War On War Toys

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-11-25 10:59am

Darth Wong wrote:Although you must admit that when you were a kid, you too wondered just what kind of things you could really order from ACME.

Sure did, especially since we got ACME rulers issued to us in junior school. I probably still have them lying around in storage somewhere.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2003-11-25 11:09am

looks like the lion & lamb seems to be a wannabe PETA, except (more? less?) idiotic. . .i'd love to see exactly what kind of hard evidence they have and how they research it.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-11-25 05:44pm

aerius wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:Although you must admit that when you were a kid, you too wondered just what kind of things you could really order from ACME.
Sure did, especially since we got ACME rulers issued to us in junior school. I probably still have them lying around in storage somewhere.

I think there's a chain of grocery stores named "ACME" too. They must be branching out.

C.S.Strowbridge · Post by **C.S.Strowbridge** » 2003-11-25 05:49pm

Only partially on topic ...

Teletoon recently aired Hillbilly hair, my favourite Bugs Bunny cartoon. They edited the squaredancing scenes cutting out the part where the two Martin brothers hit each other with fence posts. BUT, they left in the part where they walk into a hay bailer.

What kind of crap is that?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-11-25 06:12pm

C.S.Strowbridge wrote:Only partially on topic ...

Teletoon recently aired Hillbilly hair, my favourite Bugs Bunny cartoon. They edited the squaredancing scenes cutting out the part where the two Martin brothers hit each other with fence posts. BUT, they left in the part where they walk into a hay bailer.

What kind of crap is that?

Because we have to be stupid PC(look how they edit Yosemite Sam or Elmer Fudd toons...they take out certain scenes because it may be too racial, but keep some of the wilder shit in)

C.S.Strowbridge · Post by **C.S.Strowbridge** » 2003-11-25 09:59pm

Ghost Rider wrote:
C.S.Strowbridge wrote:Only partially on topic ...

Teletoon recently aired Hillbilly hair, my favourite Bugs Bunny cartoon. They edited the squaredancing scenes cutting out the part where the two Martin brothers hit each other with fence posts. BUT, they left in the part where they walk into a hay bailer.

What kind of crap is that?
Because we have to be stupid PC(look how they edit Yosemite Sam or Elmer Fudd toons...they take out certain scenes because it may be too racial, but keep some of the wilder shit in)

AFAIK, you can't show it on American TV at all. I hope it's on the next collection of Looney Tunes cartoons.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-11-25 10:04pm

C.S.Strowbridge wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:
C.S.Strowbridge wrote:Only partially on topic ...

Teletoon recently aired Hillbilly hair, my favourite Bugs Bunny cartoon. They edited the squaredancing scenes cutting out the part where the two Martin brothers hit each other with fence posts. BUT, they left in the part where they walk into a hay bailer.

What kind of crap is that?
Because we have to be stupid PC(look how they edit Yosemite Sam or Elmer Fudd toons...they take out certain scenes because it may be too racial, but keep some of the wilder shit in)
AFAIK, you can't show it on American TV at all. I hope it's on the next collection of Looney Tunes cartoons.

Be nice to see it.

Also only time I've seen it on American TV is on Late Night Cartoon Network.

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-11-25 10:28pm

This has got to be a slick marketting ploy(After all anything that pairents disaprove of kids will waint just to anoy the parients)
Or it's a vast conspericy run by a bunch of tight assed control freaks.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-11-25 10:39pm

I hate these idiots....

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2003-11-25 11:12pm

Darth Wong wrote:Nobody is taking away my boys' inventory of violent toys!
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Actually, that's not all of them. The toy aircraft carrier and battleship didn't fit in the frame, nor did some of their other stuff. Oh well.

Interesting...I once owned that same Tommy gun. But a camouflage E-11? Where did you get that?

Kamakazie Sith · Post by **Kamakazie Sith** » 2003-11-25 11:50pm

Darth Wong wrote:Nobody is taking away my boys' inventory of violent toys!

Actually, that's not all of them. The toy aircraft carrier and battleship didn't fit in the frame, nor did some of their other stuff. Oh well.

Wong, you are the fucking man! That is an excellent collection reminds me of mine when toys still had some balls in the US.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-11-26 01:44am

Kamakazie Sith wrote:Wong, you are the fucking man! That is an excellent collection reminds me of mine when toys still had some balls in the US.

You think thats cool? You should've seen some of the toys I had access to.

Then again, my dad let me shoot off an M-16 when I was 11 so....

(This was back when he was still in the USN. He's retired now.) Shit man, I used to have some toys that would make Shep cream himself in envy. Alas, I don't have many of them anymore.

