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This topic sounds familiar... (was Re: NBA)
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Sat, 28 Sep 2002 01:28:19 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kevin Cheng writes:
> 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 message to the
> children that we should always treat other people the same no matter which
> skin colour they have or which race they are. Why start diversifying
> different races for them? I mean, we have way too many racisms in our world
> already, wouldn't it be better for children from all around the world to
> start perceiving others as the same?
> As for the special colour heads, all those characters that got a special
> heads are fictional characters. We imagine that Han Solo is a "white"
> person because we've seen the movie, but let's say if an Asian kid just read
> the novel without seeing the movie, Han Solo might probably be an Asian
> because he/she could relate himself to the images in his/her mind.
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 yellow plastic. A yellow Lando would be as wrong as a moustache-less
Lando. Pretending there are no races does not defeat racism.
Please wait for me to put my asbestos armour on before replying, thanks :)
Michael Dallaston
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Message has 2 Replies:
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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 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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| "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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