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Re: New Skin Tones coming? (was: Re: Scans from new danish 2004 catalog)
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 3 Feb 2004 19:51:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ray Sanders wrote:
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So, TLC appears to be getting into the groove of making things in varying
colors (i.e. “Collect the Entire Set!”). So I think they should carry this to
the next logical step... Town Minifig packs with varying skin-tone colors.
In one pack, the mailman might be caucasian flesh-toned, in another pack he
might be african-american and in yet another he (or she) might be asian. Why
the possibilies are endless. Just think of the nightmare on BL trying to
shoehorn all of the figs into the catalog.
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And of the nightmare at the sorting plant, trying to match up like-colored body
parts before packing them in a set. And the nightmare in Customer Affairs,
trying to figure out exactly which color head the dog ate. And the nightmare of
people trying to buy a set for a specific minifig head, only to find out that it
doesn’t match...after five tries. And the fact that currently only yellow and
brown minifigs can run around in a thong (or *gasp* nekkid, for that matter).
Anyways, I did just have an odd thought. The production of Lando (and, by
association, Mace Windu) was a huge controversial issue because some people
wanted the “all minifigs are yellow” tradition to be upheld, and some people
wanted Lando to be made in the color of plastic that most closely matched his
actual flesh-tone. However, what about the recent Adventurers OE sub-theme?
Yeah, the Chinese and probably the Himalayans make sense in yellow (having skin
colors that lean towards the lighter range), but what about the ones from
southern India? Last I checked, the predominant skin color there is pretty
similar to that of most of Africa, but noone complained about them being made in
yellow plastic. Why not? Lando being produced in yellow would have caused an
uproar, but I didn’t even realize until today that the AOE Indians could have
been produced in brown just as easily as Lando. Maybe it was because they
preceded Lando by nearly a year?
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