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PVC (not ABS) parts
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.general
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Date:
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Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:29:25 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Mike Rayhawk wrote:
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The difference being, if you spend the money making bley and pink, the
customer sees two separate colors and gets excited. If you spend the money
to make bley and gray, 95% of your customers see only one color anyway, so
you might as well never have spent the extra money at all. (The same
argument is true for replacing Lego ABS with Mega-Bloks-like PVC, which is
why I think we’re seeing so many new Lego elements in the substandard-grade
plastic lately.)
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Wait a minute. I thought I was imagining this. What elements have
appeared in cheaper plastic? I thought some of the plastic in the
$10 Harry Potter sets with the cheesy cardboard backdrops seemed to
be made of cheaper stuff. The sound that the door made when it was
closed on the prefab wall part didn’t seem right, but I just couldn’t
bring myself to believe that it was because of cheaper plastic.
Hmmm, I did just make my first MegaBlok purchase, an Alien Agency set,
to compare the greys. Now that you mention it, the MegaBlok plastic
does remind me of the cheesy seeming lego elements. I’ll have to
do some more comparisons.
By the way, the new Lego dark bley is a much closer match to the
MegaBlok dark bley. The light grey in the Alien Agency set is kinda
silvery so it doesn’t really match the new Lego light bley.
Also, if you look at inclued MegaBlok catalog, the knights kingdom
maxifigs (especially the hands) look just like the Blok Bots. (except
perhaps the Lego knights don’t transform?)
Looks like Lego is now following MegaBlok’s lead. Yikes!
Don
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| (...) Nah, I doubt it was the lighting so much as the questions they were asking. Warmer colors are more likable and inviting, but cooler colors are, well, cooler; they're perceived as newer, more high-tech, and exciting. I'm trying to find the post (...) (20 years ago, 26-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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