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Re: Nicely now. What do you think of the new colors?
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Tue, 20 Jan 2004 04:48:17 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote:
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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.
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Thanks in advance for your help!
Jake
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Hey Jake,
I’m not going to repeat a lot of what I’ve read in this thread. However, I
haven’t read the entire thread, just too lazy I guess, so I hope what I *AM*
going to say hasn’t been said already.
While driving with my fiancee tonight to Wally World, I was struck by a great
analogy about the new grey colors, and how I felt about them.
You see, our new, ‘blue’ grey colors are a lot like, to me, the new blue tinted
automobile headlights.
These headlights, at least in my area, started appearing a few years ago, and
have grown in popularity very quickly. And hey, it was a great idea. It was
touted by the manufacturer as a great and wonderful improvement over the old
style of headlight.
And to most people they were. I mean, hey, these new blue halogens (which I’m
not sure but I’m thinking use a blue filter as opposed to a blue bulb, dunno for
sure) shine much brighter and much farther than their old counterpart. They
bring attention to the car and they almost look pretty.
And to put the icing on the cake, the once bright, shining old style of
headlights now looked yellow in comparison to the new headlights. Putting both
kinds of headlights on the same car just looked wrong. The new headlight design
looked cleaner, brighter, and made the old style look dull and dingy.
Everything the headlight manufacturers tested their design with showed an
improved headlight.
But once the blue tinted headlights started going onto the open market, and
became more and more popular, a small voice began growing in the public’s mind.
These new headlights are distracting! Among other headlights on the road,
they’re very distracting, and hard to look at!
They hurt your eyes, they blind you. They might be brighter, but they’re also
too bright! The old ‘yellow’ bulbs didn’t for most people, their softer tone
was easier on the eyes and did not blind as much.
It’s becoming so bad that in many states, my home state of Texas included, there
are huge numbers of people who are trying to get these headlights banned from
being used. Personally I agree.
And I find this whole situation oddly similar to LEGO’s decision with it’s new
bricks.
The new grey colors are blue in comparison to the old bricks, and LEGO is
touting the change as this great new thing. The older grey bricks now look dull
and dingy, and aren’t NEARLY as pretty when placed next to the new grey bricks.
But when used on the same creation, the new colors clash. They look bad, the
new grey color, to me, is distracting, too distracting. They’re too bright,
they look too blue.
And we AFOLs may be complaining, but I am sure as the year goes on more of the
public will start to complain, too. As they learn what has happened to their
collection has been made to look dingy and old in comparison, and that all their
old bricks cannot be used with their new ones without clashing, there will be a
backlash.
Sure, there will be camps on both side of the fence, as with any situation. And
I know that we most likely won’t be changing LEGO’s mind on the subject. I just
hope that LEGO can pull itself out of the rut its in, and I hope that this color
change won’t dig the rut even deeper.
--Anthony
www.ikros.net
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