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Re: 2x4 brick colors
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lugnet.color
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Wed, 25 May 2005 17:19:35 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Bruce Hietbrink wrote:
> 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.
Actually, according to Peeron, it's the piece that has the 3rd most available
colors!
http://www.peeron.com/cgi-bin/invcgis/reports/simple.cgi?mode=ColorPart
Rank Number Part Name # of Colors
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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 4073 Plate 1 x 1 Round 34
7 4740 Round Dish 2 x 2 Inverted 33
8 3010 Brick 1 x 4 33
9 3710 Plate 1 x 4 33
10 3003 Brick 2 x 2 33
So, according to that, only the 1x1 brick and 1x2 brick are available in more
colors! And, according to MyParts (and some stuff I know I have, which is pretty
accurate), I've got ... 29 of 'em:
Black: 630
Blue: 475
Brown: 446
Chrome Silver: 2
Clear: 4
Dark Gray: 711
Dark Green: 4
Dark Orange: 48
Dark Pink: 24
Dark Red: 6
Dark Stone: 21
Gray: 2929
Green: 168
Lime: 30
Lt Royal Blue: 6
Light Yellow: 12
Maersk Blue: 4
Medium Lilac: 4
Medium Stone: 40
Orange: 98
Purple: 4
Red: 662
Reddish Brown: 7
Sand Blue: 9
Sand Green: 424
Tan: 326
Teal: 13
White: 3180
Yellow: 512
And 8 known colors that I'm missing:
Cool Yellow: 0
FabuOrange: 0
Light Stone: 0
Light Pink: 0
Medium Blue: 0
Medium Violet: 0
Pink: 0
Sand Red: 0
Usually those colors come in odd sets (Fabuland, Belville, Paradisa, Basic
tubs), so if you don't have a lot of those, it might explain some things. About
how many sets/pieces are in your collection?
DaveE
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| (...) Wow, that's a surprise. I guess when I looked at the color table on Peeron I mainly was struck by the fact that up until a few years ago the 2x4 brick was only in a small number of colors. This does seem to have changed in the past couple of (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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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: (...) (20 years ago, 25-May-05, to lugnet.color)
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