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Re: New colors and other info
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:16:24 GMT
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In lugnet.general, James Wilson wrote:
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In lugnet.general, John Gerlach wrote:
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Can we see the official LEGO color palette? It must be documented
somewhere. Peeron has their
unofficial color
palette, LUGNET has a
page on it (although somewhat incomplete), too.
What does the official LEGO color guide look like? Maybe that would show us
why these colors just had to be changed...
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The Peeron page you referenced is the official palette (although
incomplete). See this post for
details.
James Wilson
Dallas, TX
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The Peeron page is official? Cool!
Now, is someone willing to organize it in such a way that it shows why these
colors needed to be changed?
Wait, that didn’t quite sound right.
Try again: It’s great that these are ‘official’. But a long straight line list
(in some sort of weird order) doesn’t really explain or show how the colors work
together, and why some colors just had to be changed. Perhaps someone with more
knowledge about colors (graphic artist? printer?) could set them up in such a
way that they’re all grouped logically - “this is the red family, this is the
green family”, etc... This way LEGO could show that ‘this color doesn’t work
because it’s not at the intersection of these two other colors’ or something
like that...
A friend told me when he first saw the purple bricks he couldn’t figure out why
LEGO chose that color. So he took a red 2x4 and a blue 2x4, and put them on a
Technic motor. He cranked the motor full-speed, and tah-dah! Red plus Blue
equals Purple. I haven’t tried it myself, but I trust his method - after all,
he worked for LEGO for almost 15 years!! So what other ‘recipes’ are there?
I’m guessing Green + Grey = Sand Green, and Red + Yellow = Orange (but *which*
orange??)
I’ve resigned myself to the fact that we’re losing some very popular colors, and
all the harping and whining of the AFOL community just isn’t going to change
that. But, I need to know WHY these changes had to be made. Dang it, I’m not a
three year old! “Because I said so” just won’t cut it!
Come on, LEGO. Show us your reasoning!
JohnG, GMLTC
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Is it that big a deal??
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| (...) Uhhhhhh . . . if there are like 100 + colors, what are we angry about?? Sure, only, say, two and an half dozen are produced at any given time, but that's alot. I think it should be okay to alter four or so, it won't totally bring down a line (...) (20 years ago, 20-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: New colors and other info
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| (...) My Color Tree won't tell you the 'why', only the Lego company can do that. It does group colors in the manner you describe - both the old known colors, as well as the new colors from the Peeron list. I've also tried to match as many old & new (...) (20 years ago, 21-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: New colors and other info
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| (...) The Peeron page you referenced is the official palette (although incomplete). See (URL) this post> for details. James Wilson Dallas, TX (20 years ago, 19-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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