Unpopular LEGO Opinions

daewoo · February 2022

Exactly. My 16 year old daughter has NEVER touched Lego, but she said she would buy the BTS set.

CCC · February 2022

I hope they make it as designed. Maybe put faces on the figures, but other than that keep it as it is. People aren't going to be buying it for the design of the building, so why bother redesigning it.

lowlead · February 2022

Why even bother with a building, then? If they're so popular it sounds like 7 minifigs and a BTS label will suffice. I dare LEGO to slap a middle finger emoji on the box as well - just to prove a point.

sipuss · February 2022

lowlead said:

Why even bother with a building, then? If they're so popular it sounds like 7 minifigs and a BTS label will suffice. I dare LEGO to slap a middle finger emoji on the box as well - just to prove a point.

BTS Blind Battle Packs with 3 random, possibly duplicate minifigs. Guaranteed bestseller.

SumoLego · February 2022

FollowsClosely said:

Wait, who is BTS?

It'll make for a nice set of totally random Brickheadz in 25 years.

SumoLego · February 2022

CCC said:

When creating bulk lots from incomplete sets too cheap to bother completing , I have fun putting about 1/3 the set in one lot, 1/3 in another lot, and the minifigs in a third.

Don't forget to add in twenty MegaBloks, an uncomfortable amount of dust, one nerf bullet, three pennies and a dry cat turd.

lowlead · February 2022

^^LOL!!!

...and a couple raisins for good measure.

sipuss · February 2022

And fill some anti-studs with play-doh.

560Heliport · February 2022

SumoLego said:

CCC said:

When creating bulk lots from incomplete sets too cheap to bother completing , I have fun putting about 1/3 the set in one lot, 1/3 in another lot, and the minifigs in a third.

Don't forget to add in twenty MegaBloks, an uncomfortable amount of dust, one nerf bullet, three pennies and a dry cat turd.

Could be so much worse... A not-dry cat turd, for instance.

Astrobricks · February 2022

CCC said:

I hope they make it as designed. Maybe put faces on the figures, but other than that keep it as it is. People aren't going to be buying it for the design of the building, so why bother redesigning it.

If it’s such a sure thing, why put faces on the heads? ;-)

PDelahanty · February 2022

Astrobricks said:

CCC said:

I hope they make it as designed. Maybe put faces on the figures, but other than that keep it as it is. People aren't going to be buying it for the design of the building, so why bother redesigning it.

If it’s such a sure thing, why put faces on the heads? ;-)

Why DIDN'T the designer put faces on the heads? I'm not a BTS fan so I'm not sure if this is some reference to faceless people in a music video that I'm assuming this was based on...or if the designer figured "There are no faces that look like the members of BTS, so I'll just leave them blank and let Lego do all the work."

Brickchap · February 2022

@PDelahanty I agree. Very likely due to laziness (which shows in the rest of the project).

Personally I don't see how anyone could support a project where the key characters have no faces. Like if someone did a project of The Glenn Miller Orchestra or ABBA for example where the main attraction was the people, but the minifigs didn't have faces, I wouldn't support the project, regardless of how much I liked the subject matter (especially if it had the sort of lacking build that the BTS said does).

It's annoying seeing people rant about how popular BTS is and how us AFOLs are just 'out of touch, outta time' (especially when these experts are not around), when the 'experts' clearly have no understanding of how modern kids think, and the contemporary music industry.

These days, what songs/bands are popular is based entirely on playlists and what's 'trending'. Kids see a BTS song on TikTok, see that everyone else is 'liking' it, so they 'like' it too (both actually and metaphorically). The moment that BTS, or any other song/artist disappears from their feeds (or the Top 10, 100, whatever), then that song or band never existed and no one knows what it is.

As musician Rick Beato points out, the majority of people thesedays don't even know who the artist/band is, they just have a playlist playing songs while they are at the gym or whatever. Gone are the days when one would know all the band members, their unique playing techniques and could hear a guitar played and know whether it was Eric Clapton or Gary Moore playing.

Spotify and other programmes have algorithms that analyse music and play songs based on that, to the point that kids thesedays listen to music that is almost, or even exactly, the same. The songs will be different, but the beat, instrumentation, subject matter of the lyrics, etc. etc. will be the same.So many of these BTS fans are likely just listening to KPOP because that's the current trend and the playlists naturally keep giving them BTS songs.

