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Re: Possible red change?
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lugnet.color
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Sun, 9 Jan 2005 23:20:41 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Tobias Möller wrote:
> In http://news.lugnet.com/lego/?n=1791, Jake mentioned that some colours had
> been "tweaked", but he did not supply a complete list. Of course, I know about
> the "new grey" issue, and that change is obvious, but what about other possible
> colour changes?
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> I bought two red Xpods, and when I compared the red plate hinges of the Xpods to
> my other red bricks, I noticed a slight difference - the Xpod red was more
> orange than the other red bricks. The difference was not big, but easy to see up
> close. Unfortunately, I mixed the Xpod bricks into my collection before I
> thought about comparing the rest of the red Xpod bricks to my other red bricks.
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> Could this be another, permanent, change, or did I get bricks from a "bad"
> batch? Has anyone else noticed a change in the red colour?
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> --Tobias
I have examples of color variations going all the way back to 1957, in Cellulose
Acetate. Red macaroni bricks sometimes came in a darker red, as well as the
orange-red that Cellulose Acetate is known for. So this is a situation that has
been going on for decades, just not continuously.
Gary Istok
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| In (URL) Jake mentioned that some colours had been "tweaked", but he did not supply a complete list. Of course, I know about the "new grey" issue, and that change is obvious, but what about other possible colour changes? I bought two red Xpods, and (...) (20 years ago, 15-May-04, to lugnet.color)
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