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Re: Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
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lugnet.color
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Wed, 24 Nov 2004 02:10:18 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote:
> > The color change destroyed the continuity of colors that were each decades
> > old[1].
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> Oops, note:
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> Gray - 1961? -> 2003 (CA/ABS switch in 1963)
> Brown - 1974? -> 2003 (ABS in 1977?, 1974 in different, flexible plastic)
> Dk Gray - 1977? -> 2003
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> 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).
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> Huh, it looks from Peeron like Gray was the 7th color ever produced, after
> white, red, green, yellow, blue, and black?
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> DaveE
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
appearance of gray came with the advent of the Architectural Sets (1963-65),
when gray plates came out in 1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and the strange 8x11 plate
that was the top (actually bottom) of the plastic boxes that held these pieces.
The earliest of these were CA, then switched to ABS. Then in 1966 the #325
Shell Station came out with more different size of large plates. But regular
bricks didn't come out until after 1978. One of the first was the 1x1 round
bricks, found in the USS Constellation of 1978.
This would make gray even older than black, which never came out in a 10x20
baseplate. Black first showed up in late 1961/early 1962 in most of the sizes
that red, white, blue and yellow came in (except the 2x8, 2x10 and 4x4 corner
brick sizes).
Red, white, blue, yellow and green actually go back to 1949 with the Automatic
Binding Bricks. They even made the old style windows (for slotted bricks) in
all these colors. There was a gray-blue color and a purple color back then as
well. I'll have to check the Peeron color dates.
Gary Istok
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