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Re: Panaka is yellow?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 16:31:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Edward Sanburn writes:

It is too sensitive an issue for them, I would rather have them
concentrate on bringing us great products!

Scott S.

Well spoken, Scott.

This whole skin-tone thing must've started back in the 60's..what'd they have
for part color back then?  Red, Yellow, Blue, Black and White?  Given those
choices, I guess it was easy enough to just crank out the yellow heads,
particularly back then, when the topic of racism was at its political nadir.

Anyway...nowadays even us caucasians get cranky when we see any blatant race
omissions!

Dave

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  Re: Panaka is yellow?
 
(...) I just built it before coming to work this morning, and saw the pictures as well. it looks like they repeated the series of pictures twice. maybe they screwed up? If it is Panaka (We call him Captain Pancake at the office - Long story, along (...) (25 years ago, 22-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.starwars)

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