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Hi there, im first time writer, long time reader, Baz. I stayed quiet when Lego made the 'new' brown and grays. You all said what i was thinking. But. The other day I received a Lego part that was on Bricklink as Brown. Its reddish brown. So it (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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I will not adopt the new colors. There was no justifiable reason for them to be changed. All the suggestions I've heard as to why just do not make sense to me from a business standpoint. I associate the old brown and gray colors with my childhood. (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Hi, Baz. I was pretty upset when they launched the color change. It was the catalyst that pushed me away from the hobby for the last year or two. I still don't like the look of the new colors, and I hate the confusion of trying to keep the new (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) i will admit that i use the new brown quite a bit for several reasons but the new grey's "blays" are not usefull . it's not that i haven't tried to use the new grey's they simply just don't look right. the only signifagant use of the new greys (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) snip The problem will get worst on BrickLink. As people or even new sellers find BrickLink and have 'no clue' about the color change. It make me wonder if BrickLink should add a 'warning' or 'disclaimer' about the color change for newbies. (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Personally, I think BrickLink needs to change their color names. Peeron approached this problem by VERY EXPLICITLY renaming "Gray" to "OldGray", "DkGray" to "OldDkGray" and "Brown" to "OldBrown". The problem is of course as you point out, that (...) (18 years ago, 8-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I've got a few of those too. In every case, I send a friendly email, and the seller was happy to resolve the matter. (...) That's a new acronym. What does it stand for? My first experience with Blay was when I purchased a few sets from LS@H (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I'd been wondering about this myself, but I think I figured it out: "I may have to just bend over and take it." I think it has something to do with finding money on the sidewalk or something... (...) Hmm... with all the new colors out there, I (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) The trouble with this idea is that 'old' and 'new' grey only have meaning to those of us who have been around long enough to know the old from the new. Somebody coming into the hobby post-bley won't have any idea what distinguishes the two. I (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I agree that people won't know what "old" versus "new" means, but that's precisely the point I'm driving at. You *need* to know if you're a seller. So you have to go find out. If you call them "New Gray" and "Old Gray", you've successfully (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) That's a bit of a generalization, I'd say. I can peg dark-grey vs. dark-bley every time, regardless of the lighting (well, as long as there is some, that is), and I'm very accurate with light-grey vs. light-bley under flourescent lighting and (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I only have trouble with the light greys. Dark Bley is an obviously different color to my eyes, and blown is different enough to be noticeable in most light- but the light greys give me fits even in sunlight. :-( (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Heh, that's why I said "sometimes" :) I know there are those out there who can tell the colors apart better than I can. And I know there are those out there (some of the more colorblind of us) who have a very hard time with it. For instance, (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Try flourescent lighting sometime. I'm thoroughly convinced that any focus groups that might have been asked about the bleys vs. greys had to have been shown the different colors under standard cool-white flourescent lighting like you'd find (...) (18 years ago, 9-Apr-07, to lugnet.color)
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(...) Do you suppose the real reason behind the color change was to make the product visually "jump off the shelves" under the crappy lighting in Wal-Mart? This would make more sense than any other rationale I've heard so far, except that you (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) It's a definite possibility, and the only one that would mesh with the claim that they were bringing the three affected colors more in line with the rest of the color palette (even regular blue and dark-green have a distinct warm undertone and (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Ah, yes. Even Target has those display cases, and they seem to have first appeared around the time of the color change if my memory serves me. (...) Yes, I mentioned this because I have known how surprising fluorescence can be since I was a (...) (18 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Nah, there are some truly old in-store displays out there (I remember seeing images of a Classic Space version that someone had managed to obtain). The more recent wave, I believe, goes back to the debut of either Star Wars or Harry Potter, (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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What was the purpose of the LEGO colour change? Well, I think the whole thing was not initiated by TLC. I remember that not only LEGO parts changed their colours - there were some grey shade changes overall: some medicine packaging tubes, ceiling (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I'm afraid that new colors are here to stay. Just like 4.5v (circa 1966) trains were replaced with 12v (circa 1969) trains and then 9v (circa 1991) replaced 12v, etc. No matter how much anyone here likes/loves the original colors, Lego is not (...) (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) Relax, Bob. Nobody's whining here or trying to change LEGO's course, IMHO. Seems to me, this has been a pretty constructive discussion about how to adapt to using the new colors. At least up until this point... (18 years ago, 11-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I've read of things like that, particularly (URL) this>. Other than that, not much. Next time I'm in a city bus, I'll try to remember to look at the ceiling to see if it's blay. (I seldom ride city buses) (...) I've read of just such a thing (...) (18 years ago, 12-Apr-07, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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(...) I have the same problem, I just paid for dark gray Lego on ebay and am similarly upset. ITS BLAY =,( I do have buckets of the three new colors, but also am trying to avoid using and buying them. But what do I do when people do this, the poor (...) (17 years ago, 24-Apr-08, to lugnet.color)
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(...) I have a couple of thoughts: 1. Ask the seller specifically what color it is. If you don't know the seller, don't assume they are familiar with the differences. The older, and more rare the color-part combination is, the more important it is (...) (17 years ago, 24-Apr-08, to lugnet.color)
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