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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 08:22:25 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mike Petrucelli writes:
> 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.
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 races, but it is *not* adequate at representing black
people. That's my aesthetic opinion. If you don't agree with that then you
probably won't agree with my conclusions.
Michael Dallaston
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| (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 30-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
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