what would the founder think of brikwars?

Post by **Brikguy0410** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:37 am

what would Godtfred Kirk Christiansen think of brikwars? (ok so he was the second person to run the lego company, but he was in charge when they started using plastic bricks)

Post by **Venge** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:09 am

Probably "What the fuck is wrong with these people?".

Post by **sahasrahla** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:11 am

they are evil murdermongers who will burn in hell with the devil worshiping d&d players

Post by **RedRover** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:13 am

They spelled "brick" wrong.

Post by **stubby** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:23 am

I was trying to find the story where Godtfried caught one of the Lego designers building a tank and beat him up and threw him out a window, but this one is all right too:

http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.p ... nt-2704011

Aanchir wrote:[...] LEGO was very strict with designers about anything that might make LEGO play violent or morbid. For instance, the "Yellow Castle" was originally yellow because LEGO was worried that kids would make war machines like tanks if they had a large supply of grey bricks.

Niels Milan Pedersen, the other participant in that BrickJournal interview, also shared a funny anecdote on the LEGO Inside Tour last year about how one time (long before the introduction of official LEGO ghosts and skeletons) he cobbled together a custom minifigure skeleton as a joke and put it in the dungeon of a Castle set that was being presented to upper management. Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, the CEO at the time, didn't find it funny, pulling him aside and telling him "if I ever see a dead LEGO man in another set, you are fired." It was many years before Niels worked up the courage to pitch that idea again! Fortunately for his career, by that time the company was a lot more easygoing about that kind of thing!

If Lego hadn't been so opposed to war and violence back in the nineties, BrikWars would have never come into existence. Back in the early days, the fun was in doing all the things that Lego hated.

Post by **Venge** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 12:21 pm

Plastic tanks and skeletons are evil but physical violence and threats are just fine kids.

Post by **sahasrahla** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 12:34 pm

yeah that's about my takeaway too

Post by **Zahru II** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:17 pm

For instance, the "Yellow Castle" was originally yellow because LEGO was worried that kids would make war machines like tanks if they had a large supply of grey bricks.

What I would like to find out is how many kids thought the castle was made from flesh after that decision.

Post by **Captain-Camper** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:31 pm

Wait wasn't the holocaust "set" in the 90s?

Post by **Kastrenzo** » Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:12 pm

Why are grown men playing with toys

Post by **Venge** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:26 am

Captain-Camper wrote:Wait wasn't the holocaust "set" in the 90s?

Those were fan-made.

Post by **Venge** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:26 am

Kastrenzo wrote:Why are grown men playing with toys

Shut up and pass the lube.

Post by **AnnoyedZebra** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:11 am

TheVengefulOne wrote:
Kastrenzo wrote:Why are grown men playing with toys
Shut up and pass the lube.

Post by **motorhead fan** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:35 am

Zahru II wrote:
For instance, the "Yellow Castle" was originally yellow because LEGO was worried that kids would make war machines like tanks if they had a large supply of grey bricks.
What I would like to find out is how many kids thought the castle was made from flesh after that decision.

That made me laugh so hard, In my eyes, Zahru has won this thread, followed by stubby.

Post by **Captain-Camper** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:19 pm

Imagine what he would think of the whole AFOL community at large!

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