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Re: NBA
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 27 Sep 2002 21:55:41 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bruce Hietbrink writes:
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> > Well, those figs are not based on real people.
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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 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.
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 JUST the
movie, or JUST the books, or to look like a specific actor or actress, has
done a teriffic job of creating a whole new conglomeration of ideas,
distilling down all of the source material to create open ended Harry Potter
sets.
> 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.
And my thoughts from earlier still stand: trying to please anyone would
result in pleasing no one.
> 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.
I think that these were problematic (especially noses on the native
Americans) and show that a design standard was deviated from. It's started
LEGO down a road that's near impossible to recover from, as no one would
accept everything being reset back to classic smilies now. However, at least
the yellow heads were kept as the base for all of these examples, keeping a
unity to the design across all sets.
> Anyway, I'm just glad they're coming to some decision on what to do,
> regardless of how it ends up.
True.
Matt
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