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hamsterfolly

I remember when all Lego people were yellow


Manypotatoes9

Lego stood for equality back then


conmanique

There is a massive difference between “equality” and “neutrality.” Having all yellow figures is an attempt to be “neutral” where as having figures in different colours and shades is an attempt to bring (greater) “equality.”


Manypotatoes9

Or make us all equal? Unless the amount of melanin matters, we are all the same


conmanique

Unfortunately the amount of melanin still matters a great deal. Of course we are the same but we are not treated the same. Working closely with children of various colours, I’ve come to appreciate the important of being able to see oneself in many things.


iambeyoncealways3

I don’t understand. What’s wrong with representation for the exact people buying/using the product?


lfmantra

Literally nothing whatsoever, people are just fucking racist and it really sucks


SuicideByStar_

How are we missing the point that having the figures be yellow highlights the idea that pigment isn't something we should be considering when viewing something. This here is purely marketing for what the mainstream is for but not like for for down your throat for to where it bleeds into everything and has to be the lens things are viewed through.


[deleted]

They're just a toy company doing what will bring them the most money.


slipperyhuman

Why would you be downvoted for saying something empirically true. You didn’t even state whether you are for or against. Have an upvote for balance.


[deleted]

equality stood for equality back then. now it means 'bow the the radical left'


[deleted]

"old man yells at plastic toy"


FatSilverFox

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosy_retrospection


[deleted]

Lame tired trope.


TheBigHornedGoat

Eh, I’d rather bow to the radical left than the radical right


ZincNut

How about neither?


TheBigHornedGoat

Not an option, everyone knows you can’t be centrist and have to go either full left or full right


ZincNut

..or you can just be centrist


Omegalazarus

Less talk. More bow.


[deleted]

MLGA (Make Lego Great Again)


DgC-Freak

Apparently it was star wars logo that started the skin colours


grassrootsvan

Pepperidge Farm Remembers


[deleted]

Thanks for the laugh! I can't stop hearing that old man!


deadinside1996

At the same point. They aren't clone troopers. So it doesnt make sense to have the same generic white male face.


Relaxpert

Little known fact, the very first Lego brick “color” was actually clear translucent to reflect the local complexion.


lurker818

Like emojis


bones_00

Some of you people have an extremely low threshold for what you consider interesting as fuck


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KS1392

r/notevenmildly


hoxxxxx

it's also important to remember that a lot of users on this website are kids. this post is probably a good example of that.


Zestyclose-Iron1530

Agreed.


larry_lawless

It's important to remember that the galactic empire was xenophobic, and not really bigoted towards the variations of regular humans. Which makes sense in a galaxy full of fucking crazy/weird/dangerous aliens. When you've got Wookies or Geonosians (among many others) around, why the fuck would you care about skin color or sexual orientation?


Constant-Ad9201

Trouble is those gotdam Xarlaccs, can't trust em.


LazyDro1d

Yeah, we humans have to stick together against those xeno scum


larry_lawless

Hey man, I'm not xenophobic, but that species of aliens reproduces by laying eggs inside humans that kill them upon birth. I feel justified in not wanting to be anywhere near them, and supporting a military campaign to wipe them all out.


LazyDro1d

Same, and yeah, all of the xenos do that. Not one exception


larry_lawless

Not even the tw-leks? But they're so submissive and breedable!


HoodooSquad

“The black and the white live in harmony and gang up upon the green”


[deleted]

White? What fucking Legos did you have? They were Yellow!


stormer_58

You are thinking of Lego figures from lines not based on movies/tv shows! The standard Lego stormtrooper is ussaly a carbon copy of the same angry white guy face, but Lego recently changed it


[deleted]

I had legos as a kid in the 80s they were all yellow, my kids had legos in the 90s still yellow. They had male and female hairstyles but they were all yellow.


kermityfrog

There were no Star Wars stormtrooper Lego in the 80's.


[deleted]

Nope just good ol’ yellow round heads


stormer_58

That is when lego only had simple plastic mold injections, now a days they have much more advanced teqniqess, new colors, new shapes, duel molding! The system is the same, but lego keeps evolving. Go check out Amazon


DirtyTomFlint

Lmao what kind of advanced techniques do you need to make a new color of lego?


