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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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Thu, 1 May 2003 13:20:53 GMT
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"Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <talonts@vfaq.com> wrote in message
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> You're the first person I've seen that likes the pea soup puke green. • 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).
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> I would bet that if they had used silver or dark silver in place of the • puke
> green, the set would have sold better. 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.
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> --
> Tom Stangl
I'm with you there! The color sucks and yes, going to BrickLink to get those
pannels in another color as Orion mentioned is a good idea.
One thing that has certainly got to get some coverage but would go into more
is the styling of the body- not just its color or the functionality of the
model.
When I'm reading mags like Road & Track, Automobile, etc. and see the SUV's
being put out by manufactures like Porsche and BMW (just to name a few) why
wasn't such styling used. To me, the 8466 looks like a warped AMC Gremlin
that's been lifted! (Didn't AMC use that puke green too?)
I bought the 8466 primarily for its functions- body styling was second.
LEGO got the body styling right in both the 8880 and 8448 but I think they
screwed up when they made the 8466.
Adr.
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