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Re: I WANT LESS!
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:51:03 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Steve Lane wrote:
This post has been inspired by this bucket, and is in no way ironic!

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemInv.asp?S=4679b-2

I want LESS (preferably none) of the following bricks

Pink
mauve
Turquoise
Gold (gold, what use is gold?)
Aqua
Lime?
Different shades of the same colour (How many blues are their now?)

I think two shades is enough for anybody. Face it, the fewer colours the smaller
the inventory, the smaller the inventory the more models I can build using just
main colours.

More and more little fiddly bits (when you don't even make enough different
proper corner pieces)
Technic body panels
Knight's Kingdom
Large juniorised pieces
Bionicle
Clickits

I'm a bloke, I want to build blokey models such as, tanks, planes, trucks,
diggers, helicopters, spaceships etc. I have no use for pink. If you want to
sell pink sell it in a pink tub, marked "FOR GIRLS", then I don't have to buy
it. I want lots of old light gray, Lots of military vehicles look like they are
painted in it, so that's the colour I want.

Is it too much in 2005 to ask less of our toy manufacturers?

I would though like a more powerful, wireless, RCX. And an electric pneumatic
valve.

Steve

While I agree with your thoughts in theory, in practice it just doesn't make
sense. The thing is, bright colors attract more attention and sell more. After
all this was one of the major reasons for the gray to "blay” change in past
years. Now I understand that you would like to see more basic colors verses
pinks and purples and blues but what your asking for is a earth tone bucket. Now
while an earth tone bucket would be hugely popular with the afol crowd and to a
small number of kids it wouldn't jump off the shelf’s in huge numbers like the
anniversary buckets have.
Aside from all of this color debate lets remember that the bulk buckets aren’t
exactly huge moneymakers for the company. bulk buckets exist simply because
retailers like TRU, target, and Wal-Mart want them not because TLC wants to
flood the market with .02 cents per part sets when most of there line runs at
.10 cents.

Interpret this as you wish, after all this is just my opinion,
Ondrew



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  I WANT LESS!
 
This post has been inspired by this bucket, and is in no way ironic! (URL) want LESS (preferably none) of the following bricks Pink mauve Turquoise Gold (gold, what use is gold?) Aqua Lime? Different shades of the same colour (How many blues are (...) (19 years ago, 28-Oct-05, to lugnet.dear-lego)  

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