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Re: Nicely now. What do you think of the new colors?
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lugnet.lego, lugnet.general
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Fri, 16 Jan 2004 03:12:48 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote:
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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 you
think of me as a marketer here to shill products. I’m an AFOL too with a
healthy collection of light and dark gray, so I can understand your concerns.
As both my duty as the Community Development Manager, and as an AFOL, I’m
interested in helping to make sure that the LEGO Company fully understands
the issues you have as well. I’m looking for your help to deliver the
message. To be totally clear, this is me asking in order to have answers
ready if and when my colleagues ask.
I would ask that you reply to this thread with your thoughts and feelings
about the color issue, both for and against. One post per person, I would
think would make sense. I would ask that the debate be restricted to other
threads, and that all posts be rational, calm, and non-hateful. This will
ensure that I can more easily pass along the information, and that the
message isn’t bogged down in debate.
Please understand that this is simply a fact/feeling/thought finding mission,
and does not mean that the decision to change colors is going to be changed.
Many of you have asked for the latest status information. There is nothing
new to report at this point. The color change is proceeding as planned, and
sets are rolling (and have already rolled) off the line with the new colors.
But I know that you don’t like this answer, so please use this opportunity
(as well as continuing to direct complaints and feedback through LEGO
Customer Service) as a way to have your voices heard.
Again, we are not changing the colors back, and from what I know now, we
aren’t considering it. This is an information gathering mission only.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Jake
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Jake McKee
Community Development Manager
LEGO Community Development
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Nicely? hmmm.....after having read the previous 70-odd replies, I don’t know if
‘nicely’ really means anything. If there is no chance of reversing the color
change, then what is the real point of the thread? If there is even a slight
chance that TLC will ‘New Coke’ us and bring back the old, perhaps it is worth
something...hmmm.
Anyway, my first look at the new light grey struck me as being what I could only
describe as ‘lilac’-y...that is to say, it almost had a pinkish/purple-y quality
that was a nearly complete mismatch to the original.
And having just now completed comparing the new dark grey to the old, while the
‘new’ is definitely so blue it almost would better be described as a ‘new’ blue,
the old, when placed right next to it, really almost seems like a brown-grey.
I haven’t seen the new brown yet, but from what I hear, it’s not up to snuff
either.
Does all this mean I’ll abandon my lego budget for something else? Doubtful.
Will I not buy any 2004 sets because of it? No, but I’ll probably not, like
others, be as inclined to buy multiple sets, as with previous sets.
It’s almost as if the Lego community at large has been numb-chucked into
believing that this change is good.
“Only the best is good enough”? Perhaps TLC needs to redefine ‘good enough”.
Regards.
Mike
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