Expertly made, but not all of it is Lego. Lego doesn't make most or any of these hand weapons and helmets, so those come either from a clone/competitor, or were custom made.
Lego Battle of Verdun [video]
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As far as themed sets go, Lego has been consistent in promoting aggressiveness in the last 30 years. Police chasing the bad guys to put them in a prison cell, pirates wanting to plunder the treasure, ninjas riding heavily-armed aircraft.
The police minifigs have certainly kept up with real life US cops: https://twitter.com/aliceavizandum/status/114154755632285286...
The clothes are one thing, but that face!
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When I was a child, Lego was explicitly and deliberately pacifist in outlook. I remember reading that the colour palette was determined in part by this philosophy - green, grey and brown were verboten, the latter colour completely absent and the first two existing only in limited plate form. Of course manufacturing cost limitations made a restricted set of colours sensible anyway. As a preventative, this was not enti…
When were you a child? In the late eightees, I happily played with Lego that had grey swords for knights in grey castles, and pirate themed stuff with brown guns, and cannons that were grey and brown. Lots of green base plates, too.
I assume it was the 70s. During the 80s, Lego included more and more green, brown, and especially grey, and also more and more weapons. First swords and spears for the knights, later muskets for the Pirate theme, and then blasters for Star Wars. They still don't like modern weaponry, though. I'm not sure if they have guns for their cops and robbers.
The real military stuff comes from clones/competitors, not from Lego.
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Is that it, are we back at “video games cause murders”-level pearl clutching? I’ll take a peer-reviewed cohort study before I believe that “Lego has been consistent in promoting aggressiveness”.
Poster said Lego has been promoting aggressiveness, not that it has caused aggressiveness. It's undeniable that Lego themes have drifted a lot more to violence (Lego City is half about Policing), plus all the Ninja and other stuff.
I don't think it's s much about Lego promoting it, but giving in to demand. The more violent lines are consistently their most popular ones. The excessive amount of policing and lack of hospitals in Lego City is disturbing, but I'm sure their sales numbers dictate this. They used to have hospitals in the past, but I guess they never sold as well as the police stations.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
The police minifigs have certainly kept up with real life US cops: https://twitter.com/aliceavizandum/status/114154755632285286...
The clothes are one thing, but that face!
I do worry about the mental health of the minifigs. They used to be so happy, but more recently they're all angry.
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#67Verdun always reminds me the treaty of 843. Split of Frankish Kingdom into what is now known as France, Germany, Benelux and northern Italy.
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#68Every year I visit various ww1 battle sites in northern France and Italy. We walk through endless farm lands to find information about certain events. We often stumble upon ammunition and steel scrap. The land is literally filled with shells, bullets, scrapnel everywhere. Some are still live and just brought to the top of the soil by farm tractor machinery. The amount of shells fired at the battle of as Verdun is so…
Myself and my then GF visited Arras just north of Verdun in 2019. She was a few months pregnant at that stage and in every hotel we stayed, the proprietor warned her to only drink bottled water, including for brushing teeth.
The locality got so hammered with poison gas shells, it all seeped into the ground water making it mildly poisonous!!
Lovely part of the world, but a sad legacy of military buildups.
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#69Call me a killjoy, but the Battle of Verdun was one of the worst and bloodiest battles of a horrific war that arguably ruined Europe. Is there Lego Auschwitz, too? Bad taste, whoever did this. Bad taste.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Poster said Lego has been promoting aggressiveness, not that it has caused aggressiveness. It's undeniable that Lego themes have drifted a lot more to violence (Lego City is half about Policing), plus all the Ninja and other stuff.
I don't think it's s much about Lego promoting it, but giving in to demand. The more violent lines are consistently their most popular ones. The excessive amount of policing and lack of hospitals in Lego City is disturbing, but I'm sure their sales numbers dictate this. They used to have hospitals in the past, but I guess they never sold as well as the police stations.
They still have hospitals