Comments on: Free Squiddy! Alien rights now!

By: Tananavalley

Tananavalley — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:56:35 +0000

Does anyone remember ALIEN LEGION?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_Legion

By: MrEvers

MrEvers — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:57:26 +0000

When I heard about these sets, I actually sent a complaint to TLG, together with the suggestion to include humans among the bad guys and aliens among the police officers in future sets of this line.

By: worker201

worker201 — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:07:53 +0000

Although I find the alien liberation stuff kinda funny, I think it highlights TLG’s poor handling of racial diversity. Skirting the issue by making a homogeneous population only worked when yellow was the only available minifig skin tone. Licensed sets containing Black and Caucasian characters only serves to highlight the lack of diversity elsewhere in the Lego system.

Now that TLG has included multiple races in unlicensed sets, but only as unlawful criminals, one has to wonder whether this isn’t a step backwards in terms of making Lego more diverse.

I encourage TLG to accept and embrace minifig diversity. Alien cops chasing human criminals would be a good start, but having multi-racial minifig heads and hands available in fig packs or PaB would be even better.

By: Tristan C

Tristan C — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:02:04 +0000

This was the first thought I had when I originally saw the box art.

By: eti

eti — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 17:58:29 +0000

Sounds like a great challenge indeed. Who knows I’ll think of something. Actually I love those aliens and I don’t like those police officers very much…

By: Optimystic

Optimystic — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:30:22 +0000

*Ha

Stupid typo.

By: Optimystic

Optimystic — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:29:40 +0000

Hh ha, the ALF have the right idea.