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NOTE: Due to the overwhelming response for our one-of-a-kind MAGA “Build the Wall” construction set, we have temporarily sold out of our entire inventory! But don’t despair! Place your pre-order now because we have a massive shipment coming to us from the manufacturer which will arrive in our warehouseon Dec. 9 and we are increasing our staff to ensure that your order ships immediately! Thank you for your support of our conservative company and the American economy!
Not gonna lie, the irony that this set is (I am fairly certain) being produced in China coupled with the last line is pretty hilarious to me.
And LEGO isn't likely to have any legit grounds to go after this particular type of product. It would be a total waste of time and money for no useful end to them.
You're probably right that it would most likely not reap a large financial reward, and Lego might even have trouble winning such a case if the manufacturers passed it off as some sick parody. Call it wishful thinking on my part that these racist jerks would pay the price for appropriating a brand image I love dearly.
If enough people do in fact start misreporting or misidentifying it as a LEGO product, I would at least expect LEGO to prepare a response to press inquiries clarifying that the company has no connection to this product and that it does not reflect their values, and possibly issue a C&D notice if they see it being sold online in any way that they consider deceptive. But I sort of doubt it’d escalate to a lawsuit.
Do you mean by Tuesday? Lawyers definitely don't move that fast.
I struggle with how a wall is offensive. Is the Great Wall of China offensive? It was built to keep the Mongols out after all. How about Hadrian's Wall? That offensive? The Amorite Wall?
Maybe this is off topic but countries have boundaries and it is perfectly within their rights to secure them by whatever means they choose. That someone could get offended by that speaks more to me about them than the actual barrier.
As with everything, it's how you go about doing things - and what it symbolizes. And with this silly set, it's not about the wall - it's about making a buck off of aggressive comments by a newsworthy source.
I would skip a few steps and annex all of North and Central America north of the Panama Canal. Some good ol'Amurican bureaucracy and taxation would make it uniformly unpleasant for everyone. And there wouldn't be a need for a wall. Just a couple of agents on a few bridges and a really, really big Navy!
I can only imagine how much payola was spent by TLG in addition to reminding the Chinese Government that they built a gigantic factory on the mainland.
But just as important is the reason that classic castle sets are OK but modern military sets are not: nobody alive today has lost parents, friends, or siblings in living memory directly because of the foreign policy decisions of the imperial dynasties that created the Great Wall of China, but that can’t be said about most 20th or 21st century governments, let alone current ones.
I’m not sure why it’s so hard for so many people to understand why modern military conflicts OR modern political disagreements are likely to be a sore spot for more people than ones that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago. It’s not hypocrisy, it’s just trying not to be needlessly insensitive.
And we a dealing with a risk-averse toy company that makes plastic bricks. (Who was once subject to criticism for co-marketing with a petroleum company.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46224431
Lego opening first store in Thailand
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/news/1584910/lego-opening-first-store-in-thailand“Asia still has a low base for Lego toys compared to many established markets in the West, but the company is also seeing an opportunity to boost its sales by five or six times in the region,
Asia have a base problem is the prices.
...Puts the popcorn away momentarily...
That Trump "set" really had me in stitches for a moment, the reactions to it by some commenters as well.
I mean, shopping link or not, this is blatant satire, isn't it? No one in her/his right mind (at least outside the US) is taking Trump seriously, so why should the makers of this "set"?
On a completely unrelated note, I recently made another purchase on Aliexpress. Just couldn't resist. They have a "CMF" version of Bob Ross, complete with brush and palette. Plus there was an additional Deadpool head in the bag. At first I thought it was a mistake. I mean what has Deadpool to do with Bob Ross? Then I did a quick Google search and found out about that hysterical Deadpool 2 trailer. The makers of this "CMF" appear to have seen it to and included that head to swap out. How cool is that? Don't know who makes the fig though. Kohl probably. In any case, at 0.75 Euro including free shipping from China to Germany, I simply don't care. German customs didn't either ;-)
I can't stand Trump, nor the government's border policy, but hey, if you want to rant then stand up for it without pandering to 'I didn't start the argument - someone else did'... Way too much of this in our world today.
Unfortunately we do. I can't count the times I've had to correct omissions and flat out falsehoods found in my kids' history textbooks that they were issued in school.
As for the wall set, having relooked at it, Lego could go after them for the minifig if they wanted to.
As for The Wall (TM), please, don't bother. When a liberal and a conservative debate online, it is rarely about the same thing. @daewoo is arguing that a wall's construction is within a country's legal and ethical rights, which has nothing to do with the toy depicted. @Aanchir is making a few mostly correct statements, but only two have any relevance to the wall, and none actually refute the original comment. I doubt the current political climate will have much influence over any potential court battle between LEGO and MAGA.
Maybe we can start a Brexit thread and see how quickly I can take a nap. Or maybe a Trump Brexit thread, and then break the internet on two continents.
Maybe we should go back to if Market Street is a Modular debate. At least that was more civilized.