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Re: A curious way in which Lego designs its models
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Sat, 18 Nov 2000 03:47:26 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.general, Paul Davidson writes:
> > 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?
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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.
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> However it is a valid observation and I think some explanation can be had if
> one contemplates what we know of how sets are produced. The total number of
> different parts you can put in one bag is limited by the number of different
> cassettes on the parts bagging line and speculation has that at 16. Go over
> that and you need another bag in the set.
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> When I looked at my 6543 sets (I was resorting two of the sets I had packed
> into one box for the transatlantic flight) I was taken by how many different
> bags of parts there were... vintage 1994. The same price point set today has
> less bags I think, and it's because of this color compression that Paul
> refers to. Not consistently so, but it is a trend that's increasing.
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> ++Lar
Couldn't just be to make it easier to build? When I noticed this while
building the Millennium Falcon, it made it a lot easier to build. For exampe,
I could concentrate on a small black piece instead of just a black
whatever by whatever piece.
Jimmy
concentrate on a
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