Only one out of the bunch I have left is a green machine gun, and its in a box somewhere. I think I've still got the 6-shooter revolver around somewhere too....sucker used those loud ass caps that woke up half the block when fired.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-11-26 01:25pm

As a former Warhammerist, I find it extremely odd that the Lion & Lamb project never mentions any of Games Workshop's products.

Chardok wrote:As for monsters under the bed, sure I worried about it. I was scared sometimes, and quite honestly, I found myself wishing I had some guns like my 'Joes. Then I'd go kill that fucker.

I don't recall ever fearing monsters under the bed. However, my early interest in sci-fi sparked a tendency for me to interpretate every suspicious noise as an indicator of ghastly space aliens (usually of the SGA variety) approaching at night to open the door to my bedroom and then do something nasty to me (usually Communion-style abduction scenarios), or lurking outside the window in their spaceships to abduct me by teleportation.

Raoul Duke, Jr. · Post by **Raoul Duke, Jr.** » 2003-11-26 01:26pm

Christian stupidity, make way for uberlib stupidity. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. And of course it's just one more thing that fits into my wacky and demented "they're on a campaign of economic sabotage" conspiracy theory. They'll be focusing on movies directly again next.

Rant, rant, rant, it's all I ever do.

And re: above... yeah, Looney Toons packed a lot of references and subtexts that when you go back and re-watch them as an adult, they're actually way funnier than they were when you were a kid. Gotta love 'em for that.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-11-26 02:19pm

These pussies crop up every couple years before the Xmas shopping season, and everyone ignores them.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-11-26 04:53pm

A representative from the Lion and Lamb Project was on CFRB 1010 talk radio yesterday morning in Toronto, talking to Bill Carroll. He started arguing with her and she ended up simply ignoring everything he was saying and repeating herself ad nauseum

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2003-11-26 04:58pm

I like this one:

Jak
Video Game: Jak II, Naughty Dog, rated T for Teen

The video game: The story begins after Jak bursts out of prison, where he has been tortured for two years. He is angry and "practically shaking with bloodlust and thirst for revenge," according to one review (Toronto Star.) The game’s producers were influenced by the adult-rated Grand Theft Auto, according to several reviews. "The thing is Grand Theft Auto with elves and a talking rat. What a brilliant idea," notes the Star.

The brand: Jak II sounds like a sequel, but it isn’t. The original game in this series – Jak and Daxter – was rated E for Everyone and was a cute game about a young elf named Jak and his pet, a talking rat named Daxter. Parents who feel comfortable with this "brand" are in for a rude surprise if they purchase the sequel for their young children.
http://www.naughtydog.com

Now what parent would buy their kid a Teen-rated game(and complain about it being violent)?

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-11-26 05:09pm

Darth Wong wrote:A representative from the Lion and Lamb Project was on CFRB 1010 talk radio yesterday morning in Toronto, talking to Bill Carroll. He started arguing with her and she ended up simply ignoring everything he was saying and repeating herself ad nauseum

hahahah

Got a transcript? I'd love to read that.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-11-26 08:22pm

SAMAS wrote:I like this one:

Jak
Video Game: Jak II, Naughty Dog, rated T for Teen

The video game: The story begins after Jak bursts out of prison, where he has been tortured for two years. He is angry and "practically shaking with bloodlust and thirst for revenge," according to one review (Toronto Star.) The game’s producers were influenced by the adult-rated Grand Theft Auto, according to several reviews. "The thing is Grand Theft Auto with elves and a talking rat. What a brilliant idea," notes the Star.

The brand: Jak II sounds like a sequel, but it isn’t. The original game in this series – Jak and Daxter – was rated E for Everyone and was a cute game about a young elf named Jak and his pet, a talking rat named Daxter. Parents who feel comfortable with this "brand" are in for a rude surprise if they purchase the sequel for their young children.
http://www.naughtydog.com
Now what parent would buy their kid a Teen-rated game(and complain about it being violent)?

An idiot who thinks its the corporations' job to not make violent games accessible to children instead of the parent's job.

baelfire1945 · Post by **baelfire1945** » 2003-11-27 05:35am

I don't understand why I still let myself be surprised by how stupid people are. At those points growing up when we were to poor to afford action figures, my three brothers and I simply improvised Ninja Turtles costumes that consisted entirely of sticks of appropriate lengths. Michaelangelo's nunchucks got interesting alot of times, damn sticks always coming out of the twine.

Think of all the bruises that could have been avoided if we would have had straight-up violent toys. (We didn't have anyone to ply the foot soldiers, so we just wailed on each other with the sticks, if that wasn't clear already).

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-11-27 02:46pm

Idiots. Just. Idiots.