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In lugnet.starwars, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> It's important to understand that the "race-card" was played a long time ago. A
> bunch of pale danes sat around a room and decided what primary color would work
> best as a "flesh" tone. They looked at each other and the choice was
> ethno-centric. They weren't color-blind, just typically insensitive (or not
> forward-looking enough). Having painted themselves into a corner, they kept it
> up until they had to face reality with the NBA. The trouble was, they needed to
> make that decision a wee bit earlier for representing any specific person for
> Star Wars and Harry Potter, because they faced the two rotten choices of keeping
> up the pretense and facing a possible outcry by the black community if they came
> out with a yellow Lando (or none at all, which is what they tried to get away
> with for as long as they could, which was perhaps worse), or proving the lie in
> their own rational by making a brown Lando. It was a train wreck destined to
> happen.
>
>
> ->Bruce<--
I disagree with your assumptions. When LEGO first made any attempt at Lego
"people", they had very few colors to choose from. Yellow was probably the best
looking one available at the time. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I just don't believe
there was any racial motivation in the original color choice.
Instead, I see the NBA figs and Lando as prototypes for updating the minifigs...
to make them better.
Maybe people should quit assuming that anything to do with fleshtones in toys is
a racial statement. I don't know. I just wish everyone could enjoy the new
Lando and NBA figs, and say, "Cool, LEGO, make more like this!" I think this
would be a lot better than scolding TLC for not doing it sooner, or assuming
racial prejudice in a company that has nothing to gain and everything to lose
from it.
(stepping down from soapbox)
Tim, the hopeful AFOL
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| (...) However, we do have the clear example of (URL) set 215> as skin colour differentiating 'race'; and this set dates back to 1977 - not too long after yellow skin was established. Adieu Richie Dulin (2 URLs) Port Brique Somewhere in the South (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Thanks for stepping forward to take the slings and arrows. I have witnessed, as everyone else here has, Lego listening to us. We asked for a small stormtrooper pack, releasing old sets, new colors, new train cars and engines, discounts on bulk (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Lando minifig picutre HERE
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| (...) You assume incorrectly about what you think are my assumptions. "...what primary color would work best a "flesh" tone." I covered that. Nor did I say that there was any overt racial motivation. What I do believe is that Lego didn't think (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: Lando minifig picutre HERE
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| (...) minifigs... (...) Agreed 100%. This only means that the company is working to make the product even better. At brickfest, I asked during the QandA if the NBA race/plastic color was going to continue into the other themes like world city. The (...) (21 years ago, 12-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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| (...) It's important to understand that the "race-card" was played a long time ago. A bunch of pale danes sat around a room and decided what primary color would work best as a "flesh" tone. They looked at each other and the choice was ethno-centric. (...) (21 years ago, 11-Aug-03, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)
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