> Which maybe held water right up until they wanted to make a Lando Calrissian minifigure and it became extremely obvious that he couldn’t be yellow

Why couldn't he? I would say the people who insist Lando must be othered in this way are the people who are being weird here, not the people who used yellow for characters whose race didn't matter to them.

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decimalenough 3 days ago | parent [-]

Because he wouldn't be recognizable? It would be like making Yoda pink or R2D2 black.

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lmm 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Because he wouldn't be recognizable?

Why not? Did anyone try mocking it up? His facial hair would show up fine against yellow. If the white characters were recognisable with yellow heads, why wouldn't it work for him?

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spagettnet 3 days ago | parent [-]

https://hallofbricks.shop/cdn/shop/files/lego_starwars_minif... (original)

https://imgur.com/a/KzlTbO2 (gpt 5 - yellow plastic)

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AlanYx 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

There's something about the yellow plastic version that feels more Lando, like it reflects some kind of distilled essence of the character.

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adastra22 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Looks fine to me?

	▲	ben_w 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Not disagreeing, but as a bonus they can reuse the head and hair pieces for Tom Selleck in any Magnum, P.I. sets they might make.

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Biganon 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I was ready to criticize, but... he looks pretty perfect like that

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account42 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's really weird how this particular kind of racism is not only acceptable in the current zeitgeist but enforced as dogma. Why is anyone's skin color their most important defining characteristic?

This feels more like virtue signaling than any kind of reason: This kind of logic lets you forever find new kinds of racism that you can then make performative fights against so that you can ignore real issues that plague the world.

	▲	ben_w 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think of skin colour like hair colour: it doesn't really mean anything, yet people still have degrading stereotypes; and changing it can make someone hard to recognise, especially in cases where a person is being caricatured anyway (which is lego but also Funko Pop). Take these images, how recognisable would any of the characters (those with hair) be with different hair? https://d2j6dbq0eux0bg.cloudfront.net/images/35476104/296227... https://75609.cdn.simplo7.net/static/75609/sku/funko-pop-fun...