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Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
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Date: 
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:06:32 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
  
   Not at all. When you raised this issue at Brickworld during the Q&A, it got me to thinking. What do you think about the idea of simply including female wigs in every set? I mean, a fig is essentially gender neutral until wigs are placed on them. That way, just about any fig can be any sex.

   What do you do about figs with facial hair (beards, mustaches etc)

Though I am radical in my decision to use only “fleshies” on our train layout (but using all of the tones of flesh), I am quite traditional when it comes to faces. I would be perfectly happy with all of my figs being good ol’ smilies. What if TLG sold “face packs”; a set of stickers with all kinds of expressions and genders. Maybe that’s a good idea for the after-market crowd....

JOHN



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  Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
 
(...) I know that LDD doesn't offer "fleshies", (so this won't help you, John) but it does offer a five different minifig heads. You could create your own minifig head pack. I'm certainly planning on buying some faces, figs, and hair whenever I (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
 
(...) radical=depraved ;) (...) Which must make it really hard to make female figs. The range of female options in flesh is far more limited, particularly for the darker skinned fleshies. (...) Can you get blank flesh heads of either hue? Tim (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
  Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
 
(...) At BrickFest last year the LEGO store gave away some cardboard/foamboard displays during the raffle, and one of them was a sequence of pictures called "The Many Faces of LEGO" -- something like that. Here's a crude re-creation from memory: (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)

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  Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
 
(...) What do you do about figs with facial hair (beards, mustaches etc) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general)

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