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| (...) Hey, I had the exact same thought. I'm trying to create the minifig version of the Colorado Rapids. @ of their 5 forwards are Central American, one is African, one is African-American, and one is Caucasian. I just grabbed 5 of my minifgs with (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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racial, minifig
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| | Re: Concerns with Racial Attitudes and Lego
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| (...) Hey, I had the exact same thought. I'm trying to create the minifig version of the Colorado Rapids. 3 of their 5 forwards are Central American, one is African, one is African-American, and one is Caucasian. I just grabbed 5 of my minifgs with (...) (24 years ago, 16-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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racial, minifig
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racial, minifig
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| First, I have to say that I agree with practically everything that Dave Schuler Writes in post 6299. But, I have to point out some comments that i found to be disturbing. Dave Schuler writes that "It's fine for a bunch of us to sit around discussing (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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racial, minifig
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| | Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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| (...) of (...) I like this last point. I think the people who are bothered the most about this minifig race issue are suffering from a mistaken impression that yellow figs are/were ever meant to accurately represent caucasians. These Barbie (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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racial, minifig
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| | Re: Concerns with Racial Attitudes and Lego
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| (...) Ok, whoa. Hold on there, bucko. 1) Grab a sense of humour from somewhere. 2) Take another look at all the things I mentioned. I did not even come *close* to saying that yellow representations of darker-skinned characters would be as repulsive (...) (24 years ago, 15-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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racial, minifig
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| Greetings to all, Have been following this debate for a while and I thought I'd through in my 2 cents. Don't know if you guys are familiar with World Cup Soccer (I certainly am not), but it is definetly not a sport played exclusively by "white" (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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racial, minifig
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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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racial, minifig
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| (...) I've mostly stayed out of this discussion, but I've got some questions to ask. I'm not generally opposed to the idea of dark "skinned" minifigs (DSM), but I'm going to play devils advocate here for a minute. Lets say that TLG does in fact go (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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racial, minifig
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racial, minifig
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racial, minifig
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| (...) Oh spare us from this recurring politically correct race wars BS. Some of us just would like to see Lando Calrissian and some of the other "African American" characters portrayed with brown heads... that's it! There's no underlying animosity (...) (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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racial, minifig
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| | Re: Minifigures in Legoland
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| (...) I remember these here in the U.S. as well. It would be in a large department store for a week or so every few years. I remember huge displays of Classic Space Legos as well has large sculptures of animals and landmarks such as the Statue of (...) (23 years ago, 7-Jan-02, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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racial, minifig
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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
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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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| | 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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| 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
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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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