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Subject: 
Re: Lando poll
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Wed, 9 Oct 2002 04:02:11 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Brendan Powell Smith writes:
I would agree with Pedro in that this should be looked at as a skintone
issue, not a race issue.

As analogy: Before LEGO made an Episode 2 Anakin minifig, they never made
minifigs with orangey-brown hair.  Before that, you had to choose red or
brown to represent someone with that shade of hair.  Was this a slight to
all people with orangey-brown hair?  No.  It's just that this is a color
LEGO has only recently begun using.

Now that LEGO regularly uses brown, it seems only natural to make minifigs
with darker skintones, namely brown.

I don't buy the whole "LEGO uses other minifig skin colors - but only for
non humans".  Underneath Darth Vader's helmet, he's got a grey head!  Vader
is 'human', but to (questiobably) more accurately portray Darth's skintone
when his mask was removed in RoTJ, LEGO used grey.

-Rev. Smith


Hum.. Vader is more machine than human.  His consumption of the dark side
made him lose his humanity.  Sure Luke helps him regain it but that is later on.

Even if YOU say it is not a rqcial issue it WILL BECOME one.  TLC does not
want to step into this minefield...
-AHui



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  Re: Lando poll
 
I would agree with Pedro in that this should be looked at as a skintone issue, not a race issue. As analogy: Before LEGO made an Episode 2 Anakin minifig, they never made minifigs with orangey-brown hair. Before that, you had to choose red or brown (...) (22 years ago, 7-Oct-02, to lugnet.starwars)

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