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what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:37 am
by Brikguy0410
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)
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:09 am
by Venge
Probably "What the fuck is wrong with these people?".
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:11 am
by sahasrahla
they are evil murdermongers who will burn in hell with the devil worshiping d&d players
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:13 am
by RedRover
They spelled "brick" wrong.
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:23 am
by stubby
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.
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 12:21 pm
by Venge
Plastic tanks and skeletons are evil but physical violence and threats are just fine kids.
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 12:34 pm
by sahasrahla
yeah that's about my takeaway too
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 1:17 pm
by Zahru II
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.
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:31 pm
by Captain-Camper
Wait wasn't the holocaust "set" in the 90s?
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 10:12 pm
by Kastrenzo
Why are grown men playing with toys
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:26 am
by Venge
Captain-Camper wrote:Wait wasn't the holocaust "set" in the 90s?
Those were fan-made.
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 6:26 am
by Venge
Kastrenzo wrote:Why are grown men playing with toys
Shut up and pass the lube.
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:11 am
by AnnoyedZebra
TheVengefulOne wrote:Kastrenzo wrote:Why are grown men playing with toys
Shut up and pass the lube.
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:35 am
by motorhead fan
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.
Re: what would the founder think of brikwars?
Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:19 pm
by Captain-Camper
Imagine what he would think of the whole AFOL community at large!