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Re: Yellow blues...
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Fri, 28 Nov 2003 16:25:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
   A new basic color seems to have been hit by the “color shift syndrom”: yellow.

When I opened my brand new 8455 Backhoe Loader, I noticed that some parts (‘Wheel RC Race Buggy’ and ‘Technic Liftarm 1 x 7 Bent’) had a slightly darker, and more orange hue.

Here is an unretouched scan of some parts from this set:



I am not that finicky about colors (I am more interested by mechanisms... and I might even prefer the new yellow), but I think that different hues in the same box is a quality problem!

Philo

www.philohome.com

There have always been some variation in colors. I have seen several hues of standard red, yellow, blue and white in new sets.

Sofar it has meant nothing!

Martin



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  Re: Yellow blues...
 
(...) I hope you're right... though here the difference is small, but quite noticeable! Philo (20 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)

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  Yellow blues...
 
A new basic color seems to have been hit by the "color shift syndrom": yellow. When I opened my brand new (URL) 8455 Backhoe Loader>, I noticed that some parts ((URL) RC Race Buggy'> and (URL) 'Technic Liftarm 1 x 7 Bent'>) had a slightly darker, (...) (20 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)  

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