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Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:18:10 GMT
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Scott, please let me introduce you to a secret that I'm fairly sure most lego
users are hip to... The "yellow" minifigs are representations of human
beings who are lighter in skin color, i.e. white people. EVERY LEGO SET EVER
MADE IS A PROVERBIAL WHITE PACK. But TLG can no longer continue to avoid the
issue of race within their playsets. "Why?" You may ask, so let me explain.
Now that TLG has started to incorporate ethnic themes into their toys (i.e.
Japanese in the Ninja sets, and Native Americans in the Wild West sets), as
well as having presented at least 3 "alien" minifigs (I'm counting the gungan
head as one, chewie as the 2nd, and darth maul as the last) TLG now has a
responsibility to it's fans of color to provide toys that represent a darker
skinned phenotype. This responsibility becomes so much more so when you
consider that TLG has decided to make toys of a story that is explicit about
having black heroes. Do you even think that the people at Kenner thought
twice about making a Lando action figure? it's the 21st century for god's
sake, and lego toys need to join the rest of us in it, they don't need to
cling to some outdated eurocentric ideal. I may be guilty of having a warped
sense of humor, but I think that my intentions are clear - A decision by TLG
to represent darker human beings in the minifigs would be something that we
all benefit from.
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) Would you be happy with dark yellow? The fact that lego is making the ethnic sets, indian or oriental, should tell you that yellow is just the basic color for minifigures. You do not see red used for indians although yellow is used for (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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| (...) Yeah, except the ones with Oriental people (who oddly enough have the same skin color as 'white people') or Native Americans (who oddly enough have the same skin color as 'white people', even though there are plenty of them who are darker in (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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| (...) To me minifigs were always Puerto Rican and they spoke Spanish as a main language. And they were dark skinned or permanently tan or ghostly white since we cover the whole spectrum but still Puerto Rican. Minifigs are what you want them to be. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.starwars)
| | | Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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| (...) I dunno for certain that the yellow 'figs are "white" folks. I think they are just "people." I for one hope that Lando comes out with yellow skin. (...) It's the 20th century. 21st doesn't start until 2001. Chris (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| Damien, (...) postings, (...) start (...) wars (...) that (...) and (...) Yeah, and then they should make a white pack too. FUT-> Off.topic.debate Scott S. -- Systems Administrator-Affiliated Engineers -> (URL) Page -> (URL) LEGO Parts at Great (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jul-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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