Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley once worked for the Danish firm, LEGO, makers of the ultra-popular LEGO building blocks toy. Now they write books, or at least one book - a book that is burning up the Amazon bestseller chart in America. The book is entitled, Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against, and includes instructions for how to construct a working gun, a candy catapult, a continuous-firing ping-pong ball launcher, and a high-voltage LEGO vehicle - among other "working models that LEGO would never endorse."
British folk are not as enthused, with The Daily Telegraph branding it, "The Anarchist Cookbook for nurseries." My personal favorite came from a comment left by a Londoner on a British website, warning the world of the real threat: "Kids could make atomic bombs out of LEGO, and just think what would happen if some Islamic terrorist get hold of a copy. The possibilities are terrifying."
Terrifying, indeed.
A rambling melange of pop-culture.
No comments:
Post a Comment