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# Finally, a first-person shooter arena made out of LEGOs
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/finally-first-person-shooter-arena-made-out-legos/
- Published: 2014-07-07T15:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-26T10:36:06.000Z
- Description: Writing in The Atlantic, author Christine Gross-Loh was unsettled by how quickly young boys turn to guns for free play: Then my firstborn went to a birthday party. In the goodie bags for these four-year-olds was a plastic toy gun. My son was utterly riveted. I tried to coax it away from him. “Bang b
- Author: Jamin Warren
- Tags: News, Counter Strike, Lego, maps, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Writing in *The Atlantic*, author Christine Gross-Loh [was unsettled by how quickly young boys turn to guns for free play](http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/08/keeping-kids-from-toy-guns-how-one-mother-changed-her-mind/278518/?ref=killscreen.com):

> Then my firstborn went to a birthday party. In the goodie bags for these four-year-olds was a plastic toy gun. My son was utterly riveted. I tried to coax it away from him. “Bang bang!” he shouted, running around with the other kids. Just days later my shy little two year old fixated upon a toy sword that came with a pirate toy someone had given him, and would not go anywhere without it. I could see that the ludicrously small sword made him feel brave. I tried (unsuccessfully) to pry it out of his tiny hands. That he liked the weapon so much deeply unnerved me.

Gross-Loh changes her mind, but for parents not yet ready to make a compromise, we have a workaround.

“Cashed,” a level designer at Digital Extremes, [put together an inventive and colorful new map](http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=282158858&ref=killscreen.com) for *Counter-Strike: Go* that plucks at one of our favorite worlds of play: LEGO. Because nothing says childhood like shooting actual guns in a digital environment.

![](https://killscreen.com/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/csgo_lego.jpg)

![](https://killscreen.com/previously/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/cs_go_legos_2.jpg)