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Re: Its starting to happen...
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Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:50:07 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.color, Chris Phillips wrote:
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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 usually don’t see the actual bricks until you get home
and open the box.
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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 look bad next to dark-bley). The one thing that would really
affect this is the in-store display program.
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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.
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But yeah, the old greys have a distinct yellow tone,
even when they’re brand new, when viewed under flourescent lighting. The sad
thing is that this change makes them look better only at the point of
purchase. The instant that you walk out the store...blue crap. Well, unless
you’re masochistic enough to light your entire house with cheap cool-blue
flourescent lighting. And you don’t mind the long-term damage that the
higher UV levels will produce in all of your ABS parts except the black ones
(black being the only UV-stable shade of ABS, due to the fact pure carbon is
used for the pigment).
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In LEGO Retail stores, they seem to favor recessed incandescent lighting.
This would support the argument that they believed their original colors
look worse under fluorescents. (Maybe they should’ve just used black lights
and lava lamps!)
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Oh, black lights are an entirely different can of worms. If you have access
to a flourescent black-light (they work a lot better than the incandescent
variety), try looking at different colors with it. Some of the odd things
that I’ve found are that red ABS (but not the softer plastic like they use
for sabers and short-swords) looks exactly the same under black-light as it
does under regular light (the only color that I can really say that about,
BTW), there were two different formulas of brown being used in 2001 (they
looked 100% identical under any normal lighting, but not under black-light,
and that was with Toa parts that had, when I noticed this, only been in
production for about one year), lime green looks flourescent but isn’t, the
shade of light trans-blue that looks flourescent isn’t...but the one that
doesn’t look flourescent is, back when the Bohrok sets were still available
there were two faintly different shades of purple Krana brains that could be
positively identified under blacklight (the slightly brighter shade was
flourescent), a lot of colors that you wouldn’t think would exhibit
flourescent tendancies at all would have a dull purple glow under
black-light, and as I noted with the red parts, two parts made in the same
color but with different plastics will often react very differently from each
other. And my color palette is nowhere near even half of what has been
officially produced, so I can’t even begin to catalogue how all the various
colors react.
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Yes, I mentioned this because I have known how surprising fluorescence can be
since I was a child. My grandparents were mineral collectors who created some
very unique works
of art using crushed fluorescent minerals glued to canvas. (I still have a
couple of these “paintings” in my posession.) When viewed under ordinary light,
they are very dull browns and greys, but when viewed under UV light, the true
colors emerge. I have a protrait of a clown and a 13-star Old Glory they made
that are both beige tones under ordinary light, but full-color under UV. As far
as I know, they never did a portrait of Elvis, though...
WARNING: Exposure to strong UV light can be very harmful to your eyes! I do
not recommend that anybody use UV or even blacklight lighting when sorting LEGO
for extended periods of time. And NEVER look directly at the bulb of a true UV
light source unless you really want to feel the effects of macular degeneration.
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Now, as for Lava Lamps, they don’t really give off much light at all, though
it is all incandescent, I believe. What little color you could actually make
out (particularly if the Lava Lamp in question had colored water), should
look pretty good.
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Everything looks better when illuminated by a lava lamp.
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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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| (...) 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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