Addictive stuff isn't it?
Lego that is...
Fans of Lego and TV series Breaking Bad can now put together their very own miniature methamphetamine lab, assuming they've got pretty deep pockets. The Lego Breaking Bad lab with figures The Citizen Brick "Superlab Playset" features 500 pieces and three minifigs, designed to offer solace to those "bummed out" that Breaking …
I remember seeing parody ads for "Crackwhore Barbie" back in the 90s, in MAD magazine or some similar publication I think. I had no idea companies would ever start selling toys that promote criminal activity for real though!
I mean, in an age when kids are expelled for merely hugging each other in school, how the bloody hell is Lego getting away with this without a massive media/do-gooder shitstorm in the offing? It just shows the extent to which the media controls public reactions to these things, doesn't it?
I think I should just point out that LEGO aren't "getting away with" anything - this is made by a third party, not LEGO..
(Of course it's all 100% compatible and some of it may well be modified original LEGO bricks. Not sure about the legality of all that, but plenty of companies seem to be doing it!)
A lego eavesdropping facility to monitor the e-mails of playmobil citizens.
A lego third world sweatshop, available in Apple and Android versions as an educational accessory to your mobile phone.
A lego Guantanamo(r)(tm) water boarding facility - design reproduced under license from US DHS (no relation to UK DHSS)
A lego Amsterdam coffee house complete with massive joints.
This post has been deleted by its author
I've never seen the show, but they're using hydroFLUORIC acid?
I'd have thought HCl was a much safer bet for their *own* sakes- HF is not only more dangerous in the way that it burns, but it's also very poisonous. You don't want to spill HCl on yourself, but you really, really, *really* don't want to spill HF on yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid#Health_and_safety
(Disclaimer: I Am Not A Chemist)
AKA Piranha. I used to use it when I had a different job in the Semiconductor industry. It gets very hot and will destroy anything organic. It was used to clean the wafers before certain steps.
By accident one day a worker mixed Hydrofluoric acid with 50% Hydrogen Peroxide instead of Hydrochloric acid. It attacked the ceramic bath but didn't eat through.
How did he mix them up? He didn't speak or read English and grabbed the wrong bottles.
This tech geek infatuation with Breaking Bad, a stupid TV show (several other "tech" sites have featured Breaking Bad-oriented stories this week as well) only makes me want to biatch smack the living crap out of you all.
It's a TV show. A TV show about criminals. A TV show that, apparently, hits the geekdom core center of wanting to be a "bad boy" but you're all just too damn lazy to drop the Wii controller and the bag of crisps and get your fat overweight butts out and live a real damn life.
They have a cure for lives like yours: it's shiny, lead and (hopefully) copper-tipped.
"but you're all just too damn lazy to drop the Wii controller and the bag of crisps and get your fat overweight butts out and live a real damn life."
You've inspired me to put something down I haven't heard since I was about 5 years old..
I know you are, I said you are, but what am I?
There, that should be about your level.
This high-minded backlash against Breaking Bad and the fans thereof is befuddling to me.
It's a TV show. A fictional TV show. A TV show that, apparently, hits the holier-than-thou core center of worrying that the rest of society will go out and emulate what they see on the television, causing the rapid downward spiral of society.
Ironic that a rant against fans of a TV show ostensibly promoted by the criminal nature of said show includes references to a desire to promote assault and murder.
And it's nothing to do with wanting to be a "Bad Boy".
It's the ultimate deconstruction of American exceptionalism - the idea that people who are white and middle class can do terrible things and still be the good guys - the "I am not a criminal" thing.
OK I get that some people won't get that the show is essentially a morality tale - there's always people who end up identifying with the bad guys if the presented as anything more than cardboard cutouts. But you get that Walter White isn't a good guy. Try giving the fans of the show credit for realising that too.
And yes, the geek appeal of the show comes from the protagonist been one of us. But so are the Master and Lex Luthor - doesn't mean we don't get that they're villains.
Oh and while the underground meth lab is nice and super-villainy I think I'll wait for the Hot Wheels RV version.
> not sure it should be immortalized in Lego bricks :)
Neither is LEGO the company, which is why these pieces are printed by a third-party company. They also offer LEGO military figures, LEGO bongs (to the scale of LEGO mini-figures, so non-functional obviously), LEGO zombies and tiles that resemble this {>} and other Reg-like cons.