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Jeff Stembel wrote in message ...
> In lugnet.starwars, Chris Maddison writes:
> > I was snooping through Brickset today, and came upon something. TLC has
> > firmly taken a stand on the race issue, saying that they give children • yellow
> > heads and let them play with them however they want to. They say they • don't
> > take sides when it comes to race and ethnic background. But, I found • these
> > Duplo sets (5089, 5090, 5091) that are families from 1996. • African-American,
> > Asian, and Hispanic, respectively. So, if TLC has taken such a firm • position
> > on not making alternate colored heads for Lego Systems, why can Duplo • slide
> > by? I want a Lando fig, and Billy Dee Williams ain't yellow!
>
> Do you realize how many problems Lego would have if they started making
> non-yellow human minifigs? First, they'd have to stop making yellow • minifigs
> altogether. If they didn't, and let them slide as "caucasians", they'd be
> opening themselves up to lawsuits from all over the world. Assuming they • rid
> themselves of yellow as a skin color, they would then have to create a • "proper
> distribution" of races in all themes. Of course, what would the "proper
> distribution" be? After all, America has a different ethnic distribution • than
> Europe, Africa, or India. Also, what about all the variations in skin • color?
> Hopefully you can see that this is not feasible for a company like Lego to • do.
> They'd be opening themselves up to lawsuits and critisism from people the
> world over.
>
> Lego, Please stick with yellow as the universal human minifig color...
But minifigs are not human. Minifigs are little LEGO people, and little LEGO
people have yellow heads. Those minifigs that do not have yellow heads are
quite obviously aliens from another planet in the LEGO realm - see UFO,
insectoids and selected others.
If there was to be a LEGO Lando, then he would have to be yellow - it would
just look wrong any other way. Now Yoda OTOH would have to be green.
If you are not happy with uniformity in Legoland, and must have some
minority minifigs, then take a look at the following, and request a few
hundred when Lego Direct gets going.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/4192/temp/fatround.html
http://www.lugnet.com/dear-lego/?n=1716
(Duckie) Dave Till
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