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Re: Color Change background
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Date: 
Thu, 13 May 2004 20:07:40 GMT
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Tom Stangl, VFAQman wrote:
> 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.
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 to move themselves into a corner
without an easy escape.

> 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.
Oh, they don't need to play with it. They've got all the "Good Thinking"
instead ;-)

> Perhaps the DL needs an infusion of Trainheads?
An infusion of reality (that thing outside the ivory towers windows)
would suffice.

Yours, Christian



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  Re: Color Change background
 
Jake, Thanks for working on getting this info, but... (...) 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. (...) There is a TON (...) (22 years ago, 13-May-04, to lugnet.color)

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