Zach Bean
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Post by Zach Bean on Jul 10, 2014 21:36:18 GMT -8
I'm mostly agreeing with Drakk here. I wouldn't classify Shell, Exxon, and the like as strictly evil, but they're far from saints in the corporate and environmental sense. Is Greenpeace making an over-the-top propaganda video riding the coattails of a very successful movie and brand? Yup. Is there anything wrong with that? No. Everything is fair game for criticism at some point. The real question is does this change my mind about how I feel about Lego and Shell? Not really.
I did like the GRRM cameo though.
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Post by Erathor Pridenar on Jul 10, 2014 22:49:14 GMT -8
Zach Bean I don't think Greenpeace's goals are necessarily bad, I just don't really like the way they go about getting to those goals. By the way, that cameo was pretty good.
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Zach Bean
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Post by Zach Bean on Jul 11, 2014 0:29:31 GMT -8
What do you mean "going about getting to those goals"? If you're talking about plastering your name and image around something popular and well received to further motivate your own goals and self, I can assure you, Greenpeace isn't the first to do it
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AK_Brickster
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Post by AK_Brickster on Jul 11, 2014 19:51:08 GMT -8
Sorry, but what is GRRM?
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Zach Bean
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Post by Zach Bean on Jul 11, 2014 20:42:13 GMT -8
AK_Brickster GRRM stands for George R. R. Martin the writer of A Song of Ice and Fire series a.k.a. A Game of Thrones. The two figs and dire wolf (The white Warg) seen at 0:48-0:52 are in reference to the characters Jon Snow (One of my favorites), Ygritte, and Ghost who appear in the books and show.
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Post by BrickMadness on Jul 14, 2014 7:42:14 GMT -8
Are you kidding me! This is absolutely obscene! I just laugh every time they try to attack companies or anyone in particular. Shell is no worse than Casey's, Shell is trying to make itself bigger than it is through this partnership and, set up their monopoly.....Which won't happen. So this video needless to say is stupidity at its best. Greenpeace is trying to ruin a partnership because they think that Shell is so terrible. I think if we did research on every oil company on earth I think we all would agree that one is no worse than the other. That is what makes me mad, to attack one company that is so harmful to the environment and, leave the others alone until they get to a certain point in business development? This smacks of greed motivated hate preaching to me.
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SpearralSquid
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Post by SpearralSquid on Jul 14, 2014 15:03:59 GMT -8
While I would rather not have the Arctic destroyed and it is sad to see oil companies polluting it, the video seems a bit late. IIRC, the heyday of Lego Shell sets was a few years ago with the Ferrari sets. I really don't see that many Lego sets with Shell on them anymore.
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