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Re: New Lego Aqua raiders, Sealab 2021
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lugnet.aquazone
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Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:55:36 GMT
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In lugnet.aquazone, Avery Christy wrote:
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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 and then let builders expand on it however they want. The moonbase
standard for example is rather simple, the parts that match up are just made of
bricks and slopes. Yet I’ve seen plenty of moonbase passageways that get far
more complex passed this. You could always just drop a note in the standard
encouraging people to do transparent stuff and provide some examples.
I would say that there’s no need to establish secondary or tertiary colors,
leave those up to the builder’s discretion. I think the ~50% yellow rule should
provide for enough consistency between modules; you don’t want to put too many
restrictions on people. A good standard just ensures that people’s
constructions will fit together easily and consistently, but gives them plenty
of freedom to be creative otherwise.
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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 (...) (18 years ago, 14-Nov-06, to lugnet.aquazone, FTX)
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