Re: Lego Makes Top 10 In List of Most Popular Toys for Boys

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> >Yeah, the other day I saw some toy trucks (in my day they would have been
> >plastic or metal) and the entire chassis was made of molded foam!
>
>    remember when hot wheels and matchbox cars were all die cast metal?  do
you
> remember when the hot wheels wheels were made so good that you could push
the
> car straight across the entire kitchen floor?
>    now, theyre plastic pieces of junk.  thank the chinese and a cheap
american
> public.

Matchbox cars were always better when I was a kid.  More detail, more
interesting models, etc.  I think they were bought by Mattel.

The only Hot Wheels things I liked were the "Hot Wheels Railroad" sets.


> >Eventually you have to learn not to be a clumsy oaf.
>
>   thats exactly what theproblem with the world is today... a lack of
> responsibility for ones own actions.
>
>   if someone builds a lego morning star and whips it at his brother,
cutting
> his lip, lego gets sued.  thats the world we live in today.

Hence, the story of the Lego pirate cannon.  I forget if someone claimed a
child choked (on a Lego piece with a hole in the center?!?) or if someone
had an eye put out.

Someone told me you're not allowed to have firing cannons on any toys in
America now as a result, but I see them all the time, so it must be an
internal Lego decision.

They need an "Adults Only" section that sells firing cannons and MindStorms
flamethrower attachments and such.