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(...) It looks like those are Lego color numbers. Using your list and the info from my Color Tree pages, I've made this conversion chart: (URL) let me know of any updates/errors. Hope that helps, Clark (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.cad, lugnet.color)
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| | Re: #4508 Titan XP: New or Old?
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(...) My version has the new grey colors. They go very well with the blues though. /\/\ark "the set is worth it!" de Kock (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | #4508 Titan XP: New or Old?
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I'd like to put this set on my Xmas wish list, but I believe this one has the new grays? Can someone please confirm? Thanks! Dave (20 years ago, 9-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Good bye, light yellow :-(
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(...) I guess TLC hasn't finished the (URL) "color palette cleanup"> yet. I would ask our man Jake McKee to explain this new color change, but I'm sure the braintrust in Denmark hasn't got around to telling its own employees about it. What a Mickey (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| | Good bye, light yellow :-(
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Hi, by digging through the (URL) "Wühlkisten">, a special action for the german "Idee & Spiel" toy dealers which have mixed Lego bins with about 100 litres each, from which you can grab about 1 litre for the price of EUR 6,99 in a plastic bag named (...) (20 years ago, 16-Oct-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX) !
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| | The excitement of a new Lego color!
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"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)
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| | Re: Semi-new train sets - 10157 & 10158 (from 4511 World City HS Train)
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(...) 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)
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| | New colors in a set from 2002?
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(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)
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| | Re: Semi-new train sets - 10157 & 10158 (from 4511 World City HS Train)
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(...) Be aware - it is out there. :( (URL) :) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.color)
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| | An ode to the new colours.
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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)
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| | Amazing !!
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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)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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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)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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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)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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(...) 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)
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| | Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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(...) 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)
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