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I just got a Lego Tie fighter, The head on the Tie Pilot is brown and blank, ya, if you have a thin felt tipped pen, you can draw your own Lando! No more trying to paint yellow heads brown for me! The Stormtrooper rules, he may be the first minifig (...) (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) I think the first minifig that has printing on both sides are those Extreme Team torsos. ;) Oh, and C-3PO I think. -- Andrew, Agent 0007 (24 years ago, 24-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Or just make Lando's head yellow. None of the real actors in Star Wars had bright yellow heads, so it's equally natural for all of them. Were you also trying to paint yellow heads a pinkish-tan colour? (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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Were you also (...) In short , no. That is only because I don't buy into the whole "yellow" is not "White" theory. But if we are interested in believing the "Lego" version of the story, " that Yellow is used , not to represent caucasian skin color, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Oh spare us from this recurring politically correct race wars BS. Some of us just would like to see Lando Calrissian and some of the other "African American" characters portrayed with brown heads... that's it! There's no underlying animosity (...) (24 years ago, 25-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) Just for the record, I don't think I've ever seen LEGO say that is their stance on why they use Yellow for a skin tone- I've only seen it used as a defense of LEGO by people who want to give them an out. Personally, I would not at all be (...) (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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(...) It would be cool--though not a big deal--if in future releases R2D2 was printed on the back, too. Dave! (24 years ago, 27-Dec-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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