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racial, minifig
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| (...) Lots of people do...start here: (URL)It just seems to me that it's silly (...) You hit upon the magic word...simple. The idea behind the yellow minifig (besides the available LEGO color spectrum whe they were invented) was non-ethnic (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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racial, minifig
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| | Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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| (...) The column has some good points. Too bad it suffers from lazy journalism. Like describing traditional minifigs as "aryan yellow". Aryan. Yellow. Yeah, right. And the columnist missed out on some other good discussion points: 1. Lego has (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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racial, minifig
(score: 0.987)
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racial, minifig
(score: 0.971)
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minifig
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racial, minifig
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| | BrickLink will join the LEGO® Group
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| From BrickLink.com Nov. 26, 2019 BRICKLINK will join the LEGO Group Dear BrickLink members, We are extremely excited to announce that BrickLink Limited has entered into a definitive purchase agreement to be acquired by the LEGO Group. As the LEGO (...) (5 years ago, 27-Nov-19, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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minifig
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| | Re: IBM chooses Mega-Blocks over Lego
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| (...) Gee, how can I put this politely...I guess I can't! But... You, Mark, are in a newsgroup called "off-topic.clone-brands." Whereas your considered opinions are encouraged, your flat out clone-bashing is not. Now, I'm not the boss of you -- but (...) (21 years ago, 21-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, FTX)
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racial, minifig
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| | Re: Lando minifig picutre HERE
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| In lugnet.starwars, James Seibert wrote: [ snip ] I have witnessed, as (...) Hear hear! Thank you Lego, for making TOYS (yes; they ARE toys!!!) that keep us occupied for so long. And don't take any notice of the "racial aware" people: I like mine (...) (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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racial, minifig
(score: 0.840)
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| | Re: Lando minifig picutre HERE
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| (...) Ew, no. I couldn't disagree more. I have no problem with real basketball players being depicted with more naturalistic skin tones. I have no probem with Lando being brown. To be honest, I wouldn't have minded if he looked rather like this (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, FTX)
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racial, minifig
(score: 0.840)
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| | Re: Lando minifig picutre HERE
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| (...) I disagree with your assumptions. When LEGO first made any attempt at Lego "people", they had very few colors to choose from. Yellow was probably the best looking one available at the time. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I just don't believe there was (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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racial, minifig
(score: 0.840)
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| | Re: Lando minifig picutre HERE
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| (...) You assume incorrectly about what you think are my assumptions. "...what primary color would work best a "flesh" tone." I covered that. Nor did I say that there was any overt racial motivation. What I do believe is that Lego didn't think (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, FTX)
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racial, minifig
(score: 0.840)
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| | Re: The Future of Trains
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| (...) Yes, I am aware that "y'all" does have some connotations--but have decided that it is really the only politically correct, all encompassing, non-gender, non-racial, non-religious specfic pronoun that is available in the English language-at (...) (17 years ago, 3-Oct-07, to lugnet.lego)
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racial
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| | My ever growing 918 fleet
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| Hello Space People! After the new Benny Spaceship came out for LM2, I thought I could build a 918 using the BUWP (Big Ugly Wing Piece) So I tried. At first, I just added 3 x 6 wing plates to the front and back, and added other wing plates on top to (...) (6 years ago, 13-Feb-19, to lugnet.space, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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minifig
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| | Re: Interesting...
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| (...) Ironically, LEGO does this to avoid any controversy about race. Their argument is that if they do release Mace in a brown color, yellow will automatically represent caucasian. But LEGO considers yellow to be yellow, not caucasian, black, red (...) (22 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.general)
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racial, minifig
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| | Re: Lego Ethnicity At Last?
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| Well, I for one am not so impressed with this new enthusiasm for Lego ethnicity. Firstly, the NBA players appear to be standard height minifigs. Now maybe it's just a consequence of living upside down here in Australia, but when I look at NBA (...) (22 years ago, 18-Nov-02, to lugnet.general)
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racial, minifig
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| | Question about the NBA minifigs
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| There is currently a thread on Lugent about the new minifigs from the upcomming NBA sets. If most agree (I think) that it's ok to have different complexion for the skin of these players, I think we would all like to know if TLC intends to make (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.lego)
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racial, minifig
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| | Re: LEGO NBA Draft has started...
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| Ahui & All, (...) Well, it still doesn't make any sense though. The actors are just as real as NBA players, and they also have various skin colors, as I can meet mark Hamilton or Harrison Ford. I think they are on thin ice here, I wish they would (...) (22 years ago, 30-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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racial, minifig
(score: 0.759)
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| | Re: NBA LEGO: Minifig skintone issue apparent;y settled
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| Here's my old opinion. I never really pondered on this topic too long, didn't really matter in my youth, legos were legos. But now that I think about it, my quick judgment would be this: I think the singular race of minifigs reflected the area where (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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racial, minifig
(score: 0.755)
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| | Re: Lando poll
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| (...) Wow.. and I never knew anyone cared... but to add something: yellow (like in the Simpsons) only denotes 'lighter skin tones', which includes not only caucasians, but also japanese, native americans, etc. The benefit to this point of view is (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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racial, minifig
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