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Re: Why can't we have a Lando: Lego's Race policy
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lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Sun, 30 Apr 2000 06:40:10 GMT
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Xcalabur <Xcalabur@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
news:FtsLzv.Eru@lugnet.com...
At Lego's Imagination Center at the Mall of America in Twin Cities MN, • there
are many large "minifigs" made out of regular lego bricks.  Several of • them
are
African American.  I have pictures, I just need to scan them.  I find it
interesting that TLG won't make brown colored heads, but they will • construct
giant "minifigs" with brown colored heads.  (all they gotta do is pour • some
brown plastic into one of the minifig head molds!  It's not that • difficult!)

-Bryan

EXACTLY my point!  It's almost like they're trying to play both sides of • the
fence.  Oh heavens, we need to be politically correct, but we don't want • to
get into it.  I say that's bantha fodder.  Give consumers what they want.
-Chris

I do not view it as a matter of being "politically correct", but just making
sure that they represent the people they are selling to.

I suppose, ideally, they could make the colour of the mini-fig almost
random,  just like in life :-)

Scott A



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  Re: Why can't we have a Lando: Lego's Race policy
 
Can anyone say if lego has ever made a non-yellow minifig head? Chris (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Why can't we have a Lando: Lego's Race policy
 
(...) I'd like to see this too. They could make it so that there's a random selection of colors all across the spectrum of human skin colors. Then, the minifigs in each set would be randomized -- no way of telling what color you'd get until you (...) (25 years ago, 30-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general)

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  Re: Why can't we have a Lando: Lego's Race policy
 
(...) are (...) EXACTLY my point! It's almost like they're trying to play both sides of the fence. Oh heavens, we need to be politically correct, but we don't want to get into it. I say that's bantha fodder. Give consumers what they want. -Chris (25 years ago, 29-Apr-00, to lugnet.starwars, lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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