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(...) I'll buy that for a dollar. --Todd (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Unless this is all some big conspiracy over Mega-Bloks making their grey not the same color as LEGO grey so that they could be 'different enough' to escape copyright infringement lawsuits, and now LEGO is changing so that Mega-Bloks is no (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) It does if you live in Atlanta! --Todd (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I visited a friend in another state this past weekend, and we got to talking about the color change. To paraphrase what he said: "The reason has to be money. Purely money, nothing else. They're a business. They'd be idiots if it were any other (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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LOL!!! Excepy "bley" doesn't have an "a" ;) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I'm sure there are a lot of things that look better on the Internet than in real life. (...) How they look on the Internet depends on the color calibration of your monitor, on the white balance of the camera that took the photo, on the color (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Actually, LEGO Blue is rather greenish, LEGO Green is rather blueish, and LEGO Yellow is rather reddish. LEGO Blue and LEGO Green are also slightly desaturated (grayish). This is by design -- as these colors (especially yellow) look better (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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(URL) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX) !!
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(...) I'm kind of curious (i.e., looking for examples) about what was so wrong with fundamental colors such as classic gray and dark gray these led to the color palette not scaling easily and correctly. (...) Hmm... What color temperature lighting (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Just stick to building with sand-blue, sand-green, sand-purple, dark-blue, and black, and you'll be okay. All other colors are too warm to look good next to dark-bley, including blue. (...) I wouldn't be happy with that at all. I think that (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) To answer my own question, I saw this on the Lego club website: (URL) company rep (sink21) says that "All new track (track produced as of January 2004), like all LEGO elements will be in the new colors." :-( How long will the stock of old dark (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.trains, FTX)
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(...) I don't consider it bad form when you add important, useful information. You're doing us a great service by hosting this survey, Richard, and I thank you. I encourage everyone who hasn't already done so, to do the survey. I did it a few days (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
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(...) Hi Sonnich, The term you are looking for is 'translucent' which means that it allows light through, but the light gets diffused (ie. scrambled) so that one can't see through it. Old Lego windows, incidentally, tend to become translucent as (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color)
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I did not add some, as e.g. arches already are popular. See my comment for more: 2335 Flag 2 x 2 A system with stickers for different coutries and maybe companies. Once I have used this flag for a building, using "birthday party stickers", which fit (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color)
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(...) I stand corrected, thanks. I still don't think that even if a part is "kept around for the long term" in the old color, the implication is that you won't see it in the new color. This set has been planned for production for some time, surely. (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Perhaps it's all just a blur now (i.e. 263+ messages later), but he did mention something to that effect in the very (URL) that started the whole ruckus all over again: JAKE: "A certain few parts that are crucial to keep in the old colors will (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I may be confused but I don't think Jake ever offered to keep track around in old grey. I speculate that's beyond his power. What I believe he was seeking was a list of things to get "one more run" in the old color, or at the very most, to be (...) (20 years ago, 19-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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So far I've only noticed one strange missing part in the list: 4162 Tile 1x8..... And I want them! Duq (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.color)
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(...) Thanks for your comment, I glad you liked it. The blurry photo was only uploaded because one of my friends like it so much and told me to upload it. And btw I shrinked the pictures size. Thanks again. Yaron (20 years ago, 18-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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