Which are better, light flesh minifigs, or yellow ones?

[Sirius Black]

I was curious to see the general opinion on the flesh licensed figures compared to the original yellow ones. Not having been a major collector until recently, i dont really have that much nostalgia towards the original yellow smileys, so i have to say that i like the flesh best.

How about you?

[Captain Green Hair]

What you call peach, would be ''light flesh'' in AFOL terms.

I'm a big fan of the fleshie minifigs as well, I try to get at least 1 of each and make my own with older outfits.

It sometimes seems hard though, because the collars are either yellow or flesh, so mixing up torso's can be hard.

I'm planning on having all city figs in flesh, the other themes in yellow.

Especially since my favourite theme, pirates, only comes in yellow. (Though that might change when POTC becomes a reality)

That's my 2 cents.

[Sirius Black]

What you call peach, would be ''light flesh'' in AFOL terms.

I'm a big fan of the fleshie minifigs as well, I try to get at least 1 of each and make my own with older outfits.

It sometimes seems hard though, because the collars are either yellow or flesh, so mixing up torso's can be hard.

I'm planning on having all city figs in flesh, the other themes in yellow.

Especially since my favourite theme, pirates, only comes in yellow. (Though that might change when POTC becomes a reality)

That's my 2 cents.

Changed to light flesh..

I agree, and it is harder to collect them because their sets often contain the increased price from licensed themes.

[just2good]

Yellow. It was the original color, and since I don't buy any Star Was sets, peaches don't fit in to my collection.

The yellow faces are more generic and cartoonish while the peach faces are more realistic.

[vexorian]

Yellow all the way. Must think of someway to get rid of the single peach face I got in my Snow trooper battle pack.

[RileyC]

I like flesh minifigs for licensed themes definitely because they make the characters more recognizable. Yellow minifigs for everything else because its the original colour.

[Aanchir]

I like how LEGO currently does it-- light flesh (official LEGO color name is 283 Light Nougat) for licensed themes and others where they want to portray real people or characters. That way they can also have accurate skin tones for other races. For standard LEGO themes, yellow all the way-- except in the case of specialized non-human figs like trolls, skeletons, and zombies.

I like the range of skin tones that are available to LEGO for licensed themes-- so far, colors have been old brown (25 Earth Orange), which debuted in the Cloud City set for Lando Calrissian; flesh (18 Nougat), which appeared in the NBA licensed sets for caucasian players and in Duplo sets for a long, long time; light flesh (283 Light Nougat), which debuted in 2003 for one of the movie themes; dark flesh (217 Brown) which debuted in 2004 as a replacement for old brown on dark-skinned minifigs; reddish brown (192 Reddish Brown) which appeared unprinted that same year on TIE fighter pilots and has since been used for dark-skinned minifigs on occasion; and dark orange (38 Dark Orange), which was used for the natives in the Indiana Jones Temple of the Crystal Skull set.

The possibility remains for other skin tones to be used-- some that might work well include the new Medium Nougat introduced in Prince of Persia, or the Dark Brown that's been with us for a few years. Nothing like a little diversity!

[Oky]

We already had this discussion last year. Here is the thread which also includes a poll. Perhaps a mod could do some merging?

Next time, please do a search before creating new topics, Sirius Black.

Edited August 6, 2010 by Oky Wan Kenobi

[Sirius Black]

We already had this discussion last year. Here is the thread which also includes a poll. Perhaps a mod could do some merging?

Next time, please do a search before creating new topics, Sirius Black.

Sorry about that. Didn't think to check

Not sure how to mod, but would be fine with it if someone wanted to.

[Hoboman]

We already had this discussion last year. Here is the thread which also includes a poll. Perhaps a mod could do some merging?

Next time, please do a search before creating new topics, Sirius Black.

So it is ok to Necro a thread a year old so new members like myself can discuss subjects already covered?

Odd as I saw another thread where a new person was told by a Mod not to necro an old thread, but to start a new one. Seems we have two standards for the new members that are in conflict.

As for the Topic, I like the original Yellow myself, but I can see why the Peach is attractive to some folks.

EDIT: Fix Spelling error.

