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(...) I'm still very unhappy with the change. My spending had been way up to gather the old colors. Once they are gone most of my money will go to Lego's newest competitor - the after market. This was a bad decision at a worse time. As they bemoan (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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First of all Jake let me say thanks for providing us the stage to say what we think despite the fact you know it probably won't be good things:-( I am a LEGO fan for the last 23 years I think or so since I got my very first LEGO set and mainly a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Jake McKee wrote in message ... (...) (as (...) Much of what I would say has already been said multiple times, so I won't bore you with repetition. I think it's a really, really bad idea. One of my major concerns though, is that I have no way now (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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Much has been posted of the color change and of LEGO not passing along word of it to consumers. Which brings me to something that happened over the holidays. At a X-Mas family get-together, a cousin of mine asked what was in store for 2004 (her son (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I can not help thinking that the company asking (or rather the fact that they need to be told by you Jake) AFOLs opinions' after the fact, is simply adding insult to injury. (...) To the LEGO company, I would like to make it perfectly clear (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Thank you Jake. I am glad that the color issue is being addressed. In my opinion, the changing of colors is only one symptom of a larger problem at LEGO. LEGO cannot be everything to everyone. LEGO should be LEGO. It is much more important to be (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I had a $25 Toys R Us gift card burning a hole in my pocket. I wanted to wait and see if they would stock the 4400 tub. But it is apparently discontinued. 4107 has far too may 1x1's. So I bought two red buckets - 4105. This has lots of tan and brown (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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Jake, here are my thoughts about the color change: I have already purchased new sets utilizing the new colors and I would have to say that the new light gray looks really good compared to the old light gray. It looks a lot brighter compared to the (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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Bottom line - I think the color change is a huge mistake. Jake, I appreciate you taking the initiative to do some fact finding on this. And I cannot pass up this opportunity to offer my views. I have been a Lego fan since 1974 when my mother put a (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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I've now got my first firsthand experience with the new colors, so here goes: LT gray is so close, I wonder why you bothered at all. Old Dk grey is better for rocks and earthly matters New dk grey is kind of more interesting to look at. As far as (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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"Jason J Railton" <j.j.railton@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:HrL12I.17L0@lugnet.com... (...) experimenting (...) happens (...) negative (...) Will (...) disaster, and (...) idea the (...) What I have read says skin tones have been added only (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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Hi Jake. Thanks for asking. This is my first post in regards to this topic, although I feel very strongly about it. My biggest concern is that this is an omen of things to come. After producing these colors for over twenty years, they are changed so (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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Hi Jake, I'm not exactly a huge poster here on lugnet, but I am a collector of huge amounts of lego. I only got back into lego a couple of years ago so I no doubt don't have the collections other folks here do. I strongly oppose the colour change. (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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Much like the numerous previous opinions, I agree that the color diversification is a good thing, but not at the expense of established colors. However, the central issue for me is not that my greys and browns will become antiquated and mismatched. (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I have seen pictures of the new grays (which I hate) and I heard that they're also changing brown and the minifigs face tone too. Does anyone have any pictures of these other changes that they can link me too please? -Jeff (I hate the gray change!) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
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Jake - I don't like the change to the colours. I think it's a big mistake. I'm aged 30, and I've been buying Lego for myself for 25 years. Bricks and plates have been available in light grey for that long, as have mini-figures. I regard both as (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.lego, Jake McKee wrote: I don't have anything against the new greys (and other colors), but, it would be nice to have the "old" grey still available in bulk orders from Shop@Home indefinately. The castle builders in particular are most (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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I think it's bad idea whose karmic boomerang will come back at TLG in more ways than I think any of us can now predict. 1. Compatibility no longer exists. I hope the Consumers Affairs division is ready to handle the increase in complaints. 2. Any (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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The new colors, in and of themselves, are fine. Others have done a great job expressing concern about the real issue - deprecating the old colors - and almost all of those reasons are near and dear to me as well, including the longer-term inability (...) (22 years ago, 16-Jan-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, FTX)
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