Lego™ sex. That’s what some Sam’s Club shoppers were worried about in the print version of The Brick Testament, Bible stories told with Lego people by Brendan Smith.
According to CNet, Smith has been working on this unique craft ten years in three successful books and a clever website. The website does contain scenes of Lego people having biblical sex but those were removed from the print book.
The absence of sexual content, though, didn’t stop a few Sam’s Club Shoppers from bitching about its presumed or previous or associated sexual content, though, and CNet reports that those complaints caused Sam’s Club to decide to ban in-store sales of the fourth book in The Brick Bible series.
Smith also told CNet that representatives from Walmart/Sam's Club were very interested in the advance version of the book and said they would place a larger order for it if about a dozen sexual illustrations were removed or replaced: “So there are no illustrations of the Bible's sex content in the book.”
So … they banned the book because it contained mature content …which they evidently caused to have removed in the first place. But the complainers apparently found the sexual images on the Internet, which was enough to make them complain about the author and the book.
The mistake, sometimes, is expecting sense and fairness.
It’s probably no consolation to Smith, but we scoured The Brick Testament to find those nudie pictures and can, therefore, say he caused us to do more Bible reading than anyone else has in decades.
Moreover, if those pics aren’t in the book, those complainers don’t have a Lego to stand on.