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Excellent idea John, can you imagine if our Founding Fathers had the same attitude as the people who've flamed you in this thread? We'd still be subjects of the English crown! -timewarp back to 1776- George Washington: We should defeat the redcoats (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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snip (...) snip (...) C'Mon Jason... the simple fact he wanted to post it anonymously implies to me that he knew this idea was juvenile and probably not even worth our time... If he really wanted to give me something to sink my teeth into on this (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Since everyone is bashing John, I thought I'd offer a diferent point of view. At first read, I kinda like the idea. It MIGHT get the retailers to put pressure on LEGO. But then I think about the fact that it seems a little unethical to (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You're purposely asking the wrong question. I believe there *was* a good deal of complaining when the (inferior) Jack Stone minifigs arrived and started replacing the older minifigs in some sets. When Lego replaces a standard with something (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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Maybe a better idea would be to call up Consumer Affairs and complain about your sets. Then at least LEGO would get the message, as they probably wouldn't via the retailers. Kevin ---...--- Railroad Depot kit: (URL) TOWN PLANNING information: (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think you're missing the point. The general consensus, I believe, is that introducing new colours is acceptable. It's the REPLACING of one colour with a slightly different shade that's causing all this ruckus - especially when the colour(s) (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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"Jake McKee" wrote: snip (...) Thank you for sharing. The color change will be rather interesting. New things are allways welcome, and a couple of new colors is IMHO a good thing. /Joakim (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) A better idea is to goto the store and pop all the boxes... It'll take far less money, time and effort on your part. You won't even have to leave the store to do the same damage. It can be just like the glory days of Bionicle a few years ago (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Unfortunately, if you did get enough people to do it, I'm thinking the pressure retailers would put on LEGO might be to stop selling LEGO. :( (This is the Business world we're talking about here.) Are the mismatching colors such a big deal (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I think that's extraordinarily lame and petty and won't accomplish what you think it will. The clerks likely won't care why you're returning the sets, they'll either repackage them and sell them as scratch'n'dent, or they'll make their way (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for the consideration. (...) Now this is interesting. What is TLG capable of? We've seen the quality of Castle sets progressively get worse every year since about 1992. We've seen Bionicle cannabilize the Technic line. We've seen the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) TO be honest, I think it's a pretty lame idea. Either way, there is no way the handful of us adults will make the impact you want to make. AND it will make a well-meaning clerk's day a little bit more stressful. -lenstu (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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I've decided I'm just going to start buying these sets, and then returning them - opened - saying that "these grey pieces don't match the grey pieces I already have..." Yea, it's petty, but if enough people started doing it I guarantee you it would (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general) !
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As Larry said, cleaning this many parts with Brasso would be an enormous job and it wouldn't work on anything textured, like roof bricks, and would take the printing off any printed parts. My suggestion would be to take some of the more disposable (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote: (Snipped.) (...) Jake, Thanks. I, like others, hope that this is only an addition to LEGO's colors and not intended to replace colors we've known for decades. I personally feel that will be the case when it's all (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(snip) (...) After the color change announcement (Rocco, this one's for you) I think there will be a lot of wild theories floating around. The train of though goes like this "If Lego will discontinue core colors what else are they capable of?" (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) After the stupendous success of Galidor, I have nothing but great optimism for this product line. (...) I'm sorry, but very often this is exactly the case, at least for several years. The inclusion of juniorization equaled the demise of good (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Dear Jake, you seem to have expected otherwise - I wonder how that could be? Anyway, sorry for your ruined slow week ;) With all the changes going on lately in the LEGO cataloge and the lack of an information flow worth mentioning (despite (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes, Tom does raise an important point. However, it is the same point that was raised in all of the "color change" threads, and it is off-topic in this thread no matter how far he wants to stretch a tangent that connects them. Personally, I am (...) (22 years ago, 25-Nov-03, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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