When I was in primary school there was a boy band called One Direction that was all the rage. EVERYONE loved One Direction. For about a year or so. After that I have truly never heard any of their songs ever played anywhere; on the radio, in movies, anywhere. I remember asking a classmate about it not long after and it was funny how he adamantly denied ever liking One Direction (despite being an ardent fan when they were 'trendy'). He, like most young people, only liked the songs because everyone else liked them, and social media has only exacerbated that.

I've seen that situation time and time again where a band is supposedly popular to the point of Beatlemania then within a week is deleted from everyone's minds.

Interestingly when it came to year 12 graduation, no one could name any popular songs from our years at school/growing up. Why? Because there are none. In previous generations songs and bands had a following long after they were replaced on the top 10, or even if they never reached the top 10. Certain songs almost define an era, like Glenn Miller's In the Mood for the 1940s, or Chuck Berry's guitar intro to Johnny B Goode for rock n roll and the 1950s. None of the songs kids listened to when I was young are ever heard or discussed now, no matter how popular they were at the time.

To return to the point of all this, BTS is the craze now, but it will soon die off when it is replaced by the next boy band, which will likely be long before Lego comes out with this set.

All these thousands of BTS fans will disappear, and there will be very few people that will even know what this Lego BTS set is. And as I said before, BTS fans would never go in a Lego store, and even if they knew Lego did a BTS set would still be unlikely to buy it.

iwybs · February 2022

Not everybody has the graphic design skills to make custom faces and textures for their Ideas project, you know. It's not necessarily a lack of effort per se.

Brickchap · February 2022

@iwybs True, not everyone has graphic design skills. I sure don't.

But I just use the closest faces/textures available in Lego Digital Designer, and will often spend a long time making sure my characters are 'just right' whether I am capturing a real person, or an idea. One can also reach out to others for help. To not do any faces at all is sheer laziness.

CCC · February 2022

lowlead said:

Why even bother with a building, then? If they're so popular it sounds like 7 minifigs and a BTS label will suffice. I dare LEGO to slap a middle finger emoji on the box as well - just to prove a point.

Because money. More bricks in the box mean higher prices. Especially with that many figures, they could pad the set out with extra unnecessary parts.

PDelahanty said:

Astrobricks said:

CCC said:

I hope they make it as designed. Maybe put faces on the figures, but other than that keep it as it is. People aren't going to be buying it for the design of the building, so why bother redesigning it.

If it’s such a sure thing, why put faces on the heads? ;-)

Why DIDN'T the designer put faces on the heads? I'm not a BTS fan so I'm not sure if this is some reference to faceless people in a music video that I'm assuming this was based on...or if the designer figured "There are no faces that look like the members of BTS, so I'll just leave them blank and let Lego do all the work."

They probably couldn't be bothered. They clearly didn't put much effort into the build.

Maybe it was an experiment to see how bad a build can be but still get approved based on the license. My kids knew to stagger bricks in a wall when aged about 5 or 6.

datsunrobbie · February 2022

CCC said:

When creating bulk lots from incomplete sets too cheap to bother completing , I have fun putting about 1/3 the set in one lot, 1/3 in another lot, and the minifigs in a third.

Are you working at the Savers in West Haven, CT? That is exactly how they split up most of the bulk lots. Usually at least 4 different sets in each lot.

Lyichir · February 2022

PDelahanty said:

Astrobricks said:

CCC said:

I hope they make it as designed. Maybe put faces on the figures, but other than that keep it as it is. People aren't going to be buying it for the design of the building, so why bother redesigning it.

If it’s such a sure thing, why put faces on the heads? ;-)

Why DIDN'T the designer put faces on the heads? I'm not a BTS fan so I'm not sure if this is some reference to faceless people in a music video that I'm assuming this was based on...or if the designer figured "There are no faces that look like the members of BTS, so I'll just leave them blank and let Lego do all the work."

The Ideas submission definitely lacks a certain level of polish compared to others. I'm not saying the effort or passion wasn't there, but compared to other projects that really have to stand out to generate that level of fan engagement and support, this one was a pretty rudimentary digital render—probably by somebody without the technical know-how to generate and apply custom graphics to their rendered build (no disrespect intended—the amount of work it takes to make a "professional-looking" proposal is no small matter and even some of the best builders don't have the full skillset needed to pull something like that off on their own).

