Playing Toy Soldiers on the Largest Scale
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That’s actually a full-size T-55 Russian tank above. The sculpture, “This Is Not a Game,” is making a point about the difference between playing war and actual war – obviously – but my reaction is that it comes across as one of the coolest representations of toy playing ever.
I think I was supposed to be more profoundly moved. More details on this piece over at Laughing Squid.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist