Fleshies and Yellows

[Joey Lock]

You missed off grey skin off the list, like Palpatine and Vader. An I'm not sure what color skin Darth Maul has?

He is classed as Alien

[AwesomeStar]

I can tolerate both, but unless someone is diseased, I stick to one tone per MOC. My brother often mixes them, and I say:

"No no no, you can't do that!!"

"Why not??"

"Because he's YELLOW!"

"Oh, don't be so racist!"

"How am I racist? It's PLASTIC!"

Typical scenario at the O'Connell house.

[samthelegoman1]

I don't really mind the difference, I mean having a fleshie head in a MOC won't drastically change anything

[JimBee]

I like a good balance between yellow and flesh minifigures. I think TLG made a good choice in deciding to have all licenses' figs be flesh, because that's what their skin color really is, like in movies, etc., and to keep the non-license themes with yellow minifigs for the hardcore fans and a classic look. Maybe you should suggest a contest for this in the contest thread in Website & Forums.

[Mattieshoe]

why in the hell is LEGO trying to go "realistic?"

Sure, if you're making figurines for a movie franchises, it's fine. But these are LEGOs.

people like them beacuse their fun and artistic and appealing.

I mean, c'mon, sweat stains on a minifig??

Just imagine a standard LEGO minifigure with photographed torso patterns and faces painted on.

would that look like the stupidest thing ever or what?

So lego, we don't want Photo-realistic minifigs:

we want fun and colourful and warm minifigs that make us want to pick them up and play with them.

Luckily, the city theme got out of this trend in about 2005.

Edited September 14, 2008 by Mattieshoe

[KimT]

If you're going ballistic over the new fleshies in the Star Wars theme, then remember that they're meant to resemble the Clone Wars Animation Movie. They'll change back into regular fleshies with the ordinary SW sets.

License is flesh, why? Because we, the fans, demanded so. (Mainly HP fans)

Simple as that.

[Monkfish44]

Here's my view :P

http://flickr.com/photos/monkfish44/2871454908/

OK, so not my view, I like fleshies and yellows. They're fine in licensed products and that is where they should stay. Yellow is set in the LEGO universe, and fleshies are for the "real" universe in my opinion :)