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Subject: 
Re: Lego and the NBA
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.football, lugnet.general
Date: 
Fri, 31 May 2002 17:12:10 GMT
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LEGO TO MAKE BASKETBALL TOYS FOR NBA

In lugnet.football, Aaron Dalan writes:
Unless TLC is planning to recreate the NBA of the 40's or something,

                      LoL @ the  4O's!
         (getting’ the old peach basket out!)

it looks like we will finally be getting minifigs of color.

This has controversy written -ALL- over it…
I'm surprised nobody had qualms with the
minifigs in the soccer sets. Quite a few
counties have notable ethnic players…


      0penin’ a can of worms,

                                --==Richard==--



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  Re: Lego and the NBA
 
(...) I would think *most* football/soccer teams are *mostly* people of color. As much as I hate to see LEGO continue to dodge the color issue, I suspect we'll get more non-ethnic yellow people for basketball also. (URL) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Lego and the NBA
 
(...) I guess the SF Chronical is a reliable source, especially when they are quoting a company spokesperson. Kind of makes one wonder, though, when the clip contains some obvious factual inaccuracies (soccer). Unless TLC is planning to recreate the (...) (22 years ago, 31-May-02, to lugnet.sports, lugnet.general)

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