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In lugnet.general, Joe Meno wrote:
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Hi all,
This is from a friend of mine, Gareth Bowler:
Got into my first 2004 sets today; the MINI star destroyer set, and
promptly scrapped them for parts, only to find, to my shock and dismay,
that the colors don’t match. Further more, the studs are rounded, making
connections significantly weaker, and the parts overall just have a cheaper
feel to them.
The two parts labelled “old” are both from 2003 sets, and have never had a
chance to yellow or been exposed to sunlight. The photo was not altered in
any way and is the raw output from my scanner.
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As I replied ON BL, i still think this is attributed to either light or air
quality. The old peices have what i consider “Smokers tinge”, my peices from my
youth have simlar discoloring, and my father smokes... I think its the tar in
the cigarette smoke. Josh
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Josh..in my house NO ONE SMOKES and I have noticed some 6 months ago that when
you put alot of dark gray tiles together they do not match( I used a large
number on that pepsi building roof edge and a ton on that road in my flatiron
block) This is not a new thing with dark gray and most deff. not a smoke
thing.Look at at this picture of my flatiron road and you can see the different
shades of dark gray..these this raod is some 4 months old and the all from new
tiles in early mid 2003.When the road was done this is how it looked not after
exposure. http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=481673
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This is from a friend of mine, Gareth Bowler:
Got into my first 2004 sets today; the MINI star destroyer set, and
promptly scrapped them for parts, only to find, to my shock and dismay,
that the colors don’t match. Further more, the studs are rounded, making
connections significantly weaker, and the parts overall just have a cheaper
feel to them.
The two parts labelled “old” are both from 2003 sets, and have never had a
chance to yellow or been exposed to sunlight. The photo was not altered in
any way and is the raw output from my scanner.
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As I replied ON BL, i still think this is attributed to either light or air
quality. The old peices have what i consider “Smokers tinge”, my peices from
my youth have simlar discoloring, and my father smokes... I think its the
tar in the cigarette smoke. Josh
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In lugnet.general, Josh Baakko wrote:
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As I replied ON BL, i still think this is attributed to either light or air
quality. The old peices have what i consider “Smokers tinge”, my peices from
my youth have simlar discoloring, and my father smokes... I think its the
tar in the cigarette smoke. Josh
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I disagree. I took a look at my Mini Star Destroyer and noticed the blue tinge
to the dark grey, but initially thought it was the light of the room. But the
color is quiet different, and I can pretty much say that I don’t smoke, and
neither does Gareth.
I can understand some subtle color ‘sway’, but this is a definite deviance.
Joe
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In lugnet.general, Josh Baakko wrote:
> As I replied ON BL, i still think this is attributed to either light or air
> quality. The old peices have what i consider "Smokers tinge", my peices from
> my youth have simlar discoloring, and my father smokes... I think its the
> tar in the cigarette smoke. Josh
Sorry, Josh, but it's not. The discoloring effect does
happen in odd environments, but not like this. I noticed the
"bluing" in the dark grey when I bought the Star Destroyer the
other day; I initially wondered if it was the light, but yester-
day I parted out about 30 HP sets from 2002 and 2003 and
all show a darker, colder grey than that in the SD. I
hadn't noticed the adhesion question; I'll be very upset
if this is indeed the case. I'm confused about the reason
for the change in color; the adhesion question might be
an easier one, but consistency of color is pretty important!
It's pretty sad if LEGO is heading towards Megabloks ter-
ritory instead of concentrating on the level of quality
and precision that makes them LEGO and not MB. MB keeps
getting better--I was actually quite impressed by the
new releases in the Dragons line. When this comes from
a guy with nearly a metric ton of LEGO (yours truly), I
hope it carries a little bit of weight (nudge nudge, LEGO
company lurkers). Kids do actually notice this stuff.
Oh well, time to stock up on my dark grey now, so at least
my ships will match!
best
LFB
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