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Re: 10152 Update
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lugnet.color
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Thu, 23 Dec 2004 01:08:04 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote:
> In lugnet.color, Thomas Stangl wrote:
> > "Kyle D. Jackson" wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > I don't see how you can state this, after the Knight's Bus debacle.
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> 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...
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 grey, within the same type of part)
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| (...) Oh, I just meant it's not really so much the "Knight's Bus" debacle as a "purple in general" debacle. The Knight's Bus was just one of the more recent sets to come with huge amounts of purple. Actually... Hm. I wonder how many sets have come (...) (20 years ago, 23-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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| | Re: 10152 Update
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| (...) 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 (...) (20 years ago, 22-Dec-04, to lugnet.color)
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