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In lugnet.events.brickfest, Ted Michon wrote:
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The only good news is that these are “better” colors and, if they are cheaper
and/or easier to get, well, good for LEGO (hey! where’s my discount?!)
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It seems to me that piece counts per dollar are way up these days from where
they were when I used to buy a lot of LEGO, although I suspect this is more of
an attempt to stay competitive with clone brands than it is an attempt to pass
along their savings to you. I also think the set designs are worlds better than
they ever were in the past, but I don’t buy sets for the instructions, I buy
them for the bricks. (Sadly, my aversion to bley is still stronger than my
attraction to most of the cool new set designs.)
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So, deep down the issue is that LEGO mucked with something we viewed as
immutable and permanent. If they can change this, nothing’s sacred.
The flip side is, we’re crying about a pigment change while the entirety of
The LEGO Company is going through the worst wringer of its history. It’s
getting out the molding business, the packing business, and the distribution
business which means its losing thousands of career jobs. LEGO gave up its
theme parks, including the almost 40 year flag ship park in Billund. We
should just be thankful there’s a LEGO Company left to complain about (and
to) and that our favorite fun thing hasn’t gone the way of all the other
legacy creations like Erector Sets, American Flyer trains, etc.
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Or could it be that their present difficulties are partly due to the fallout
from the color change? It seems like the company was still expanding in
2003/2004 (when they opened LEGO Retail stores here in the US, IIRC). I still
remember my enthusiasm for the rollout of Pick-a-Brick being one of the high
points of my involvement in this hobby, followed within months by the greatest
disappointment - bley. Just a few years later, they are undertaking the most
severe contraction in the company’s history.
Who knows? Maybe if somebody within TLC had “cried about pigment change” before
it was too late, they could have avoided some of this pain?
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| --snip-- (...) I really find it hard to see how the colour change would have been detrimental to TLG in any meaningful way. Perhaps you can elaborate on the idea because I just can't see any connection. Tim (17 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| (...) My opinion on the color change has held pretty firm since the beginning. As I thought then, and still do, the problems with the new colors are: They aren't the old colors. If you own 150,000 of the old greys, you can't expand your collection (...) (17 years ago, 21-Feb-07, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.color, FTX)
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