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Re: A curious way in which Lego designs its models
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:48:17 GMT
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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.
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> 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.
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> Is this phenomenon consistent in other themes? When did it start?
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> 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?
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> --
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> Paul Davidson
Having all of a certain piece in the same colour makes it possible to build a
set with your eyes closed. There's a challenge for you!
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