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Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:59:27 +0000

[...] – Lucasarts property, swinging with the whip, digging with the spade, shooting with the gun, and no damned Nazis. It’s a natural sequel to Lego Star Wars. Lego Batman, though – there’s a lot more to [...]

By: MrMelons

MrMelons — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:56:56 +0000

How about the movie, The Producer? Spring time for Hitler and Germany, Winter for Poland and France. I mean talk about using Nazi’s for a laugh and that went to broadway. All in all i don’t think it would have been a big deal having the Nazi’s in there, really all it is doing is what the late Bugs Bunny Cartoons did and that is make them look like complete buffoons with a good laugh at their expense.

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Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:22:17 +0000

[...] Optimaximal: I guess if you remove the swastikas they’ll still literally be brownshirts. Ho ho.They’ll probably just use the Balkenkreuz or the… [...]

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:48:03 +0000

I guess if you remove the swastikas they’ll still literally be brownshirts. Ho ho.

They’ll probably just use the Balkenkreuz or the Iron Cross instead – it’s what all the WW2 FPS had to use in Germany to actually reach retail shelves (before being promptly indexed or whatever it is those strange people do).

By: Champagne O'Leary

Champagne O'Leary — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:43:52 +0000

I don’t think the point of Indiana Jones is to portray the evils of the Nazi party. I feel we’re maybe losing perspective here. It’s a game about daredevilry rendered in Lego, not a holocaust memorial.

I guess if you remove the swastikas they’ll still literally be brownshirts. Ho ho. Anyway, this isn’t a gaming choice, it’s a Lego choice. If you had actual nazis in there, and the Lego games let you pick any character, I think any sensible producer wouldn’t touch that with a bargepole. Letting children control nazis, however theoretically harmless, is going to upset someone and they maybe have a fair point.

By: Piratepete

Piratepete — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 12:01:09 +0000

‘Won’t anyone think of the children’

/swoons

Well what concerns me is that by Pc’ing history it stops children, adults even, from learning the lessons of history. The most important lessons humanity has for future generations. I believe that this a bit dangerous and the dividing line between the truth and being politically correct is constantly being crossed to the point where, as a society, we will not remember the sacrifice of the millions who died to give us the freedoms we now enjoy. We should not shy away from history but treat it with respect, even if the truth of it is sometimes difficult to pallette.

Tell it like it is i reckon.

By: Nallen

Nallen — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:20:19 +0000

But but.. I watched Indiana Jones as a kid (as do many kids, I’m sure) and it had real looking non-lego Nazis in it.

WTF the fuck?

I prefere ‘What the WTF’

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:56:54 +0000

Also.. he does require Nazis if it’s based on the films in which there were, in fact Nazis.

I understand that. I was just making a generalisation that Indy doesn’t just fight Hitlers goons.

By: Sum0

Sum0 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:27:50 +0000

[dailymail]It’s political correctness gone mad![/dailymail]

I think they’ve made the right decision here. Mixing Nazis with Lego is just… weird.

By: Janto

Janto — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 02:01:31 +0000

Reaction against Nazis in the meeja? Hardly – I mean, there are much more recent (and more extreme) examples of Nazi jokes than Faulty Towers’ Germans episode – there’s a Father Ted one where the whole house gets filled with Nazi regalia and a waving Fr. Ted is mistaken for a nazi saluting maniac. And probably much more recent exampes too.

By: Dracko

Dracko — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:49:50 +0000

That’s because younger directors are wusses.

By: Will Tomas

Will Tomas — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:35:10 +0000

@Masked Dave:

The Producers gets away with it because it’s a remake: everyone knows the content, and has already passed judgement on it. I’m not so sure it would have got the same reception had it been an original piece. Also Mel Brooks is part of that older generation. I can’t see many younger directors trying something similar.

That said, there wouldn’t have been much complaining had Lego Indy had Lego Nazis in either. I was commenting on the point by Mattress, rather than on the Lego thing specifically, but I do think that has been a general mass media move in the direction I pointed at.