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Re: Yellow blues...
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lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:17:14 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Philippe Hurbain wrote:
   A new basic color seems to have been hit by the “color shift syndrom”: yellow.

When I opened my brand new 8455 Backhoe Loader, I noticed that some parts (‘Wheel RC Race Buggy’ and ‘Technic Liftarm 1 x 7 Bent’) had a slightly darker, and more orange hue.

Here is an unretouched scan of some parts from this set:



I am not that finicky about colors (I am more interested by mechanisms... and I might even prefer the new yellow), but I think that different hues in the same box is a quality problem!

Wow. Yellow? I will be interested whether this is just another dirty nozzle or consistent new hue.

Dirty nozzle means not pure yellow--my yellows are greenish, like they were made immediately after a blue run. Two bad shades came in the same sealed bag from a 1998 blue tub. Also, yellow is one color that suffers over time. My original Yellow Castle actually became more saturated.

Yellow...



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  Re: Yellow blues...
 
(...) I don't think it is the case here, since two different kind of parts have exactly the same hue. And with a dirty nozzle you usually don't get an homogeneous color. Here parts have a very nice yellow color - but different from other parts in (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego)

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  Yellow blues...
 
A new basic color seems to have been hit by the "color shift syndrom": yellow. When I opened my brand new (URL) 8455 Backhoe Loader>, I noticed that some parts ((URL) RC Race Buggy'> and (URL) 'Technic Liftarm 1 x 7 Bent'>) had a slightly darker, (...) (21 years ago, 28-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, lugnet.technic, lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)  

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