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Subject: 
Lando poll
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars, lugnet.build.minifigs
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lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:31:07 GMT
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I've put up a new poll to see whether the LUGNET community would rather see
a Lando minifig made in brown or yellow:

http://members.lugnet.com/polls/ballots/?n=96

-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith



Message has 5 Replies:
  Re: Lando poll
 
Should be interesting to see if they break with their tradition on the upcoming NBA sets. Since it was brought to light that they will be producing minifigs in "the likeness" of individual NBA players, it seems pretty clear to me that we are about (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Lando poll
 
I remember reading an article in which someone from TLC stated that minifigs head were all yellow so there would never be any racist discrimination with the products, yellow representing a neutral color, even if most of us seem to think that yellow (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Lando poll
 
(...) When TLC first annouced the Star Wars license I was hoping they would make the characters realistic flesh tones. As they chose to make all the (human) characters so far, in standard bright yellow (which is NOT a human color at all,) then why (...) (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Lando poll
 
(...) Whether they intended yellow as the final color way back when, keeping yellow could be serendipitous to underscore 'togetherness' as they described in the nba press release. Jeff (22 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Lando poll
 
Lenny Hoffman brought up an interesting observation back in February, which is that outside of LEGO, sometimes the color yellow is indeed intended to signify caucasian skin tones. His example was the TV show The Simpsons. Light skinned chracters (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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