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The solid news is appreciated. Personally, I still don’t believe that the
Lugnet community knows the true reasons for the color change. Also, I don’t
think we have heard of the “good” effects these changes were supposed to
produce.
I have been buying Lego for over 25 years. Throughout those 25 years I have
remained hopefull year after year that parts I was looking for in certain colors
would be produced. Sometimes that happened, sometimes not. Now with the color
changes, all hope has been lost. Sadly, many of the parts I had wanted for
years had recently become available in the right colors. But, then, like a bad
dream, the colors were changed thus turning those desired parts into junk!
I DO remain optimistic that, given enough time to see the bad sales effect of
these new colors, the color changes will be reversed. I predict that sometime
in the year 2006 Jake will be coming here to tell us that the traditional
colors are coming back and the new colors have been discarded. Remember, the
Lego Company takes a long time to make decisions sometimes.
I have tried to use the new Nazi grays and muddy chocolate brown colors for
making my creations and I still find those colors unacceptable.
Now, as for parts I consider essential in the old colors, everyone has forgotten
to mention the parts I use the most:
SLOPES
S L O P E S
SLOPES
For years and years I wanted to build brown roofs for buildings. Just as soon
as I got a good supply of Brown slopes, Lego ruined the color. And the same for
Light and Dark Gray. Dark Gray roofs slopes roofs are awesome! But NOT roofs
built the the new Nazi Gray! BLECH!!!
If I could request some bulk items in the traditional colors, it would be
comprehensive roof slopes in 45 degree and 75 degree assortments. These
comprehensive packs should contain the whole complimentary spectrum of useful
slopes including inside and outside corners and apex pieces.
Just this week I took delivery of a BrickLink order worth $400 that was one
hundred percent slopes. And 60 percent of that was Dark Gray. (Thanks, Troy).
I have spent countless hundreds of dollars buying slopes, but I hope I never
have to buy any in the new Nazi Grays and Muddy Brown colors.
Sincerely
Kevin Salm
LUCNY
PS. I don’t care what the offical names for the new colors are, I will always
refer to them as Nazi Grays and Muddy Brown. Those names are suitably evil for
colors that truly deserve them. If TLC wants to be known as the company the
produces toys in Nazi Gray colors, so be it!
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 | | Re: Color Change - SLOPES WANTED
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| (...) Good catch! I agree, a well rounded pack including concave and convex corners and caps, in each of the popular slope factors (33, 45, 75), and another one with the basic slopes themselves, would be well received. (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
| | | Re: Color Change - color names
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| (...) Awesome naming method! I had just gotten used to calling old/classic Grays & Browns "True Gray" & "True Brown," and the new grays and browns "false gray" and "false brown." I like your nomenclature better though. I think I'll start using it. (...) (20 years ago, 6-May-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
| | | Re: Darned color issue won't leave my small mind alone...
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| -Snip!- (...) I wonder what the Crayola company would have said about this. I think that the proper terms are definitely not the same as the old, but as you have said have new names. It's as though we are being "Enron-ed" by LEGO into accepting that (...) (20 years ago, 9-May-04, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| | Color Change - Final Update
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| You’d think I would have learned my lesson by now about the color change and just taken refuge in a concrete bunker. Nope, not that bright I think! I come to you with a final update, and some good news, as well as bad. Bad news first – After much (...) (20 years ago, 5-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce, lugnet.lego) !!
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