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A curious way in which Lego designs its models
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 18 Nov 2000 00:13:41 GMT
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I bought and was putting together the Lego Millennium Falcon the other day,
and looking at the large number of pieces laid out on the floor, I noticed
something. Lego tried to use as few kinds of pieces as possible, even
though the set was a large and expensive one. For instance, all the1x2
bricks used were tan. All the 1x8's were blue. All the 2x2's were black.
All the 1x3's were dark grey. All the 1x3 plates were brown. You get the
idea--not one single piece appeared in more than one colour.
Why do they do this? It tends to make the model too colourful and silly
looking (half of the above-listed pieces should have been grey!), and
greatly reduces the alternate uses for the pieces. I.e., having only one
colour of each piece limits what else can be built. And building a model
around the pieces chosen, instead of choosing pieces to fit the model, seems
like a poor way to design something.
Is this phenomenon consistent in other themes? When did it start?
And how do they go about designing this into models? Do the designers
create a nice model which gets passed to the "colour control" department to
make sure 1x2's of one colour only are used?
--
Paul Davidson
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Message has 6 Replies:
 | | Re: A curious way in which Lego designs its models
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| (...) I don't think that it is consistently so. I have example sets (the soccer buses for example) that have the same part in more than one color. However it is a valid observation and I think some explanation can be had if one contemplates what we (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: A curious way in which Lego designs its models
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| (...) This is probably done to cut production costs. If the number of part/colour combinations can be cut to a minimum, the number of "mold sessions" needed for the set will be smaller. You can see the same feature in many recent sets, eg. the AAT, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: A curious way in which Lego designs its models
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| "Paul Davidson" <tinman@direct.ca> wrote in message news:G471yp.H0H@lugnet.com... (...) Just checked the X-wing (small one) that's sitting on my desk, and your theory doesn't hold for that one. (...) Definitely not in Technic sets. At least not the (...) (24 years ago, 18-Nov-00, to lugnet.general)
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