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| (...) I'll rescind the bit about health care, but there are still other services that VAT and other taxes pay for. Remember, we don't know what kind of taxes your retailers are paying. If they have to make up some of that burden on the retail price (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
| | |  | | Re: Nicely now. What do you think of the new colors?
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| (...) Jake, As an AFOL, I feel the color change impacts me on a basic, root level. Parts will come and go, themes will come and go. The one constant, to me, was the 5 or 6 original colors of the product I grew up with. This is a change at the (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| Calmly, and rationally.... It is my opinion that the new grays look more... uhmm... "mechanical", and although I'll admit it is absolutely _superb_ for modelling stuff that is supposed to be steel or some sort of metallic alloy, it won't cut it for (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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| Well personaly I like the new colors, yes, they may be annoying on the issue of people who invested alot in one color, but... The only issue i have, which Lego can't solve anyways, is, & has been, the naming of the colors on BrickLink, lol, come on, (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) I don't like the new grays simply because they do not match my existing grays. Since I am primarily a Castle builder/collector, I have a substantial supply of OLD gray pieces (both light and dark). The new dark gray has too blue, but the new (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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