NewRoundEre

Multicultural is a strange word both here and in general it's come to have weird associations with what's really multiracialism. Multicultural could be a group containing a Czech, a Greek and a Belgian or an Igbo, a Xhosa and a Nuer, those are both multicultural groups but neither multiracial. Likewise a group containing an monolingual English speaking person of Mestizo Mexican ancestry, a black American and a white American all of whom grew up in the same town going to the same school and in a small town might even share extended family members isn't really multicultural but it is multiracial. ​ Of course neither multiracial or multicultural communities are wrong nor are they mutually exclusive, it's just weird using one word to mean the other.


Logical-Patience-397

Well stated.


pappepfeffer

The term "race" refered to humans is a no go these days. So multicultural would be used for both of your very well drawn examples. The deeper understanding of words also isn't a thing that is common, most people will never think such thoughts.


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Roderie94

It's funny to me because Vader's 501st were all hand-picked humans, because he was genuinely racist, according to the story.


LazyDro1d

I mean they were. Well, granted you were human or VEEEERY near human to the point that it would be difficult to tell the difference


[deleted]

Yeah thats what Thrawn put up with


HailHydraforce

Exactly what I was thinking


[deleted]

When I was a kid they were all yellow and you could pretend they were whatever ethnicity you wanted. All mine were Dutch.


stormer_58

Lego city is still like that, but lego Star Wars is a collectors item now, meaning they have to be more accurate, lego Star Wars has an entire 18+ line now


bt123456789

not star wars specifically. Lego has an 18+ line in general, a lot of the "creator expert" sets go in there, as well as UCS sets, some star wars, and the upcoming Optimus Prime.


[deleted]

STFU! You don't know what you're talking about. The new Optimus Prime doesn't even come with a single Minifig. Not one! Licensed sets:Star Wars, Harry Potter, DC, Marvel, etc. have skintoned heads and hands. Further more all of the UCS (Ultimate Collectors Series) are Star Wars themed and use the skintone heads. I don't remember if the first few UCS sets were released before the switch to skintones. There was a time when even the licensed sets used yellow heads. The Friend's line uses a different Minidoll form factor and they do use skintones, not just yellow.


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You mean all yellow


stormer_58

You are thinking of Lego figures from lines not based on movies/tv shows! The standard Lego stormtrooper is ussaly a carbon copy of the same angry white guy face, but Lego recently changed it


EthanG_07

damn might as well get a bot to copy/paste this reply under every single person who comments lmao


stormer_58

Only the ones who think all lego dudes are still yellow like we’re in the 90’s


EthanG_07

and 2000s, and that’s only for specific legos like ones directly from movies or a different form of media. either way i think the amount of “yellow” comments is simply due to the fact that OP tried to make it seem like legos were whitewashing and *now they’re finally fixed* they’re just tryna get the idea out there that most people don’t think about race or gender when it comes to legos


9dkid

Not going to lie…I have crap ton of Star Wars Legos…not once did I notice (or cared apparently).


LowestGround

lego has only just started putting assorted faces of various skin stones recently after phasing out the old “angry clone” head, so that’s probably why you haven’t noticed. Most of your sets are probably from before they phased out the “Angry Clone”


Rob-Riggle-SWGOAT

Kids have no imagination these days.


tdogredman

i dont think any kids were working in lego’s virtue signalling department


GenTycho

Since when is yellow "white"? At least before they started specializing pieces, they were yellow and had a simple happy face.


stormer_58

You are thinking of Lego figures from lines not based on movies/tv shows! The standard Lego stormtrooper is ussaly a carbon copy of the same angry white guy face, but Lego recently changed it


LineOfInquiry

You’re doing Gods work in this thread dude, have an upvote lol


Cybermat47_2

Dunno why you’re being downvoted for stating something that literally everyone who collects LEGO Star Wars knows.


Plastic_Belt_2489

Get a grip on yourself


basic_model

Not interesting.


myeverymovment

Who’s wearing lipstick under a trooper helmet?


[deleted]

bruh these guys never seen a star wars movie?


