The other night I was building up some of my star wars Lego
when I couldn’t help but notice the fact that the clone troopers and Jango Fett
Lego figurines, had no faces. They were just black heads. These were released
in the Lego sets prior to the Clone Wars animated series whose Lego figurines
have faces. I assume this is to do with the fact that in the animated series,
it is predominately about the clones and they are shown to have various personalities.
So does this mean that before this, the clone troopers were seen to be faceless
and not worthy of the time to detail the figurines? I am reluctant to accuse
Lego of being racially insensitive but it is bizarre to only give the clones
faces once they had their own series. It is also interesting when comparing the
clone wars animated Lego figurines to the movie ones. The movie ones heads are
just black (no face), but the animated ones are brown with faces. Lego clearly
did not seem willing to care that the clones are products of Jango Fett who is
played by Maori actor Temuera Morrison.
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