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…in fact they all appear to be suffering from jaundice.
in this day and age when most cities are multi-racial, it really should be the ideal that our basic lego mini people reflected the diversity that we observe on the streets. its not as if lego restrict themselves to a small palette of colours.
if
this is indeed baked (and I’m not talking about the speciality figures like the pirates etc) then I will happily delete this immediately.
Jade Empire minifigs
http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/7421
Somewhat specialised. [wagster, Jan 22 2006]
Tolkien minifigs
http://www.trevorshp.com/lotrlego.htm
Not original Lego - but very good nonetheless. Glad to see the forces of Sauron have been well represented. [wagster, Jan 22 2006]
You. In Lego.
http://www.reasonab....com/mini/index.htm
[wagster, Jan 22 2006]
Should Lego introduce more skin-tones? Discuss.
http://www.classic-...iewtopic.php?p=2381
In depth discussion of this idea by scary Lego fanatics. [wagster, Jan 22 2006]
LEGO® DUPLO® Explore Being Me World People Set
http://www.ssww.com.../product/sku=LR625/
Created specifically to adress this. [jutta, Jan 22 2006]
Epinions review of the set.
http://www.epinions...ontent_144759099012
[jutta, Jan 22 2006]
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They're called mini-figs [po]. Tsk tsk, don't you know *anything*? |
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I can see it now; Lego gets sued for not maintaining a proper ethnic mix |
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I went to Denmark once, and found that while not yellow, many of the people there had lego-man like features. It was something in the way they smiled. It was almost spooky thinking back on it. |
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I think that pretty much all races have been covered by Lego, but as [po] points out, that is a very different thing to providing ethnic diversity in all of the run-of-the-mill lego sets. |
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EDIT - I was wrong about the ethnic thing. Apparently the only non-yellow Lego head produced was that of Lando Calrissian. |
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Leg Omen - that's where your leg changes colour before
something happens (usually bad) - in this case it's the
opposite - a good omen + |
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What's next, anatomically correct Lego? |
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How'd you find that [jutta]? I spent a good while searching for exactly that. |
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Google's very first hit for "lego" and "skin tones" was the Wikipedia lego timeline. It mentions the product's introduction in 2004, but doesn't list the name. After a lot of unsuccessful poking around, I switched to an image search for "lego" "people", and that happens to have a picture of the set as the last image on page one. |
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I see that I must hone my interweb detectivity skills. |
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are they just for duplo? (which I believe is the larger lego for smaller children) |
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Yeah, I think you're right - they're the larger ones. [Adjusts link name.] |
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I love the LOTR ones! :-) ... If only I was 8 years old again. I need an excuse to play with this stuff again. |
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You don't really need an excuse, just make sure no one else is in the room. If someone comes in, say you have a drug problem. No matter what you do, people will forgive you if you have a drug problem. |
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Wow, that looks so sketchy now that I've finished typing it. |
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Last time I looked, nobody wandering the streets was day-glo yellow so I think LEGO do a nice job by not favouring any particular race for their toys.
Still, I suppose the absence of any other colour is a bit suggestive of some sinister fluorescent yellow master race. Could we lobby LEGO to produce figures in other improbable colours? Red, blue, purple and green people would be preferable to boring old real-life skin pigmentation. |
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//No matter what you do, people will forgive you if you have a drug problem// Charles Manson? |
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//I need an excuse to play with this stuff again.// Have kids. It's worth at least a decade of excuses for all sorts of activities. |
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only for the babies apparently... |
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Baked or not, it certainly isn't "widely known". |
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They have pirates, ghosts, albino's some indians. They are diverse. |
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