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Subject:	Re: Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
Newsgroups:	lugnet.color
Date:	Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:59:28 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote: > The color change destroyed the continuity of colors that were each decades > old[1]. Oops, note: Gray - 1961? -> 2003 (CA/ABS switch in 1963) Brown - 1974? -> 2003 (ABS in 1977?, 1974 in different, flexible plastic) Dk Gray - 1977? -> 2003 So, at least 41 years for Gray ABS, and 27 years of Brown and Dark Gray (31 years for brown if you count the different plastic for the maxifig hair). Huh, it looks from Peeron like Gray was the 7th color ever produced, after white, red, green, yellow, blue, and black? DaveE

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		Re: Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
(...) Dave, Gray actually goes back to the 1950's. I have a 10x20 thick baseplate in gray without "Lego" on the studs (pre 1957). The 10x20 baseplates first came out in 1953, but I cannot confirm that they started in gray that year. The next (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)

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		Re: Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
(...) Well, there will always be AFOLs who will forever vocally belittle, despise, and challenge the color change. And you'll just have to deal with it. My guess is that the majority still very much hates the color change (that's certainly the (...) (20 years ago, 23-Nov-04, to lugnet.color)

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