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Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:21:58 GMT
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In lugnet.general, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Jonathan Wilson wrote:
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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.
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What do you do about figs with facial hair (beards, mustaches etc)
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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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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:
I added the last two myself. Before the Pirate theme came out, all minifigs had
the same face, so their genders were defined by either their hair or their
torsos.
I like the idea of including male and female hair pieces (not hairpieces --
hehehe) in a set so the builder can choose.
I checked Peeron -- there are over 400 minifig heads, the vast majority of which
are males with various expressions. You can tell they’re male by the facial
hair.
Basically, LEGO needs to make their minifigs less hairy and bring back
gender-neutral faces.
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| (...) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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