 | | The excitement of a new Lego color!
|
|
"Yes I remember very well the excitement of finding out that Lego came out with a new color. My hands were trembling when I saw it right there plain as day in the toy store window. I was giddy with excitement at the prospect of getting a new color (...) (20 years ago, 23-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color)
|
| |
| | Re: Semi-new train sets - 10157 & 10158 (from 4511 World City HS Train)
|
|
(...) And how about the packs of train track? Are they being made in old or new colors? Allow me to quote Jake here: (URL) quote/ * A certain few parts that are crucial to keep in the old colors will likely be created as service pack type items. An (...) (20 years ago, 14-Sep-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego)
|
| |
| | New colors in a set from 2002?
|
|
(URL) [LEGOSet 3929] Here's all I know: Christina and I received two #3929s and two #3928 in March of 2004. One 3929 and both 3928s have 100% old colors. The specific, unopened 3929 pictured above has all old light grey, with the notible exception (...) (20 years ago, 12-Sep-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.general, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: Semi-new train sets - 10157 & 10158 (from 4511 World City HS Train)
|
|
(...) Be aware - it is out there. :( (URL) :) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.color)
|
| |
| | An ode to the new colours.
|
|
When I built and subsequently took apart the new X-Wing I didn't even think to actually check whether the grays and brown were old or new. I just assumed they were new, like in the other new SW sets. So into my new gray/brown tub the pieces went! At (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.fun)
|
| |
| | Amazing !!
|
|
I bought lots of pieces in the Pick-a-Brick shop in Billund last week (approximately 12 kg !) to make my large mosaic. When I got back home I checked the brown and grey pieces and yes: they were all in the old colours !! Amazing, isn't it ?!? (...) (20 years ago, 31-Aug-04, to lugnet.color)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
It's not just for PET. I found 3 companies that provide liquid color for your resin of choice. When that press release was written (2000) the PET process must have been new. I'm going to ask Maguire (who make colors as well as molding machine (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) Totally agreed. Money is the issue. (...) Doesn't sound reasonable to me. Explained below. (...) Agreed. The "linearity" esplanation - or should I say excuse - doesn't make any sense. If it was so, why did LEGO stop that "linearity" now? (...) (20 years ago, 26-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) The technology may be real, but I don't believe TLC uses any PET derived plastics for any brick parts, though they do use them for packaging (clear BIONICLE pods are PETE, and opaque ones are straight PET). Since the pods are really just (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
Jake says Lego is not using "just in time" coloring in response to the rumor, and Scott says it doesn't make sense.. however, the technology is real: "Chroma Injecta Color Systems Inc of Chicago Heights, Illinois, have developed what is claimed to (...) (20 years ago, 25-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) I have to second Jake on this--I've worked in plastics production before (I've personally mixed color combinations before), and that's not how you injection mold plastic--you can't "inject" color into pellets when making molded parts that are (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) Having seen the production line recently in person, and having checked this theory with several colleagues from manufacturing, this is not at all true. ABS still comes in pellet form by color. Jake --- Jake McKee Community Liaison LEGO (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) Sounds logical to me. Lego has been doing some things "that haven't made sense" for decades! Back in 1963 they switched from Cellulose Acetate to ABS plastic. Anyone who has old red or yellow CA bricks knows that the new ABS color is way (...) (20 years ago, 24-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) That... makes more sense than anything else I've heard. It would explain not only the color changes and the recent inconsistencies, but also the whole 'final run of Maersk blue pellets' thing involved with the ship. If I were a betting man, (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) Certainly TLG can make old gray if it wanted to. The issue is why did it change the color. Multi-million dollar companies do not make significant changes on a whim and always consider (or should consider) the bottom line. As with most things (...) (20 years ago, 23-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) I think the difference there is that James was saying that it doesn't make sense that they'd be unable to find someone who would agree to supply dye for the old grey/brown colors at all. The purple fiasco was a wholy different situation. They (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) Well unfortunately, those 2 paragraphs are somewhat contradictory. If LEGO is "a big enough company that if it wants a RGB mix of whatever, it would be able to source it", then why couldn't they source consistent purple dyes, even in different (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) I'm surprised to! Why didn't it make it?... (...) As someone noted on fbtb, that would explain also the sudden explosion of clear parts... (...) Same here. (...) Of course! Does anyone actually believes in "consistent color line" or (...) (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) So, do you really think that LEGO wanted a color change? Strange, since they had hoped/expected it would go unnoticed and never avertised it anywhere. Doesn't make any sense to me. Paulo Renato (20 years ago, 22-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
| |
| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
|
|
(...) There was a post about the purples- they were made in different countries (Hungary, Swiss and Danish, IIRC), and the dyes used are not from the same batch (or maker?) Anyway, the colours are different, because the dyes are different. The idea (...) (20 years ago, 21-Aug-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
|
