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Re: A color question that ISN'T about the new grays
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lugnet.color
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Mon, 10 May 2004 15:28:15 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Dave Schuler wrote:
> I recently got a few Samsonite-era LEGO pieces in an Ebay lot and noticed a few
> differences between those bricks and the current ones. Obviously the studlogo
> is in a different font, and the underside of the plates is sort of "waffle-y,"
> but the biggest difference is that the red seems to be a little more orange than
> current red. Is this an effect of the bricks' age, or was there really a change
> to the red color itself since that time?
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> As a minor note of comparison, I have some red LEGO bricks from about 1974 that
> are effectively identical in color to the current red.
My CA dates back to about 1967. It's definitely more orangey than the current
red. I also have red slopes from that time period that I suspect are not CA and
they are distinctly different color, and like you, they are similar to the
current red.
I can't remember if they were always different or if they have diverged. It was
a long time ago!
I could swear this topic came up before, but I can't remember if any particular
answer came out then or not.
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| (...) Yeah, I recall some stuff about the relative waffleness and durability of the CA stuff, but I couldn't remember the specifics of any color discussions. Besides, I wanted to get a quick post into our brand-spankin-new lugnet group (and a (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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| I recently got a few Samsonite-era LEGO pieces in an Ebay lot and noticed a few differences between those bricks and the current ones. Obviously the studlogo is in a different font, and the underside of the plates is sort of "waffle-y," but the (...) (22 years ago, 10-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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