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| I have a question for all of you Lego Fans out there: Out of all the bricks Lego has ever made, what color do you think has the highest production count? I've got my theories about it...but I'd like to see if anyone else has a thought on this (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| "Timothy Wade" <tmw0850@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> wrote in message news:GoEGLw.22x@lugnet.com... (...) see (...) Red. It seemed like all of my childhood (Samsonite era) LEGO was dominated by red bricks. Mike -- Mike Walsh - mike_walsh at mindspring dot (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| (...) see (...) well, interesting question :) So I ran a script on all the inventories on peeron (note, this is only stuff we have inventoried, so only about 1000 sets out of more than 4500)... There's some weird things at the bottom, which I'd say (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build) !
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| I agree. I would pick red bricks, with grey as second. I think red was the default color because, well, "real" bricks are red! :) (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Interesting results Dan, The Peeron inventories are biased towards the more recent sets, right? This may explain why Mike's red prediction wasn't accepted by your results. On the other hand, LEGO most likely produces many times the amount of (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.general)
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| Scroll down! (...) the (...) to (...) This is interesting. Red might be the most common as already said, but white is also VERY common. In fact maybe more than red since red is the colour of roofs. A question of roof has just taken place: (URL) (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| This is a good start. Some suggestions for modifying the results: 1. Look at only a few common parts, especially bricks. I've acquired hundreds of 1x2 plates with clips from recent sets. While these are common, they are tiny. I'd rather know how (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| (...) nod, good points. Ways I might want to modify the results... * make it proportional to the number of people that own a set - i.e. by set popularity. * or, by 1/N, where N is the number of parts in a set * by year, recent sets count more * 1/P, (...) (23 years ago, 15-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| Red. $0.02 Gary Timothy Wade <tmw0850@garnet.acns.fsu.edu> wrote in message news:GoEGLw.22x@lugnet.com... (...) see (...) (23 years ago, 16-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| (...) One thing I haven't seen anyone mention yet is brick size. How many black technic pins does it take to equal one 2x4 brick? And how many 2x4 bricks does it take to equal the plastic in a 32x32 baseplate? Etc. Each theme uses different (...) (23 years ago, 16-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| (...) I think Black.... In the very earliest days of plastic Lego bricks, only Red and White pieces were produced. Eventually, more colors were introduced and it seems that Lego is now introuducing new colors every year. Do we really need Sand Red (...) (23 years ago, 16-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| (...) Great question! I've read most of the responses and found many of them to be almost scientific in methodology. I'll put in my two (non-scientific) studs worth. My collection spans more than 25 years and whenever I think of building big, I (...) (23 years ago, 16-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| Well, I'm happy to see that a question I posed has made it to the hot topics list on the main lugnet page! You've all made my day! Now on to the dicussion at hand... My original query was based upon a rather unscientific thought...my collect spans (...) (23 years ago, 17-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| Well, here's the data for different types: Bricks (as ldraw Brick category - including round, corner, grilles, headlights, etc): 1. SandGreen -> 740 2. Green -> 224 3. White -> 205 4. Red -> 167 5. Brown -> 150 6. Black -> 134 7. Tan -> 107 8. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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| ehem. had a nasty bug in my script - I should know better... If I ran the data through Jennifer before posting it, wouldn't look like a fool :) here's the (better) data: (...) 1. Black -> 7518 2. White -> 6707 3. Red -> 6324 4. Yellow -> 5863 5. (...) (23 years ago, 17-Dec-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.build)
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