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Re: New Lego Aqua raiders, Sealab 2021
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lugnet.aquazone
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Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:29:18 GMT
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In lugnet.aquazone, Brendan Mauro wrote:
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In lugnet.aquazone, Nelson Yrizarry wrote:
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I like the idea for this, but green plates would look a bit strange for an
underwater terrain IMO. Perhaps two (16x32) grey (rock) or tan (sand)
baseplates should be used instead?
“Big Daddy” Nelson
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I agree, green is too ingrained in lego psychology as grass. Grey, dark
grey, tan, or blue (like aquazone sets) would look better. I would say grey
or tan personally, my blue is usually reserved for other displays at the cons
I attend.
I fully support using a smaller baseplate; if people want to build larger
structures they can just use more than one. I also think it would be really
nice to establish a common primary color, like yellow. I think this is one
area where moonbase kinda fails because there is such a lack of continuity
between modules. Let people use whatever other colors they want, as long as
yellow is the most prominent color, say like 50% of the construction. Or at
least require that the connections between modules be a certain color scheme.
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I think Brendan has a point on the green base plates. This is going to need
something that would seem like the sea floor: dark grey for deep water and tan
for shallow seem appropriate, as well as grey for intermediate depth.
For some reason, I too am leaning toward the smaller base plates --> underwater
facilities are notoriously cramped anyhow, though that does not have to be a
standard, it can be like Seaquest DSV after all. As for the established primary
color, I like that idea a lot. Two reasons, the various Lego underwater themes
were self consistent of course with color schemes; and two, the recent short
lived (on the shelves that is) underwater creator set was yellow and grey which
would be consistent now with the new aqua raiders line. If these underwater pods
are to connect together to form an underwater laboratory/city then having them
contain 50% of one color, (yellow sounds good to me) would help to accomplish
this. Another idea that I had, although a little off the wall and maybe too
difficult, was an idea I got from the picture of the protoype for the new aqua
raiders base, and that was to have connecting tubes that heavily utilize
transparent pieces like windows or clear walls or something --> much like the
underwater passageways that Jaws attacked in the movie Jaws 3.
As for secondary and tertiary colors, I like the dark grey with yellow (that is
if yellow is chosen for the primary). I was also thinking blue, but am not sure
about how that would look.
-Avery
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| (...) I agree that transparent tubes would be cool, but I think you're right about that getting complicated; you don't want to leave behind people that don't have enough of the proper pieces. I think it would be better to establish something simpler (...) (18 years ago, 17-Nov-06, to lugnet.aquazone, FTX)
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| | Re: New Lego Aqua raiders, Sealab 2021
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| (...) I agree, green is too ingrained in lego psychology as grass. Grey, dark grey, tan, or blue (like aquazone sets) would look better. I would say grey or tan personally, my blue is usually reserved for other displays at the cons I attend. I fully (...) (18 years ago, 12-Nov-06, to lugnet.aquazone, FTX)
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