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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

News, View Etc . . . Evil Empire Ephemera . . .

. . . again!

Well it's only about three weeks since the last post on the subject and we've already had a plethora of new ['news'] stories - mostly in the i - related to the struggling giant that is Lego!

Some of it has been more honest than most of the [subliminal] stuff i's carried this year, being more obvious promotional stuff for the Ninjago movie (critics are divided, but I think it's good-fun for kids), but they (i) have still managed to mention Lego on three other occasions in the last few weeks!

And even the tie-in seems to be more about selling the iweekend rather than the movie, given as how they put it up to 80p and the strong-willed stopped buying it, not even the chance of a free Lego key-ring got me to weaken - it's a rise too far!

Picture courtesy of Brian Burke - seen at a show 'State's-side'!

The other interesting aspect of the 'coverage' by the i-newspaper, has been the reporting of Merlin's quarterly figures - two separate stories the first talking-up the forecast; "...sales rise despite gloom...", the second concentrating on Pepper Pig licenses (after mentioning the Legolands!).

The Evening Standard redressed the balance with "Magic wearing off for Merlin as terror fears cause 20% plunge". The real news is - if you live in the 'States or Asia there may be a Pepper Pig Land coming soon, near you?

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