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When I came home from reading week one of the first things my younger brothers
did was tell me how ugly and blue the new dark gray was. They came and showed
me the new light gray on my brother’s mini imperial shuttle, and my brother had
already replaced the blue/gray “binocular guns” with older dark gray binoculars.
Adult Lego fans are not the only ones who will be disappointed with the colour
change, however they may be the only ones who will express their concerns
directly to TLC. Children who are upset by this change will likely only tell
their parents, who may respond by buying their kids something different for
Christmas next year, but will probably never pass the messag on to TLC.
Growing up I was always looking for small sets that contained the pieces I
needed to replace the ones I was missing from my other sets. Back then would
have been even more disappointed about the color change then than I am today.
At least now I have replaced all the missing pieces for most of my old sets, and
I can find the color of brick I want on ebay and bricklink (markets wich are not
available to kids). I have been playing with Lego for as long as I can
remember. I got my first castle for my 6th birthday and was completely
thrilled. After a few days I took it apart and began building other things with
the pieces. A couple years later I tried to rebuild it, my instructions had
fallen apart and most of the booklet had gone missing. I managed to reconstruct
the castle using only steps 1-6, 41 & 42, the box, and my memory. Once in a
while I would take a closer look at the box, and try to see if there was any
thing I had not built quite right. By the time the missing part of the
instructions was finally found, (about five years later) I had the entire castle
assembled correctly with the exception of about a handful of pieces. It was not
until last year that I was finally able to replace the last of the broken pieces
for that set. If a colour change had of occurred when I was younger I would
have been extremely upset, and would have probably lost all hope of replacing
the broken and missing parts from my favorite sets.
I realize that not all kids care whether the colours match as much as I did, (I
rarely ever built anything that did not have matching colours, and if I did it
would not stay together long). But it is the kids that do care about matching
colours who build modles that amaze other childeren and cause them to begin to
get into lego. Most of the kids I played with growing up were inspired to start
building and playing with lego after seeing my collection. Once I had a friend
follow me home from school just to see what lego can do. Kids who don’t care
about matching colours will be much more likely to use other brands anyways, as
they cost half as much.
As a fan of classic castle I do not like the new colours of gray because they
are too blue, and do not look as realistic as the older greys. However my main
concern is that they do not match the old pieces. If they were blueish all
along I don’t think any one would have been bothered by it. This change was a
terrible mistake, you are upseting (and in some cases losing) your biggest
customers, without any gain whatsoever. If anyone from TLC would have bothered
to look at ebay sales, they would have noticed that customers were not
dissatisfied with the old grey colours. Instead bulk auctions of a single
colour of bricks usually sell for twice as much when the colour is grey, (I
noticed this before the colour change was announced on bricklink).
I, and so many others have invested so much time and money into Lego collections
in the old colours. This change will make it verry dificult for us to expand
our collections. PLEASE BRING THE OLD LEGO COLOURS BACK! I would much rather
be able to get the peices I want from the local department store, reater than
having to pay much higher prices on bricklink and ebay to buy peices that are
compatable with the collection I have been Accumulating for almost my entire
life.
Sincerly:
Daniel Walker
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| (...) Not necessarily true. The entire LEGO color pallete leans well towards the warm side of the spectrum, including colors that you wouldn't immediately think of, like green and white (this probably has something to do with the fact that natural (...) (20 years ago, 13-Mar-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| It's only a couple of weeks in the new year, and it looks like it's going to be an interesting 2004! I have a request, but before I go any further, let me say that personally, I understand the concerns surrounding the color changes. I know many of (...) (20 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX) !!
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