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I disagree with this letter. (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Hey, Mark, I know that. And I didn't mean for my post to be a rally against you in particular at all, but rather just on the comment of the other hostilities, especially in the other thread that isn't supposed to have the discussions in it. (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I agree with the above letter and sign it Walter Walters (age 30), Pennsylvania (USA) approximate annual budget before 2004: $1500 approximate budget for 2004: $7 Total MSRP of LEGO sets that I own: pre-2004: $9,573 post-2004: $7 (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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In lugnet.color, Thomas Stangl wrote: <snip> (...) True, but how much of that 5% actually cares about the color change enough to vocally protest? Based on the discussion here I'd well less than half and probably more like one tenth (and I think (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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I like this wording better, it's much more positive, I'd sign it... But I stand by signing the original version - TLG needs a swift kick in the rear about now to knock some sense into it. (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
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Kevin, If you read the thread, they've already noted it was a mis-translation. (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Sure, and I have no problem with that. I DO have a problem with the suck-ups telling the people that are trying to tell TLC they made a mistake to keep quiet about it. Sucking up all the time with no dissent is a sure way to grenade a company (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The tests they did simply could have been skewed by how the questions were asked. Without seeing the actual test, we won't know if they happened to use leading questions posed by the people for the color change, or hand-picked a strange group (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) And your actions, kissing their hindquarters vociferously, will somehow tell them when they might have done something that has upset their paying customers? ENOUGH of the puckering up, Bill. (...) 5% is 5%. If you as a CEO piss off 5% of your (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, lugnet.general)
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I agree to returning to the old greys/browns (the new don't need to disappear, just bring back the old). Tom Stangl (38), Cantonment, Florida USA ~$10-20,000/yr 1997-2004 ~$200 post-2004 (on post-color-change sets. Still a few thousand on (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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I DON'T agree with this letter...as far as grey/brown color changes are concerned. To date, TLG has *yet* to give a *valid* reason for the change. Any reasons given have been debunked as fluff or outright lies. Give us the real reason ($$$), and (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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sorry i incorretly signed the first time OnDrew Hartigan (21), winfield, il , $2000-6000 pre2004, 3500 for2004 but only spent on 2003 and prior sets/ PAB, during my employment at the woodfield lego store oct03-aug04 i spoke with no less than 200 (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) Ben, If you change the language of the letter so that it is clear that you are a group of people made up mostly of AFOLs, not the entire AFOL community then I will have no opinion about your letter, retract my objection to it, and wish you the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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i completly agree. OnDrew J. Hartigan 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) The issue wasn't explicitly stated as such. The issue was explicitly stated, in the original post, as coming from the AFOL community, not just you. (...) ANd you should, indeed, state your opinion, but make it abundantly clear that it is your (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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(...) I believe the official TLC names for all the colors are in this list... (URL) #199 and #208 are suspected to be the correct entries for the 'new' shades of gray. Ray (20 years ago, 21-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Ooooh! :( What a pessimistic AFOL you are, William! (...) Yes, they're trying to grow a segment of their market. That gives "us" influence as customers, little as it may be. Did we get SYSTEM-color packs with gray plates and bricks through Jake, or (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego)
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Hello! (...) This is also a letter that I would sign without hesitation. Johannes Koehler (27), Germany (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
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In lugnet.color, Scott Lyttle wrote: snip (...) Oooh much better. But I'll sign both! -Bryan (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color)
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(snip) My army of Scala and Galidor figures wielding pieces of ZNAP weaponry are poised for war.... BTW--has anybody actually bothered to find out what the "official" new gray colors are called? Perhaps that should be referenced instead of "old gray (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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