Lego Themes played by 6 year olds

A goblin with a nasty expression on his face? Surely not!

AmberSpyglass

A goblin with a nasty expression on his face? Surely not!

That's Green Goblin. He features in a Spiderman cartoon that is much loved by my 4 year old grandson. I suspect the other characters you mentioned are also in the cartoon. They are the "baddies" and Spiderman always defeats them. My GS has some of the Lego characters which feature in the cartoon and loves building the vehicles and other props that go with them. It's really no different from the knights/pirates/Star Wars Lego that my son played with when he was a child

BUT, I was shocked. I was shown a vehicle with a chain that attaches to an ATM and it was pulled out of the 'wall'.

Riverwalk

^BUT, I was shocked. I was shown a vehicle with a chain that attaches to an ATM and it was pulled out of the 'wall'.^

You can be hard put to find an ATM these days. Can you get Lego figures with tiny contactless cards?

I wouldn’t be too worried about that.
What I am worried about is this- see photo.
The only flags to choose from, to go on the back of the bike, in a game aimed a 7-10 year olds are all linked to genders!
My GS decided not to have a flag after all.
He is all boy and nothing there for him.

Thanks for your comments. I also don't like the gender issue, never have done. I come from a family of 8 and being the only girl made no difference, we had to share everything as there was not enough money to buy separate toys. I really hate pink for girls and blue for boys, especially as there so many beautiful colours available.

As for the ATM toy, it did have money to go in the machine! My daughter was not worried about the Lego, it was a present and said she would not have bought herself and thinks the novelty will soon wear off. So this Lego may not last 30 years like my children's
It must be a generation thing and yes I seem to be out of touch so must be getting old.

Wouldn’t like it either. No 6 year old needs to watch Spider-Man (except spidey, that programme is for the little ones) especially with the stealing and other rubbish that keeps on happening there.

I have been thinking about why I was shocked. Perhaps it's because I grow up on Enid Blyton's Secret Seven, of good versus bad but with 7 brothers I equally loved their comic stories and heroes. After all said and done I do have three children ( all now in their 40s) who loved and still love playing with the fantasy toys of their childhood. Yes, there were lots of pirates and star wars, fairies and goblins, one son even worked in the Games Workshop, full of strange figures.
So why the concern you may say. The difference here is that those themes were just that fantasy, they were not representing real life.

The Lego theme of robbing an ATM is not fantasy. It really does happen in real life, and the results has been seen so many times not just on the TV news but at local supermarkets and town centres and that is my true objection.

Are we really telling children that is is ok to steal, cause harm and distress to anyone. My daughter thinks Lego has run out of ideas but I feel that is a very poor excuse and if true then maybe its time for Lego to move on to something else more positive and educational.

Is the Lego the Marvel comic theme? Spiderman. Children love Spiderman.

I doubt any child playing with this Lego will grow up wanting to steal an Atm.

I think it will be ok

CrochetBliss

Wouldn’t like it either. No 6 year old needs to watch Spider-Man (except spidey, that programme is for the little ones) especially with the stealing and other rubbish that keeps on happening there.

Oh come on!
Spider-Man is a fantasy superhero like Superman, Batman and every other -man in just another version of goodies v. baddies. Hint - the goodies always win.
Children need fantasy, they also need their belief in good v. evil to be reinforced. That’s as old as time.
Yes there is Spidey and his Friends which is aimed at younger children- I understand 4+ - but while I don’t think any 6 year old would see Spider-Man in a cinema, not only 6 year olds play with Lego.
Hands off our Spider-Man

Foxygloves

CrochetBliss

Wouldn’t like it either. No 6 year old needs to watch Spider-Man (except spidey, that programme is for the little ones) especially with the stealing and other rubbish that keeps on happening there.

Oh come on!
Spider-Man is a fantasy superhero like Superman, Batman and every other -man in just another version of goodies v. baddies. Hint - the goodies always win.
Children need fantasy, they also need their belief in good v. evil to be reinforced. That’s as old as time.
Yes there is Spidey and his Friends which is aimed at younger children- I understand 4+ - but while I don’t think any 6 year old would see Spider-Man in a cinema, not only 6 year olds play with Lego.
Hands off our Spider-Man

I agree. My GS is 6 in September, but he absolutely loves superheroes - from Spiderman and Batman to Iron Man and the whole Avengers gang. He loves the action figures, Lego sets and all that - but he wouldn't be allowed to watch the actual films until he is older.
Years ago children of that age would have been playing cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians!

PamelaJ1

I wouldn’t be too worried about that.
What I am worried about is this- see photo.
The only flags to choose from, to go on the back of the bike, in a game aimed a 7-10 year olds are all linked to genders!
My GS decided not to have a flag after all.
He is all boy and nothing there for him.

I don't understand this. What is a flag linked to genders, please?

Sorry but I did not condemn fantasy heroes or stories. My thread is about when the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred.

freyja

Sorry but I did not condemn fantasy heroes or stories. My thread is about when the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred.

My grandpa had to tell me what being scalped meant. I was about 10. As someone has mentioned, cowboys and Indians were very popular in the 60s and very violent. And they were humans on TV.