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Re: Why can't we have a Lando: Lego's Race policy
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Mon, 1 May 2000 21:13:26 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Mike Petrucelli writes:
In lugnet.starwars, Chris Maddison writes:
In lugnet.starwars, Mike Petrucelli writes:

Yep, both the Islanders and Indians did have yellow heads.  But, once • again,
those weren't based on one SPECIFIC person.  I say that TLC should go for • an
accurate portrayal, if they make Lando and Mace (forgot about him...)
-Chris

What color head does Luke, Han, Obi-wan, Qui-gon, etc. have?  Yellow.  Why?
Because all living, healthy, "human" mini-figs are yellow.  If TLC makes a
Lando or Mace mini-fig it will be yellow just like all the rest.  Luke, Han,
etc. don't have tan heads so it would be illogical for Lando to have a brown
one.  All three of those CHARACTERS (they are not real) are human.  All Lego
humans are yellow so...


I *know* they're characters.  Here's my point.  Tell me the name of the guy
who is portrayed by the Indian Cheif.  The actual guy.  There isn't one! • It's
just a generic figure.  Now, I can tell you the names of the guys who are
portrayed by the Luke and Han figs.  They are Luke Skywalker and Han Solo.
These are no different than the Indian Cheifs or King Kahukas.  What makes
them different is that Mark Hammill and Harrison Ford portrayed Luke and Han.

But that makes them absolutly NO DIFFERENT as a mini-fig.  If mini-Han and
mini-Luke had tan heads then it would make sense for mini-Lando to have a • brown
head.  However they are not based on the actors.  Mini-Luke and mini-Han have
yellow heads even though Mark Hammill and Harrison Ford do not.  So it would
make sense for mini-Lando to have a yellow head even though Billy Dee Williams
does not.

Like Dave says, if this is true, then Vader should have had a yellow head
too.  He's a Star Wars "person/character" too.  Yes, I understand that it is
gray for effect, and I want it to be gray, not yellow.  But, how can scarred
and old/tattered pass as OK for a different head color, but one's actual skin
color cannot.  Makes no sense to me.

It's kind of a "double portrayal" thing.  That's my point.

But it is not as the above explains

-Lord Insanity
(who is still trying to figure out why people don't understand that skin
pigmentation doesn't change one's race, that of human.)

I apologize.  You're right that "race" is the wrong word.  Insert word that I
can't think of in it's place (something like ethnic background?)
-Chris

Ethnic backround also has nothing to do with the amount of pigmentation in
one's skin.

-Lord Insanity

Well, OK, that's true also.  So, YOU tell me what word to put there.
-Chris



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(...) I (...) They same thing you call yourself. Human. Either I am mentally well beyond the rest of you or I am so naive it is not funny. -Lord Insanity (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) But that makes them absolutly NO DIFFERENT as a mini-fig. If mini-Han and mini-Luke had tan heads then it would make sense for mini-Lando to have a brown head. However they are not based on the actors. Mini-Luke and mini-Han have yellow heads (...) (25 years ago, 1-May-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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