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Re: who's feelin the black pack?
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lugnet.starwars
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Wed, 9 Aug 2000 03:43:25 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
> So they're caught between a rock and a hard
> place no matter what they do:
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> 1) Never make Windu or Calrissian. Motives for mot making them would be kind
> of obvious, and opens them up for ridicule.
I agree. They have got to make them or it will be obvious why they didn't
> 2) Make them yellow. While preserving the "one minifig race" theory, also • kind
> of a cop-out. Not to mention that Samuel L. Jackson and Billy Dee Williams
> would have every right to be kind of upset. :D
Do Harrison, Carry, Mark, etc have a right to be upset? As a "white" guy I
would be upset of someone implied that my skin is yellow.
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> 3) Make them a darker tone. Suddenly, every other minifig ever made is
> caucasian- unless, of course, they take the tack that in every other case
there
Well then, by this argument if the first SW fig made had been a yellow Lando,
then that would mean that all the other yellow figs that had come before were
black, including native americans, all the cowboys, and the knights, etc.
> is one minifig race, but with licensed products they will attempt to mimic the
> property as well as possible. This seems to me to be the best option, but
> that's just my opinion.
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> eric
I say just make em all yellow and let me sort em out! (I really need to finish
sorting my collection anyway)
Chris
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| (...) Yeah, I'm aware of that set- in fact, I just referred someone else to it and 215 Red Indians. What I meant wasn't so much that Lego doesn't have the colors available. I meant that as soon as they place one darker toned minifig in, say, a Town (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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