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Re: Pics from ToyFair 2005
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In lugnet.year.2005, David DeNuzzo wrote:
> Greetings all,
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> New poster here.
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> 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.
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> This is something I first noticed with the Spiderman sets, and also with the NBA
> minifigs.
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> 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.)
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> 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.
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> Now I'm guessing that they're just trying to be 'unfortunately... realistic'.
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 explanation, like I said, search...
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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 (...) (19 years ago, 22-Feb-05, to lugnet.year.2005)
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