generic space sets seemed to discourage faithfulness to the source material. Nowadays, though, I feel like the kids I see playing with Legos are discouraged from mixing and matching among kits, which is unfortunate; mixing and matching to create something better than the sum of the parts was always a big part of the fun of Legos.
- douche 10y agoFunny enough, that is one of the core messages of the Lego Movie, that it is okay to be creative and mix and match things, as opposed to the collector's impulse to keep everything mint.