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Re: African American Lego Mini-Figs
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lugnet.castle
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Mon, 3 Feb 2003 00:59:45 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Jay Rodarte writes:
> Hello All! I have a question about the new African American Lego Mini-figs.
> Is Lego going to start making African American Mini-figs? I thought that was
> a kewl idea, although all of them are men and they have scary faces. But I
> think that it's about time that Lego acknowledges the African American
> Community with Mini-figs. I mean, come on!
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> Jay
To answer your question (even though .castle is a little out of the way to
talk about it), they are making African-American mini-figs. However, you
may also want to note that this is the first time Lego has made Caucasian
mini-figs as well. Up until this point, they have been a nice neutral yellow.
(BTW, I responded to this question in .castle so that the original poster
would be able to find his answers. Seems he's a little new. Maybe move
future discussion to .build/minifigs?)
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Message has 2 Replies:
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| (...) Yellow does not = caucasian. The Native-Americans of the Wild West series, the Japanese of the Ninja Castle subtheme, the Indians, Chinese and Tibetans of the Adventurers Orient series aren't exactly caucasian either. I think they (...) (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.castle)
| | | Re: African American Lego Mini-Figs
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| (...) Yes, minifigs is neutral yellow, but DUPLO figs have been African and Caucasian for decades - pre-school children can have race-figures, but older children must settle with neutral figs?!?? Arne, Copenhagen (22 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| | African American Lego Mini-Figs
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| Hello All! I have a question about the new African American Lego Mini-figs. Is Lego going to start making African American Mini-figs? I thought that was a kewl idea, although all of them are men and they have scary faces. But I think that it's about (...) (22 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.castle)
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