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Re: My first MOC in "bley"....
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lugnet.color
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Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:09:31 GMT
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In lugnet.color, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.color, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
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In lugnet.color, John Neal wrote:
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In lugnet.color, Reinhard “Ben” Beneke wrote:
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Good day, John!
Possibly I should be really glad about the bley-thing in the end (without any
joking!). Since 1997 I have spent (by far) over 4000 Eur each year for new
bricks (90% of these as MISB sets). Next to this, I have partly spent the same
sum for used bricks, but that got less and less since PaB and S@H had so cool
sets and so nice brick assortments. I stopped buying used bricks in 2002 and
increased my spendings on new sets instead.
Any idea what happend in 2004? Have I spent more than ever to get as much
oldgrey in my hands as possible? Sorry no. I felt very frustrated about bley and
have spent not more than 100 Eur per month in average. And only one singel set
from the 2004 line: the MINI-ISD, just to find out how ugly bley really is.
Later I realized how much money I had suddenly on my bank accounts, so I made a
dream becoming true and have built an own house. This will consume most of my
money in future and my LEGO budget will certainly stay under the
100-bucks-per-month-limit for the next years as well.
But being a house owner (with an extra hobby room!) is quite cool and worth to
keep the hobby costs low. That is, what I see as the backside of the medal. I
got bley - wich is bad. But without bley I possibly might have continued to live
in a small appartment with not enough room for my LEGO collection. Now I live
with lot of free space around, but have no budget to fill it with LEGO bricks
quite soon. Thanks for bley, TLC!?
Keep on bricking!
Ben
Made from NONE-LEGO bricks:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=87894
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FWIW, I think the decision was a unmitigated disaster, and, after having
visited a TRU recently and viewed some MEGABLOCKS firsthand, I think I
understand why. The new blay works well with the gray from MEGABLOCKS, but
the normal gray looks yellowed from time. Now, when you only see the
normal gray, it is warmer in appearance and more pleasing to the eye IMO. My
theory is that TLC was finding that more and more families are buying LEGO
AND clones and all of the “legos” are going into one bin, thus highlighting
the differences in color between the companies, with LEGO looking the worse
of it.
Here is my hope: That TLC will learn from the horrible mistake made by Coke
when it “improved” itself with “New Coke”. They brilliantly turned a
disaster decision into a marketing ploy by reintroducing “Coca-Cola Classic”,
and then let “New Coke” sort of f-f-f-fade away into the sunset.
TLC can IMO get huge amounts of credit from its fans by (secretly) admitting
that the change was ill-conceived, and decide to reintroduce “classic gray”,
“classic dark gray”, and “classic brown”, in addition to the new colors
(wink, wink, they f-f-f-f-fade away to blay in 1 year)
Sounds like a win-win to me. Fans are happy, TLC gets credit for being
receptive to its customers.
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AMEN!! (I still have the hope this dream might become reality.)
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| (...) <snip> That's an amazing story, Ben, and congratulations on becoming a new homeowner! And a fine looking house it is! Now, are you sure that it was blay that was totally responsible for this new home-- a new bride didn't have anything to do (...) (20 years ago, 17-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, FTX)
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| (...) I know how serious you are when it comes to your acrimony over the color changes, and so I shouldn't have made light of it in the first place (but how could I resist? You are such a character:-) FWIW, I think the decision was a unmitigated (...) (20 years ago, 15-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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