Edited August 6, 2010 by Daniel's Dad

[MacK]

So it is ok to Necro a thread a year old so new members like myself can discuss subjects already covered?

Odd as I saw another thread where a new person was told by a Mod not to necro an old thread, but to start a new one. Seems we have two standards for the new members that are in conflict.

As for the Topic, I like the original Yellow myself, but I can see why the Peach is attractive to some folks.

EDIT: Fix Spelling error.

You can revive an old thread just as long as you have something relevant and somewhat important to add to it. Reviving some one's old MOC thread just to say "cool" would be frowned upon, but reviving an old thread to discuss Flesh vs. Yellow would be okay.

[Hoboman]

You can revive an old thread just as long as you have something relevant and somewhat important to add to it. Reviving some one's old MOC thread just to say "cool" would be frowned upon, but reviving an old thread to discuss Flesh vs. Yellow would be okay.

That makes sense. Thanks for the input.

[Rick]

Also, Siegfried recently wrote down these general guidelines about 'revisiting old topics'.

[Stank]

I prefer yellow, not only because it is the original color, but because many FOLs have a lot of yellow heads so flesh ones would look (very) strange.

Anyway, they make a diffrence between licenced an non-licenced themes.

[Omicron]

None are better than the other in my eyes. It is whatever gets the job done for me.

-Omi

[TheDesuComplex]

I am okay with both, and I like to mix them up to the point where my City has Fleshies and Yellows living side-by-side in perfect harmony. The only problem is that it is an eyesore when you mix up Fleshie heads with Yellow torsos or the other way around, so I avoid that.

[jth781]

I love the classic yellow.

[mo123567]

I prefer yellow because I have more of them. I just don't like the way more realistic flesh tones look next to yellow and I also do not like torsos that can not be used with yellow heads because some skin is showing.

Edited January 24, 2011 by mo123567

[Iysk]

Yellow since I see real characters with it, it just that I have the image of that actor's/character's face embedded in me. I do wish they had dark brown ones, particularly female ones.

[prateek]

I don't prefer one to the other. I just mix them in scenes I make, since they're close enough not to tell the difference from afar. The only thing that bothers me is the CW prints and the super-detailed faces in City sets.

[Brickdoctor]

Even as a Star Wars builder, classic yellow wins hands-down. I always use classic licensed heads when possible, except when there's a big difference. (i.e., brown for Lando)

[Hive]

Flesh minifigs look wrong to me somehow... I don't like them one bit.

Besides, I like the notion of classic LEGO having just 1 generic race/ethnicity. It's both a nice signal saying that race doesn't matter and where all the same as well as a good way to prevent LEGO from getting trouble on that aspect... I recently read some people complaining about not enough LEGO minifigs being women, imagine the same complaints about various ethnicities if that was to be introduced...

[Stank]

Flesh minifigs look wrong to me somehow... I don't like them one bit.

Besides, I like the notion of classic LEGO having just 1 generic race/ethnicity. It's both a nice signal saying that race doesn't matter and where all the same as well as a good way to prevent LEGO from getting trouble on that aspect... I recently read some people complaining about not enough LEGO minifigs being women, imagine the same complaints about various ethnicities if that was to be introduced...

+1

Completely true! Both race bit and the looking wrong bit. Don't take me wrong, i don't hate flesh minifigs but i don't love them either. The only complaint i have about minifigures is that there is only 1 face for women minifigs and tons of male faces. Also, there are not enough female farmers, policewomans and construction workers , but that's already been said.

[VenVoi]

When I was a kid and just getting into building sets, I subconsciously identified the difference between LEGO and Megablock by figure skin tone. "LEGO has yellow people and nice bricks, Megablocks has fleshy people and bricks that barely go together." So yellow wins for me, as I can't help but slightly recoil at the sight of flesh-colored Minifigures.

[AmperZand]

I remember the days before minifigs and am something of a traditionalist. So for me, it's yellow all the way.

I wish TLG made conversion packs, so you could purchase yellow parts of the fleshy elements for each licensed set. They could sell the packs in LEGO stores and at S@H.

Amps