With apparently hoards of people spending their days roaming the country looking for something, anything to allow them to feign outrage and offense, we’ve finally reached peak absurdity: The Meghan Markle Lego Brick Skin Color Scandal of 2018.
In what some are suggesting is an insidious attempt at promoting white supremacy, or something, in its now formerly fun depiction of the upcoming royal wedding of Prince Harry and soon-to-be-princess Meghan, Legoland used bricks that some think were not quite the right flesh tone to properly represent the royal bride’s complexion.
TMZ was the first to sound the alarm about it, blasting out a piece titled, “MEGHAN MARKLE: LEGOLAND LIGHTENS HER SKIN For Royal Wedding Exhibit“:
Meghan Markle has the exact same skin color as her fiance, Prince Harry — at least according to LEGOLAND’s special display ahead of the royal wedding.
LEGOLAND’s Windsor Resort unveiled a new exhibit this week in honor of Meghan and Harry’s big day, which is just over a week away. The problem is LEGO Meghan is pretty whitewashed. We all know the real Prince is very fair-skinned … so there’s no way his bride-to-be’s skin tone should match his.
Biracial Meghan — half black, half white — obviously has tanner skin than Harry, so LEGOLAND clearly missed the mark. Their explanation? Not enough brown LEGOs. Seriously.
As TMZ notes, Legoland actually bothered to respond to the outlet’s hyperbolic criticism.
“Our small LEGOLAND figures are not detailed representations of any of the characters and are all built using a limited range of [primary] brick tones,” a Legoland rep told TMZ
Clearly not satisfied with the response, TMZ replied, “That’s funny, ’cause their figurines of Mel B and Meghan’s mom, Doria Ragland, look a lot more realistic, skin tone-wise than Meghan’s character does.”
Some images of the display, as well as shots of Meghan with Harry and her mom Doria Ragland below:
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