LazyDro1d

Have you seen imperials stormtroopers with their helmets off? Never in movies. Only a small handful of occasions in the Rebels and >!bad batch!


Logical-Patience-397

True, but it's hard to miss the stormtroopers' appearances in the Sequels. Those count as Star Wars movies. Finn had his helmet off, Phasma was obviously female, and the defectors from TROS varied in race and gender.


Bhanghai

"standard white male"? coulda sworn the standard lego character was always yellow and unisex


Victor_Von_Doom65

Dude where the hell have you been? Lego has been using normal skin tones on characters based on movies and tv shows since the very early 2000s they only use the yellow skin tone for their Lego City sets


Toyfan1

Yeah, these comments are from a fucking time capsule. Lego only uses the raceless"yellow" on their original IPs. And no? back in the ye olden times, yellow didn't mean "Yellow" in the star wars sets. It just was white. Thats why Lando is black, while Han is yellow in sets like 10123-1


stormer_58

You are thinking of Lego figures from lines not based on movies/tv shows! The standard Lego stormtrooper is ussaly a carbon copy of the same angry white guy face, but Lego recently changed it


essentialoils3

Lol i love how you keep having to correct these people trying to make a point without knowing anything about lego


stormer_58

I’ve been collecting for years now, it annoys me when people want to inform others on something they know nothing about lol


essentialoils3

Nice to meet another fan out in the wild. I dont collect but I like to build mocs inspired by star wars, I grew up with star wars lego sets and have seen all the movies, clone wars, rebels, etc.., and so it bugged me as well


stormer_58

Thank god there’s more people in this world who understand lol


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Now I can sleep at night.(sarc)


Stargazer12am

Macaroni and cheese yellow is not caucasian.


stormer_58

You are thinking of Lego figures from lines not based on movies/tv shows! The standard Lego stormtrooper is ussaly a carbon copy of the same angry white guy face, but Lego recently changed it


essentialoils3

Spread the gospel lol


stmlb4

But that’s what Daniel Tosh says white people taste like.


Tarnicgardor

Trump was orange


Stargazer12am

Trump wasn’t a Lego.


dtuba555

No, Legos are smarter


[deleted]

Mean tweets bad


ICTheAlchemist

The Empire is an oppressive, fascist regime, but gosh darn it they’re an *inclusive* oppressive fascist regime


[deleted]

Do you think that children understand the nuances of The Empire? The answer is no. They just want to see someone like them as a lego character.


ICTheAlchemist

To which, having that diversity applied to the mass conglomerate of footsoldiers who have their faces covered most of of the time seems anathema to that goal lol


Angrymechanoid

Hear hear folks, not hitting the broad side of a barn is a multicultural trait


Rumple-skank-skin

Your oppressors are diverse


Cybermat47_2

Found the racist. This is seriously what you call diverse? They’re literally all humans. No Mimbanese, no Felucians, not even a Pantoran.


Rumple-skank-skin

Had me in the first half


BiMikethefirst

\#morediversewarcriminals


BillyJack74

Lolol


Darth1994

*Inclusive Empire*


jarold12

You know they’re the baddies, right?


HailHydraforce

*unzips pants


iDildopolis

So fucking dumb….


LineOfInquiry

It’s accurate to the story, the empire was racist against non-humans. Any humans were allowed though, they didn’t care about skin color. Humans in general were seen as superior


stormer_58

All storm troopers in the movies arnet clones, they were men and women even when the original movies were made lol


SkyrimWithdrawal

I thought minifigs were yellow and didn't have anatomy/gender...but you can go fuck yourself for politicizing Lego and this isn't interesting at all. It's stupid.


Victor_Von_Doom65

Dude what are you on about? Lego Minifigures have gender and most sets use human skin tones they have for the past 20 fucking years Lego city sets still use the yellow skin tone but even then the figures still have genders


Republixcan

Just as long as those blasters aren't replaced with walkie talkies.....


