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Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
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lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:50:27 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Dave Schuler wrote:

And if TLG is concerned that a one-figure set wouldn't
sell if it "only" had a female minifig, then why not just make it a two-figure
set?  Realistically it should add more than, say, fifty cents to the price, and
it would more or less completely satisfy the concerns of gender-based
under-representation.

This reminds me of one of LEGO's internal rules in the Model Shop (where many of
the cool big displays are created) - Minfigs can never be alone.  They're always
in pairs or groups.  They are *interacting* with each other.

This was the rule when John-3 was a model builder, and it's a rule we continue
to use on our layout.

JohnG, GMLTC



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  Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
 
(...) Well of course you'd say all of that; you're a girl! Hardy har har. IMO you're right on the money with pretty much everything you wrote. I can think of no real justification for failing to include female minifigs in a much broader range of (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego)

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