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2x4 brick colors
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Wed, 25 May 2005 07:54:27 GMT
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Hi all,
I was just sorting my bucket of 2x4 bricks. I put them in 4x4 stacks by color,
then break those stacks into 20 brick units. Anyway, I'm obsessive enough to
count them, and this is what I got:
Light gray: 418
Black: 338
Red: 176
Dark gray: 126
Tan: 97
Green: 90
White: 89
Blue: 74
Brown 16
Sand green: 10
Yellow: 4
Sand blue: 4
Transparent: 2
I show those numbers because they intrigue me. The bricks I have in large
numbers are mainly due to bulk purchases from Bricklink or S@H to build castle
creations. The white, red, and blue are mainly very old, so I assume they
largely come from the basic sets from my youth, when the color palette was very
limited. What really confuses me is the very small number of 2x4 bricks I have
in "odd" colors. If I sorted my 1x1 or 1x2 bricks, or any of my plates, in
addition to certain major colors, there would be a bunch of small numbers of
elements from "odd" colors (all the sands, trans, and darks, things like purple
and orange, etc)--you know, one of this, 5 of that, etc. Now, I've got a
relatively large number of sets, from across a variety of themes, so you would
expect that I'd have a ton of bricks in random colors, but it seems not.
Looking at <http://www.peeron.com/inv/parts/3001 Peeron>, it seems that the 2x4
brick has actually not been offered in a lot of colors. This seems odd--the 2x4
brick is perhaps the most readily recognized LEGO element to the non-AFOL
population, so you'd expect it to be ubiquitous, but it seems to not be so.
Anyone have any theories?
Bruce
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 | | Re: 2x4 brick colors
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| (...) I believe it is because many of the "non-standard" colors are often used as accent/detail pieces in sets, or for decorative purposes. As such, you end up with them in the smaller sizes and in oddball parts. It is rare for a set to be made up (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.color)
| | | Re: 2x4 brick colors
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| (...) Actually, according to Peeron, it's the piece that has the 3rd most available colors! (URL) Number Part Name # of Colors ---...--- 1 3005 Brick 1 x 1 40 2 3004 Brick 1 x 2 38 3 3001 Brick 2 x 4 37 4 3020 Plate 2 x 4 36 5 3023 Plate 1 x 2 35 6 (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.color)
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