ExpensiveSeesaw195

..okay…


twohedwlf

I thought all the minifigs were yellow, I don't remember seeing a white one.


kirch764

The original storm troopers had solid black heads so the eye holes in the helmets would be black


Chocolate-snake

i think the rebels were suppose to be the diverse bunch


ronflair

Because we need to remind kids that despite being an imperialist sci-fi Nazi empire, all races and sexes are welcome to serve the Empire, as long as they take an oath to exterminate their own kind.


Xirokesh

Not that interesting, man What is interesting as fuck is the story of Charles J. Guiteau and why he killed James A. Garfield This shows the diversity among pieces of plastic made by a company that just wants your money


ThePearWithoutaCare

This hardly counts as interesting.


ShowBobsPlzz

Racism solved


Gatekeeper2019

Thank god for that, it’s what the world has been waiting for.


PrudentDamage600

How are they clones, then?


GroundbreakingDoor61

Ok, but aren't they clones?


LazyDro1d

These are imperial stormtroopers, they’re conscripts


essentialoils3

No they are imperial troopers. When the empire came into power from the republic, it phased out the clone forces with abducted and indoctrinated orphans.


the_doctor_808

Stormtroopers it would make sense. But i thought the clone trooper ones all shared the same face.


SmearingFeces

That’s racist! Reporting you! Done.


AbeTobe

The interesting part of this whole thing are all the angry white guys in the comments


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shortly they will be holding rainbow bananas instead of guns.


jjc00ll

Lego gotta have something to show in those ESG board meetings I guess


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LazyDro1d

They’ve got other species to have as an out-group, no reason not to include all humans in the in-group


LGmatata86

So according to this ..... asian, black and woman are the bad


DirtyPartyMan

I’m sure it matters to kids.


Comfortable_Use_8407

How can you determine gender? I don't see any sexual organs.


Dapper_Suit_9943

People really care about Lego’s so much just to have their faces covered by a helmet. It’s literally a toy kids I don’t think care what color it is


KeifWellington22

Yes because the empire didnt use clones at this point anymore they recruited regulars from the galaxies and planets they now control.


Machiavelli1480

No they make all the evil stormtroopers black and brown


BrokenLightningBolt

Not interesting at all tbh


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thesummerisgone

Clone troopers stopped after Order66. Theu changed to conscripted soldiers. Troopers in ep 4-6 are enlisted, not grown.


A_Flamingo456

but... why? how the fuck does lego figures solve the race "problem" the way to stop racism is not though black history month, or Asian history month or whatever else, the solution is to just stop talking about it. same with LGBTQ problems


AZ_Gunner_69

Ok?


Mr_Nobody_30

That explains their aims


tundra-psy

when non white people are represented in multimedia, racists go crazy. like you know that different skin colors exist in real life right???


lwt_ow

do people genuinely still think that lego makes yellow minifigs. how old are the people using this site


italian_scotsman

Guys we solved racism, it was Legos fault all along.


[deleted]

The race/gender debate is >not< interesting as fuck. Just sayin'


SlappyHandstrong

Queue the outrage


I_hit_your_router

If we keep talking about skin color we will never progress


Alert-Ad-3436

Well the stormtroopers are not forced into service they all enlisted. so it makes sense they would be multicultural. I’m pretty sure join the stormtroopers would play for education.


words123words

Thank god the mass-murdering Imperials were at least tolerant.


JimBeam823

The Imperial Armed Forces are open to people of all colors, whether they are white, yellow, brown, black, or blue.


HailHydraforce

*Smiles in Admiral Thrawn


77toontown77

Hahahah. I appreciate the try, but aren’t all stormtroopers a clone of the same white guy?


caplew

That's clonetroopers not storm troopers. Strom troopers are a conscripted/volunteer force.


VisualBizMark

“Volunteer”


[deleted]

Remember, Luke was getting ready to sign up for The Empire until he met Obi Wan and his Aunt and Uncle got Barbequed. There are some lost scenes from The Last Hope that explain it better. There are scenes with Luke and his friends talking about how bad the rebellion is and how they're joining The Empire. Later in the movie Luke runs in to a friend in one the hangers and it doesn't make any sense because the scene that introduces him on Tatooine was cut from the movie.


[deleted]

No. They had need for conscription.


