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Cameron, that's pretty much what I was thinking, with the caveat that in actual fact most kids are probably going to mix and match everything anyway, regardless of a peice being "officially" Luke Skywalker's X-wing piss canister or something.
Still, even though the natural inventiveness of the kids means there's not so much chance of this "harming creativity", this series of Lego is still no longer expressly designed to suit complete creative freedom- especially where things like characters and identity are concerned- and though it might seem minor it's a worrying trend.
It just seems problematic, and it's something to do with your remark about the stuff being aimed at thirty-year-olds, which I think may be a true to quite an extent, if not purely with these then with toys generally. Aren't adults today generally encouraged to act younger than they are, to keep on buying toys, computer games, or whatever, that would once have been deemed only acceptable for them to consider at some sort of critical distance?
Like a sort of debasement of Pop Art- the first people to say that a Campbell's soup tin or Mickey Mouse cartoon might have more to say about people today than the Mona Lisa were speaking the truth, but now you've got toy lines aimed at adults? |
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