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Subject: 
The shades of blue (Re: Marsek Blue might be available soon... S@H FAll 2002)
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Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:39:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Cary Clark writes:
In lugnet.general, Erik Olson writes:
Your "medium blue" is what everybody I talk to means by light blue.
In other words, the light blue that is not sand blue in Life on Mars.

There certainly is a good deal of confusion on BrickLink about what is
medium blue and what is light blue. I called the 2x4 plate in the #7310 LOM
Mono Jet "light blue" because it is certainly lighter than blue. Henry Lim's
tower of colors also calls it light blue:

http://www.henrylim.org/LEGOColours.html

And Peeron calls it LtBlue as well:

http://peeron.com/inv/sets/7310-1

Cary

Well, what would Peeron cal the light blue in this set:
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/5842 (the rounded bricks in the back)

I think the colors Peeron uses are not 100% accurate, or up-to-date. There
are these shades of blue:

Blue (found everywhere)
Sand Blue (found in LOM sets)
Medium Blue (found in racer sets, example - http://guide.lugnet.com/set/4579 )
Light Blue (found in Belville sets)
Marsek Blue (found in Marsek sets and a few Duplo sets)
Auqua (found in Belville sets)

The 'sand blue' is only in the LOM sets - the color there is NOT medium
blue. The sand blue is darker than medium blue, and much darker than light blue.

I have all these colors here, and will add them to my Color Compare page on
Brickshelf (currently they are already there, but not in one picture - but
that will be fixed asap).
But you can easily see from this picture:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=227695
That sand blue is MUCH darker than thnmedium blue - and is nowhere close to
being light blue. Peeron is just wayyy off if they are calling sand blue
light blue....

The HP car is almost without a doubt made in medium blue, like in the racer
sets.

The true Light blue can only be found in 2 sets, and both of them are
belville sets, and both of them are new this year.

Mark P
http://www.landofbricks.com



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: The shades of blue (Re: Marsek Blue might be available soon... S@H FAll 2002)
 
(...) The 'sand blue' is in the Martian LOM sets. Medium blue is in the 'Human' LOM sets. Yes LOM actually used 2 non-standard blue colors. -Mike Petrucelli (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)
  Re: The shades of blue (Re: Marsek Blue might be available soon... S@H FAll 2002)
 
(...) Probably. . .TLC seems to come out with new colors all the time, and very few people have enough variety of sets to make detailed comparisons (especially since so many obscure colors seem to appear in Scala and Belville). Color charts have (...) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.general, lugnet.db.brictionary)
  Re: The shades of blue (Re: Marsek Blue might be available soon... S@H FAll 2002)
 
(...) I have to disagree with this comment. Sand blue is also found in all the Studio Monster sets. (...) MichLUG - (URL) Page - (URL) (22 years ago, 12-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Marsek Blue might be available soon... S@H FAll 2002
 
(...) There certainly is a good deal of confusion on BrickLink about what is medium blue and what is light blue. I called the 2x4 plate in the #7310 LOM Mono Jet "light blue" because it is certainly lighter than blue. Henry Lim's tower of colors (...) (22 years ago, 11-Sep-02, to lugnet.general)

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