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| | Re: Dear mr lucas...
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| If they've been able to avoid with the number of sets from all four films up to this point without including an African-American or otherwise ethnic minifig and still have the enormous success these sets have had, I don't see them taking any risks (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 3.366) |
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| | Re: NBA
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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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| ethnic, minifig (score: 3.008) |
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.492) |
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| | Race depiction in early LEGO
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| Last week another debate about race and color representation appeared on these groups. I looked through it for a place to place this message, but got lost in the debate group and so I decided to start a new thread. This post is just meant to shed (...) (24 years ago, 6-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.491) |
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| | Re: Hitler minifig (Adventurers)
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| I hate replying to my own posts, but this is just too funny to resist. Directly from the anti travel guide "Don't Go: Eurpoe"'s German history section... "...Next came Hitler, the most universally hated man of all time next to that guitar player on (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.478) |
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| | Re: Tanabry: What happened to Sir Marcus?
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| (...) You have a point. A construction-worker vest then. The old 80s kind, to be appropriate! (assuming it is a discovery, my friend thinks it's a burial!) Brick Apple is gorgeous--it's an inspiration. I think it was the mock-borough names over (...) (24 years ago, 11-Jul-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.473) |
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.466) |
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.465) |
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| | Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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| (...) be (...) with (...) in (...) First things first, jay, I really want to curse you out for your condescending remark that I am "just [...] bored [and] trolling." To insinuate that I'd try to stir up controversy around this issue without being (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.465) |
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.464) |
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| | Racial politics in LEGO
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| I must catch a flight in 15 mintues and will not have email for a few days, but had to post quickly: 1. No offense Scott S., but just because something has been discussed before does not mean it should not be discussed again and that nothing will (...) (24 years ago, 9-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.464) |
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.464) |
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| | Re: Thoughts on the (pre EpII) 2002 range
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| (...) I hope Billy Dee Williams himself goes down to LEGO and demands they make a minifig of him. And what about LEGO's precious excuse for not including the more minor characters that we'd actually want to see (Wedge Antilles, Mon Mothma, Greedo, (...) (23 years ago, 9-Nov-01, to lugnet.starwars)
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.337) |
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| | Ethnic minifigs
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| Advice and ideas are needed. One of the ways that we are celebrating the move to new office space is by having me "lego-ize" our personnel (plus families). For most ethnic groups its possible to get away with using the stock minifig faces -- yellow (...) (22 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.262) |
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| | Re: NBA LEGO: Minifig skintone issue apparent;y settled
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| A few years ago I posted an article to alt.toys.lego about this very subject. I was inquiring as to the seeming whiteness of the lego minifig. Truthfully I was just bored and trolling to see if anyone else had ever really put the question out. The (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.247) |
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| ethnic, minifig (score: 2.109) |
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| | Re: Received My Lego Loco
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| (...) Well, minifigs are *supposed* to be race-less, gender-neutral, gibberish-speaking, non-proportional, non-ethnic, bland-faced, non-purist Lego designs :) Haven't you read the literature? Seriously though, seems like they would have made the (...) (26 years ago, 30-Oct-98, to lugnet.cad)
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| ethnic (score: 1.757) |
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| | Re: New Web Page
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| On Wed, 12 May 1999 00:32:49 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) No comments on education. I am not of schooling age, nor have children, or likely to in the near future. (When considering flameage in your replies, (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| ethnic (score: 1.720) |
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| | Re: New Web Page
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| On Thu, 13 May 1999 14:53:43 GMT, Christopher L. Weeks uttered the following profundities... (...) It wouldn't generally, but might temper the reaction of "stupid bloody foreigner!" That could instead be "half-stupid, half- foreigner!" (...) (...) (25 years ago, 13-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| ethnic (score: 1.720) |
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| ethnic (score: 1.719) |