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Subject: 
Re: Mace Windu
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lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Mon, 17 Jun 2002 15:56:20 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Mark de Kock writes:
> In lugnet.starwars, Adrian Drake writes:
> > This has been discussed before, but I believe the thinking is if you start
> > making different colored minifigs now, it would make every other minifig
> > previously produced white (even the natives from the Wild West sets) by
> > default, which would, I think, make Lego look even more racist.  Cries of
> > "why didn't you do this before" would be deafening.  I doubt we'll ever see
> > non-yellow minifig heads, except as customs.
> > 
> > Adrian
> > --
> > www.brickfrenzy.com
> 
> I agree. Why is it that in a toy-world (which Lego is, after all), color
> should matter? Is that what we want our children to learn? That color matters?
> Personally, I want all my minifigs to be shiney bright yellow people. That
> way, when I -finally- get around to shooting my cobs n' robbers Lego movie,
> I won't have to take care "not" to use brown/black/red/white/tan/green
> minifigs as robbers because people might get offended. Nah, yellow
> smiley-heads will do just fine!
> As for the statement 'the yellow heads would de white'... how come? Why are
> we white people pictured as yellow smileys?
> <hint: this last was a joke!!!>
> 
> Mark -I'm colorblind anyway- de Kock

Actually, what I was stating, was that it wouldn't be very cool if Lego made
a yellow one.  After all, everyone else can be yellow for all I care, but
I'd like mace windu like he is in the movie. It would just be kind of
disappointing.
~Evan Butzlaff



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  Re: Mace Windu
 
(...) I agree. Why is it that in a toy-world (which Lego is, after all), color should matter? Is that what we want our children to learn? That color matters? Personally, I want all my minifigs to be shiney bright yellow people. That way, when I (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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