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(...) 100% Ack. This shortsighted decision to invent "universal" colours and assigning them to an inconsistent palette is a sure sign of headless activism by a management that did not understand the situation at all. All they have managed by this is (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Yes, but he left anything out that I'd count as good thinking. He promised to explain complicated things, so complicated that he was not sure wether it would work out in text. But all he brought up was "They thought hard, and hard, and hard!" (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Typically, when said like this, "organically" means that it grew without a plan, according to the needs of the time. Its sort of was a fashionable term in the computer/tech world in the last 5 years. And as Jake has been a web producer for (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Oh, indeed. It is quite possible that the Design Lab and the Quality Control group see things a bit differently. Wouldn't it be funny if they all agreed all the time? As Jake mentioned, these are humans we are talking about. What makes you (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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Jake, Thanks for explaining the situation. I'm sorry that some people are too knuckleheaded to act like anything but four year olds. Some people tend to forget, LEGO is a PRIVATELY HELD company. They can and will do whatever the hell they want with (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: All toy companies are alike! (was Re: In Praise of TLC)
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In lugnet.color, Richie Dulin wrote: (snip) Wow... that's freaky. Insane coincidence or insidious plot??? Are all toy companies actually secretly controlled by the UFOs via Orbital Mind Control Lasers? (or was it via the Post Office and Texas?) (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX)
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(...) It's interesting you should ask about Mattel... because I went to TRU recently to buy my daughter a Barbie for her birthday. She's got several already, but she "really, really needs" another one. So there I was in the Barbie aisle of TRU (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.off-topic.fun, FTX) !
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(...) boys and girls aged 7-12 the play experience is in focus. The fact that the (...) So, if the kids don;'t care so much about color variation, why the change to bley? How can such a "minor" color change test "positively" if kids don't notice (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I wouldn't say we've got the whole story, but we do have more of the story. Specifically Jake says: "As one part of the process of defining this new, long-term color palette, we tested the new color palette with children in the US and Germany. (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) If you look carefully at what you are writing you might just see the flaw in your logic. 1st of all... Lego (through Jake) admitted an error in implementation... but were clear that they still believe in the colour change. How are they (...) (21 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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