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Re: How will/should they...
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:34:11 GMT
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Karim,
I agree whole-heartingly, it would be quite a mess!
Scott Sanburn
Karim wrote:
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> Josh Spaulding wrote:
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> > > How would that work, in themes such as RES-Q or Ninja's?
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> > Well, RES-Q would be easy - just print Moustache Guy, Shades Guy, or some other
> > face onto a brown head. It's very reasonable to expect a modern rescue squat to
> > have some diversity.
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> Ah, but How much diversity? You see, this is the sticking point when it comes to
> this question... If a set that is manufactured in Denmark represent Danish ratios
> of minority figures, or French? (or whereever else it's sold). American numbers
> would be significantly out of place in some countries, so you would end up
> manufacturing different versions of each set in order to cater to the local
> minority lobbies and keep from getting sued...
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> > Ninjas, on the other hand, would make more sense if they were all yellow. Same
> > with Medieval sets. This might be a bit awkward for TLG.
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> Oh? And why are Japanese figures Yellow? They should be closer to brown than
> yellow, if you are being realistic... TLG would then have to discontinue yellow
> heads, because Caucasians are NOT Yellow skinned, and TLG would have to start using
> Tan... Pretty soon, the Yellow Smiley would be all but extinct, making brief
> appearances in hospital sets and so on... (perhaps in the "Jaundice & Psyche Ward"
> set).
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> Anyway, sorry for the rant... As you can see, this is not a path that I would like
> Lego to go down...
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> --Karim
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