That said, the fact that it generated as much support as it did in spite of that is probably as good an indication as any that the market for a set like this is huge and impassioned. There were quite a few nicer projects in the running this time that put in admirable effort to reach the 10,000 supporter milestone, but in comparison it's hard to argue that a Jaws or Spaceballs or Knight Rider set would have even a fraction of the overall impact of a set like this in terms of attracting buyers outside Lego's typical audience.

davee123 · February 2022

Fizyx said:

I think a large part of what likely drove the 'sparsification' of the dense LEGO direction page was a drive to make the directions more durable.

I'm a couple unpopular opinions behind, but responding to this one:

I was told by someone who worked doing concept art for LEGO that making the instructions used to be the most expensive part of set design. I believe he also commented something to the effect of it being done in Denmark by "the nicest old grannies you've ever met".

Further, I was shown an article from one of the LEGO Life magazines from the 1990s (the internal publication/newsletter thingy). It was talking about the process for migrating from hand-drafted instructions to computer-generated instructions, and how wonderful it would be to move to a digital format.

The article laid out a bit of their existing process. They would essentially photograph the model at each build step, and then draw over it in a stylized fashion, making edges sharp, filling in stud-walls in black, etc. So each step might take a long time to render by hand. Especially larger models with a lot of studs.

Hence, I expect in order to cut down on cost, they tried to jam in as much as they felt they could into each individual step-- reducing the number of photos and drawings they would have to make along the way.

However, when they moved to a digital format, it was far easier to add steps, as well as (eventually) adding things like a Bill-Of-Materials for each step.

Another thing you'll notice is that there are multiple steps crammed together as tightly as possible per page, with less "whitespace" around them. That was done by hand too-- and it was pretty easy to adjust. If you've already got a human doing it? Simple! But when they moved to digital, that was tricky. As a developer myself, I'd guess it would be a lot of extra code to write something to "fit" many steps into a page.

I expect both of these added to the size of the instructions, making them bulkier, and even requiring multiple booklets in some cases (one of my pet peeves, since I may not immediately know how many booklets a set comes with, and they're sometimes very different sizes).

DaveE

Aanchir · February 2022

Seeing a lot of these comments about the quality of the submission, I can't help thinking that it explains a LOT about some of the recurring complaints I keep reading about the Ideas platform.

Even non-licensed ideas that DO reach 10,000 supporters, pass the LEGO Review, and get released are often subjected to fierce criticism. Minifigure-scale sets like the Tree House, Pirates of Barracuda Bay, and Medieval Blacksmith are often treated as an insult to the project's creator or supporters due to color changes or other cosmetic alterations to the build — even if they adhere closely to the layout/composition of the original model, or even increase the model's complexity and detail.

Some critics go so far as to say that LEGO shouldn't even approve projects like this if they aren't willing to ensure the final set is as close as possible to the original proposal. After all, the point of LEGO Ideas is to show LEGO our support for specific MOCs we think should be turned into sets, not just for the ideas behind them!

Yet non-minifigure-scale sets like the Piano, Typewriter, and Globe are just as often criticized as "pointless" models that serve no purpose but to sit on a shelf, and are often less authentic and/or more expensive than than their "real-life" equivalents. It makes no difference that both the original projects and the finished sets often demonstrate a great deal of artistic appeal, creative effort, and building proficiency.

Suddenly it's the appeal of the concept that should decide which projects fans support and which projects LEGO approves for release, not the artistry or visual appeal of the build. A proper Ideas set should be something that LEGO fans can play with and incorporate into layouts the same as they would with other sets and themes — stuff like a minifigure-scale castle, spaceship, pirate ship, train, or modular building.

Is it any surprise that licensed themes can generate so much more hype so much more quickly and reliably than non-licensed ones, considering that these non-licensed project supporters can't even agree about what the purpose of the Ideas platform is supposed to be, let alone what sorts of projects align with that purpose?

Astrobricks · February 2022

What we know for sure is that people will complain vociferously about damn near anything on the internet (and most other places).

autolycus · February 2022

Astrobricks said:

What we know for sure is that people will complain vociferously about damn near anything on the internet (and most other places).

You know, I'm just flat out tired of people saying other people complain on the internet. ;-P

SumoLego · February 2022

autolycus said:
You know, I'm just flat out tired of people saying other people complain on the internet. ;-P

I'm tired of people on the internet complaining about people complaining on the internet... complaining.

On the internet.

Astrobricks · February 2022

I wasn’t complaining. Just stating the obvious :)

SumoLego · February 2022

Astrobricks said:

I wasn’t complaining. Just stating the obvious :)

That sounds like complaining. I can't stand people on the internet not complaining, but pointing out the obvious. I also can't use emoticons. So obviously, I'm being facetious.

