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Re: Color Change background
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Thu, 13 May 2004 17:32:46 GMT
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Jake,
Thanks for working on getting this info, but...
Jake McKee wrote:
> Around the beginning of 2000, we found ourselves with a color palette that was
> growing far too quickly, and far too organically.
Detail, please - exactly which way do you mean "organically" here? It can have more
than one meaning, one which is {very good} for anyone building realistic displays.
> This initiative led to a revised color palette. This new color palette included
> some deletions of low-use colors, additions of new colors, and some tweaks to
> the existing colors. The goal in all these changes was completely and totally
> focused on creating the absolute best set of LEGO colors possible.
There is a TON of detail missing here - why did they think bleys were the answer? I
think I know the answer, but there are severe problems with it...
> There has been a great deal of assumptions posted about the reasons we made the
> changes. Everything from trying to copy MEGABloks, to trying to save money on
> recycling parts. I know it seems hard to believe (unless you really think about
> the long-term history and attitude of this company), but it really is as simple
> as trying to create a sustainable and consistent color palette for the future.
To bring up other people's questions in a way - so this basically means, until we
AFOLs screamed bloody murder, that white WAS scheduled for a change, right?
Otherwise, bleys and the current white are NOT a "consistent color palette". The
only way bleys could be in a consistent palette was if white was shifted (along with
other colors).
Locking in "universal" bleys and white insures that you will NEVER, EVER have a
"consistent color palette".
If the Design Lab truly wants a "consistent color palette", they need to go back on
their word in one way or another - either shift white (try it, and you'll REALLY see
some screaming, I'm sure), or shift bleys back. They have to do one or the other at
this point, or they've failed at the very start of the palette change.
On a side note, I get it that noone in the Design Lab ever BUILDS with Lego? If
they did, I can't imagine that they'd think removing an "organic" dark grey would be
a good thing for anyone that likes to add vegetation and rocks to their layouts.
Perhaps the DL needs an infusion of Trainheads?
--
Tom Stangl
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) I think "organically" in this context means that the broadening of the color palette was not guided by a deliberate, structured plan and was instead allowed to grow to suit the needs that arose over time. Dave! (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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| (...) 100% Ack. This shortsighted decision to invent "universal" colours and assigning them to an inconsistent palette is a sure sign of headless activism by a management that did not understand the situation at all. All they have managed by this is (...) (20 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.color)
| | | Re: Color Change background
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| (...) Christian already brought this *very* pertinent issue up on this thread. Obviously (to me) the wiser solution would be changing back the colours (although, arguably not the most profitable at short term). But if no action is taken - changing (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color)
| | | Re: Color Change background
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| (...) Typically, when said like this, "organically" means that it grew without a plan, according to the needs of the time. Its sort of was a fashionable term in the computer/tech world in the last 5 years. And as Jake has been a web producer for (...) (20 years ago, 14-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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