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Re: NBA
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:16:35 GMT
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> Well, those figs are not based on real people.
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 make them look more and more like real people. Then the
problem got worse when they started doing licenses like SW and HP. This fig
is no longer some abstract person, but a representation of a specific
character played by Mark Hamill, or Harrison Ford, or Billy Dee Williams.
One other argument--the old line was that there was a poll back when
minifigs first came out and kids chose yellow as the best skin tone. The
problem is, the color choices in Lego at the time were red, white, blue,
green, yellow, and black (maybe gray? maybe a couple of others). Now we get
new colors every year. Now we have colors like tan, sand red, brown, etc,
that could conceivably be realistic skin tones.
Second argument--there have indeed been minifigs that were intentionally one
or another race. In addition to the licensed SW and HP figs that are
representations of specific actors, there are also Ninjas, American Indians,
Islanders. Also other Castle themes are presumably supposed to be European.
Anyway, I'm just glad they're coming to some decision on what to do,
regardless of how it ends up.
Bruce
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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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| 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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