I can't stand people not complaining, but being facetious on the internet. That's the worst!

560Heliport · February 2022

^ This is getting meta-meta, or something. :)

Brickchap · February 2022

Guys, don't bring up meta stuff, reminds me too much of the philosophy course I took (PTSD intensifies). Don't take philosophy. I am being serious here, I would have been better off staying at home and building Lego than taking that course.

Also on a serious note (I got the joke though), I hate it when someone makes a valid criticism or raises a concern and then everyone starts saying that that person is complaining (when really the only ones whinging are them). I get this all the time, it's like when anyone who takes the initiative to delegate is childishly labelled as 'bossy' (by a person who then just takes over and it must be done their way or else).

This is not directed at any of you, I'm thinking of other cases.

Astrobricks · February 2022

I hate it when people are facetiously sarcastic on the internet. It’s so meta!

BooTheMightyHamster · February 2022

Brickchap said:

When I was in primary school there was a boy band called One Direction that was all the rage. EVERYONE loved One Direction.

Not everyone. Take it from me.

SumoLego · February 2022

One Direction won't get their Brickheadz until 2030. Don't get my hopes up.

lowlead · February 2022

I hate it when I jump in on the gag way too late.

CCC · February 2022

I preferred any other direction. But then I wasn't at school when 1D was popular.

I do know they were called 1D for short. Mainly as some cheap stores had piles and piles of their merch that wouldn't shift after the one with this hair cut left.

FollowsClosely · February 2022

My unpopular opinion:

Once my Castle in the Woods set arrives it is going directly to eBay. The price has gone up to the point that it makes no sense to break the seal.

I will brinklink the pieces I am missing and enjoy the build one day in the future.

autolycus · February 2022

560Heliport said:

^ This is getting meta-meta, or something. :)

Meta is the company that owns Facebook. Is it something else? :P

KungFuKenny · February 2022

lowlead said:

^^LOL!!!
...and a couple raisins for good measure.

You assume that they were raisins... :-)

Sethro3 · February 2022

I look at it as a win-win. Either BTS will be forgotten and this set will be discounted, or they will remain popular and a lot of their fans will buy this set (presumably). I don't mind a few of their hits so if it comes on the radio I'll listen, but I wouldn't seek out buying their music. (as for 1Direction, other than the middle school girls in the neighborhood liking them, I wouldn't know much about them).

I don't know if the submission was lazy or lack of skill (I wouldn't know how to do any of that stuff, so I've never tried to submit a pretty project). But there is no way LEGO doesn't pretty up that set. They will have to balance expected cost and scale, but for sure they won't just have a stack of bricks and call it a facade behind them. I don't see them phoning it in.

PDelahanty · February 2022

Sethro3 said:

I don't know if the submission was lazy or lack of skill (I wouldn't know how to do any of that stuff, so I've never tried to submit a pretty project). But there is no way LEGO doesn't pretty up that set. They will have to balance expected cost and scale, but for sure they won't just have a stack of bricks and call it a facade behind them. I don't see them phoning it in.

Yes, I agree. ...and if they do a decent enough job with the main model, that might get people who aren't BTS fans to buy it in order to have an interesting building in their town. There's probably a few people who aren't huge fans of Home Alone that have (or will) drop $250 US on #21330 because it's a nice big house. (I'm one of those people. The movie's fine and I've seen it start-to-finish maybe once, but I really just want it because it's a nice big house to add to my town.)

SumoLego · March 2022

I have another one - I dislike the LEGO helmet line that is presently flooding the market.

Another complete 'meh' to all of it.

WesterBricks · March 2022

^ That sparked a cool idea in my mind… a collection similar to the SW helmets, but historical helmets/headdresses.

- Samurai
- Astronauts, specifically the 1969 moon landing
- King Tut
- Indigenous Peoples

Brickchap · March 2022

^That's a great idea! I really wish Lego would do more to encourage an appreciation and understanding of history (and culture which is apart of that) for kids.

The overwhelming majority of kids thesedays sadly hate history (and it doesnt help that the latest craze is to just blame every problem one encounters on the Boomer generation, although that is often illogically applied to just about anyone over 40 and indeed the idea that everyone born within the so called Baby Boomers generation is bad, evil, doesnt care about the environment is stereotypical, offensive and downright stupid given it was largely the Baby Boomers and immediate generation after that championed the hippie/green movement, womens rights, civil rights movement etc. etc. )

All of your examples for helmets are good, personally I'd be very open to indigenous peoples helmets/headdresses, such as the Torres Strait Islander headdress which is used in their flag, but undoubtedly a group of privileged white people would whinge that was 'stereotyping First Nations peoples' and 'racist', despite the obvious result being educating people about indigenous cultures.

