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Re: 10152 Update
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Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:46:00 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.lego, Kelly McKiernan wrote:

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   Sorry, have to disagree. The set was run with existing color inventory, which was anticipated to be exhausted.

No, it was exhausted. They are mixing up more (at the expense of Maersk).

-snip, skipping the rest of it-

Just a small observation, here; if they are mixing new Maersk Blue ABS, and all of the older sets were made with the same batch of pellets, how closely will the colors be matched? Perhaps this will have to be called New Maersk Blue? If so, who would be happy and who would be unhappy? If the old Maersk Blue pellets were really old, it might be really difficult to recreate the same colour, even if the exact same recipe was used.

Olof



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(...) Olof, I wouldn't expect there to be too much problem in this regard. It would be different if they were trying to re-create an old colour that hadn't been used in many years, and there had since been changes in ABS formulation, suppliers, part (...) (20 years ago, 21-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)

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