Lego: The Preferred Toy of Evil Capitalists

MND ^ | March 28, 2007 | By Doug Powers

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I have a co-worker who's really into legos, especially where Star Wars items are concerned. I wonder what he'd think of this.

[Windcatcher]

I can see it now...

Save repressed children from the evils of Communism. Send them their very own toys today! (preferably Legos)

[flushed with pride]

Bionicles? DON'T GET ME STARTED!!! The books, the DVDs, the posters, the t-shirts. And of course every parent has stepped on (bare footed) one left in the floor in the middle of the night--YEEOWWW, #@$%&!!! (see, I told you not to get me started)

[mplsconservative]

My son is an evil capitalist, especially when it comes to Legos. don't give him any ideas! :)

[mplsconservative]

We used to live in Minneapolis for our son's first seven years. LegoLand loomed large during every visit to the Mall of America. Picture a couple hundred kids vying for the best wheels to race their cars in the sample area. Chaos reigned!

I have to say I loved (most) every minute of it. We're due for a visit before he gets too old and jaded for the experience.

I must say, I'd love to see the look on the two teachers' faces mentioned in the article. "This is what Legos are about ladies. F-U-N, fun!" Of course sour communists would have none of that. :)

[supercat]

Why cant we teach our kids the "truth" The pilgrims were failing miserably under a comunal system and only the concept of private ownership turned that around. Suddenly people wanted to work the feilds because they were their fields!

Did you see my #13?

[flushed with pride]

Last August we went to the MOA and to the Lego store. Upon seeing it for the first time our son practically went into a trance. His dream now is to go to LegoLand (the amusement park) in California. I told him to wait for two more years for the one to be built here in Kansas City. He'll be twelve by then and maybe the mystique will have worn off. Right now he is so geeked up about Legos that I swear he goes into an altered state of consciousness when he plays with them.

[supercat]

And of course every parent has stepped on (bare footed) one left in the floor in the middle of the night

Hmm... sounds like Crossing that Room. Though perhaps Tom Dickson could handle the Bionicles as he did Fifty-three toy cars.

[ozzymandus]

Stalin would be so proud. (Of course, all the Legos would be stamped "Property of Comrade Stalin")

[Moonman62]

I would take a hammer to one of the teacher's Volvos since it would be my property as much as hers.

[stainlessbanner]

legoping

[flushed with pride]

During the height of Stalin's reign of terror, in one of many efforts to control the minds of the Soviet people, particularly the children, toys made in the old USSR bore the inscription, "Thank you, Comrade Stalin for my glorious childhood." Like most propaganda, the sick joke was that what Russian children experienced during those dark years was not glorious, nor was it a childhood. By all accounts of those who actually survived the experience, it was a bare existence marked by exposure, malnutrition, disease, and want; most of which was government produced. Funny how this stark holocaust of human misery is rarely to never taught in schools anymore.

[RaceBannon]

Doesn't surprise me, each brick costs less than a half a cent to make, and they almost sell for $.50 inside each package.

[zeugma]

When I first saw this article, I thought of the automobile factory described in Atlas Shrugged that was run (into the ground) as a communistic endevour.

[zeugma]

Awesome. Puts my measly building efforts to shame.

[zeugma]

I have a co-worker who's really into legos, especially where Star Wars items are concerned. I wonder what he'd think of this.

Don't tell your co-worker about the new Millenium Falcon Lego has just come out with. It's the biggest model Lego has ever made, (5000+ pieces)  and costs a whopping $500!

I'm trying to figure out some way to be able to justify buying this myself.

[Major_Risktaker]

please help...

Kids trapped at your local
public schools.

A ban was initiated at the Hilltop Children’s Center in Seattle. According to an article in the winter 2006-07 issue of “Rethinking Schools” magazine, the teachers at the private school wanted their students to learn that private property ownership is evil.

The teachers decided its destruction was an opportunity to explore “the inequities of private ownership.” According to the teachers, “Our intention was to promote a contrasting set of values: collectivity, collaboration, resource-sharing, and full democratic participation.”

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Communist China's parliament has agreed landmark changes to the constitution that will protect private property for the first time since the 1949 revolution.

YET!

American teachers embrace old style communist logic in the class room as China embraces property rights as they build new cities.

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Anyway this is a cool video:

Lego Star Destroyer Built in just over 4 minutes

[SuperSonic]

[SuperSonic]

I would take a hammer to one of the teacher's Volvos since it would be my property as much as hers.