New in 2012/2013.

[tahra]

So... anyone knows if the new "noah's barge" is different? Cause I don't get their stance on that cross, considering the rest..

[Baron Marshall]

It doesn't have NOAH painted on the side... so maybe that is enough... any word on the nativity sets or St. Nikolaus pack 

[tonguello]

It doesn't have NOAH painted on the side... so maybe that is enough... any word on the nativity sets or St. Nikolaus pack 

well... if they are going to get rid of ALL religious references, there won't be any more nuns, monks, priests, churches, Xmas, easter stuff, calendar,  THAT's A LOT!!! ..... even ALIENS for all I know! 

[tahra]

It doesn't have NOAH painted on the side... so maybe that is enough... any word on the nativity sets or St. Nikolaus pack 

Not enough at all. There's the booklet thing....

I wish I didn't have the set. Then maybe I could get this one without the name...

[Rasputin]

well... if they are going to get rid of ALL religious references, there won't be any more nuns, monks, priests, churches, Xmas, easter stuff, calendar,  THAT's A LOT!!! ..... even ALIENS for all I know! 

or just start making other religions as well, a better option in my opinion  and it opens up new markets and set ideas. There are plenty of sets to satisfy the atheist but we are very limited in the religions of the world

[Hadoque]

I'm AGAINST the removal of the cross and will complain about it's deletion!   

Seriously, I'm not a religious fanatic (far from, one could rather describe me as an agnosticus), but a cross is part of  European and American culture! It it used indeed as a Christian symbol, and in mountainous Europe as a landmark as well.
In the Roman Empire in the centuries before JC, a big wooden cross was the equivalent of... a gallow in later centuries!

Darn, it is just a cross on the top of a mountain!! Oh yeah, but maybe the Taliban & Co. will get upset by such a toy and send suicide-bombers to Geobra's factory in Dietenhofen!  What does one expect to get to see on the top of a Swiss or Austrian mountain? A Totem? A minaret??


Congratulations to the complainers, you probably have succeeded now in convincing Geobra to never release a Templar Knight, a medieval monk or a f****** nun again!  Not even mentioning a church.

[tonguello]

I'm AGAINST the removal of the cross and will complain about it's deletion!   

Seriously, I'm not a religious fanatic (far from, one could rather describe me as an agnosticus), but a cross is part of  European and American culture! It it used indeed as a Christian symbol, and in mountainous Europe as a landmark as well.
In the Roman Empire in the centuries before JC, a big wooden cross was the equivalent of... a gallow in later centuries!

Darn, it is just a cross on the top of a mountain!! Oh yeah, but maybe the Taliban & Co. will get upset by such a toy and send suicide-bombers to Geobra's factory in Dietenhofen!  What does one expect to get to see on the top of a Swiss or Austrian mountain? A Totem? A minaret??


Congratulations to the complainers, you probably have succeeded now in convincing Geobra to never release a Templar Knight, a medieval monk or a f****** nun again!  Not even mentioning a church.

  Go Erwin! 

[bonniebeth]

Perhaps it has to do with the true origins of the symbol of the cross?

[Hadoque]

AFAIK, the cross was originally a Roman instrument for (rather slow) executions.
I don't think one would associate a cross on an Alpine mountain with executions.

[Baron Marshall]

I also think it is stupid to pretend that religions don't exist... and then make fairies which could also be considered religious items... I've even heard that some people worship the color PINK