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Re: Brown Bricks - Wood or Chocolate?
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In lugnet.color, Mark Bellis wrote:
> Here's a thread to discuss your opinions of old and new brown. I'd like to see
> what the consensus of opinion is.
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> Q1. Is the old brown like wood?
Yes
> Q2. Is the new brown like chocolate?
Yes, and it is also like wood...
> Q3. Are chocolate coloured trees feasible or not?
Yes, I really don't think that a child will see a tree made out of the new
brown, and go "Oh! Chocholate!" and then try to eat it (Augustis Gloop aside) I
suppose you could say translucent red looks like cherry Tootsie Pops, but you
don't see anyone trying to eat them (although, in my more Zen like moments
during building sessions, I have been known to stick a Lego in my mouth and chew
on it, something about the texture!)
> Q4. Are there enough everyday objects in chocolate brown to make building with
> it feasible?
Of course, new brown is the ONLY brown now. Anything that in life that IS brown,
will be built with THIS brown.
> I'll start:
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> A1. I think old brown is near enough to wood to convince the public at railway
> exhibitions, and more so than new brown. Have you seen any natural wood colours
> like new brown?
Do you really think that you would put up a display featuring sections with new
brown, and the general public (Not Lego fans, mind you). And they would cry out
"Thats not brown!!! Thats chocolate! Why, everything here is a fraud! Can I eat
your tree?"
> A2. I think new brown is very similar in colour to a popular brand of chocolate
> in the UK.
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> A3. I think new brown is too light for tree trunks. Some of the bigger tree
> models I've seen on brickshelf use black pieces for trunks and branches anyway,
> as there was never the range or supply of old brown parts to do it properly. (I
> wish chocolate grew on trees!)
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> A4. There used to be railway coaches painted 'chocolate and cream' in the UK.
> Some of them still exist on preserved railways. I can't think of any other
> chocolate brown objects (other than chocolate bars) suitable for modelling in
> Lego, can you?
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> What do you think about any or all of these issues?
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> Mark
Sorry to be so sarcastic, but there is no longer an issue about these colors.
Jake has said they are here to stay. Period. We have a choice. Either NEVER buy
any of the new colors, and hope that LEGO releases bulk pack in the old colors
(after complaing that there aren't enough of the right pieces, or they are too
expensive, but buying them all up anyway!). Or, go to Bricklink.com and purchase
anything you would need to create what you want. Or, bite the bullet, accept the
change, and start working towards building your collection up to include the new
colors! I choose the last two. Sure the new colors seem odd now. I just
purchased the new Spiderman set, Doc Ocs Hideout, and it is practically ALL new
colors. It was a bit surreal, but it has a lot of good parts. We are comparing
these new colors to colors we have built with for 20 plus years. But over time,
we WILL get used to them, and we WILL continue building, and if we don't, the
hobby never mattered much to us in the first place!
Now, here is a question I pose to all of you! Imagine being 7 years old, it is
Christmas morning (in the year you were 7 years old), you open a present and it
is the one large LEGO set you always wanted (be it classic castle, classic
space, a train, or whatever..). But it is in the new colors we know today
(pretend for a moment that the old colors never exixted, I know it's a
stretch!). Would you then, as a child, go "Blech!!! this isn't wood brown, it's
chocolate! This isn't grey, it's bley!" I will never play with this!"
I for one, would tear the box open, dump the contents out on the living room
floor, and spend the next several hours in sheer bliss, doing what I love.
And this is exactly what children will continue to do from here on out,
regardless of what we think.....
Bill Vollbrecht
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