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Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
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Tue, 22 Feb 2005 06:24:39 GMT
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Greetings all,
New poster here.
While looking at Lar's pix from Toy Fair, I noticed that Lego had moved the
minifigs in the Harry Potter theme from traditional LEGO yellow "skin" color to
colors intended to more realistically match the actors portraying the roles.
This is something I first noticed with the Spiderman sets, and also with the NBA
minifigs.
Looking back I now see that LEGO actually made the switch in the HP line with
the Azkaban sets. (Sets for the first two HP movies used traditional yellow
minifigs.)
When I fisrt noticed the minifigs in the Spiderman sets, I wondered if the
choice of how to color the minifigs had anything to do with licensing contacts,
or some arcane brand marketing requirement.
Now I'm guessing that they're just trying to be 'unfortunately... realistic'.
In lugnet.year.2005, Richard Noeckel wrote:
> In lugnet.year.2005, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=117978
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> http://www.action-figure.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14013&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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> The new direction Lego has taken may just save the company, but yet, at what
> cost? The ideals of the past gave relevance to the notions that Military (guns)
> and Mortality (graves) were not the ethics the company was founded upon…
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> What compromise is this?
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> ...unfortunately, it’s a realistic one!
Snip...
DD
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| (...) Search back in LUGNET, this has been discussed at some length. Briefly, LEGO is using flesh for figs based on real people or on movie characters (which are played by real people) and retaining yellow for generic people. That's not a very good (...) (20 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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