Lego D&D
Lego D&D
I've been using Lego Castle figures and sets for D&D adventures since the 90's, but for the first time Lego now actually has a specific licensed D&D set, based on the recent movie. Includes monsters of dragon, displacer beast, beholder, and (my favorite) gelatinous cube.
https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/dung ... tale-21348
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https://www.lego.com/en-ca/product/dung ... tale-21348
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Interesting but I won't give WotC or Hasbro even a penny anymore.
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Agreed, and I haven't in quite some time. I do use legos and brick figures instead of minis though. There's some cool stuff out there.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:04 pmInteresting but I won't give WotC or Hasbro even a penny anymore.
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Yes, great resource for mini's if you have enough pieces.maximus wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:23 pmAgreed, and I haven't in quite some time. I do use legos and brick figures instead of minis though. There's some cool stuff out there.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:04 pmInteresting but I won't give WotC or Hasbro even a penny anymore.
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Hmmm... while i get the senitiment and certainly won't defend or purchase WotC material, in this case they've done something good, imo. Most of the money goes to Lego anyways, i would think. So punish the bad, reward the good, perhaps.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:04 pmInteresting but I won't give WotC or Hasbro even a penny anymore.
That said, i have enough Lego that i'm not in need of purchasing such a set. I recently bought their re-envionment of the Castle set: ~4500 pieces!
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Naw, their history of anti-competitive business practices is MUCH larger than what happened a year ago. Thoroughly evil. It took 46 States in Fed court to stop them earlier in this centuryFizz wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:58 amHmmm... while i get the senitiment and certainly won't defend or purchase WotC material, in this case they've done something good, imo. Most of the money goes to Lego anyways, i would think. So punish the bad, reward the good, perhaps.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 2:04 pmInteresting but I won't give WotC or Hasbro even a penny anymore.
That said, i have enough Lego that i'm not in need of purchasing such a set. I recently bought their re-envionment of the Castle set: ~4500 pieces!
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Hrmm.... I am not familiar with this. Do you have a news source or article about it? When i do a search of "Hasbro business practices" all i find is the opposite- that they've actually won awards for being among the most ethical companies for many of the last dozen years.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:19 pmNaw, their history of anti-competitive business practices is MUCH larger than what happened a year ago. Thoroughly evil. It took 46 States in Fed court to stop them earlier in this century
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Look for State attorney Generals lawsuit hasbro. You'll probably find it that way. Our company had a large international I.P. law firm on retainer for about 2 million a year and I got a briefing on it in 2000. So probably happened a year or two before that. About 40 states sued them for anti competitive business practices (anti trust law). Each state won between 6 and 50 million from Hasbro I think.Fizz wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:56 pmHrmm.... I am not familiar with this. Do you have a news source or article about it? When i do a search of "Hasbro business practices" all i find is the opposite- that they've actually won awards for being among the most ethical companies for many of the last dozen years.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:19 pmNaw, their history of anti-competitive business practices is MUCH larger than what happened a year ago. Thoroughly evil. It took 46 States in Fed court to stop them earlier in this century
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Well, i found this:Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:30 pmLook for State attorney Generals lawsuit hasbro. You'll probably find it that way. Our company had a large international I.P. law firm on retainer for about 2 million a year and I got a briefing on it in 2000. So probably happened a year or two before that. About 40 states sued them for anti competitive business practices (anti trust law). Each state won between 6 and 50 million from Hasbro I think.
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1998/1 ... tles-suit/
Only $6 million, so pretty small settlement for a company their size. And it was the better part of 30 years ago, and the company is probably run by entirely different people now. So i'm not inclined to judge a company now by what they did a quarter century ago, especially when for the last dozen year they've been listed as one of the most ethical companies (https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/hasbro-most-ethical-2023).
That doesn't mean i agree with their (admitted) mistakes of a year+ ago or that i want to play 5e, by any means.
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Reread the last sentence in what I wrote.Fizz wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:07 pmMarcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:30 pmLook for State attorney Generals lawsuit hasbro. You'll probably find it that way. Our company had a large international I.P. law firm on retainer for about 2 million a year and I got a briefing on it in 2000. So probably happened a year or two before that. About 40 states sued them for anti competitive business practices (anti trust law). Each state won between 6 and 50 million from Hasbro I think.
Only $6 million, so pretty small settlement for a company their size.
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Reread the article i sent. It says $6 million total, not $6 million to each state.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:05 pmReread the last sentence in what I wrote.Fizz wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:07 pmOnly $6 million, so pretty small settlement for a company their size.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:30 pmEach state won between 6 and 50 million from Hasbro I think.
For example, they cite what Florida received, $191000 in toys and $127000 in cash.
And here's another example: Georgia received $97000 in toys and another $65000 in cash.
https://law.georgia.gov/press-releases/ ... rust-probe
No where can i find a reference that Hasbro paid out $6-50 milion to each state.
Now, the $50 million to which you refer appears to have been the settlement with Toys-R-Us; they appear to have been the real culprits in this. But again, it's a total, not to each state (it specifies California's share at $3.9 million). Regardless, we're talking about Hasbro's behavior here, not Toys-R-Us.
https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/ ... -companies
It was all an interesting read though. I'd never known about it.
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It's COMPLETELY irrelevant what you can or cannot find online from the 90's. Most items from the time period and before don't exist online. Hell, 50% of things I saw on news 15 years ago aren't online now. And Google has a crap index for anything that doesn't bring it ad revenue that is old.Fizz wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:33 amReread the article i sent. It says $6 million total, not $6 million to each state.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:05 pmReread the last sentence in what I wrote.Fizz wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 7:07 pmOnly $6 million, so pretty small settlement for a company their size.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:30 pmEach state won between 6 and 50 million from Hasbro I think.
For example, they cite what Florida received, $191000 in toys and $127000 in cash.
And here's another example: Georgia received $97000 in toys and another $65000 in cash.
https://law.georgia.gov/press-releases/ ... rust-probe
No where can i find a reference that Hasbro paid out $6-50 milion to each state.
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If it's so irrelevant then why in your earlier post did you tell me to search for it? And for the record, i didn't use Google to find it. I searched using DuckDuckGo.Marcus Aurelius wrote: ↑Fri Mar 29, 2024 2:44 amIt's COMPLETELY irrelevant what you can or cannot find online from the 90's. Most items from the time period and before don't exist online. Hell, 50% of things I saw on news 15 years ago aren't online now. And Google has a crap index for anything that doesn't bring it ad revenue that is old.No where can i find a reference that Hasbro paid out $6-50 milion to each state.
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Let's not argue over this guys, it isn't worth it.
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As long as it's constructive and without insults and no friendships get ruined after this conversation I think it's healthy to express our points of view