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| | Re: Concerns with Racial Attitudes and Lego
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| (...) Certainly it is great that TLC has in some ways opened its eyes to a broader demographic, but it is unfortunate that certain spectres from their past still linger. Because minifigs have persisted more or less unchanged for over two decades, it (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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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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| | Re: Concerns with Racial Attitudes and Lego
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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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| | 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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| | 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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| | Re: Pause clarification (?) -7171 Mos Espa Podrace
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| (...) :) Use them to create a piece for display in the Minifig Museum of Modern Art? ... as the trunk for trees in flame-fauna forest? ... as fuel rods in a nuclear reactor? ... as part of the drive system in a starship? ... for frames on an avant (...) (25 years ago, 2-Feb-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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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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| | 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 (score: 3.001) |
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| | Re: Lando- we can build him!
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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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