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Re: How will/should they...
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Sat, 24 Apr 1999 14:48:24 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Ryan Dennett writes:
> > * Lando Calrissian. Ok, you all know what I'm getting at here. They can= • only
> > skirt making this minifig for so long... after all, he's an important plot
> > motivator. Do you think Lando will be the minifig that breaks the color
> > barrier? Do you think he *should*? Am I the only person who looks at the
> > Native Americans in the Wild West set and cringes?
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> I would hope they'd make Lando. But I think it would be best to leave him=
> out if they
> don't give him a brown head. I would also like to see Mace Windu from TPM,=
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> with some of the other dignitories.
I agree totally, but I think the minifig "yellow" is suppose to act as a
racially nuetral color. Although, *if* TLG were to decide that they would
break the "color barrier" they would also be admitting that they've been
prejudice in the past, producing nothing but yellow figs for fifty years.
This is by-far the most interesting hurtle they're going to have to jump...
Regs,
-Chris-
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| It is my recollection that there have been mini-figs that ALREADY changed that yellow only policy. I do believe that Darth Vader has a grey head. If they can do grey, why not brown? I think black may be out, since it will not contrast enough to the (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Hopefully in pirate/wild west coin gold color. This would be a great minifig. (...) If they do him I think he will be a one(maybe two) piece figure. This would be the only way they could do it because his shape is nothing close to humanoid. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.starwars)
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