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Re: Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
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Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:19:36 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote:
> > 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?
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> 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.
Huh! Earliest I found on peeron was 1961, but that's pretty cool that it was out
even before...
> 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.
I know grey *bricks* were certainly rare trinkets until about 1984 when the
castle line started using them. Before then I seem to remember there was a bevy
of grey plate, but very little in the way of brick.
> 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).
Wow, that's pretty cool! So, is 1961/62 the correct year for the little
accessory kits that are in the Lugnet DB? (that's where I got my guess from, but
admittedly it says 1957+, which I think means "1957 or later")
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/218_4
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/219_6
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/220_6
Actually, from the looks of things, it looks like blue also underwent a similar
color change in 1958? I guess it could be due to fading, but in various pictures
in the ULB, World of Lego Toys, and 50 Years of Play, it looks that
Automatic-Binding-Brick-Blue was more of a light pastel blue than the darker
blue that seems to show up everywhere after 1958. If so, I guess technically
some might say that grey would be older than both black or blue!
> 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.
Huh-- maybe it was that gray-blue I was seeing in the books-- interesting that
they would even have a purple... I wonder how many years purple was a dormant
color before re-appearing...
DaveE
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