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Any news on the NBA licensed sets? Jude (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) There's an announcment at fbtb.net: "Between Sept. 27-29 help them build a giant basketball for the Grand Opening of the Basketball Hall of Fame and the launch of the new LEGO NBA license in Springfield, Massachusetts!" However, when someone (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree that seems a little odd - especially since I thought they usually had some kind of prototype version of the product months in advance of the "real" thing. Seems like they'd have something available to show off. Maybe they're just (...) (22 years ago, 5-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They're probably still waffling/arguing over what color(s) to use for the minifigs. :/ Steve (22 years ago, 6-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) However, the postcards that arrived today seem to contradict this. On the back it clearly says there is a LEGO Basketball Product Unveiling at 1:00 on Saturday, in addition to the Giant Basketball Building Event. Also, based on the picture on (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Could you please post scans of this postcard? Bruce (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Postcard do you say? Any chance of a scan and post? Matt (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) OK, but I can't remember how to do deep links. Maybe these? (4 URLs) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Interesting...Spalding and the NBA as licences, but not individual teams (and probably not players names/likenesses, either). That net piece (the actual net insert) looks like an awesome part...only, I can't think of much else to do with (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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Oh, interested in seeing the play concept for this too. I keep imagining the old basketball in a box game from the 60s (Bas-Ket board game, Cadaco, 1969) that I inherited from my uncle...metal levers attached to springs that flicked a ping-pong ball (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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LOL, I loved that game when I was a kid! I had forgotten all about it. We'd play it for hours. Maybe I'll bid on that one...cool. jt (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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Actually the yellow looks darker than the standard minifig yellow, but that could just be the way the picture was colorized. jt (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Should be interesting to see what they unveil. I for one would love to see other skin tones in the minifig line. I respect Lego's insistence on JUST yellow... it's their company..... but then again...... We DO have brown ABS for Chewbacca. We (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Lots of people do...start here: (URL)It just seems to me that it's silly (...) You hit upon the magic word...simple. The idea behind the yellow minifig (besides the available LEGO color spectrum whe they were invented) was non-ethnic (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.general, Tommy Rainwater writes: <snip> (...) Well, those figs are not based on real people. Jar-Jar, Chewbacca, Watto and the LOM figs are "made-up" so thats most likley why they are different colors, because it is safe and there is no (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) That is completely the problem. When every fig was a classic smiley, it was easy to think of them as this abstract race of toy spacemen (or whatever). Once they started giving them more expressions, facial hair, etc, they started trying to (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually, IMO, LEGO has done a good job of NOT representing a specific person in the licensed lines. Take Harry Potter: read the novels, watch the first movie (and the trailer for CoS) and you'll note that LEGO, far from creating sets based on (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You make some good points Bruce! I wonder when that "Poll" was conducted. Was it with a group of children from various races? Hmmm.... I just don't buy the whole idea of a design "standard" that Lego is trying to stay so true to... The range (...) (22 years ago, 27-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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"Tommy Rainwater" <info@plasticbrick.com> wrote in message news:H34D87.B67@lugnet.com... (...) head (...) as (...) I like LEGO's direction of keeping a standard colour for the minifig heads because I believe by doing so, LEGO actually sends out a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I know this topic has been debated waaay too many times, but since Lego started representing real-life people (Starwars, etc) this problem was bound to come up. Personally I think it's too much of a stretch representing a black person with (...) (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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I think that TLC is very, very afraid that things might get out of hands once they do such a thing. A few jears ago a Polish artist created -as a work of art- a line of sets of wich you could build the components of a concentration camp. This (...) (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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I just read this whole thread so far (although didn't read the previous threads on the subject). This is a tough one. I can see valid arguements on both sides. Make all mini-figs based on the original yellow standard, or allow for various skin tones (...) (22 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I don't think it has to be an all-or-nothing solution. I'm not advocating using realistic skin tones for all, just two - yellow for 'light races' (i.e. most of them) and brown for 'dark races' (african and aboriginal descent). I know yellow (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I disagree, using yellow for Lando, Mace, etc. would be no more silly than Luke, Han, Obi-wan, etc. already look in bright yellow. When TLC announced the Star Wars licence I had hoped they would make the characters skin toned but leave (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) snip (...) I could'nt agree more. I remember e-mailing Lego & saying something to the effect that so far (before HP line) only aliens (SW), the undead (mummy) & the very near dead (Vader) were different colors. One could argue that Snape's (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I completely agree here too. yes-man Jeff ;) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Nope...my best guess for the use of the glow-in-the-dark plastic on Snape's head is that LEGO was following the book characterization of him: "greasy black hair, a hooked nose, and sallow skin". The use of the glow-in-the-dark head got the (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Was it a double standard that they made a new hairpiece for Leia, while giving Han and Luke the old stock piece? It is my personal belief (and this is probably why we disagree) that standard yellow *is* adequate to represent the majority of (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I agree Micheal! What if Lego decides to make specific, individual player figs for the upcoming NBA line? (Unlikely...) Do you think that "yellow" would fly for Michael Jordan? Hardly! What about A Lego Golf line? (That'd be cool!) Would a (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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Did anyone go to the event this weekend? Were the sets revealed? Are there pictures anywhere on the web? Bruce (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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