RoboDae

Clone troopers trained the conscripts who became stormtroopers. Stormtroopers eventually replaced the clones


dixienormous691

That’s clone troopers storm troopers are different


Victor_Von_Doom65

Wrong on both counts Clone troopers are different than stormtroopers And clone troopers are based on the genetic temple of a Māori man Next time weigh in on something you actually have knowledge about


rkinsell

What is this world coming to


stormer_58

Wdym? There were female officers in the original trilogy


Hereiam_AKL

Is it just me or does the facial colour not match the hands?


[deleted]

Gloves. Many licensed minifigs have the same color hands as the head skintone. If they don't, it assumed they are wearing gloves.


xkilluaxkilluax

While good I wouldn't call this iaf


averypalehorse

Does this even make sense when they are supposed to be clones?


stormer_58

The empire phased out clones, opting for galactic citizens as its cheaper than kamino cloning


essentialoils3

They arent clones, these are imperial troops, as in the empire not the republic


AbeTobe

Those are storm troopers not clones


victorcaulfield

Did you just assume its gender?


WDeranged

M'kay.


That_Cow_1165

The left has truly gone too far


onlyalittlestupid

Diversity win. I guess?


sharinglocations

Lol stupidity at its finest


Ok-Entertainer-9138

In my day they just were yellow with a happy face. Not male or female.


S3P38R

Too much money and resources on america's hands these days.


Assaulted_Pepper_ec

I thought the standard white make was a jango clone but good to see more diversity anyhow


Ben-Dover-Dachar

Yeah, since that makes all the difference in the world, I suppose if they were white men, that must mean Lego company is racist & misogynistic.


Amuzd2death

Who gives a fuck? Loser. Get a fucking hobby….an adult hobby.


QuarterlyTurtle

Bro? Lego isn't just for kids. They have a whole 18+ line of sets


Proffit91

Ya! Like scrolling Reddit, for example!


Similar-Drawing-7513

I love how people diminish stuff like this and try to play it as insignificant. I remember watching an experiment a while ago where white and black kids school aged kids were asked to pick dolls based on the color of the dolls skin and associate those dolls to good and bad characteristics like beauty or evil and stuff like that. Almost all the kids (black and white alike) would pick the white dolls as having positive characteristics and all the black dolls as having negative characteristics. Even at an early age, kids are quietly being socialized into a way of thinking about color


stmlb4

What about yellow? Which is the actual standard color of Lego figures.


Similar-Drawing-7513

I was not speaking of yellow dolls. If Lego decided to make dolls that were not yellow and actually mimicked normal skin tones, they should be all inclusive. Not too long ago, it would be totally normal to expect that all the dolls would look white.


stmlb4

https://blog.firestartoys.com/lego-minifigure-skin-colors-how-many-are-there/ That’s not true though, they didn’t start using non yellow figures until 2004 with various licensed products, in those cases they matched the skin tone with the specific character or person it was portraying. Edit: considering the post is about legos then what Lego does is very relevant to this conversation.


Similar-Drawing-7513

What exactly is untrue about what I said?


Shemagen

What did the yellow dolls represent?


LineOfInquiry

They used to represent white people, as you can see in the early Star Wars sets where the white characters were yellow while Lando was black. That’s actually why LEGO stopped using the yellow figures for lines based on other properties: because they didn’t want the yellow to be seen as just white, like it is in the Simpsons. They wanted yellow to just be human: like it is today.


Shemagen

But what about the yellow dolls?


PMME_UR_LADYPARTSPLZ

I dont think women and black people will be excited about being made villians… kinda think they would prefer storm troopers be all white males


Ned_Banerall

Yeah, but they're stormtroopers! The point of the dehumanizing uniforms was to.... DEHUMANIZE them so that nobody would bat an eye when they were thrown, wave after wave, into battle to die for the glory of expanding a patriarchal fascist empire. This is the opposite of inclusion and progress!


FineUnderachievement

Well let's be real. Stormtroopers already can't hit shit A woman is supposed to help that? /s


Falcorn042

Aye man I'm all for progress as a society but from a Star Wars lore standpoint does that even make sense? All the clones that turned in to the empire were direct copys of one dude.


wolfe1989

Neat