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Race depiction in early LEGO
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 6 May 2000 16:06:53 GMT
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Last week another debate about race and color representation appeared on these
groups. I looked through it for a place to place this message, but got lost in
the debate group and so I decided to start a new thread. This post is just
meant to shed some light on the way LEGO has historicaly represented race and
color.
In the abovementioned thread, set 275 "Red Indians" was mentioned as an example
of LEGO's old (pre-minifig) depiction of race/color:
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=215-1
I was looking through Karl Heinz' excellent site and came across this Samsonite
Doll Box set:
http://www.planet-interkom.de/lfreak/SAMSONIT.HTM
(scroll to the bottom of the page)
This set is interesting because it portrays ethnic people using different
colored bricks:
Yellow is used for the "Oriental Man" and "Oriental Lady"
White is used for the figures on the side of the box
(can't read the printing for these figues, I guessed that the first three were
Eastern European and the fourth was French)
and Black is used on the last doll figure on the bottom
Does anyone know what the captions are for these dolls? I think they're an
interesting historical relic that show how LEGO grapped with representation of
people before deciding on a generic yellow for most of their figures.
--
Thomas Main
main@appstate.edu
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