To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.starwarsOpen lugnet.starwars in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Star Wars / 8558
8557  |  8559
Subject: 
Re: who's feelin the black pack?
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Wed, 9 Aug 2000 03:43:25 GMT
Viewed: 
2460 times
  
In lugnet.starwars, Eric Joslin writes:
>  So they're caught between a rock and a hard
> place no matter what they do:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> eric

I say just make em all yellow and let me sort em out! (I really need to finish
sorting my collection anyway)

Chris



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: who's feelin the black pack?
 
(...) 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 (...) (26 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.starwars)

63 Messages in This Thread:























Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR