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Re: African American Minifigs
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lugnet.build.minifigs
Date: 
Sun, 6 Aug 2000 03:17:57 GMT
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I think Lego is just trying to cut corners and save money. They are aimed at
the younger audience, and all they do is get their parents to buy the latest
hyped up theme. I think it would be a good idea though to have "Dark Skin
Toned" minifigs, because as this conversation was originally based on it could
open up new themes.

Chef



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  Re: African American Minifigs
 
(...) Well, I don't want to sound racist, but I think that if TLG played the race card, there would be major controversy, IMO. Anyways, back to your post (...) If we look at the original ideas, see (URL)Adventurers Safari, What is stopping TLG now (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)

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  Re: African American Minifigs
 
I think that the 'equality' comment was incorrect. Color is not what denotes equality. Having one 'color' would mean superiority of that color. equality means everything is equal DESPITE things such as race. To show real equality among LEGO models (...) (24 years ago, 5-Aug-00, to lugnet.build.minifigs)

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