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Re: NBA
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 30 Sep 2002 03:31:06 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kevin Cheng writes:
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> "Tommy Rainwater" <info@plasticbrick.com> wrote in message
> news:H34D87.B67@lugnet.com... • snip
> 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.
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> Kevin
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
magical abilities could make him 'different' enough from human to get away with
a different color. Did snape's head glow in the books/movie? that would
explain the feature (I've obviously not read/seen HP any books or movies).
Jeff
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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 (...) (24 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 (...) (24 years ago, 28-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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