Personally I would like to see the Western theme return, either as one limited to cowboys and crooks, or if they did include Native Americans than instead of just whinging about stereotypes, Lego could instead use it as an opportunity to educate children about Native American culture, maybe even have different tribes represented similar to factions in the Lego Castle theme)

Astronaut helmets would be very popular, do you think they would do Soviet ones as well? Eg Yuri Garagain, or would having CCCP written on it be too controversial?

Egyptian headdresses would be really cool, and also popular (not only for Egoyptoligists but also just imagine all those gold pieces!) however I feel like Egyptian pharaohs headdresses would be too similar to release a line of them. Obviously each was unique, but as a concept some might consider it too repetitive.

As for samurai, that would definitely be popular and would look really cool, but would Lego do what is basically a military helmet? I know samurai swords can be rather controversial.

Personally I think 'ancient' helmets would be really cool like samurai, a Roman helmet, Greek helmet, gladiator helmet, maybe a medieval knights helmet? (I know that's rather a broad description), but I feel like Lego would consider those too military, even though it's not the intention.

CCC · March 2022

SumoLego said:

I have another one - I dislike the LEGO helmet line that is presently flooding the market.

I don't think they are flooding the market. There are plenty of other LEGO sets, even plenty of other LEGO Star Wars sets available. What is the alternative to doing something new? More repeats of things they have already done?

Brickchap · March 2022

@CCC Create a new historical theme!

It doesn't have to be a return of classic castle or pirates, but try something new like a semi-realistic portrayal of the Vikings (eg realistic viking villages and ships but then maybe some Norse mythology creatures or something), Roman or Greek theme, a Victorian theme? Steampunk maybe?

Personally I'd love to see something from the 20th century, like an interwar period one maybe gangster/detective sort of thing, or a fun, retro 1950s/60s theme, but in both those cases realistic.

A 1950s American version of Alien Conquest could work quite well so realistic 1950s vehicles, buildings etc. and then some classic aliens and flying saucer UFOs.

CCC · March 2022

Brickchap said:

^That's a great idea! I really wish Lego would do more to encourage an appreciation and understanding of history (and culture which is apart of that) for kids.

The overwhelming majority of kids thesedays sadly hate history (and it doesnt help that the latest craze is to just blame every problem one encounters on the Boomer generation, although that is often illogically applied to just about anyone over 40 and indeed the idea that everyone born within the so called Baby Boomers generation is bad, evil, doesnt care about the environment is stereotypical, offensive and downright stupid given it was largely the Baby Boomers and immediate generation after that championed the hippie/green movement, womens rights, civil rights movement etc. etc. )

All of your examples for helmets are good, personally I'd be very open to indigenous peoples helmets/headdresses, such as the Torres Strait Islander headdress which is used in their flag, but undoubtedly a group of privileged white people would whinge that was 'stereotyping First Nations peoples' and 'racist', despite the obvious result being educating people about indigenous cultures.

I doubt a headgear series would do very much for education. Who would buy a Spartan helmet, for example. Someone already interested in Greek history (or in movies such as 300) that want it for a display object or someone that doesn't know very much about what it is or that period of history that buys it to educate themselves. Ultimately they would be display objects bought by rich people for display. If adults aren't interested in the culture already, I doubt they would buy them for themselves or their kids.

How many parents worldwide would buy a $75 set to build themselves and their children a small copy of a 17th century Cavalier hat just to learn something superficial like they were worn by followers of Charles I during the English Civil War.

Sethro3 · March 2022

Now I would definitely buy a Spartan helmet specifically because of 300...so you got me there. I'd also welcome a Gladiator helmet like the one Maximus wears in the ring. If I were more clever, I would attempt to build one myself, but alas, I am not.

SumoLego · March 2022

CCC said:
More repeats of things they have already done?

Yes. Endless lighthouse re-releases.

lowlead · March 2022

The best set in the helmet series is the Imperial Probe Droid! =oD

Charmiefcb · March 2022

I would love different helmets from history. Sadly as said above people who would never buy one will complain about it by making up some feeble excuse like culturally insensitive or some other buzzword and Lego will bend over backwards for them. They complained about a Technic set they were never going to buy and have moved on to complaining about Friends.
Lego and other corporations should be smart enough to realize the mentally ill that live on Twitter and complain about everything are not their market.

