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Re: which set?
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Sun, 30 Jul 2000 16:28:31 GMT
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Actually, word is that the bricks are NOT gray, they are a new color that
approximates verdigris ( the color that copper weathers to, something like a
greenish gray).

-Andy Lynch

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Gray" <cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA>
To: <lugnet.fun@lugnet.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: which set?


"Alan Gerber" <foofoogood@hotmail.com.die_evil_unsolicited_e-mail> writes:

Maybe you want to wait for this fall and get the Liberty Statue set.

Here's a picture on brickshelf:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=8560 .

Is that actually going to be a real for-sale set? Looks more like a
display-only thing to me. If it were sold, it would be the single largest
collection of grey bricks that Lego has ever come out with, and I'd have
to buy zillions of them!

--
Don't design inefficiency in - it'll happen in the implementation.

Chris Gray     cg@ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA
               http://www.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA/cg/



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Wow, I didn't know that verdigris was the word for it. I thought verdigris was the pearly grey stuff that came out of whales. See Moby Dick, where Herman Melville writes pages about it and what people will do to get it and what it feels like and (...) (24 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.fun)

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(...) Is that actually going to be a real for-sale set? Looks more like a display-only thing to me. If it were sold, it would be the single largest collection of grey bricks that Lego has ever come out with, and I'd have to buy zillions of them! (24 years ago, 30-Jul-00, to lugnet.fun)

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