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Re: Nicely now. What do you think of the new colors?
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Thu, 15 Jan 2004 06:44:41 GMT
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Hi Jake,
I haven’t actually seen the new colors yet; my buying has slowed down a lot in
the last year or two, mostly driven by other factors rather than less interest.
However, the new colors *have* contributed to my not buying any new sets yet
this year.
I’m a castle builder. I’ve got a lot of money and time and collecting effort
investing into my current set of grey. Producing a new color doesn’t threaten
this collection - in fact, it adds options - I went gaga over the ‘sand’ colors
when they were new. In a lot of ways a new grey, close-to-but-different from
the existing, is something I’ve wanted for a while, but have always viewed as a
pipe dream, because LEGO makes a light grey. It would be daunting to build up
my collection to where I could use it in conjunction with the existing, but it
could be done if I liked the color.
So I don’t disklike the color on principle; variety is the spice of life, live
on! What has me not buying sets is that the old grey is gone. With a single
marketing decision, LEGO has killed any number of future and current projects by
cutting the source of material. If I don’t have enough of an existing part, I
now have to go to the secondary market, and the price will go up as the
availability goes down. This is admittedly nothing new, but previous to this,
there has always lurked the “LEGO might make more” to keep prices in line and
keep people hoping. Further to this is that new parts will never come out in
this color. If tomorrow Lego started producing one of my “dream” elements, it
will simply never appear in the color I build with the most, and have the most
versatile range of elements in.
As an example, I’ve long had a ‘design study’ floating around in my brain to
make a gradually sloping round tower using the 2x2x3 slopes and corner slopes -
but the corner slopes in light grey have not yet appeared in any real volume (1
large pirate set had one of them). While LEGO was still producing the existing
grey, I could keep this design shelved as a possibility for when/if Lego ever
produced that part in volume. Now I either scrap the idea, or hope that both
elements I would need get produced in volume, and that I like the color they’re
produced in.
I hope that illustrates some of my own frustration with the color change.
thanks,
James
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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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