There are loans from the Imperial War Museum and the Spielzeugmuseum in Nuremberg, items from the V&A's collection as well as eBay, which is where most of the figures for a spectacular diorama were bought, creating one big battle involving everyone – aliens, knights, Power Rangers, superheroes, Daleks … the lot.
Who, in 1959, would have bought a Corgi nuclear missile carrier for their child?
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Its full title is Little Wars: A Game for Boys from Twelve Years of Age to One Hundred and Fifty and For that More Intelligent Sort of Girl who Likes Boys' Games and Books.There are many beautiful things on display and surprises. The exhibition also asks if it is just boys who play at war – no, would seem to be the answer although HG Wells has his opinions on the matter with his 1915 war gaming book on display. The show alludes to changing attitudes in schools, where a zero tolerance for any kind of weapon play has relaxed into allowing things as long as they are part of an imaginative, creative process and are not mimicry. Nearby is "a friendly, safe shooting range" that allows observation with binoculars and a periscope as the shooting. "I asked questions, so the orange button does fire and the yellow is off, the green one at the back turns a light on – it does lots of things." He also made an impressive Lego gun in the cabinet. In it sits a relatively benign space gun alongside the Johnny 7 OMA gun and then simple sticks that Hopkins' four-year-old son foraged. "They'll go in the woods and get sticks, anything will do."Īs an example of this a gun cabinet can be found in the first section, examining the more imaginative and physical ways kids play with war. "Kids don't need mass-produced objects to play war," says Hopkins. It also suggests there is not much parents can do to stop children playing war games even if they refuse to buy toy weapons. It shows how toys have been used as tools of propaganda – a 1942 "Get Those Japs" dartboard being one of the cruder examples – and how they have been used to instil a sense of militarism and nationalism in children. "To have an adverse reaction is just as good as embracing it, I'd like people to come and see it and make up their own minds." Wood concedes that some parents may not want to come, although she hopes they will. We want to generate discussion and let the public have the argument." "We are showing that these, mostly mass-produced, toys exist and we are putting them in context – how they have been used and how they've been perceived. "We've been careful not to come down on one side of 'are war toys good or bad?'" says co-curator Sarah Wood. More than 100 objects will go on display in a show meant for adults and children.
War has always been a part of children's lives." "The first thing we did was go through the museum's collections and the amount of material we had relating to war was incredible, it was quite a surprise. Prime Minister Jan Stoere Gahr was among the several Norwegian politicians who took part.Co-curator Ieuan Hopkins admits they were not short of potential exhibits. We must have diversity, we must have a society where people can be allowed to be themselves without fear.” “There is a sea of people who will show everyone that it is love that wins. “It is absolutely fantastic,” Oslo Pride spokesman Dan Bjoerke told Norwegian news agency NTB. Organizers stressed the event Saturday wasn’t meant to be a substitute for the original Pride parade but rather a show of solidarity to Norway’s LBGT community. His motive for the shooting remains unclear but police say hate crime is a possibility. Norwegian citizen Matapour is being held on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and terrorism. Marchers in “The Rainbow Train” passed the central Oslo nightlife district where a man identified as Zaniar Matapour shot and killed two men and injured several others outside the London Pub on June 25, just hours before the planned start of the Pride parade. HELSINKI (AP) - Hundreds of people marched through the Norwegian capital on Saturday in an LBGT solidarity event to honor the Pride parade that was canceled in June after a deadly shooting outside a popular gay bar.
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