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Re: Its starting to happen...
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lugnet.color
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Date:
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Thu, 12 Apr 2007 00:11:31 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Martin Srb wrote:
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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 panels on city buses and so on.
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I’ve read of things like that, particularly
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)
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But why did it happen? It could be because of the light! The new grey was not
meant to look better in shops but IMHO to last longer unchanged in the
sunlight. I have not ever seen or heard of a yellowed bley brick. I have
tried to leave one piece in direct sunlight for a couple of days and nothing
happened (maybe it was not long enough).
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I’ve read of just such a thing on
Bricklink:
Firefly writes:
If what I’ve seen in Toys’R’Us display cases is any example, it certainly will.
As I once said
about the 4504 Millennium Falcon, the dark bley started out
uniform and 3 months later was
showing half a dozen distinct shades.
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Some AFOLs at kostky.org use 30% hydrogen peroxide to restore yellowed
bricks. They noticed that yellowed grey pieces turn into bley if soaked too
long! Maybe it’s the way to get parts which were never produced in bley :-)
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Or this, which I hope
to try soon.
scott “Don’t click the link above if you’re a purist” Frischmann.
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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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