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In terms of new features in this week’s top 10, I wonder why the Skull Sorcerer’s Dragon is suddenly up there?

@WizardOfOss said:
" @SolidState said:
"215 is kind of a shocking Lego set in 2022. Insane it exists."
Well, just a product of a different time. Who knows which 2022 Lego sets will be considered offensive or even shocking in 2067..."

Hopefully not 60351 : Rocket Launch Centre , the real rocket is having issues , especially recently with 2 launches postponed in the past week.

Why won’t you die?!

Rageclicks, son.

41714 Andrea's Theater School was linked in this top reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lego/comments/x3coqx/wheres_the_lie

Is there a setting where logged-in users can hide the WHTW article from the feed that they see?

There was another set with literally red Indians in it before 215, it was called “3 Little Indians” and I forgot the set number. In his video of LEGO Native American stuff BrickTsar showed disturbingly nonexistent reaction to how outdated the portrayals are and said that he loved both sets along with the other three included in his video.

@jkb said:
" @Trigger_ said:
"There was another set with literally red Indians in it before 215, it was called “3 Little Indians” and I forgot the set number. In his video of LEGO Native American stuff BrickTsar showed disturbingly nonexistent reaction to how outdated the portrayals are and said that he loved both sets along with the other three included in his video."

Well, for generations of kids, Cowboys vs. Indians were a popular scenario, good and evil apllied to one side or another. No matter how you turn it, Native Americans were always portrayed in a somewhat sterotypical way, usually in the attire they were wearing and tools they were using when white men were taking their land.
If there is any good in this, you can argue that a kid's fascination with a culture can lead to deeper education on their history - leading to understand the respective contemporary situation."
Tbh I wasn’t trying to cancel him, I just found it kinda odd that he didn’t even hand-wave the differences in values between the ones literally depicting Indigenous people as red and later depictions (although the last significant LEGO Native American was Tonto whose portrayal in the Disney film was infamously inaccurate to history so there’s also that).

@Trigger_ That's BrickTsar for you XD

@jkb said:
"Well, for generations of kids, Cowboys vs. Indians were a popular scenario, good and evil apllied to one side or another. No matter how you turn it, Native Americans were always portrayed in a somewhat sterotypical way, usually in the attire they were wearing and tools they were using when white men were taking their land.
If there is any good in this, you can argue that a kid's fascination with a culture can lead to deeper education on their history - leading to understand the respective contemporary situation."
This indeed. As a kid I always preferred the Indians over the cowboys, they were just much cooler. And indeed, it was always based on stereotypes. But the fascination was there, and even as a kid I understood very well that the common portrayal wasn't exactly accurate. Though it probably helped that the tiny town I lived in happened to have one single (small) museum, about native Americans culture.

I honestly wonder how much nowadays kids know about this subject, and if depicting a culture to some degree in stereotypes (and gradually tone those down) might even be preferable over basically no longer depicting it at all. Difficult stuff...

Add link to lego for that set. page. 11k views maybe few them buy new lego.

@WizardOfOss said:
" @jkb said:
"Well, for generations of kids, Cowboys vs. Indians were a popular scenario, good and evil apllied to one side or another. No matter how you turn it, Native Americans were always portrayed in a somewhat sterotypical way, usually in the attire they were wearing and tools they were using when white men were taking their land.
If there is any good in this, you can argue that a kid's fascination with a culture can lead to deeper education on their history - leading to understand the respective contemporary situation."
This indeed. As a kid I always preferred the Indians over the cowboys, they were just much cooler. And indeed, it was always based on stereotypes. But the fascination was there, and even as a kid I understood very well that the common portrayal wasn't exactly accurate. Though it probably helped that the tiny town I lived in happened to have one single (small) museum, about native Americans culture.

I honestly wonder how much nowadays kids know about this subject, and if depicting a culture to some degree in stereotypes (and gradually tone those down) might even be preferable over basically no longer depicting it at all. Difficult stuff..."

We have the recent Winnetou shitstorm. Maybe it takes some of today's kids' attention away from TikTok, given it's not the preferred platform for cancel-faction.

No lie it's refreshing to see a comments section like this given the subject of 215 and everyone seems super chill and respectful. I kinda clicked on this article ready to see a firestorm, so props to you my fellow Lego fans.

Future generations may look back at us and consider us all awful, miserable, irredeemable people for not meeting their soon-to-be online moral standards. Perhaps we can avoid that by continuing this pattern of gracious understanding.