Ethnic balance among klickies.

[cachalote]

come on bollingbroke, there's no "other" or "me".
it's all the same.
patronizing would mean that i would be patronizing myself.
besides being homo-sapiens-sapiens (apparently with some neanderthal dna in some cases) we are all different, and so, in a way, all the same.
you being a maltese or portuguese doesn't make you better than anyone.
you being a good person does.
this is actually, i think, the big difference.
being smarter or faster or stronger is just, most of the times, a simple biological accident.
liberté, egalité, fraternité is still a good motto, even if it comes from the end of the 18th century.
do you think klickies also discuss these themes when we are asleep?
i think i heard 2 of my pirates discussing locke vs. descartes the other night.
but when i turned on the lights they seemed silent, hanging on their ratlines.
humm... 

[Bolingbroke]

yes there is, in sociological and anthropological terms, and much ink has been 'wasted' on this subject!

 

but anyway, a very thorny subject and im always reluctant to get involved but then i always do 

pm is fun because it lets the imagination run wild. but please let's not get too prescriptive! no need for darker or lighter skinned characters to make people feel inckuded! it's the equivalent of 'baddy' eyes in the pirates theme. just give us normal, classic klickies, and our imagination can do the rest ...

[PlayMoto]

can't we just let playmobil be playmobil, and enjoy the smile? 

[cachalote]

you are right bollingbroke, long live the classic klickies.
they had an abstract quality that made it easier for out imagination to go wild.
maybe nowadays, when their design is getting so much more intricate (multiple hairstyles, multiple printing all over, multiple eye contours, multiple everything) and, in a word, figurative, our attention gets caught by other things (small and big).
maybe rasputin is actually totally wrong and, instead of growing-up, what geobra needs is to shrink-down. 

[bogol]

- can you imagine how odd it would be if it was a woman driving the new porsche 911.
- i bet they would't even know how to do it.
- they should stick to white and pink convertibles and mini cars;
- and even if they insist on doing it (the fools) they should never be seen at the wheel - near to the door in the company of a child or of a small dog is close enough.

The first thing my daughter did when she got the 911 Porsche was to replace the male driver with a female one. And then she put a lot of children in the car and declared it to be the "kindergarten bus". 

[Rhalius]

Maybe that was a not so subtle hint that she wants mommy to drop her off at school in a Porsche 911. 

[tahra]

Maybe that was a not so subtle hint that she wants mommy to drop her off at school in a Porsche 911. 

[Ismene]

''Baddy eyes'' are completely different from skin tones. One is an emotional expression; the other a more-or-less permanent characteristic. Playmobil has acknowledged the merits of the Toy Like Me campaign; they also have to recognize the growing need for multiethnic toys.

I'm not carrying the guilt of my ancestors or noble-savaging the issue. I care because I grew up without toys that looked anything like me. It matters.

[cachalote]

(to ismene) 

[Bolingbroke]

''Baddy eyes'' are completely different from skin tones. One is an emotional expression; the other a more-or-less permanent characteristic. Playmobil has acknowledged the merits of the Toy Like Me campaign; they also have to recognize the growing need for multiethnic toys.

I'm not carrying the guilt of my ancestors or noble-savaging the issue. I care because I grew up without toys that looked anything like me. It matters.

it mattered to you, and ok, but don't generalise.

when i was 8 i didn't want my toys to look like me ... i wanted them to look like He Man! and so did millions of other kids my age