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Re: Lando poll
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lugnet.starwars
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Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:09:47 GMT
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Lenny Hoffman brought up an interesting observation back in February, which
is that outside of LEGO, sometimes the color yellow is indeed intended to
signify caucasian skin tones. His example was the TV show The Simpsons.
Light skinned chracters like the Simpson family are always shown as yellow,
whereas darker skinned characters like Apu, Carl Carlson, Dr. Hibbert and
Lou the cop are shown with darker skin shades.
Someone else on LUGNET also brought up a good thing to keep in mind, which
is that when minifigs were first introduced, there were only a small number
of colors LEGO had to choose from: red, blue, yellow, black, and white.
In the old LEGO homemaker line of "maxifigs", there were yellow 'figs and
there were also red 'figs to represent "Indians":
http://www.beepworld.de/memberdateien/members22/mbet/redindians11.jpg
At LEGOLAND Parks, yellow is commonly used in larger sculptures to represent
people with lighter skin tones:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/conradf/Legoland-CA/Statues/vip02.jpg
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/EARL-0/temp/DEUTCHLAND-TRAVEL/DAY3/dsc01106.jpg
...although in Miniland, different skin tones are portrayed using tan for
lighter skin and brown for darker skin, and black for especially dark skin:
http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/bl/Photos/BricksWest2002/Miniland/dscn3385.jpg
Do Miniland figures somehow NOT promote "togetherness"? Is making all skin
tones into yellow the kind of togetherness we really want?
Just some thoughts...
-Rev. Smith
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 | | Re: Lando poll
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| (...) Wow.. and I never knew anyone cared... but to add something: yellow (like in the Simpsons) only denotes 'lighter skin tones', which includes not only caucasians, but also japanese, native americans, etc. The benefit to this point of view is (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: Lando poll
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| (...) I think that might be a good choice... I mean, NOONE has a yellow fleshtone NOR a red one (although once that night have been said). So this colour might solve the problem in a convenient way: it is close enough to brown, just like yellow is (...) (22 years ago, 6-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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