Diversify LEGO City

Diversify LEGO City
Since 1978, LEGO minifigures have been a staple of toys and childhood. The minifigure is one of the most easily recognizable toys in the world and is sold in over 120 countries worldwide. When the minifigure was first introduced, it featured a yellow head and hands so all children could see themselves in the minifigure. However, since 2004, more accurate flesh tones have been seen in all licensed themes such as Super Heroes, Harry Potter and Star Wars. This is where a problem begins to arise. In 2003, a year before accurate flesh tones became the norm for licensed themes, LEGO released set number 10123: Cloud City. This set featured 8 minifigures and was the debut of Lando Calrissian, a notable character of color in the Star Wars universe. Despite using yellow parts for characters such as Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, Lando was given an accurate flesh tone in a color LEGO calls reddish brown. This would imply that yellow is meant to represent white characters. According to the database on Brickset.com, 782 LEGO heads have been made in "Light Nougat", the color commonly associated with white characters. Meanwhile, the three colors most commonly used for POC, "Nougat", "Medium Nougat" and "Reddish Brown" have a combined count of 195 heads. This severely limits the ability for people of color to find minifigures that strongly resemble them. This means that not only are POC severely underrepresented but it makes the accessibility of POC heads much more difficult. LEGO has a strong fan community that customizes minifigures to make new characters. However, with such a strong disparity, many POC end up with reused heads that are generic and less detailed. The solution I'm proposing is for LEGO to use accurate flesh tones in all LEGO City sets. In 2021, LEGO City had the most sets released at 57. Within those 57 sets came 107 unique minifigure combinations. If LEGO committed to making those sets with accurate flesh tones at a 50% rate of POC to white figures, the number of POC heads available would skyrocket and allow for everyone to truly see themselves accurately portrayed in LEGO.