Forty-four different haircuts and 43 different heads can have their figures “football players” in the Table Football presented by the well-known Danish toy company Lego. THE company is known from iconic yellow ones figures her, but since the early 2000s she has developed realistic skin tones. Now, in “Table Football” the variety of skin colors has reached an incredible degree of variety.
Fans are hailing the new creation. One Twitter user pointed out that the skin colors they represent non-Whites had expressions other than “angry/making faces” and ended by saying “For a decade we have needed something like this. Thank you kings and queens at Lego”. The introduction of a new figure was also much discussed: one of the heads shows the condition “vitiligo”. “I have vitiligo. Very cool to see a LEGO figure with this” said Redditor GatheringMatter, reports the EPA.
Apparently, the me 2,339 cubes creation of LEGO Ideas emphasizes inclusion and representation. Responding to a fan, the Danish company tweeted: “We want all our fans – wherever they live and whatever they look like – to be in position to imagine themselves as part of stories and worlds that create!”
Source: News Beast
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