LEGO: Alien Conquest
January 10th, 2012I went looking for interesting LEGO sets for my sons at a local store and I found LEGO set 7052, which has a depiction of a UFO abducting a person on the box.
LEGO: Alien Conquest
See: alienconquest.lego.com.
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Please forgive the hair-splitting, but before I can vote, I’m going need a little more clarity on the nature of “good clean fun”… =)
That said, isn’t EVERYTHING ultimately social engineering of one stripe or another?
those danes… too many mushrooms… too long winters… lol
Directed to kids who don’t know what’s real and what’s not – sad. Remember this Sony ad from 2000 with cows being abducted? http://www.rense.com/general5/sonyad.htm
the points that shift my vote are the business man w/ an alien “hat”, the x-com/swat unit that downs and retrieves a single ufo then abandons the city, the collective brain sucking “machine” and lastly the war of the worlds lookin GE quadruped/bigdog lookin apc. tho im not saying which way my vote went, kinda wished there was an a&b option, yup.
It’s good, clean social engineering fun.
I agree that everything is ultimately social engineering, but in this case it is largely about the Lego company’s way around selling toy guns.
When I was a kid the company used their “space” sets as a way to appeal to natural kid violence without selling “war” toys. I believe there was something in the original company charter about not selling toy weapons. By claiming that the “phaser” looking pieces were actually sensors or something kids could use those pieces as weapons while maintaining plausible deniability in the boardroom. 🙂
It seems they’ve expanded on the theme a bit, but the only conspiracy is to maintain the company’s supposed pacifist philosophy while making money selling toy guns.
That said, I believe that there is a very real alien invasion social engineering meme. It’s just hard to tell when someone is following a trend or being directed.
I always suspected that the Danes knew more than they were letting on…
I’m not too worried about it. I mean, we teach kids that there’s this fat dude in a red suit that gives them free shit every year. That’s pretty pervasive last I checked.
I seem to remember reading something about LEGO using panels of children to help choose and refine the themes of these new lego toys (and the connected stories).
Perhaps this is more like the hologram Joe Bageant was talking about in the post a few days back where, as cultural-, market- and social engineering-driven memes, plus others, virally reproduce and abound, bits of them, like scraps of DNA, end up showing up in or reflecting off everything else.
https://cryptogon.com/?p=26849
http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2010/05/lost-on.html
The roadblock and uniform is interesting.
Only the VIREP unit/roadblock on the way to the city can save you from the “aliens” who take your farmers?