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(...) Interesting remarks. Rather than answering the reason for the 'lost colors', I would think this would go quite a bit towards explaining recent inconsistant colors. The purple bus and the goofy shades of navy blue come to mind. Perhaps the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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(...) Maybe someone visiting the LEGO factory can shed some light on this theory that popped up on FBTB about a month ago. (Actually, I'm surprised this theory never made its way to LUGNET. I guess this just goes to show that there are many besides (...) (20 years ago, 21-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Bulk Packs in New Colors Yet? - BROWN
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(...) I took advantage of the big sale as well and recently ordered a number of gray and dark gray brick bulk packs (the 50 count 2x4 packs and the 100 count 2x2 packs)...all were of the old colors. Jonathan (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Bulk Packs in New Colors Yet? - BROWN
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(...) I just today received a bunch of bulk brown packs (3754, 10046, 3753, 3752, 3755 & 3756) from LEGO that I ordered as part of The Big Sale that's going on. I'm happy to report that they are the old brown color not the new. I wasn't sure so I (...) (20 years ago, 19-Aug-04, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Official RAL numbers questions.
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"Stijn Colemont" <stijn.colemont@pandora.be> wrote in message news:I22xE7.1z17@lugnet.com... (...) colors. (...) Hi Stijn, I have just spent a few days at working with the modelshop at Legoland Windsor on a variety of things and one of the things I (...) (20 years ago, 9-Aug-04, to lugnet.color)
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Hello, A customer of mine is requesting the official RAL numbers for some LEGO colors. He needs them for some presentation and the art-work has to be the exact replica of the colors. The numbers needed are from: Black, green, blue and yellow. If (...) (20 years ago, 7-Aug-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Clone Parts (and Color ) Inventories
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(...) Here's what I've found thus far concerning Oxford / Shifty / Brick brand. They appear to owned by COKO. (URL) (Tianjin) Toy Co.,Ltd. is a solely American-funded enterprise established in CHINA specializing in producing and handling COKO (...) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Hi Ed, To tell you the truth, as clone goes, I only know MB and Tyco (and a handful of non-compatible brands, like Tente, etc). Tyco did have a very nice fitup (0). MB's is not so good, but it is improving. Now (1) the large round holes in the (...) (20 years ago, 1-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: What colour are the Knights' Kingdom 2 rectangular shields?
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(...) From the pic it looks like you're comparing it to the old run of greys. Without having seen what they changed it to yet, I have to agree with Maggie in that this might be the new very-light bley, which will eventually replace all of the VLG (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: What colour are the Knights' Kingdom 2 rectangular shields?
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Hello Maggie! Thanks for your reply! And just to give an impression of the colour I add a pic (pic = link): (URL) Bye Jojo (URL) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Paulo, I just received Brick set #0494, everything but the original box. The bricks were still in shrink wrap. If these aren’t Lego, I'll ... Heck even Lego sued because they were (kinda still are) too close too Lego. The fitup is better than (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: What 5% ? (was Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!)
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(...) *Either* way? Now that's just silly. If AFOL's were 5% of the customers (granted, they aren't), and your typical AFOL buys 20 times as much annually as a typical child's parents (not an overly bad estimate, I think), then we're about 51% of (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: What colour are the Knights' Kingdom 2 rectangular shields?
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(...) Hi Jojo, It is interesting that you say it is much lighter than the old very light gray. I don't have a sample of the old VLG but when this kitten (URL) came out in [LEGOSet 5944] at first I thought it was old VLG but then I began to wonder if (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | What colour are the Knights' Kingdom 2 rectangular shields?
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Hello! The inventoty at BrickLink claims they are white. But they are not. There is a very distinctive difference between those shields (their back, since the front is printed) and regular white parts. It's not very light grey as found in the Mosaic (...) (20 years ago, 31-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: What 5% ? (was Re: Fed UP!!!!!!!!)
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(...) Yes, they lost money in 2003. Yes, this is bad. No, AFOLs still don't count. From the 2003 Lego Annual Report: "At the end of 2004, it was decided to change the business strategy and set out a series of specific intiatives in order to ensure a (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Clone Parts (and Color ) Inventories
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(...) I think that this might be a good idea indeed! I'm really sick of this blays and rbrowns! Hey, if TLC thinks classic colors are dull (who are they kidding afterall?, kids?...) maybe there are other companys that would not. Does anyone here (...) (20 years ago, 30-Jul-04, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: New MOC - The Paramount Theatre
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(...) Thanks Mark, now if I could only get him to admit it. Janey "Red Brick" (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Medium pink (Re: My collection of colours)
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I added "medium pink" (#41) to my colour stick: (URL) my lack of a better name for this shade. Thanks to Andy Ayers for this brick. -Henry (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: New MOC - The Paramount Theatre
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(...) It definitely works from what I can seen in the photo. Use of only black, white and neon trim seems to dull down the blue quite nicely. A dash of yellow or even red would probably ruin the effect. (20 years ago, 27-Jul-04, to lugnet.town, lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Re: Lego Information
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(...) Well considering that I'm single and you're not, I would say that you're currently more succesful in that regard. -Orion (20 years ago, 22-Jul-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.market.theory)
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