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Subject: 
Not convinced that money wasn't the reason (was: Color Change background)
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Thu, 20 May 2004 04:33:43 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Eric Kingsley wrote:
   I think all I can add is that LEGO should not hide behind the “more consistant color pallet” excuse when (...)

I visited a friend in another state this past weekend, and we got to talking about the color change. To paraphrase what he said:

“The reason has to be money. Purely money, nothing else. They’re a business. They’d be idiots if it were any other reason besides money. Do you know how expensive a color change like this is? They wouldn’t be doing it unless they were sure that it would save them money.”

This got me to wondering: Why has Mega-Bloks gray always been so blay? Is blay cheaper than gray? Why on God’s Green Earth would Mega-Bloks choose not to color-match classic LEGO gray unless it were cheaper to make it blay instead? Hmmmmmm.

--Todd



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  Re: Not convinced that money wasn't the reason (was: Color Change background)
 
(...) Unless this is all some big conspiracy over Mega-Bloks making their grey not the same color as LEGO grey so that they could be 'different enough' to escape copyright infringement lawsuits, and now LEGO is changing so that Mega-Bloks is no (...) (20 years ago, 20-May-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)

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(...) Well I can say that my involvement in the hobby has been reduced almost totally to my local club (same one as Chris'). I will probably still make PAB purchases and get the Maersk Ship. I was going to get several of the Knight Buses until the (...) (20 years ago, 17-May-04, to lugnet.color)  

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