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LOL, nice one tim (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.fun)
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(...) Already done: (URL) working on making that list more interactive (including a contentious request/question about color currently active on the BL boards). If I can ever stop updating long enough to reprogram, then the new CT will be much more (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Hi Clark, That's exactly what I need! Thanks. After I had filled in my spreadsheet with the LDRAW color numbers, I noticed that the only colors that are used by the factory palette and don't have a LDRAW color number are the "Medium Blue" and (...) (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.color)
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(...) Hey Clark, thanks a lot, that's really useful! Would it be a good thing to also make one from LEGO to BrickLink colors and back? I'm not sure. (20 years ago, 10-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)
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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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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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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"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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(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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(...) Be aware - it is out there. :( (URL) :) (20 years ago, 9-Sep-04, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.color)
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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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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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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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(...) 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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