Astrobricks · March 2022

Just because people don’t believe what you do doesn’t mean they’re mentally ill or that they don’t buy Lego.

Charmiefcb · March 2022

I didn't say people who disagree with me are mentally ill I said people who live on social media and spend their time complaining and joining in on pile ons of people and companies have mental illnesses. If it offended anyone being affected by a mental illness then I apologize. It was put rather bluntly. There are alot of studies and articles that back up what I meant. How social media use causes mental illness in some people. I'm not happy about it. I feel very strongly about social media, how it divides people and the damage it's doing to society. Social media is not healthy. It's a very negative environment. When I used some of these platforms and what I see now it's constant negativity and you do get people that basically live on these platforms and create bubbles for themselves where only one view is allowed in and everything else is wrong and those that don't believe in what's in their bubble are Nazis and need to be physically harmed. That is not healthy and will cause bigger issues down the line.
I saw a friend of mine go downhill due to constant social media use. Seeing this once happy person turn into this angry hate filled person that was constantly angry over what was trending on Twitter.

As for these people not buying the set they're complaining about. Let's say somebody was against homosexuality for whatever reason and emailed, made social media campaigns to Lego about the Everyone is Awesome and Queer Eye sets. This is a kids toy and it shouldn't be sexualised etc They never had an interest in buying these sets. Why should Lego listen to them? What if those sets were pulled from shelves? How would you feel? I'd be saying the exact same thing I am now about the Technic Osprey. The people complaining about the Osprey had no intention of buying it. So why in both cases try to ruin it for people that do want to buy and build those sets?

SumoLego · March 2022

I tend to think that social media, like any other vehicle for human interaction, has its positives and negatives. Without social media, there was plenty of people suffering in silence, ignorance and in isolation. For all of the bad aspects of the Twitter Mob, if other people are able to find a community and find positive social interaction and do positive things, that can't be ignored. It is miraculous that one can have access to all of the information nearly instantaneously.

Are the complainers purchasing the set? - no. But do they have leverage to convince others to buy no sets? - perhaps. Does LEGO do a cost-benefit analysis and opt to cancel a single set rather than risk the potential consequences of criticism? - of course.

We may not like these decisions, and be diametrically opposed to such ridiculous tactics, but I would expect LEGO to know their market and make prudent decisions based on the information available. Maintaining a positive relationship with the German Peace Society - or using the situation to emphasize the non-military policy - must have outweighed the value of releasing the set.

My approach is to change the channel. Some people are activists. People are different.

Brickchap · March 2022

I'll be honest I always found it rather ironic it was a bunch of Germans whinging about a 'military' helicopter (which is only used for transport, same as all those chinooks Lego has made). After starting two World Wars I hardly see grounds for Germans to go lecturing the Danish (who from memory haven't fought an 'offensive' war since the 19th century or possibly before) on what's military, what's not and how to achieve peace.

Plus now a democratic, sovereign nation (Ukraine) has been invaded by an aggressive, expansionist state (with it's very own Hitler wannabe, or I should say Stalin to be more correct), and what does Germany do? Prevent Lithuania from selling Ukraine German weapons to defend itself.

Just on unpopular Lego opinions, what do people think of showing support for Ukraine in non political groups? Like heaps of Lego groups have had people posting Ukrainian flags made out of Lego, peace messages and scenes, etc. and even a computer game group I'm in lots of people were posting their support for the people of Ukraine.

This, however, is only for others to whinge, the posts to be removed and the chat in this particular game has now been disabled (the developers are Russians so....).

To get to the point, I fully support people posting support for Ukraine anywhere and everywhere. A full blown political speech or message I can understand not being appropriate but just a flag and message like "Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Ukraine, stay strong!" stuff like that is fine. It doesn't matter if you live under a rock playing with Lego all day, it's happening right now and it's not something that's happened for decades.

Personally I think the complainers "waaa it's a Lego group, waaa its War Thunder group don't want politics' are horrible, miserable trolls or just pro-Russian. If someone for whatever reason decides not to post any messages of support for Ukraine, or doesn't 'Like' any of them, that's okay and doesn't necessarily mean that person is against Ukrainian sovereignty or anything, but I see no reason as to why these self proclaimed admins should go around silencing (well, just plain whinging really), everytime someone has the heart to show their support for fellow people who just want to live in peace.

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