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Re: Ethnic minifigs
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lugnet.build.minifigs
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Mon, 26 Aug 2002 02:24:43 GMT
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Take a look at this news release from a few months back.
http://www.akasa.bc.ca/vlc/news/lego-nba.html
If they are indeed making NBA theme Lego I would hope that they produce
ethnic minifigs.
Of course the Soccer Lego had all yellow heads (I believe).
> Advice and ideas are needed.
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> 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 is
> close to a variety of skin hues. But, I have the challenge of one
> Black-African family (a couple and their daughter). So, does anyone have
> some ideas on how I could make a reasonable rendition of this one family
> that does justice to their ethnicity? The only idea I've come up with would
> likely look more like the vaudevillian "black-face" -- and I don't want
> anything like that.
>
> Alan
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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 (...) (24 years ago, 20-Aug-02, to lugnet.build.minifigs)
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