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Hello Jake, Personally, I especially despise the new reddish brown, it doesn't look brown at all. The new grays look OK, but I would still prefer it if the old grays were still in production. Regards Stephane S. (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) True, it is a tax used for all kinds of expenditures. (...) That's not true. The EU gets a cut from VAT, but only a small part. I found figures for Germany in 1998 where the amount transfered to EU is about 20% of the total of VAT, and this (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Jake, Thank you asking these questions. If I had the chance to send a message to the folks at your company, it would be in the form of two questions: 1) Did the focus groups understand the potential ramifications of their decisions? For (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hi, Jake, will Kate do an "official" translation of your posting (or her version for that matter) for www.1000steine.de? Or could you grant me the permission to translate and post it there? yours, Christian Treczoks (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) I dont like the "new" colors because they dont match the "old" ones. That is basically the whole reason I dislike them. I dont hate them but I certainly would keep the "old" ones too. A good idea would be to make both colors but I still would (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Without going too far down the 'I remember when' line. We all agree colour and colour range are an important aspect (even if the word is incorrectly spelt). Too me the Lego colours have also been a source of the charm of the product. The simple (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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In a rather round about way the colour changes have worked out rather well for me. When I first read about the changes here on lugnet I felt an almost physical stab of pain. It was quite irrational. At the time I couldn't really articulate why I (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I have to disagree here. They can be used for anything. It might be true for Portugal that the bulk of VAT is used to finance the Portugeese contribution to EU, but that is the choice of Portugal, it is not the case in Denmark. What is common (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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"Tobbe Arnesson" <StPnAtM@lotek.nu> wrote in message news:HrIyFx.1DCu@lugnet.com... <snip lots to think about> The only thing about the 16x16 baseplates that bothers me is most of them are in green. It's very hard to get these in gray and somewhat (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.space)
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Jake McKee wrote: > But I know that you don't like this answer, so please use this opportunity (as > well as continuing to direct complaints and feedback through LEGO Customer > Service) as a way to have your voices heard. First things first. Forget (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Putting some pressure on me to do that translation huh? I'll get to work. (and for those of you who don't want to wait, here's the write-up from that meeting in Swedish: (URL) and a direct link to the page about the moonbase (Månbas): (URL) ) (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.scibrick, lugnet.space)
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Here are my current concerns about the color changes. Note, I define the isssue as 'replacing existing core colors with slightly different colors', so my opinion would be very different about new colors that clearly differ from existing ones. Also (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hi! Michael Hopkins wrote to me as below. I do admit that I was a bit tired/unpacient and upset at the moment, and did not want to harm anyone. Ma apologioes for that. It is good that people post pictures etc. On the other hand, posting a 1 Mb (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.general, lugnet.org.us.baylug, lugnet.loc.us.ca.sf)
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(...) Thank you for requesting our input on this issue. If you can tell us, what is your opinion as an AFOL of the color change - both the colors themselves, and the manner in which the change was handled? (...) Ah, but two months ago, TLC would (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hello Jake, thank you for this opportunity. I was part of the crowd that was infuriated by the color change. Since the change, however, I have taken an objective approach to evaluate exactly how the new colors (especially light and dark gray) will (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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First off, has anyone verified the accuracy of the claimed reason for the color change, i.e. to make the grays more "in line" with the other colors? I know very little about color theory, but naively, I'd say gray is 1/2 white and 1/2 black, or (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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(...) Firstly, I'll qualify my response by saying I haven't actaully seen the new colours yet. I expect it'll be a few more weeks before the '04 sets reach our shores. My concern is that the change to me seems a bit pointless. The pertinent question (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I'm not quite sure if this is really the case. In Denmark our VAT (its called MOMS here) have been 25% on all sales, all commodities since before we joined the EEC in 1972, and it still is. It is used as a part of the state finances together (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Jake- Brave man, you, broaching this, and I appreciate it a great deal. I made my feelings understood in the informational bit regarding the restructuring moves, but I'll put it here again for reference. As with so many things, our criticism (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general) !
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Hi Jake, I haven't actually seen the new colors yet; my buying has slowed down a lot in the last year or two, mostly driven by other factors rather than less interest. However, the new colors *have* contributed to my not buying any new sets yet this (...) (22 years ago, 15-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX) !
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