Lego puts poly pocket to shame. I agree with urwife and thank her for her work lobbying lego plz keep it up itsthe truly universal toy of everything
On Sat., Dec. 4, 2021, 5:24 p.m. Alan Perry via cctalk, < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > LEGO is not doing this. This is part of the LEGO Ideas program, ideas > for LEGO sets submitted by the LEGO user community. Someone proposes a > set to the community and, if it gets 10,000 votes from the community, > LEGO will consider making an official set out of it. Other examples of > LEGO Ideas sets are the Saturn V rocket and ISS. > > > This set was likely inspired by another Ideas set that went through the > process and became an official set - > https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/women-of-nasa-21312 > > > LEGO itself has been a bit behind the curve on including female minifigs > in their sets. My wife is active in the AFOL (Adult Fans Of LEGO) > community. She has been lobbying LEGO for more female figures for much > of her life, partly because LEGO was considered a "boys'" toy when we > were growing up. (We were born at the beginning of Gen X FWIW.) > > > alan > > > On 12/4/21 12:09 PM, Brielle via cctalk wrote: > > See, if it had been presented like that, it would likely have not > elicited the same response. > > > > It’s sad, but I understand the reason why they are doing it. Lego has > always been a bit progressive - even going as far as in commercials that > girls can play with legos too. > > > > Unfortunately, the ones that throw the term ‘woke’ around like that tend > to have pretty strong feelings about a “woman’s place in society”. > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > >> On Dec 4, 2021, at 12:55 PM, newsgro...@micromuseum.co.uk wrote: > >> > >> On the contrary I consider it implicit that they played an equal role > - and the need to make toys to indicate it is somewhat sad. > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Brielle via > cctalk > >> Sent: 04 December 2021 19:53 > >> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > >> Subject: Re: Women of Computing > >> > >> Using the term ‘woke’ these days is a great way to render any point you > are trying to make moot. Great way to make people people not take you > seriously. > >> > >> He may as well have just come out and said, “It triggers me and I don’t > like having to acknowledge that women exist in the field of computer > history.” > >> > >> — Brie > >> > >>> On Dec 4, 2021, at 12:43 PM, Jason Howe via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm curious what your definition of 'woke' is, because it seems > grossly misapplied in this instance. > >>> > >>> --Jason > >>> > >>> > >>>>> On 12/4/21 10:20, Chris Long via cctalk wrote: > >>>> Great.....not. > >>>> > >>>> Why do we need woke Lego? > >> >