Mix, yellow or flesh

[sebby]

I only had a few flesh part from the odd licensed set, and to me they did not look right and went straight into the bin.

Lego mini figures are meant to be yellow

But it is each to there own.

[jedikermit]

I use both for everything...most of the time I don't even notice a difference anymore unless I sit down and really examine them. Which I don't. So they can be whatever skin tone they want to be.

[badboytje88]

The word MOC stands for My Own Creation. So you decide what minifig colour you want to use, yellow, flesh, blue, red, black, sand green or mix whatever you got. It's your choise. Personally I don't mix yellow and flesh unless there's a really good rason for doing it.

[Sandy]

From what I've seen, all the figs are just ordinary fleshy - no variety at all, unlike last year's Indy sets.

Sorry, I remembered wrong. There is, however, one solitary "token black guy" in the Battle of Alamo set.

About the universality of the yellow skin, I personally have great troubles seeing yellow minifigs as having anything other than "caucasian" skin tone. Like in the Simpsons, they use different skin tones for people of different color.

But I guess in classical Legoland, there are no countries, no ethnicities and no varying skin tones. We each just have to decide if it's more of a positive or a negative thing. I personally can see both sides to that.

On the other hand, there is no discrimination based on how someone looks. But on the other hand, there is just one, uniform look that everyone adheres to, and that look is the Western middle class appearance.

[Rick]

On the other hand, there is no discrimination based on how someone looks. But on the other hand, there is just one, uniform look that everyone adheres to, and that look is the Western middle class appearance.

In my view, yellow as THE skin tone has the advantage that it is not really representative of any race's skin tone (it's way too bright to represent Asians for example). Therefore, I do not see why yellow would be reflecting Western middle class. In the adventurers' line, yellow was being used for people from Egypt, India, China, etc. In those cases, they take their identity from their facial features, clothing, and accessories. This has a second big advantage: you can use the minifig pieces in many more different ways, which is what Lego is all about.

[no_skill]

So far as I am concerned, if someone wishes to combine fleshies and yellow, that's fine; to each his own. Personally, I find the particular peach hue LEGO chose to use for the fleshies quite atrocious. Whenever I acquire a fleshie, it immediately meets a yellow permanent marker! It is a close (but not perfect) match to LEGO yellow. I may start making an exception by using fleshie heads with the new Toy Story army men. For some reason, I find the peach on green thing quite pleasing--go figire!

On the other hand, I quite like the darker heads (Lando, NBA, Indy natives, etc.) and have no problem freely mixing them into the fray. I wish I had more, in fact.

So I guess for me it is more an issue of a distasteful hue than it is one of variety or traditionalism.

[Piranha]

Well for me, the color yellow is the universal color for all minifigs skin.

It is very classic and fits in great with LEGO's own themes like City, and the other ones they make that I don't follow

Flesh I didn't like at first when they started changing the SW from yellow to flesh. I sort of wish it had stayed yellow.

I am ok now with flesh minifigs for licenses like Indiana Jones.

Flesh smileys anyone?