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I think this is a new initiative to further cut costs. Its funny one part of Lego decides it needs to control the pallette and amount of "usuable parts" in the system, while another part keeps on coming out with new colors and new parts (molds) for (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) the color tiles can be read? Steve (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Wait-- how are these in contrast? Do you know that these came out of the same initiative? Do you know that something hasn't changed in the meantime? It's been over a year since the color change actually HAPPENED, and as far as I can tell, this (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Unless you've been building in gray. My collection of 30 years was made obsolete overnight when they decided to discontinue making new parts in the pre 2004 shades of gray. Therefore, my continued support of their products ended when they (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Reading the LEGO Life article, I thought back to Jake McKee's (URL) original explanation> for the color change back in May. I noticed some discrepancies. Contrast this passage from the (URL): Reducing the number of used colours is part of the (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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Reducing the number of colours in the palette seems like a win-win. It means Lego can be cheaper, and it also means that AFOLs will find it easier to build a decent selection of parts in each colour. (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Indeed. I have a bag of 41752's here. I keep looking at the tread surfaces on both sides and the Technic pin holes and thinking... 'now if they could put pin holes in a rubber-band holder, why couldn't they do the same for the big hailfire (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) The rubber band holders come to mind. Those are curiously over-designed. (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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In lugnet.color, William Howard wrote: (snipped) Thanks for sharing these and thanks especially for checking to see if it was OK first! Both are much appreciated. (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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So we can expect to see them get rid of those pastey new flesh tones...right? (Please oh please oh please) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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I can't believe what i just read: "... we are investigating to see whether some of the parts we make at the moment could be produced in other, cheaper materials:... and whether the quality of some of our parts is simply too high.." Didn't Ole once (...) (20 years ago, 9-Dec-04, to lugnet.color) !
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(...) An interesting look into the process. Now all that the "bley" haters have to do is provide an alternate source for 3.7 million kroner and bing-bang-boom! everybody is happy. (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: Halving the colours in the palette - Lego Life Sept 2004
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(...) Déjà Vu. (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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Teaser - (URL) - (URL) are unedited (except to remove some names from the yellow block at the bottom of the article) (secondary links to same scans Teaser - (URL) - (URL) (20 years ago, 8-Dec-04, to lugnet.color) !!
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Hey all, After reading the responses to my last draft and the other threads on this board, I've lengthened the letter quite a bit, taking into account the suggestions offered, especially Mark Jordan's excellent list, of which I've incorporated quite (...) (20 years ago, 4-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Hello Arne, I have to politely disagree with you. If what I am thinking is correct, you are seeing what appears to be grey parts in the #218 (2x4 bricks), #219 (2x3 bricks), #220 (2x2 bricks), #221 (1x2 bricks), #222 (1x1 bricks) #223 (1x1 (...) (20 years ago, 4-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Ooo, do you have inventories for these sets? (hint, hint!) Stuff that's pre-70's in Peeron isn't terribly complete... (even pre-80's is sketchy for some stuff) Actually, I guess Peeron even accepts "partial" inventories if you know a few (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Normal grey bricks like 2x2, 2x3, and 2x4 were available in abundance in 1960/61 in expansion sets like 218, 219 and 220. Also, as far as I know, grey plates were used in 1957 in set 323, Train. Arne, Copenhagen (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Hey Scott, Everthing you wrote is correct except for this: (...) If you look at the Snowspeeder set you will also see that Luke and Dack are yellow. Thats because the Snowspeeder was in the last wave of sets to have yellow minifigs - along (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I do think that #3 is an important issue. Might be convinging as well. Maybe if you add that that 'nightmare' is due to the similarity of the colors (and you have to compare them consistently if you don't wanna mix them up), the more room/bins (...) (20 years ago, 3-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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