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Re: LEGO Inside Tour (New theory on color change: stock dyes)
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lugnet.color
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Mon, 23 Aug 2004 02:20:55 GMT
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In lugnet.color, James Powell wrote:
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The idea that because they had changed colouring method, that the colours
would change is silly. Lego is a big enough company that if it wants a RGB
mix of whatever, it would be able to source it. It’s like mixing paint-
something that isn’t rocket science to manage. Lego wanted a colour change,
so they got a different set of colours to use as a new baseline.
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Certainly TLG can make old gray if it wanted to. The issue is why did it
change the color. Multi-million dollar companies do not make significant
changes on a whim and always consider (or should consider) the bottom line. As
with most things in life, it’s hard to get identical results by doing things in
two different ways. By changing the coloring method, I think by default you
would get a slightly different color. TLG certainly could try to match the old
color, but it’s quite plausible that matching the color would cost money,
whereas the “easier” color might be cheaper. (For example, backward
compatibility in computer software or hardware for instance takes effort,
whereas starting from scratch as technology progresses is often easier and thus
cheaper.) So I disagree with your statements.
Jake’s explanation of the “linearity” of the new colors sounds reasonable [1],
but it is probably more of a function of the linearity of the standardly
available dyes. The design lab probably thought they were killing two birds
with one stone, making the colors cheaper and as a by-product (supposedly)
linearizing the color palette.
[1] With how shifted toward blue the new colors seem, even this linearity
explanation is suspect.
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