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Re: Dear Lego, please make this sign be true.
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:53:16 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote in message <36F006B5.CB54C67@umich.edu>...
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> Eric Brok wrote:
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> > Jeff Stembel wrote in message ...
> > > In lugnet.general, Eric Brok writes:
> > > > Also, with all the abundand new colors in retail sets, what's keeping • the
> > > > light blue which has been in LEGOLAND for many years.
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> > > > And from some pictures it looks like in California, a darker shade of • white
> > > > is used in some places (being neither tan nor light grey). Is this • right?
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> > > > Eric
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> > > Actually, (I noticed this last night) Light Blue is available in two • current
> > > sets: The Scuba and Ski Throwbots. Not that that helps any of us who • want
> > to
> > > make a Light blue house. ;)
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> > I didn't notice the light blue (cat pics can't be trusted for exact • colors,
> > and TB isn't released here yet).
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> > This is very promising!
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> > Eric
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> OK, here's the scoop. From what I can gather the light blue was from a
> promotional set made for Denmark's national airline (circa 1980) whose name • I
> cannot remember (Muersten or something starting with an "M").
It's Maersk, and the light blue has been in LEGOLAND Billund from even
before 1980 (or so I was told by a LEGOLAND employee). Just as tan was used
in LEGOLAND long before sets with tan bricks were released.
Once TLG uses a
> color somewhere in its' lineup of sets, it can use it in its buildings and
> LEGOLANDs at any point in the future. From what I can tell, they haven't • used
> that light blue color in bricks in other sets since that promo set came • out.
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> It would be the same thing if TLG never made another set with orange bricks • in
> it again (Target's 1998 Halloween Orange Buckets), and yet continued to • build
> LEGOLAND buildings with orange bricks.
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> As far as a darker white, I don't know either, but I agree that sometimes • the
> catalog pictures cannot be trusted. This is something that goes back to • the
> early 1960's when I was a child and thought that the first Junior • Constructor
> set #717 first available in 1961 was made of orange bricks and yellow doors • &
> windows (predating the orange bricks by 37 years (1998) and the yellow • doors &
> windows by 6 years (1967 - set #325). Check out this 1961 catalog, the • Junior
> Constructor model house really does look orange:
Also, look at the Paradisa Surf shack. It even looks like an orange ground
plate on the set box.
Eric Brok
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| (...) OK, here's the scoop. From what I can gather the light blue was from a promotional set made for Denmark's national airline (circa 1980) whose name I cannot remember (Muersten or something starting with an "M"). Once TLG uses a color somewhere (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-99, to lugnet.general)
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