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NBA LEGO: Minifig skintone issue apparent;y settled
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Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:54:23 GMT
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With these new images of the upcoming LEGO NBA basketball sets, it seems
that the issue of minifig skintone has been put to rest. Those of us
holding out for darker-colored minifigs will have to settle for making
these ourselves out of rare parts from different sets.
All the players in the NBA sets appear to be very much yellow.
The other observation that jumps out at me as quite strange is that all of
the players appear to be bald! Only in one of the new sets, 3431 Street
Basketball, do the players actually have hair.
This seems particularly strange when you consider that these NBA minifigs
are supposed to be modeled on actual NBA players. One would have guessed
that a part of personalizing these minifigs would have been to match minifig
hairpieces with the real players hairstyles. We might have even gotten some
cool afro hairpieces from the 70s players. And, as has been pointed out
before, just think if they chose Dennis Rodman as one of the 25...
Could it be that all 25 NBA players they chose to model are bald? I can
think of a few bald players... Charles Barkely, Michael Jordan, Kareen Abdul
Jabar... but could all 25 be bald?!
If LEGO is not matching skintones or using even hairpieces for these figs,
it must mean that what makes these 'figs modeled on their real life
couterparts is all in their facial features. That, and that they are
wearing the correct uniform and number, I suppose.
They are all also the same height, so that isn't being used a way to
personalize the 'figs.
As for how the NBA minifig game operates, it looks to me like the NBA
minifigs have special new spring-powered leg elements. My guess is that if
you push them down to pick up the ball, they spring back upright on their
own. And if you bend them backward and then release them, they then release
the ball, either passing to a teammate ot shooting for the hoop.
I wonder if they didn't use hairpieces because it would make your finger
slip off the heads too easily... It still seems really weird to just have
everybody bald though.
Can anybody identify who the real life couterpart is of the one NBA minifig
we have a close-up of?
http://home.t-online.de/home/gierse-gmbh/bilder/news2003/basketdetail.jpg
He seems to be #25 on a team called "Stones"(?) I haven't followed
basketball since I was 13 -- is this a real team? This guy has a pretty
evil-looking face.
Anyhow, at least it's cool that there should be 25 new minifig faces...
-The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith
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 | | Re: NBA LEGO: Minifig skintone issue apparent;y settled
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| A few years ago I posted an article to alt.toys.lego about this very subject. I was inquiring as to the seeming whiteness of the lego minifig. Truthfully I was just bored and trolling to see if anyone else had ever really put the question out. The (...) (22 years ago, 12-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi all, (URL) the new sets form 2003. Great stuff in my opinion: - Micro Star Wars Sets - New Star Wars Sets - Oriental theme [Build your own Alquaida battlefield ;-) ] - nice parts in Creator sets I would say, the quality of sets is getting better (...) (22 years ago, 10-Oct-02, to lugnet.announce) !!
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