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Re: Dear Lego, please do whatever business thingo you did that lead tothe 8466 4x4 off-roader
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lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:22:12 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Thomas Stangl writes:
> Jonathan Wilson wrote:
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> > That set has been, IMHO, (next to the 8431 Crane Truck re-issue) the best
> > "really big" technic set in recent years (mindstorms doesnt count as technic)
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> Others may not agree, since S@H has had to put it on 50% clearance twice to clear
> out inventory.
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> I too think it is a great parts set, except...
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> > The 8466 has so many good attributes:
> > 1.a fair few studded beams, including the (exclusive to that set) l-shaped
> > studded beam (its like 2 1x4 beams joined at right angles)
> > 2.good specialist parts (like the 4x4 suspension parts for example)
> > 3.a really cool color (LEGO, please make more parts in Metalic Green)
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> You're the first person I've seen that likes the pea soup puke green.
Okay, he's the first to PUBICLY say he likes the color. I'll be the second.
Any new colors that aren't
derivitives of Tan are welcomed be myself and many others. Bring on more
metallic colors-we'll
keep using them. They key to using these colors is the variety in the parts
released. Notice many
MOCs built around chrome gold lately? Think it might have something to do
with the sever lack of
variety of parts available in the color? I do.
> There's a
> reason why those panels don't sell well on Bricklink. The color is hideous. It
> was hideous when it started showing on real cars in the 70s, and it's still
> hideous today (yet OEMs still occasionally sell a car in that nastly shade).
That's a matter of opinion. Personally, I believe those parts aren't selling
because they are priced
to high. Look at the same part in oither colors and you'll see what I mean.
> I would bet that if they had used silver or dark silver in place of the puke
> green, the set would have sold better.
No disagreement here, Tom. I would love to see this set in metallic dary
grey. YUMMY!
> I know *I* have more puke green panels
> than I know what to do with, so the spray paint is probably going to have to come
> out to make them at all useful to me.
Ah! kind of like what I have to do with all that ugly tan I've managed to
acquire. Again, it's just a
matter of personal opinion.
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> --
> Tom Stangl
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-Dave
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