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Re: This topic sounds familiar... (was Re: NBA)
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 30 Sep 2002 03:17:15 GMT
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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 isn't realistically caucasian but there's no way it
> could be used to represent a member of a 'dark race', so if Lego wants to do
> one (Lando, Mace etc) then it has to do them in brown.
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> In my opinion :)
> Michael Dallaston
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 non-licenced figs bright yellow. Instead they chose to use bright
yellow for Star Wars. I hate double standards, either all figs in a
gived theme should bright yellow or all should be skin tones.
-Mike Petrucelli
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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 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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