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Re: 10152 Update
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Date: 
Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:52:19 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Thomas Stangl wrote:
"Kyle D. Jackson" wrote:

TLC's quality
control on colour variation is pretty darn good, and probably even more
stringent than Maersk would have requested for a match to their corporate
colour.  I suspect that the new batch will be pretty much identical to
previous ones.

I don't see how you can state this, after the Knight's Bus debacle.

Isn't that just purple in general? I thought the reason was pretty much because
the mix of dyes that Lego uses for purple ABS was finicky. Hence since certain
parts need to be molded for longer, or at different temperatures, or different
pressures, that it changed the resultant color just slightly, making it highly
difficult to keep the color as consistant as others? Although not as noticeable,
I also have noted this in new and old dark grey...

DaveE



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(...) In the Knight Bus I assembled 2 days ago there appear to be 2 different shades of purple within the same part. eg. train windows, 4x4 plates and 2x4 bricks. That's just looking at the assembled bus. pete.w ( I have noticed it in the old dark (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)

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(...) I don't see how you can state this, after the Knight's Bus debacle. -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)

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