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Re: Color Change - Final Update
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lugnet.general, lugnet.lego
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Wed, 5 May 2004 19:24:50 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mike Walsh wrote:
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> "Frank Filz" <ffilz-lists@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:Hx922u.IIp@lugnet.com...
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> > Actually, to be honest, right now I'm more bugged by the flesh tone minifigs
> > than the other color changes. I do tend to buy one of each new set in the
> > themes I'm interested in, but I see myself buying far fewer of the Harry
> > Potter and Spiderman sets than I would have in the past. I know I'm never
> > going to have the diversity of minifig heads in flesh tones that I will have
> > in yellow, so I just can't imagine using the "Caucasian" heads (the brown
> > ones I at least feel like I can use even though they will mean a dramatic
> > minority). What's even more bothersome is that some torsos have flesh tone
> > printing, which means they will look funny if I swap out the hands and head
> > for yellow.
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> We had a similar conversation at the NCLTC GATS show a couple of weeks ago.
> I don't care for the flesh colored minifigs either. They look "odd" after
> seeing yellow LEGO people for all of these years.
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> The thing that concerns me the most about the flesh colored minifigs is the
> bigger chance that someone will build something without intending to offend
> someone yet someone will be offended. We never had that issue when all of
> the figs were the same color. Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned but I like all
> my LEGO people as classic smileys.
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> Mike
I like my Lego people as classic yellow smilies too. I don't really like the new
minifigs with different expressions and stuff. I like them yellow, smiling and
maybe with sunglasses or a pirate face. But then I'm a 1970s-mid-90s kinda
gal... ;0)
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| "Frank Filz" <ffilz-lists@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:Hx922u.IIp@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) minifigs (...) have (...) head (...) [ ... snipped ... ] We had a similar conversation at the NCLTC GATS show a couple of weeks ago. (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.lego)
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