Just in time to be horribly inappropriate, some folks have discovered BrickArms, a company that makes cute little Lego men with realistic weapons. Here we have the White Bandit (not, not a terrorist) who is very angry and carries a rifle, what looks like a Luger, and some grenades. Not offensive enough for you? Try the SS man.
Mohammed Shaffiq, of Muslim organisation The Ramadhan Foundation, who slammed the toy as “absolutely disgusting”.
He told the Sun: “It is glorifying terrorism – the makers should be ashamed. We should be coming together to unite against terrorism, but how is that possible when children are playing with toys like this?”
Or maybe not. As Edie Friedman, director of the Jewish Council for Racial Equality, explained: “These distasteful toys are something we could all well do without, especially when there is so much tension around.”
Again, this is a toy and it represents a very real and very scary part of our nature. I doubt the coke-snorting commandos of Mumbai played with these minifigs in their formative years so we’re back to the whole correlation/causation thing. With stuff like that going down in real life, I think the outrage is slightly misdirected.
“knee-jerk, lego, terrorism, wtf” sums it up pretty well.
These minifigs are primarily for adult audience, and I don’t see any big deal here. We have plenty of toy soldiers of all sorts, from world wars and regional conflicts… and every culture has them. These are just like any others.
In the defense of the site they have American soldiers, it looks like you could recreate a scene from any video game, movie, or book with these expensive (for Lego guys anyways) individuals. Besides if these end up in a childs hands its still a toy, worse bad guys for the good guys to kill. Cops and Robbers.
I think they are bad ass personally. Wish I had em when I was a kid, would have been my favorite Lego dudes.
If you outlaw legos then only outlaws will have legos. (If we don’t buy these, then the terrorists win.)
That’s SO my new avatar
I can totally look at this and not be offended. And to have some Muslim guy saying he’s offended? I’m offended by your inclination to treat your women like luggage and stoning people. Folks need to lighten up and direct their energies towards things that actually mean something